Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-11-15
Mr.. Nasby has, a Most Horrible Vision.
SAINTS REST, (which is in the State Nv !

eleckshun returns, picked up volum Nv
Cammell's Poems, and red that splendid
peese the THE Last Man" Cammell is a
poick-ther aint no doubt Nv it, Eff my
too partial friends, amt too partial, [ can
whop him on the sublime, but, on the pa
thetics, acknollidge him ez my sooperior
Be that ez it may, the poem made impress
sion on my n ind, which is proof that ther
is suthin into it, and my mind wuz a dwell
lin onto it ez | sunk into slumber.
Ez yoosual l he'd dream, and sich a
dream may | never hev agin.
Me thaut the epidemick, which is now de-
vast attn Europe, he'd struck Moo York. For
a time, it struck down all elias ses. The
prove, Caucashen, the hidjus niger, the no.
bic red man Nv the forrest, and the almon-
eyed Chinese, all, all, fell afore the ruthless
destroyer. But at last, it abated, ecept SO
far ez the niger wuz concerned. The white
man wuz spared, so wuz the Ingin, and the
Chinese, but. among the Afrikins, it ragged
with redoubled fury. 0, it wuz crushin !!
The planter looked abroad, and 10 the stall
wart field hand, which wuz worth 81 800,
wuz cold corpse, and the feeid wuz un-
plowd. Agin he looked, and alas the
brawny wench, which alluz bore him a pic
aniry which wuz worth $500 ez soon ez
weaned, ,wunst per year, and by little extra
whippin did full years work, wuZ pros
trate in the cold embrace nv death. Agin
he looked, and wo to him the octroon, for
wich he paid So 500, and whose girl babies
he Good sell in Moo Orleans ez soon ez they
wuz II for $1,000, on akkount Nv their hav-
in his blood in their vains, wuz torn from his
lovin grasp by the stronger hand Nv disease,
and wuznt wuth copper for any purpus
The Dimocrisy bekum alarmed. The in
defatigable leaders whispered The niger
is fadin away !-sposin he bekums extinct"
Whereupon consultation NV the head men
wuz held. In view Nv the crisis, a pair-wun
male and wun female, wuz selected and ex-
amined by a committee Nv expert examiners
in life insurance companies. They wuz pro-
Eounced perfect specimens-entirely sound
and free from disease These two wuz lock-
ed up in a room in healthy locashen, and
twenty four Nv the most eminent physicians
ay the country wuz detailed-one to stay
with them one hour of each day, that, in
case the disease struck EN-, the remedies
might be towunst applied, that, from these
two, the race might be propogated, and the
cappytle Nv the party be preserved.
But all to no purpose. The last niger in
the Yoonited Stats perished, and finally,
these two were struck, and notwithstandin
the precautions adopted, they too died
There wuz a season Nacher sympathised
with the party in its atfiickshun. The hev-
ems wuz clothed with leaden colored clouds,
athort which, ever and anon, flashed CLEANS
Nv loorid lite. Low-voiced thunders mutter-
ed ominousy, and birds and beasts run howl
in o er the feeds. Dray horses fell ded on the
stonys treets, and wild beasts rushed fran
tlckly frum ther coverts, and snapped foori
ously, madly at whatever came in their way.
The last Nv the Afrikins were layin pros
trate in the hall. Fernandywood entered, and,
ez he seed EN-, he bustid into tears Fare
well,' gushed he, "a long farewell, last Nv
a cussid race! You wuz our tower Nv
strength you wuz our corner stun; on you
We bilded Hatred Nv you give me the l.
rish vote Nv Moo York. o! how cheerin
it wuz to Sc them lambs;bust yer heds and
innocently hang yoo up to lamp posts But
you IN gone-you m gone-and hentz4th
lifes blank to me. Farewell, vain world
for what is life without a niger and
sezin jack knife he saw stickin out NV the
niger pocket, he struck it in his stummick,
and, fallin across the deceest Afrikins, ex-
pired peacefully.
Franklin Peerse approacht. ALAS and
thou art gone? Too troo, thou art In
life thou wurt lovely! Twas thou alone,
that made me President; thy woolly he'd
wuz my steppin-stun to place and power ?
Thou vast my right bower my left and ace
Eff wuz Dimekratic Sampson, thou wuz
the hair wich the Deiler, Death, hez sheer
ed orr Fernandy kum! kum'' and seez-
in the jack knife from his hand, he plunged
it into his bowels, fallin across Fernandy.
Vallandygum approached. Il, too,
must say farewell, sed he, kissin their cold
features, for thou vast my anker.. Thou,
twast, who made me Congressman-thou exil-
ed me, and hate Nv thee gave me $50, 900 in
ten cent pieces when wuz in Canady. Do
| wunt to go to Congress again! No! no
L shood be dumb, fer the handspring Nv
my elokence lies here !" and, takin the jack
knife, he Immersed it in his bowels, and fell
across Pearse !
Old Jeems Boocannon, and vorhees, and
Brite, and Florence. and, in fact, all the
leaders NV the party North, numberin suthin
over 200, kum up, and each maxim short
orashun, stuck themselves with the jack
knife, fallin across each other, as cord wood |
is piled. Finally felt it dooty owed to |
the party to foller suit. Seezin the jack
knife / made my orashen (which wuz tech |
en- j and was about to sever my intestlnes, |
when seed quart bottle stickin out Nv |
the nigger's pockit. Drawn it 4th, l pull
ed the cork: Glory it wuz whiskey! Two
sucks aud it wuz gone-the room spunround |
and fell senseless on the top Nv the pile Nv
aed Dimekrats
Jest then Horris Greely cum in. 'Be-
hold Democrisy,' sed he, .'ez it wuz in the
beginnin, SO it il in the endin. Niger at
the bottom. whiskey at the top, and a stink
in the middle and, holdin his nose, ne
out Nv the room. i
l awoke in cold sweat, happy to ind
that it wuz only dreem: that the ngger
still lived in his cusitood and that we still he'd
suthin to go on. PETROLEUM. y; NAsBY,
Late Faster Nv the Church Nv the Moo Dis
pensashun.