Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-10-26
Written for the Cincinnati Commrrcial /
MIR. NASBY HAS A MOST HOR
RIBLE VISION.

SAINTS REST, (Which is in the staitl
Nv Moo Gersy,) Oct. I6, 1865
Last mite. weary and disgustcd
with readin eleckshun returns, /
picked up a vohm NV Cammell's ;
Poems, and red that splendid peese,
THE LAST Man" Cammell is a
poiek- -ther aint no doubt Nv it. Ef
my too partial friends aint toO par
tial, ] can whop him on the Iblime,
but. on the pathetics, | acknowledge
him ez my sooperior Be that ez it
may, the poem made impression Cn
my mind, which is proof that ther is
suthin into it, and my mind wuz q
dwellin onto it ez l sunk into slum-
ber.
Ez yoosual l he'd a dream, and
sich a dream may l never hev agin 4
Methaut the epidemick, wich is
now deyastatin Europe, he struch
Moo York For a time, it struck
down all classes The proud eau
cashen, the hidjus niger, the noble
red man NV the forest, and the al
mond- eyed Chinese, all, all, fell afore
the ruthless destroyer. But, at last,
it abated, except so far ez the nigger
wuz concerned The white man wuz
spared, so wuz the Injin, and the
Chinese, but, among the Afrikins, it
ragged with redoubled fury. o, it
wuz crushIn! The planter looked
abroad, and 10! the stalwart feeld
hand, wich wuz wuth 1880, wuz a
cold corpse, and the feeld wuz un-
plcwed. Agin he looked, and alas!
the brawny wench, wich alluz bore
him a picaninny wich wuz wuth $500
ez soon ez weaned, wunst per year,
an by little extra whIppin, did a
full year s work, wuz PROSTATE in the
cold embrace NV death Agin he
looked, and wo to him! tue octoroon,
for wich he paid $500, and whose
girl badies he Good sell in Moo Or
leans eZ soon ez they wuz l6 for So
600 on akkount NV their havin his
llood in their vains, wuz torn from
his lovin grasp by the stronger hand
NV disease, and wuznt wuth a copper
for any purpus.
The Democrisy bekum alarmed.
The interchangeable leaders whispered:
''The nigger is falin awaye-sposin
he bekums extinck! Whereupon a
consultation Nv the head men wuz
held. In view Nv the crisis, q pair
-one male - Wun female, wuz Sc
lectId and eXMhined by a committee
nv expert examiners in lie insurance
companies. They wuz pronounced
perfeek specimens-entirely sound
and free from disease These two
WIZ locked up in a room, in heal
thy locasheh, and twenty four NY the
most eminent physicians Nv the coun-
try wuz detailed--one to stay with
them wun hour Nv each dav. that in
case the disease struck EN-, the rem.
edies might be towunst applied, that,
from these two, the race might be
propogated, and the eappytle Nv the
party be preserved.
But all to no purpose. The last
nigger in the Yoonited States per-
ishei, and, finally, these two were
struck. and, notwithstandin the pre-
eau ions adopted, they too diedi
There wuz a season Nachey SYM
pathyzed with the party in its affiic-
shun. The heavens wuz clothe.l with /
leaden colored clouds, athort wich,
ever and anon, flashed CLEANS NV
loorld lite. Low voiced thunders
muttered ominusly, and birds and
beasts run howlin Ger the .feelds-I
Dray horses fell dead upon tire stony |
streets, and wild beasts rushed fran
tickly from their coverts, and snap |
ped fooriously, madly, at watey er
came in their way.
The last nv the Afrikins we're layin