Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-12-27
Petroleum V. Nasty has a Vision.


readin elecksnun TetufHs, 4 pichen w
yolum Nv Cammell's Poems, and red that
splendid peese, "The Last Man Cam
nell is poick-ther aint no doubt Nv 1t.
Ef my too partial friends amt too partial
can whop him on the sublime but on
the pathetics, acknowledge him ez my
sooperior Be that ez il may, the poem
made an impression on my mind, which
is proof thar ther is sutthin into it, and my
mind was a dwellin onto It ez | sunk into
slumber.
Ez yoosual had dreme, and sich -
dreme may | never hev agin.
Methaut the epidemick, which is now
devastatn Europe, had struck Moo York
For time, it struck down all classics
The proud Caucashen, the hidjus Niger,
the noble red man NV the forest, and the
Acknowledged Chinese, all, all, fell afore
the ruthless destroyer. But at last it abai-
ed, except so far as the Niger wuz con
cerned. The white man was spared So
wuz the Injn, and the Chinese, but among
the Afrikins. it ragged with redoublod fury.
0, it wuz crushin ! The planter looked
abroad, end 10 the staulwart field hand,
which wuz with 81 800, wuz a cold corpse
and the field wuz onplowed. Agin be
looked, and alas the brawny wench, witch
alluz bore pcaninny which WIZ with
5000 ez soon ez weaned per year, and
by n little extra wbippin, did a full years
work, wuz PROSTATE in the cold embrace
NV death. Agin he looked, and wo TO
him the octoroon for which be paid 81
500 and whose girl babies he could sell in
Moo Orleans ez soon ez they wuz | 6 for
$4,000 on akkount Of their having his
blood in their vains, wuz torn from his
lovin grasp by the stronger hand NV dis.
ease, and wuznt with a copper for any
purpose.
The Democrats bekum alarmed The
interchangeable leaders whispered: 1.-The
niger is fadin away--sposn he bekums
extinct ?" Whereupon a consutashun NV
the he'd men wuz held. In view Nv the
crisis, pair--one male and one lenalr,
wuz selected, and examined by committee
Nv expurt examiners in lite insurance com.
panies. They wuz pronounced perfick
-pgcimens--entireIy sound and tree from
disease. These Two wuz lock ed up in a
room, in Il healthy locashun, and twenty.
four NV the most eminent pbyschuns Nv
the country wuz deIa!ed-one to stay with
then. one bour zach day. that. in case the
disease struck EN-, the remedies might be
10 wunst applied that from these TWO, the
race might be propigated, and the cappy-
lie Nv the party be preserved.
But all 10 no purpose. The last mig
ger in the YoonIted States persisted, and,
inatly, these two were struck, and notwith- !
.tandin the precaushuns adopted. they TOO
lied
Thare wuz season Nachur sympa'hiz-
ii with the party in lis sflliekshun. The /
ievens @uz clothed with leadrn coored .
LIQUIDS, athort which ever aud anon flash /
ID CLEANS Of loord light. Low-vnic-d .
hunders mu'tered omnusly, and birds and .
'rrsts run howiin Der the fields. Dras /
'orse. fell Odd upon the stony streets, and
Wild beests rushed iranlically from thpir
overfs, and snapped ioorously, madly at
whatever cum in their way.
The last of the Air,kins werr layin
,rusirait in the hall. Fernandy wood rn-
cred ard - he seed EN- lie bu,iid INTO
ears. Farewell" gushed hr, "a long
arewrll, last Nv a cu-sid race! 700 wnz
M tower of strength 700 Uuz our corner
ton; on 90 We bild-d Hatred Us yon
i've me the Irish vote Nv Moo York. o.
ow chrerin il wuz 10 see them lambs hos,
er he'd, and innocenly hang vco up TO /,
amp posts Bot ynu'm sone-you'm
hentz4th lifr's blank to me.
'areweIl, vsne wurld-for wat is life With
ut niger" sezing jack knife he saw
licking out the nigger's pocket, he stuck
into his slommick. and falin across the
eceest Afrik:ps, expired peacefully.
franklin Peerse approach. ALAS,
nd art thou gone Troo, troo, thou art
q life thou wurt lovely ! Twas thou,
one, that made me President; thy woolly
ed wuz my steppin stun to place and
over Thow vast my right bower, my
f, and ace IF | wuz a Democratic
ampsOn, thou wast"the hair witch the
eiler, Death, hez sheered OFF. Fernan.
?, KUN, kun !" and seezin the jack
rife from his hand, he plunged it into his
,wels fallin across Fernandy.
Vallandygum approached. 81, too, must
y farewell" sed he, kssin their cold
atures, "for thou vast my anker. Thou,
,ast, who made me Congressman-thou
lied me, and bate NV thee gave me $780,
70 in ten cent pieces when | wuz in
anada DO | want to go to Congress
ain F? No no should be dun, for the
Nv my elokence lies here !"
d, taking the jack knife, he immersed
in bis bowels, and fell across Peerse.
Old Jeemes Bookannon, and Voorhees,,
lite, and Florence, and, in fact, all the
ders Nv the party, North to the number
suthing over 200, KUN up, and, each
kin a short orashun, stuck themselves
ih the jack -nife, falln across each other
cord-wood is piled. Finally, | felt it
luiy l owed TO the party to foller SCOT.
ezing the jack-nite, ! made my orashun
ich was techin,l and was about 10 sey.