Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-18
LETTER FROM Asa HARrz.

LETTER FROM ASA HARTz.
JAcouE O'DlxuTz, ESQ: Ny Dear Bo,oer.
I am glad the doctor vaccinated me before |
left home. ~sA ~
Vaccination Is thought to be good thing,
my dear Bower, AZ a preventive of certain
loatbsome diseases, and / believe II il. At
any rate am sound--sound, my Bower, on
the general goose.
Quitting the rural shades of my country
home, recently paid visit to Washington
and to New York. was anxious to see and
hear all that was to be seen and heard, aud a
man possessing a due amount of curiosity
is apt 10 have bis weakness gratifsd in one
or both those places.
Washington Is big thing in its way, ana
It's way is peculiarly It's own. You are
probably aware, my Bower, that of late
years people are In habit of picking out the
crazisst man they can find, and Of sending
those chosen TO the Central Asylum at WASH
ington. There they are permitted 10 give
free vent to, all the vagaries of distempered
imagination, and each mans idiosyncracy
finds an airing. True, sometimes you will
fnd an exception to this rule, but il is rare.
For Instance, my Bower, some warped in
tellect, an inmate Of the asylum, whose days
have been passed in a study Of represents
tive government, takes up the laughable
idea that the great American people have q
Constitution which governs the conduct of
lawmakers. He Is insane enough 10 think
that everybody else hngs the same singular
delusion. He grows eloquent on the subject,
but is generally brought to grief by some Of
the less crazy of his associates ri
A short time since visited the Lunatic
Asylum at Washington for the first time -
Went into both wards of the building. It's
q fine house, and the magnifcence thereof
no doubt, has modifying influence over the
inmates.
When reached the hall used by those
facetiously called representatives, GENTLE
man from Unowhere was eloquently urging
the necessity of national aid to canal, or
some other nonsensical measure Of internal
Improvement. He talked well, my Bower
but as a general thing, no one OF his fellow
representatives heard aworl he said. There
was one crazy chap sitting near him with
upturned face and most attentive appearance.
! borrowed an opera glass from saddle COL
ored visitor, and brought 1t to bear upon the
attentive looking man. Imagine my horror
when discovered, my Bower, that he was
fast aslesp! A crazy man from Illinois got
up short time afterward and remarked,
with consid rahle method in his madness,
that the gentleman from Unowhere didn't
have "enough niger in his bill, and it
couldn't pass
had a great desire TO see Thad and look
into his "bleeches pocket. Accordingly called
upon the dooreeeper and begged him to point
out the Grassy Pennsylvania. He did so, nv
Bower, aud found myself in the presence
Of a darkey SO black that printers ink would
make white mark upon his face. ap-
preached the greyhaired old chap and con-
templatcd him with feelings which invara-
bly, produce the desire to take a drink
Could 1t be possible that the renowned Thad-
deus was only darkey, after all or, was it
probable that incessant legislating upon the
negro, talking negro, thinking, dreaming
and sleeping negro, had produced the change
Of skin which was before me? accepted
the latter theory as highly probable, and ac-
costed the great man with the utmost reyer-
ence, thus:
"Hellol old 'Stever How are you p
How does she run"
The sage of Radcalsm replied, as he FIN
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