Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-05
Lwrittsa for the Toledo Blads.l
Mr.. Nasby Enjoys Vision or the
Next World.
CoETEDERrr K RoAbs. (wish !
Is In the staff nv Kentucky J
February 5. I866-

CONFIDENT, RoAbs, (wish1
Is In the staff nv Kentuckyl !
February s, 1865.
Last mite l retired to my virtoout
couch at precisely half past eleven, after
eaten rather light supper for thai
time of night. / alluz make pint to
eat light 10 the eyenin for IN gittin old
and my digestive faculties amt what they
wuz when / wuz young. Alas | We
who hev lived out the best part nv our
lives, wat wood we give to be set back
the time when, with our faculties unim-
paired, we Good consoom q good square
meal without fear nv consciousness
Bnt-
"Them happy days 10 aed
And never Will return"
l paid my respecks to mince Plies,
pair Nv pigs feet, some cold tongue
and plate of tripe, follored by half
dozen dough nuts and couple or more
nv glasses nv hot whiskey punch, and
singlar as it may seem i didn't set we'll.
l dreamed all mite and my dreams
wuzn't at all pleasant. Methswt / he'd
deceest and wuz in the next world. It
WIZ q singiar site that met my vision.
The dividin line between this world
and the next wuz swift stream OF
water, and every deceest spirit he'd to
cross il. The water was suthin like that
NV the Dead Sea. A man uencumbered
with anything Good walk on it, but they
sunk down in it if they wuz loaded, ac-
cordin TO wat they he'd to carry. On
the tother side nv this Jordan wuz
heaven-the dominions Nv his majesty
Satan the LIST wGz below, and TO it a
strong undercurrent flowed, which took
all them ez wuz too heavy loaded to
keep their chins above water.
On the, bank stood more than two
million Nv little devils who flung onto
the shoulders nv them trying to cross
their failins and weaknesses and iniqui-
ties.
General Breckenridge wuz the frst
that l saw enter the food. He had on
life preserver labelled States Rights,
but peert little devil stuck a pin into
it, and it collapsed, the gas with which
it was filed smellin horribly. Down
be went, and ez be sunk they COM
menced peltin him with packages la.
belled Treason" Perjury" Murder"
and john O. went under.
Old James Buchanan went next. The
old gentleman didn't keep above water
as long ez g able bodied man could hold
G bar NV red hot iron in his hand. He
made one splash when a weight labelled
Treason struck him and down he
went. The gentlemanly AMI urbane
devil who had him in charge, had big
pile more of ammunition to discharge
at rim, but that one wuz sufficient.
Vallandigham come next / wuz sur
prised to see no one make a motion at
him, but he sunk all the same. I" We
never waste effort" sed Satan TO me;
she carries enough natural cussedness
about him all the time to sink him,
without putin anything onto him that
he did ten days ago,
Frank Pierce made his appearance,
but he declined to enter He wuz i'm
metietely seized and on each leg wuz
tied weight labelled kansas, and
they flung him in. He went down like
q shot, and that's the last seed Nv
him.
Garrett Davis went iu and to my sur
prise passed over safely Nothing wuz
flung at him, for wich asked the rea.
sen.
"Wby," sed Satan, at the poor old man
isn't accountable. He commenced to
talk many years ago and keeps on talkin
because he really don't know WREN to
stop could hev sunk him, but the
fact is / woodn't endoor what the SENT
nv the Yoonited States hez he'd to for
the past few years, for dozen nv Tombs
lawyers Besides this m gettin more
from Kentucky now than I'm really en-
titled to. I've mortgage on two-thirds
nv that State"
Fernandy and Ben Wood come up
rather bold aud entered the food ez
though they were, sure nv goin through
all right With a inimitabls chuckIe
Satan motioned away the inexperienced
devils and sed leave EN- to me" and be
hurled a package nv the New York
News, which washed him down instauter
Just ez Fernandy wuz heginnin to reach
the other shore he flung on to him an
assortment of weights labeled I" lotter.
les" "riots," which took him down to
the arm pitts, and finished by tumblin
onto him a mass onto wich was written
Mayoralty," and down he went, at wich
His Majesty drew q Sigh Nv relief
Seem the style nv the men who sunk
remarked unto him:
"This war hez bin rather profitable
thing for yoa." ala a
"Nothin to speak Nv" sed he. "The
leaders Nv the Southerners were, sum nv
EN-, honest, and got through on that &C
count, and the rank and file were ignor
ant wretches, who amt accountable no
how. The leadin copperheads Nv the
North, were mine anyhow, from the be-
ginnin. Any man who could sympathist
with the rebels in SIGH a struggle, must
700 will acknowledge, hev he'd a Ions
career of iniquity to fit EN- for SIGH q
sin. Why" sed he, "do 700 think
use all the shot hev7 Not any. Them
yoove seen piled on were used because
bein the last, they were on the top nv tht
pile.
ANY quantity NV yoor party escape
me. Them fellows who are yet voting
for jackson I'll never git, and the mosl
nv them ez alluz votes unscratched
tickets will dodge me. Their innocence
protects EN-. 1t takes a modritly smart
man to be vishus enuff to come to me-
he hez to hev sense enuf to distinguish
between good and evil cussednis enuff
to deliberately choose the latter, anC
brains enuf to do sonthin startlin il
that line. Dan Voorhees,, nv Injeany
hez all these qualities developed to
degree wich excites my profound re
spect. Between him and Fernand
Wood its nip and tuck. Fernandy dii
wicked things with more neatnis thai
Voorhees,; but for actual love nv doir
EN-, Voorhees, beets the world. i sed,
continued he, "that the war went u
much yoose to me. / repeat tit wa
q damage. Afore the war, / he'd m
own way pretty much in the Southern
States. For every octoroon cooC
count on at least two planters, and un
der the patriarkle system Nv Afrikir
slavery, (wich by the say wuz ons
nv my most brilliant consepshuns) octo
rooms multiplied with rapidity pleasir
to behold. But now alas the octorool
bizness ia done aud my best holt i
gone. hev some little hope however
The Dimocrisy are disylayin vigger
didn't think they possest. Eff they ca
only git strength enuf to elect the nez
President and re establish slavery