The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-31
Nasby's Autobiography.

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In his last letter Petroleum V.
Nasty relates his autobiography. We
give some extracts:
I was born in the year 1906. at
will not say where. / hev reasons for
conceelin my birth place. | don't
want to set any tawn in that State ap
in biznis. That town has gone loo
matte and gives Ablishen majorities
friteful to contemplate, and [ don't
want to benefit it by givin it a nashnel
4 reputashun. | don't want to double
the price Nv its property-to be the
means Nv ercctin a dozen or SIGH a
matter Nv first class hotels to accom-
modate the crowds ez wood make pill
grimages thither TO visit my birth
place. The present owner NV the
house into witch | first opened my
eyes onto a world NV sin is a Ablish-
mist Nv the darkest dye, and [ hev no
desire to enrich him. Never, by a
word Nv mine, shell he cut that house
up into walkin sticks and buzzum
pins.
My boyhood wuz spent in the pur-
SCOT NV knollege and muskrats, most
ly the latter. [ wuz early a promisin
child. My parence wuz both Dino
Gratis NV the strictest kind, my mother
in partikeler. She hatid eny one
that wuznt Dimocratic, with a hatred
say that she .woodent borrer tea and
sugar and SIGH Nv Wing nabers, the
length and breadth and depth Nv her
Wv my childhood, | know butlittle.
NJ, Po+Ia, lodi - H.
humble speer in which he moved,
holdin at different times, the various
offices IN the town up to constable,
visor and pound master. He wuz
elected constable and mite probably
hev gone higher, but for an accident
that occurred to him the first month.
He collected a judgement for SIS, and
the money wuz paid to him. The
good man wuz a talented collector,
but wuz singlarly careless in payin
over wat he collected.
He wuz like all men NV genius, un-
balanced. His ability wuz all on one
side. The %grovelin plaintiff, who
didn't admire such giraffe fites, raised
a ruekshen about the paltry sum, and
my father
Folded his tent like the Arab,
And as silently stole away"
From that time out the old gentle
MAJ migrated-in fact, he lived most
ly on the road. He adopted movin
ez a profeshun, aud a very profitable
one he made NV it. When his boss
died, the nabors, ruthar than not hev
him move, would chip In and raise
anuther. Appreshiatin the compli-
ment they paid him, he allus went. |
menshun these pekooliarities NV my
ancestor becoz
1.-The lives of great men remind US
We may make our lives sublime,
And departin leave behind U.S.
Eff our talent runs in that d.
recshun, ez many debts ez he did,
though it does require espeshel ge-
MUS.
This he'd its infooence upon my
youthful mind. | saw not only a
CRATE deal NV the country, but much
of mankind, and / acquired that
ad~aptability to circumstances wich
hez ever distinguished me. Even to
this day, eff / can't git gin. / kin take
whisky without a murmur and with
out repinin.
My politicks hez ever been Dino
cratic, and [ may say, without ego
tism, l hev bin aryooseful member NV
that party. voted for jackson eigh-
teen times, and for every succeedin
Dimocratic candidate ez many times
ez possible. For Mick Lellan | only
got in four votes. | didn't approve
Of the nomanashun, and was not
overly jealous. Had he bin electid,
wat wood it hev availed me? He he'd
enuff dismist army officers f~ollerin
him to hev filled evry offs in his gift,
and | he'd at that time become to old
to foller pollytix for the amoozement
it afforded, or for the benefit Of any
The offices | hev held hev not been
many. [ he'd signers to a petishun
for a postof6ce in Jackson's time, but
l killed my chances by %presentin it IN
person. The old hero looked at me
and remarked that it wuzn't worth
while THROWN away p~ostofices on SIGH
that when he wanted EN- he Good
buy EN- at a dollar a dozen. Bookan-
an was goln TO appoint me, but some
how my antecedents got TO his ears,
and he wuz Altered OF his respectable
ity. and | never succeeded till john
son returned to his first love and en-
braced US.
l he'd bin drafted into the Federal
army az the beginning Nv The war,
and he'd deserted to the Coptederacy.
Procoorin 4 certiikit to hat efeck.
[ applied for q pardon and a place.
He didn't like to give me the offs,
but he wanted a party and cooden't
be very p~ertickeiar. succeedeal