The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-29
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OF Mr.. Nasby.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,) I
July 20, 1867.
EDITOR TOLEDO BLADE-SUR: Eu-
closed find photograf Nv myself, eZ yoo
desired. To make striken pictur L
flung myself into the atitood and as
soomed the expreshun wich mite hev
bin observed onto my classikle counte-
nance when in the act NV deltverin my
Justly celebrated sermon,-"The wages
NV sin is Deth." The $500 wich you
remitted TO kiver the cost Nv the pictur,
wuz, regret to say, insuttishent. The
picter cost 20 cents, and 1t took 10y
worth NV BascOm'S newest to suddy
my nerves to the pint NV undergoin
the agony of sittin 8 minits in front NV
the Photographer. need not say that he
is a inCendiary from Massachusetts.
Ez the deceased Elder Gavitts son Is
saker hez expressed burntn desire 10
possess his apparatus, 1t IS probable
that public safety will very shortly re-
Quire the expulsion NV the incendlary.
But he'd my revenge-in his pocket IS
none NV my postal currency. Sekoorin
the picter, L told him / wood take 1t
home, and er my intimit friends, those
who knowed me, shocd deside 1t wuz a
portrait, wood call and pay, for 1t aioTe
he left the corners. VIII do 1t? Will
behold me? Exc ansers.
Yoo may remit the odd twenty-five
cents, either by draft on Moo YORK or
money order, at my resk.
Iwuz born in the year 1906, Rt-l Will
not say where. 1 hev reasons for con-
ceelin my birthplace. don't want TO
set any town in that State up in biznis.
That town hez gone lonnatic and gives
Ablishen mBjOIities frightiul to con-
tenn plate, and don't want to benit It
by givin 1t nashnel reputashen. L
don't want to double the price Nv Its
property-to be the means Nv erect1n a
dozen or sich a matter NV first class
hotels to accommodate the crowds ez
wood make pilgrimages thither to visit
my birth place. The present owner Nv
the house into wich 1 first opened my
eyes onto world NV sin, is Ablishntst
NV the darkest dye, and hev no desire
to enrich him. Never, by word NV
mine, shel he cut that house up into
walkin sticks and buzzum-pins.
My boyhood wuz spent in the pur-
SCOT Nv knollege and muskrats, mostly
the latter. 1 wuz early promisin child.
Ny parence wuz both Democrats Nv the
strictest kind, my mother in partikeler.
She hatid eny one that wuZnt Dlmocrat-
ic, with a hatred that never saw ekall-
ed. When I say that she woodent bor-
ror tea and sugar and sich. Nv Whig
depth NV her Dimocrasy will be under
stood.
Uvmy childhood, know but little.
MY father wuz leadin man in the hum
BILE speer in wich he moved, holdin at
different times the various offices in the
town up to constable, the successive
steps bein road supervisor and pound
master. He wuZ elected constable and
mite probably hev gone higher, but
for an accident which occurred the first
month. He collected judgment for
$1S, and the money wuz paid TO him.
The good man wuz talented collector,
but wuz singulerly careless in payin
over wat he collected.
Ez shown the pekOolyer bent Nv the
genius nv the old man, L repeet con-
versashen wunst heerd. A man who
he'd an account to collect, wuz consult
in one who knowd my father well, ez to
the safety Nv putin claim into his
hands.
as he good collector" askt the
"Sp'endid," sed the naber. -,
as he man NV responsibilityT"
aSkt the man.
"Sir," sed the naber, "he hez the
ability, but yoo'll find when yoo try to
git yoor money out nv his hands that
he lacks the response"
Good ther hev bin more techin
triboot TO genius?
He wuz like all men NV genius, un-
balanced. His ability wuZ all on one
side. The groveiin plaintiff, who didn't
admire sich erratic flites raised ruck-
shen about the paltry sum, and my
father
"Folded his tent like the Arab,
Aud ez silently stole away"
From that time out, the old gentle
man migrated-in fact, he lived mostly
on the road. He adopted movin ez u
perfeshun, and a very profitable one he
made NV il. When his hoss died, the
nabors rather than not hev him move
more wood chip in and raise him an
uther. Appreshiatin the compliment
they pade hun, he alluz went. l mem
shun these peknOOliarities Nv my an
cestor becoZ
1.-THE lives NV all CRATE men remind us
We may make our lives sublime.
And departln, leave behind US"
Flour talentruns in that direckshun,
ez many debts eZ he did, though it does
require espesheI genius.
This he'd its inf1ooence upon m y
yoothful mind. 1 saw not only great
deal Nv the country, but much NV man
| kind, and 1 acquired that adaptability
TO circumstances wichr heZ ever dis
tinguished me. Even to this day, eT
cant git gin kin take whisky, without
murmur and without repinin.
My politlcks hez ever bin Dimocratic,
and / may say without egotism, hev
bin yooseful member NV that party.
voted for Jackson eighteen times, and
for every succeedin Dimocratic candi-
date, ez many times ez possible. For
Mick Lellan, L got in four votes. |
didn't approve nv the nominashen and
wuz not overly Jealous. He'd he bin
eIectid, wat wood it hev ayailed me
He he'd enuff dismist army officers fol-
lerin him, to hev filled every ofils in
his gift, and he'd at that time become
too old to foller pollytex for the
nmoozement 1t afforded, or for the bene-
fit NV any cause.
But this is depression.
My Dimocrisy wuZn't pertikerly con-
| tirmed, in fact, l wuZ not Dimekrat
from any speshl principle but more
becoz those in the speer in which L
moved wuz until arrived at the age Nv
twenty-four. My father wuZ infinitely
acquainted with me, and knowd all
my carakteristics ez we'll ez tho he he'd
bin the friend NV my buZzum. One
day ez wuz a laying on my back un-
der a Tree, comtemplnIin the beauties
Nv nacher, my parent sez he:
Pete, (Which is short for my nancy,
ef 700 ever marry, marry a milliner !"
"Why? father NV mine," replied 1,
opening my eyes.
"Becoz, my son" sed he, "Shell hev
trade which'll support yoo, other
wise yoo'lI die Nv starvashen when
Pm gone."
1 thot the idea wuz good one. Thre
woman cuss come Into the world, ,
which cuss wuZ labor, and L wuz de-
termined that ez women he'd bin the
coz NV requirin some body to sweat for
the bread eat, woman shood do that
sweatin. That mite 1 proposed TO a
milliner in the village. and she rejected