Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-08-01
from the Toledo Blade.l
Nasby.
BIOGRAPHICAL sKxroH, WITH PORTRAIT OF
Mr.. NASBY.

BIOGRAPHICAL sKgroH, WITH PORTRAIT OF
MR.. Nasty.
At the'request OF the publishers OF the
Toledo Blade, Rev. Mr.. Nasty furnished
the last number OF that journal with his
"picter'" He also sends them q bio
graphical sketch Of his life, as follows:
Posr OprIs, CoNFsDRrr Y RoAps,l
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky !
July 20, 1867.
EDITOR TOLEDO BLApE-SUR - En-
closed find photografr Nv myself, ez 700
desired. To make q strikin picter
flung myself into the atltood and as
soomed the expreshun wlch mite hev bin
observed onto my classkle coun tenance
when In the act NV deliverin my Justly
celebrated sermon, "The wages NV sin
is Deth." The $500 witch 700 RENTED
to kiver the cost Nv the picter, wuz, /
regret to say, insufllshent. The picter
cost rs cents, and it took $3.50 worth
nv Bascom's newest to Study my nerves
to the pint NV uniergoin the agony NV
sittin 8 minits in front Nv the photo
CRATER. need not say that he is a in
cendiary from Massachusetts. Ez the
deceased Elder Gavitt's son Issaker, hez
expressed burnin desire to possess his
apparatus, 1t is probable that public
safety will very shortly require the ex-
pulsion NV the incendiary. But / he'd
my revenge-in his pockit is none NV
my postal currency. Sekoorin the pic.
ter, told him wood take it home, and
ef my intimit friends, those who knowd
me, shood decide 1t wuz q portrait, |
wood call and pay for it aforc he left
the Corners. Will l do It? will this
picter.takin Ablishnist ever more behold
me? Exc ansers.
cents, either by draft on Moo York or
money order, at my resk.
wuz born in the year 1906, at will
not say where. / hev reasons for con.
ceelin my birthplace. l don't want to
set any town in that State up In biznis.
That town hez gone loonatic and gives
Ablishin msjorities friteful to contem-
plate, and | don't want to benefit it by
givin it nashnel reputashen. don't
want to double the price Nv its property
to be the means Nv erectin dozen or
SIGH matter Nv first class hotels to &C.
commodate the crowds ez wood make
pilgrimages thither to visit my birth.
place. The present owner NV the house
into witch first opened my eyes onto
world NV sin, is Ablishnist NV the
darkest dye, and hev no desire to en-
rich him. Never, by word NV mine,
shell he cut that house up into walkin
sticks and buzzum-pins.
My boyhood wuz spent in the pursoot
NV knollege and muskrats, mostly the
latter. | wuZ early a promisin child.
My parence wuz both Democrats NV the
strictest kind, my mother in partikeler.
She hatid eDy one that wuZnt Dimocrat-
ic, with hatred that never saw ekal-
led. When l saw that she woodent
borrer tea and sugar and SIGH Nv Wing
nabers, the length and breadth and
depth Nv her Dimocrasy will be under
stood.
Nv my childhood, | know but little.
My father wuz leadin man In the hum
BILE speer in witch 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 that occurred to him the
first month. He collected a judgment
for $1S, and the money wuz paid to him.
The good man wuz a talented collector,
but wuz singlerly careless in payin over
wat be collected.
Ez shown the pekoolyer bent NV the
genius NV the old man, repeet con.
versashen / wunst heered. A man who
he'd an account to collect, wuz consultin
one who knowd my father well, ez to
the safety Nv putin claim into his
hands:
"Is he a good collector 2" askt the
man.
Splendid" sed the naber.
"Is he man Nv responsibility 2" askt
the man.
"Sir!" sed the naber, "he hez the
ability, but yoo'll find when 700 try to
git yoor money out Nv his hands that he
lacks the response"
Good ther hev bin more techin tri-
boot to genius
He wuz like all men Nv genius, un-
balanced. His ability wuz all on one
side.-The grovelin plaintiff, who didn't
admire SIGH cratic flites raised ruck-
shen about the paltry sum, and my faith
er
''Folded his tent like the Arab,
And ez silently stole away
From that time out, the old gentleman
migrated-in fact, he lived mostly on
the road. He adopted movin ez a per-
feshen, and very profitable one he made
Nv it. When his boss died, the nabors
rather than not hev him move, wood
chip in and raise him anuther. Appre-
shiatin the compliment they pade him
he alluZ went. | menshun these pekoo-
liarties Nv my ancestor becoZ
1.-THE lives nv all CRATE men 'emind us
Wemay make our lives sublime,
And departin leave behind us"
Eff our talent runs in that direkshun, ez
many debts eZ he did, though 1t does re-
guit,' esprshel genins
This he'd it, iud -, ce upon my yUoth-
full mind. | saw not only CRATE deal
Nv the country, but much Nv mankind,
r but do M ~ IN ntr