The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-08-08
Written for the Toledo Blade.]
NASBY'S BIOGRAPHY.
WRITTEN By HIMSELF.

l
NASBY'S BIOGRAPHY.
WRITTEN By HIMSELF.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRITX X ROADS, J
(wch is in the Stait of KY, :
July 20, 1867.
Editor Toledo Blqde.
SUR-Encloscd find photografl
nv myself, ez you desired. To make
strikin picter, l flung myself into
the attitood and assoomed the cx-
preshun wich mite hev bin observ-
ed onto my classikle countenance
when in the act of delivcrin my
justly celebrated sermon, "The
Wages NV Sin is Deth." The 50
wich 700 romittcd TO kivor the
cost Nv the pictcr, wuz, | regret to
say, iAsuflieient. The picter cost
IS cents, and it took Sl.50 worth
Nv Bascom's newest to stiddy my
nerves to thepint nv undergoin the
agony Nv sittin 3 minitsin front OF
the Photographer. l need not say
that be is a incendiary from Mas
sachoosctts, Ez the deceased Ell;
der Gavit's son, Issaker, hcz ex :
pressed d burnin desire to possess
his apparatus, it is probable that
public safety will very shortly re-
quire the expulsion Nv the inccndi.
ary. But | he'd my rcvenge-in
his pocket is none of my postal
currency, Sekoorin the picler, /
told him I wood take it home, and
ef my intimit friends, those who
knowed me, shood decide it wuz a
portrait, | wood call and pay for it
afore he left the Corners. Will l
do it? Will this pictcr.takin Alb
lishnist ever more behold me? Exc
ansers.
You may remit the odd twenty
five cents, either by draft on New
York or money order, at my resk.
| wuz born in the year 1906, al
Il will not say where. ] hcv rea-
sons for concoulin my birth. place.
[ don't want TO set any town in
that Stait up in biznis. That town
has gone loonatic and gives Ablish.
in majorities triteful to contem-
plate, and | don't want to benefit
it by givin it a nashnel reputashen.
don't want to double the price
Nv its property-to be the means
NV ereclin q dozen or sich a matter
NV first class hotels to accommo-
date the crowds ez wood make pill
grimages thithcr to visit my birth
place. The present owner NV the
house into wich | first opened my
eyes onto world nv sin, is a Alb
hshnist nv tho darkest dye, and /
hev no desire to enrich him. Nov
or, by word Nv mine, shell he cut
that house into walkin sticks and
buzzum pins.
My boyhood wuz spent in tho
pursoot Nv knollege and muskrats,
mostly the latter. / wuz q prom
isin child. Ny parents wuz Dem
ocrats Nv the strictest kind, my
mother in partikeler. She hatid
any one, that wuznt Dimocratic,
with u hatred that never saw ekal-
led. When | say that she wood
ent borror tea and sugar and sich
nv Wing nabers, tho length and
breadth and depth Nv hor Dimoc
rasy will be understood.
Nv my childhood / know but lit
lie. My father wuz leadn man
in the humble speer in wich he
moved, holdin at different times,
the virious offices in the town up
to constable, the successive steps
bein road supervisor, and pound
master. He wuz elected constable,
and might have gone higher, but
for an accident that, occurred to
him the first month. lie collected
a judgment for SIS, and the money
wuz paid to him. The good man
wuz a talented collector, but wuz
singlerly careless in payin over
atthe collected. Ez shown the
pecooliar bent Nv genius of the old
man, | repeet conversahen l
wunst heard. A man who he'd an
account to collect, wuz consultin
one who knowd my father well, ez
to the safety Nv putin claim in
to his hands. ,.s
"Is he a good collector" askt the
man. said >.,f,e 81. s4e
"Splendid," sed the naber.
"Is hea man nv responsibility"
askt the man. , s#g
"Sir ~ 'sed the naber, "he hezthe
ability, but yoo'll find when 700
try to git your money out of his
hands that he lacks the response.
Good ther hey bina more tochin
tribute as "a, ter
Ho wuz like all mon of genius,
unbalanced. His ability wuz all
on ono side. The grovelin plain
tiff, who didn't admire sich ecratic
flites, raised o ruckshen about tho
paltry sum, and my father. a,a
N $50 "Foldcd his tent like the Arab
v5ANa And essileutly stole away" ~
From that time out the old gen.
tleman migrated-in fact, hc lived
mostly on the road. He adopted