Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-07

At the request of the publisher of the
Toledo Blade, Rev. Mr.. Nasty furnished
the last number of that journal with his
picter." He also sends them bio
graphical sketch of his life, as follows;
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDRIr X ROADS, J
(Wich is in the Stait of kentucky
July 20, 1867.
EDITOR TOLEDO BLADE-SUR Enclosed
find PHOTOGRAPH NV myself, ez yoo desired.
To make strikin picter | flung myself
into the atitood and asoomed the expresh-
un wich mite hev bin observed onto my
classikle countenance when in the act uy
deliverin my justly celebrated sermon.
:. The wages NV sin is Death" The S.
90 wich 700 remitted to kiver the cost Nv
the picter, wuz, | regret to say, INSULT
cient The picter cost 75 cents, and ii
took $50 of Bascom's newest to stiddy
my nerves to the pint Nv undergoin the
agony NV sittin 3 minutes in front Nv the
Photographer. | need not say that he is a
incendiary from Massachusetts, Ez the de-
ceased Elder Gavitt's son, Issaker, hez ex-
pressed burnn desire to possess his appara-
us, it isprobable that public safety will very
shortly require the expulsion wv the incendi-
airy. But he'd my revenge-in his pocket
is none NV my postal currency Sekoorin the
picter, | told him wood take it home, and
eff my intimit friends, those who knowd me
shood decide it wuz portrait, L wood call
and pay for it afore he left the Corners
VIII do it? Will this picter-takin Abb
| lishnist ever more behold me? Exc an
sers.
700 may remit the other twenty-five
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 conceel-
in my birthplace. | don't want to set any
town in that State up in biznis. That town
hez gone loonatic and gives Ablishin ma
jorities friteful to contemplate, and | don't
want to benefit it by givin it a nashnel rep
ertashen [ don't want to double the
price Nv its property-to be the means Nv
erectin a dozen or slch matter NV first
class hotels TO accommodate the crowds ez
wood make pilgrimages thither to visit my
birthplace. The present owner Nv the
house into wich [ opened my eyes onto a
world NV sin, is a Ablishnist wv the darkest
dye, and l hev no desire TO enrich him.
Never, by word Nv mine, shell he cut that
house up into walkin sticks and buzzum-
pins.
Ny boyhood wuz spent in in the pursoot
Nv knollege and muskrats, mostly the lat
ter. [ wuz early a promisin child. My
parence wuz both Democrats Nv the strict
est kind, my mother in partickler. She
hatid eny one that wuzent Dimocratic, with
a hatred that | never saw ekaled. When
[ say that she woodent borrer tea and sugar
and sch NV Wing nabers, the length and
breadth and depth NV her Dimocrasy will
be understood.
Uv my childhood, [ know but little. My
father wuz leadin man in the humble
spere 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 that oc-
Cured to him the first month. He collect
ed Judgment for SIS, and the money wuz
paid to him. The good man wuz talented
collector but wuZ singerly careless IN pay
in over wat he collected.
Ez shown the pekoolyer bent Nv the ge-
MUS NV the old man, | repeet a eonversa-
shen | wunst heerd \ man who he'd an
account to collect, wuz consultin one who
knowd my father well, ez to the safety Nv
putin a claim into his hands:
- Is he good collector ?" askt the man.
"Splendid," sed the naber.
Is he a man of responsibility askt
the man.
| Sir" sed the naber, :. he hez the abili-
ty, but yoo'll find when 700 try to git yoor
money out NV his hands that he lacks the
response"
/ Good ther hev bin a more techin triboot
to genius?
/ He wuz like all men Nv genius, unbal-
anced His abilit wuz all ON one side
The grovelin plaintiff. who didn't admire
sich erratic flites, raised a ruckshen about
the paltry sum, and my father
Folded his tent like the Arab,
q 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 perfeshen
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
anuther. Appreshatin the compliment
they pade him he alluz went. | menshur
these pekooliarities Nv my ancestors becoi
THE lives all CRATE men remind us
And departin leave behind us
eff our talent runs in that direckshun, e;
many debts ez he did, though it does re
quire especial genius
This he'd its inhooence upon my yooth
full mind. L saw not only crate deal uN
the country, but much NV mankind, and
acquired that adaptibility to circumstance
wich hez ever distinguished me. Even t.
this day, eff | cant get gin kin take whie
kew without a murmur and without repin
in
NY politicks hez ever bin Dimocratic
and 1 may say without egotism, hev bin
a yoosful member NV that party. l votec
for jackson eighteen times, and for ever,
succeedin Dimocratic candidate ez man,
times ez possible. For Mick Lellan, / onl
got in four votes. didn't approve Nv tn
nominashen and wuz not over Jealous
He'd he bin elected, wat wood it hev avail
ed me? He he'd enuff dismist army off
GERS follerin him, to hev filled every OH
in his gift, and he'd at that time becom
too old to foller pollytix for the amoose
mentIit afforded, or for the benefit Nv an
cause.
But this is depression.
g NY Dimocrisy wuzn't particklerly con
firmed, in fact, l wuz not a Dimekrat frol
any special principle, but more becoz thos
in the speer in wich we moved wuz, until
arrived at the age Nv twenty-four. NJ
, father wuz intimately acquainted with m'
. and knowed all my caracteristics ez well e