Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-15
MASSEY.

is in the Stait NV Kentucky, July ~, 1857.
- Editor Toledo Blade - SUE: = En-
closed find PHOTOGRAPH NV myself, ez 700 de-
sired. To make a strikin picter flung my
self into the atitood ana assoomeu the ex-
preshun witch mite hev bin observed into my
classikle countenance when in the act NV de-
liyern my justly celebrated sermon; "The
wages NV sin is Deth." The So 90 witch
700 remitted to kiver the cost Nv the picter
wuz, regret to say, insuifishent. The pic
ter cost 70 cents, and 1t took 81 so worth of
Bascom's newest to stiddy my nerves to the
pint NV undergoin the agony Nv sittin 8
minits in front Nv the Photographer. | need
not say that he is a incendiary from Massa-
eAoosetts. Ez the deceased Elder Gavitts
son Issaker, hez expressed a burnin desire
10 possess his apparatus, it is probable that
public safety will very shortly. require the
expulsion NV the incendary. But he'd my
currency. Sekoorin the picter, told him |
wood take it home, and eff my intimit
friends, those who knowp me, shood decide
II wuz portrait, wood call and pay for it
afore he left the Corners. Will | do IL =?
Will this pctertakin Ablishnist ever more
behold me? Exc ansers.
700 may remit the odd twenty-five cents,
either by draft on Moo York or money order,
at my resk.
wuz born in the year 1906, att will not
say where. hev reasons for conceelin my
birthplace. / don't want to set any town in
that State up in biznis. That town hez gone
loonatc and gives Ablishn majorities friteful
to contemplate, and don't want to benefit it
by givin in a nashnel reputashen. don't
want to double the price nv its property-to
he the means NV erectin dozen or SIGH a
matter NV first class hotels to accommodate
the crowds ez wood make pilgrimage thither
to visit my birthplace. The present owner
nv the house into witch first opened my eyes
onto world NV sin, is a Ablishnist Nv the
darkest dye, and hey no desire TO enrich
him. Never, by word Nv mine, shel he cut
that house up into walkin sticks and huzzam-
pins.
My boyhood wuz spent in the pursooi nv
knollege and n,usk-4ts, mostly the latter. ]
wuz promisfn child Ny parence WIZ
Democrats Nv the strictest kind, my mother
in partikeler. She hatid eny one that wuzni
Dimocratic, with 8 hatred thai never saw
exalted. When say that she woodem Dor
rer tea and sugar and sieh nv Wing nahers.
the length and breadth and depth nv her
Dimocrasy will be understood
Wv my childhood, know but little Ny
father wuz leadin man in the humble speer
in which he moved, holdin at different times,
the various offices in the town up to consta-
nv, luC suNNCaslNt SlGlih Dtlll IOuu
and pound master. He wuz elected consta-
bic and mite probably hey gone higher, but
for an accident that occurred to him the
first month. He collected \ Judgment for
SIS, and the money wuz paid to him. The
good man wuz atalented collector, but wuz
singerly careless in payin over wat he col
lected. Ez shown the pekoolyG bent NV
genius nv the old man, rcpeet a CONVERSE
shen wunst heerd 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 good collector askt the man.
splendid, sed the nabcr.
rs he a man nv responsibility y askt the
man.
''Sir = sed the naber, she hez the ability
H., You'll find when 700 try to git YOU
money out Nv his hands that he lacks til,
response"
Good ther hev bin more tcchin triboot
He wuz like all men NV genius, unbal
lanced. Ills ability wuz all on one side
The groyelin plaintiff, who didn't admire
SIGH cratic flites, raised a ruckshen abou
iiir paliry sum, and my father
Folded his tent like the Arab,
And ez silently stole away
From that time out, the old gentleman
mlsrated-in fact, he lived mostly on til
liC dtOlltCn luOflu tL u1
II very profitable one he made NV it. Whel
his boss died, the nabors, rather than no
hay him move wood chip in and raise hin
anuther, Appreshiatin the compliment they
padc him, he alluz went. / mcnshun thes,
lekoollartles NV my ancestor becoz
: The lives NV all crate men remind us
We may make our lives sublime,
And departin leave behind us"
III our talent runs in that direcshun. cz man
'lehls ez he did, though it does require esp,
slirl talents.
This he'd its intooence upon my yoothf
mind | saw not only great deal NV IL
country, but much Nv mankind, and | acqu
rel that atlaptability to circumstance vic
hcz tvcr distinguished me. Even TO this da
g can't git gin kin take whisky without
nturnur and without Yepinin.
W politicks hez ever bin Dimocratc, al
imf say, without egotsm, | hev bin
Noi,s'tul member Nv that party. voted f
,larhson seven times, and for every suecec
in Dimoeratic candidate, ez many times
possible. For Mick Lcllan, l only got
four votes. didn't approve NV the non
nascn and wuz not overly Jealous. He'd
bin elected, wat wood it hey awaited m
He he'd enuif dismist army officers follel
him to hey filled every offs in his gift, an,
he'd at that time become to old to foller d
lytiN for the amoozement it afforded or
the benefit NV any cause.
But this is depression.
My Dimocrisy wuznt partikerly confir
ed, in fact, | wuz not Dimekrat from q
speshl principle, but more becoz those in
speer in witch moved wuz, until arriv
ut the age NV twenty-four. My father v
infinitely acquainted with me, and kno
all my characteristics ez well ez tho he |
bin the friend NV my buZZum. One day,
WIZ layin on my back under IL tree, c,
lemplatin the beauties nv nachcr, my par
ser hes
Pete (Which is short for my name), ct v
ever marry, marry milliner!"
!" Nhyf father uy.mine,' replied !, ope
nly eyes.
. Bccoz, my SON., sed he, Shell he
trade wich'll support 700, otherwise yo
die nv starvashen when I'm gone.
! thot the idea wuz a good one. r.
woman cuss come into the world, W
euss WIZ labor, and wuz determined I
~ woman he'd bin the coz NV rcouirn sol
bod, to sweat for the bread | eat. wor
should do that sweatin. Thai mite perpo
10 Il mlliner in the village and She reiet
my SCOT. | offered myself in rapid success
to widder, who was II washerwoman,
toa woman who he'd boys old enufl to W.
with the same res 1t, when, ieclin that sui
WIZ nessary to be done 10 sckoora peryi.
w ilcs ilihliltu IL Hi51ef WasueTWOt
witch didn't feel above me. Wood 700 bio
t.. Within an hour after the ceremony
pronounst, she sold her persncl prope
consistin NV a wash-tub and board and
sortment NV soap, and invcstin the proct
in u red calico dress and Il pair nv ear ri
insisted on my going to work to sup
her! and the township authorities not
maintained her in her loonacy, but ref
to extend relief to me on the ground til
wuz able-bodied.
Ez | left that Niger, vowed to de
my life to the work NV gcttin NV EN- d,
to where they wood hey to supnort ms
that VOW hey relijusly fulfilled. Ihev n,
failed by my vote and inilooence 10 rcG
EN- to tler normal condishun hey NJ
felt good ccptin when they wuz put doy
pee; | hey never wept save when they
heiu rlcvated. | hey bin bathed in tear
hrlt NV the time for five years past.
The offices h1v held hey not been N
! had signers to l. pctishun for a post-'
in lackson's time, but l.illed my CHI
~ presentin it in person. The old
locked at me and remarked that it "
worth while THROWN away post office
Girl---that tpl, ba,