Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-27
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasby--A Horrible Vision--The
Last NIgger.
POsT OFFS CoNFEDRIr X ROADS, 7
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
Tna..nr.a l,,- Oh, ros-

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I ell, and happened to read a peece called
/ 1.-THE Last Man. It's a rayther heavy
/ peece Nv written. His descriptive pow
/ ers are rather better than mine, tho,
perhaps ef my too partial friends amt
too partial, ne IS long way behlnt me
IN the matter Of pathetics, and in them
hne tutches yVfch show the man ny sole
and sensibilities.
Be that ez it may, the pome made a
impression on me, (Which es proof that
there is suthin in it, and it wuz onto my
mind ez I retired to my virtOous couch.
Skarcely he'd I sunk into slumber, /
when my Vlggerus Intelleck, Wich even
the bonds Nv slumber can't chain. wan
dered away into the misty realms Nv
SpecelaSheD. L he'd the most horrible !
dreem that ever afflicted a sleepin man. !
WIch the bare recolleckshun NV, causes
a involuntary shudder to thrill my sus-
cepdble frame.
Methot a epidemic staItid in Africa, |
and cum by reglar steps thro Europe,
and finally reeched Moo York. For I
time it ragged alike among all classis Nv +
people, and among all cOlors and COM 4
ple1IOns. The proud and hawty eau /
casslan, the bold and patriotic Celt, the 1
noble red man nv the forest, (Wich es /
pizen,) all, wuz swept away by the re- /
lentless pestilenco.
Finally, it abatid The white man /
and the red man began to escape the /
fangs Nv deth; but among the niggers
IL 1d4G1 W LtEs LJ1tll ever luEOu2n EIf6 !
South it swept like a tornado. sDariu
the whites, but cutting down every mig
ger Ia It's path. There wuz weepin and /
WaIIlln. The haWty planter saw the /
brite OctOrOOn, 5or whom he paid s. 900 /
before the war, and who he'd IN the good /
old times sOlaced his hours nv relaxa-
shen with her peerless charms-whO
he'd borne him beautiful girls almost
perfeckly white, Wich, on account NV
heven his blood in their vanes, he he'd /
bin able to sell for So, 900 and $4,000 to |
other planters. whose taste run in that
direckshun he saw her, the obieck NV /
his affeckshun, and in the good times
to come he hoped Wunst more a part nv
his estate, lying an inanymait corpse,
not worth cent for any purpose.
Likewise he saw them who he'd bin
his robust feeld hands, each wun with
sinews Nv steel and muscles NV iron
the males hearty and sOund, without
blemish; the females capable NV raizen
picanniny Wicb, in the old times, Wuz
worth $500 as soon as weened, wunst a
yeer, and by a little extra whippin do
yeer's work in the feeld every u munths,
stretched cold cOrpses in the fee1d- Thus
Vuz disease outragin all the finer feel
ms nv humanity, and destrOyin relent-
lessly all that made life pleasant and
lovely.
Finally, nigger after nigger fell, until
buttWO remained in the YOOnited States.
They wuZ a male and female, NV sich
perfeckly helthy systems, that it SEEM
ed impossible for disease to fetch them, j
When the epidemic WIZ known to hev
settled down to uiggers alone the De-
mOcracy held a consultation, and fear
in the race wood become extinct, he'd
selected these, he'd carefully sekloodid
EN- from the world, and he'd employed
tWenby by-four nv the most eminent medi-
kle men Nv the world, to be with en- ,,
nstantly-each stayin an hour that, | !
in case they showed any symptoms, the )
proper remedies mite be to wunst ap- :
pIde afOre disease got a hold. From :
these two, eff the rest Wuz destroyed, it 5
WuZ hoped a new stock Good be raised, Z
that the dangers Of negro equality mite Z
be still kept afOre the Amerilzin people. !
But all to no purpus. The unsparin =
pestilence smOted EN-, and notwith-
5tandin the efforts made by the emil
nent ns-nOtWitbstandin the !
prayers and groans NV the Democracy
they died
NTethawt the heavens wuz hung in
black, and Omin0us litenins shot {
3thwart the skies. In the distance. low :
mutrin thunders Wuz heard, and the :
Oeests Nv the forests run affrited from I
heir cOverts. Dray hOsses dropt ded :
N the streets; dOrgs run wildly with ,
5heir tungs hanging out, and white foam :
1rOppin from their distendid jaws !
Ever and anon, pale, sickly CLEANS NV = Z
lite flashed across the dark, leaden- l.
5OlOred clouds, given nacher the ap-
)eaEduCG NV IdDElu uDQef q severe al
ack nv yallar janders.
THE LAST NIGGER WUz DEAD!
Presently the leaders NV the Dimoc- I
-acy begun to assemble. y
FernandY wood cum.
"Alars ~ sed he, sObbin ez tho his
lart wood break, and kissin the cold 5,
corpse Fare we'll. my hOpes-a long +
Ind larst farewell Thou wust ourcor- =
ler-stun; on thes we built. Thou Wust L
)ur eappitle, our cheelest trust. We
Ised you've abOOzed yOO-and in a =
)oozin yOo found our profit. YOO Wuz y
ordained to be the cUss Nv AmerilCY- y
We Wuz ordained to be alluz fearful Nv y,
7OOr bein our sOOperiOr-to us Wuz en- :
rusted the deliteful task NV keepin !
roo down, and US over yOo. Our task :,
S endid with thee. Kin we any more =
ally our people to the poles, by yawpin !
he dangers NV niger equality, when -
her amt no nigger2 This, now, is a Z
white mans guvernment-we hev nuth- g
n tn contend for, and thus fOller thee" !,
And Fernandy, who he'd found jack 1
nto his BOWLS, and fell a dead corpse
,crOss his body.
Franklin Peerse approached and
vailed thus:
"And art thou gone, last nv the Afri- Il
lins Good not the avengin ministers c,
" deth hev taken sum other race ? ! Il
Good not the noble Injin bin taken, and L
md thou spared to Demokrasy? No CT
White man feered his supremacy. Good ii
lot the Chinese have bin cacriGced in r
by stead? The people he'd no preioo- 81
lis agin his color. Thou Wust all that c.
made me Nv yOOse, and ez thou art N
zone, so 1 90 also" n
And takin the jack-nife out NV Fer 81
landy's hand, he stabbed hisself with s.
t, and fell dead atop nv Fernandy. r
Yallandigum approached weepin vio- L
emily. n
'Opposin thy elevation - sed he, ad- W
.ressin the dead nigger, ''wunst made eI
narter NV me, which marterdum net in
ed me $4,000 in ten cent pieces, Wich 1 S,
invested in 7-3O bonds issued fl
" a tyranikle and unconstOnshnal gov il,
rnment. By carryiH portrait nv thee, 81
nd eXhibitiu it al my meetings in the ie
coral deestricks, I hev made my con- u
bile with rage at the lice NV III
ieh ez thou bein elevated to their speer or
ike OthellO, my okkupashun's gone ce
farewell pOllytix-thou vast my polly m
TX. Farewell Congress !-uv wat yOOse in
$ dimOcrat n Congress with no mig 81
er to blate about? Farewell liie-f0r
rat is life with no niger to persek oot?"
And takin the jack-nife from Peerse's
and, he recklessly plunged it into his II
owls, and fell across Peerse. ef
Brite, Nv InjIany Richardson, nv IL -,
nOy Seymour, Nv Moo York Flor 81
nee, NV Pennsylvany, and all the Iced nc
rs Nv the party NV the North, without
cum up, and, maxim similar M
rashuDs, used the jack-knife in like 81
5yle-fallin across each other ez four sh
Dot wood is corded. ln
Filled with anguish NV the heaviest to
escripshun, and fully appereciatin the CT
3elins nv the noble men who woOdent vi
urvive their party, I caught the jack We
nife, and, THROWN myself into a atti- co
OOd-sich ez I hev seen FCrlst cum, co
7hen, in Otheller, he stabs hisself-wuz th
n the pint NV maxim il acquainted with if
~ intestines, when I happended to OBJ su
srve quart bottle stickin out NV the Sc
igEer's cOat-pOckit DrOppin the knife, tn
sepzpd it, and in , gulps swallered the ha
ontents The room spun round and of
)und, and eggshaustid, I fell senseless Dt
ot,,a4 fba f7aI arrafFae T,Tut than VTD7.- / n.