The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-08-25
N4SBY.
M. Nasty Dreams 4 Dream, in which
the Condition OF Aflairs in the Event
Of a Democratic Victory IS POreshad-
Owed.

INT OouultiOu Ol AHdlFS N INC Etcut
OF Democratic Victory IS ROreshad-
owed.
4 8IAsrES's CORNERS, AIIsPILION =.
4 HUNDRED, IN THE STATE Wv :
i DELAWARE, August i2. 1873 }
Last mite he'd bin a readin an in
dictment nv the Republican party, by
| that virchuus paper the Moo York
World, mOisteniE my clay ever aud
anon with suthin stTenghtnin from q
| lumber, wich Bill Sapp furnishes me
| regler, BY order NV the Central Com
| mittee. The World recited the thiev-
I in and stealin NV the Radikel organ
/ izashen, i'm detale, and published let
I teTs from disgJlsted members NV that
I party who purposed to restore tine
/ governments to a healthy cOndishen
! and secOOr an honest admiIistraslIen
NV affairs by vOtin the DimOcratie
[ ticket tlIis fall, all WI Wich the World
insistid made the. death Nv Radi-
i kalism shGOr. t -.l
I The heat uV the evenin, or the
strength NV the miXter in the tumbler,
/ lSapp's likkef is sarchin and he IS
very economical NV water or both
combined, set ME TO sleep in my chair,
and sleepiH ] dreamed.
Methawf WuZ in some kind NV q
| temple, and in a sort NV a court ia
the centre, ON q couch, there lay the
form Nv an exgirin giant. This giant
wuz an exeeedinly hefty ORe-the
| largest / he'd ever seen, even in
dreems. He wuz parshelly clad in
armor, indskhtin that lac had bin re-
Gently engaged in battles, and from
his still graspin a dented sword,
eonelOOded that his weaknis only pre-
vented him from engagin in more
struggle. In his arms he held num-
Der NV caskets VariOusly inscribed !;
and in the apartment, across the
door Wv wieh he laid, wuz a strong
box half full NV treasure. Standia
over him and fannin him anxiOusly
was female dressed in anteek
cOstoOm, Wieh / recognized tO-wunst
eZ the Goddess NV Liberty.
How l got into the room / know
not, but found myself there con-
frOntin this female.
Madam p' sed /, "whO IS this gal
liant yooth ?''
.1t's my second son, Republikin-
isIn,n ansered she.
ain a bad way" / remarkt, nOticin
how heavily he bTeathed.
"Ahas, sir'; retOrted she, "he Is.
His life heZ bin acOntinyOoal warfare,
and his eonstoOshn is broken. He
heZ jist closed a most severe struggle,
and its that wich killed him. No
sooner he'd he cOnkeTed our foes afOre
he he'd fresh fites ON hand with them
wieh he'spOsed WIZ our friends. Be
coz we didn't put him in the front,
Chase stabbed him Yishusly, tho that
didn't hurt him much coz the old man
he'd whstid his strength a runnin after
noniftasbens, wich is vilent exercise
for Olid so aged. Others like him fol
Tered SCOT: and tho they didn't airy
one infiiet serious injOOry, the number
NV EN- worried him. 1t wuz very
much like q man fitin skeetefs.
There isn't much power in any one,
but tllere are sich a number NV EN-,
and they buzz so, that they finally
wear one ont. iea.
'eBut these didn't bring him to his
present cOndishen ?'l askt.
s'NOt altogether. He had friends
wich he trusted and spOsed WuZ trOO,
W ACl EAOtG AlOhA lAAC oAAOAA5 -
wich Inc he'd custody; and others NV
the same stripe stole the public landsi
and Others put their cousins, and
brothers, and uneles, and brOthers-m-
law, and nephews, into places where
they Good Oppress the people; men
wich he elevatid suppOsin they wuz
great turned out to be very small, and
them wich he'd bin his best friends
stoopidly charged all this devilment
to his akOunt, and stabbed him. Ther
wuz leeches wich took his name and
suckt the people, and the people turn
ed upOn him. / begged EN- to kill the
Ieeehes and spare him, but they WIZ
infuriated and wOOdent listen. That
sore, ltshe pintid to one witch smelt)
is a land-grab; that one monopoly;
that nasty one the franklin privilege;
that rash, wich is all over him, is in
competency. Jenekes he'd a specific
for that but they wOodent let him try
it and it struck in. Good men, wieh
dident SEQ tlat these same leeches, ef
they. lived, aud these same eussid
diseases, If not cured, wood fasten. on
to whoever cum into power, the same
ez they did onto my son, assaulted
the poor fellow instid NV remedying
wat allied him. a fG1s
"But that wOOdent hev finished
him. YOO notice that immense tumOr
lest over his heart. That's the nash
mel debt, wieh crowd to sich fearful
propOrshens dOOrin his big hte. 1t
wuz nOtist first at the cOnelooshen NV
the struggle, and he unfOrtunitly
called in passel NV quacks. They
made it bigger and bigger, and it
drawd fearfuily on his vitality. Then
finally the reglers wUZ called i'm and
they he'd to resort to the knife, but
they hev taken it off faster than his
cOnstoOshen wood stand. They told
him he wood live longer to take of
less tO-Wunst, hut he insisted on takin
the chances. "I want il all OFF afOre
/ die,u wuZ his constant remark, and
they humOred him more than they
he'd ought to. Then in addition to
the diseases he ketched from the rot
eusses who got close 10 him, he he'd
his enemies to fite from without. The
frOOts NV his big victory which he
holds so close in his arms, WIZ en-
trusted TO the keepin NV a lot NV
mizable renegades who paid no at
tentiOn to EN-, but got to fiLin among
theirselves over the spOils, and his
natral enemies the DimOeraey kept
continually agOin for EN-. He he'd to
take keer Nv wat he won in his big
battle with one hand, and fite the De-
mOcrisy and his own eamp-fOllOwers
with tile other, and the constant
watchin and fitin hez finally wore him
out. .l.
At this pint the giant give a con-
vulsive start, his eyes sOt, there wuz
a gurgle in his throat, his hands re-
laxed, and with a grOan he died. The
Goddess .shrieked and fell onto the
dead body, bewailin him.
That room wuZ the widest place for
a mint / ever see, wakin or sleepin.
The scene wich ensOOd beggared
descripslnen. In less than a mint the
entire leadership NV the DimOeratie
party NV the YoOnited States wuZ in
that room, and men he'd spOsed ded
and buried come up eZ lively eZ fieas.
Brite wuz there from his Kentucky
home, and he and Vallandigum and
one NV the Nirginny MRsOns seized
the easket labelled 'Ekal Rites from
the fingers NV thek Orps and smashed
il into very small fragments. The
Goddess NV Liberty wuZ seeZed and
compelled To put manacles onto anig-
ger, wich she protested agin, sayin
that she spOsed she was done with all
that sort NV thing. A gang NV EN-
wich recognized eZ old OfiishOlders
under BOOkannOn, and later under
johnson, drove out them wieh held
posishens Of trust and took them
nennseIve the treasury Wuz emptied
in a mint, for wher the thieves he'd
before taken by handsful the new ones
tOted it off in bags, and the public
lands insted NV bein sliced of for
railroads wuz divided up among
half dozen rings. Immejitly Ben
Wood took possession NV the Moo
York Custom House, and drivin out
the appOintees filled their places with
his adherents, among whom I nOtist
all my friends NV the Sixth Ward.
There wuZnt a honest man left in any
offs. The dishonest thieves who
were in, fiOpped in q second, and
stayed better pleased for they knew
that now they'd hev nobody to watch
EN-. VailandigIIm yaulted into Sher-
mans seat; Fent0n NV Moo York WuZ
crowded out NV hizzen by Fernandy
Wood, Bailey NV Boston took sum
ner's place, Dan Voorhees, showed out
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