Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-04
from the Toledo Blade.l
Nasby,s Last Letter.
Nasty HAS A FEARFUL DREAM, IN WHICH
HE SEES MANY THINGS.
CoNFEDRTT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait of Kentucky, }
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sence / gave my adhesion to Greeley,
| sum Nv witch wuZ stupenjusly friteful
! | 90 to bed with Greeley on my mind.
| and dreem dreems so horribul that |
wake with cold SWEETS onto me, an shiv-
! erin eZ tho he'd the ague Mite atore
| last Greeley appeere6 untome with huffs,
horns and tale. He perched himself on
/ nay stummick, squattin like a hideous
toad, and putting on his spectacles DELHI
! rately read me, from an old COPY of
the I'ri5Oon, SIX yards Nv his own edito-
rails on the slavery question. He finally
sailed off thru the air, shreeking, 'Lost,
/ Lost :" Whether he referred TO me or
| hisself as Lost" | RELY don't know.
1 Eff he fel ez mean in my kumpany ez |
| did in hiZZen, the remark Wud embrace
! both NV us.
Last mite | he'd anuther frlteful vision.
We hev family in the village witch
/ don't live ia harmony The husband
/ got intoxicated sum yeers ago, and
KNOWN faint gettin drunk that hurts a
man, but gettin sober, heZ lodged that
4 trubble by stayin drunk. His principle
amusement IL whalin his wife. The
novelty of this hayin worn off, yester-
day mornin he Civ her a couple ounces
of arsenic. Yaul.in ambishun o'erleeped
herself-his excessive liberality detected
his purpus. The dose wuz too big-it
sickened her, she vomited and lived, and
whaled him within an inch NV his life
/ wuz at the house, and late in the even
in left, stoppin at Deekin Programs,
where we took a ginooine Kentucky tea
witch consisted mostly NV korn whisky
and cold billed pork. From thence
went home and retired, with my he'd
full Nv the pizen, and Greeley mixed in
about equal purporshens. Fallin asleep,
/ dreemed,
Methawt wuz in a bildin, where, |
coodent make out Stretched out onto
a couch and kivered with flag wuz the
body Nv a enormus giant-the most
huge and komprehensiv giant he'd ever
seen, even in dreems. His legs wuz like
pillars, his arms wuz like Deems, and
his hands spread out like the map Nv our
wunst happy but now opprest country
He seemed to be in the last stages NV
fearful sickness. He he'd ben, in his
DAYS. a giant NV immense strength, and
wuz, even in his illness, ez handsum
human bein eZ [ ever sot eyes onto. But
it wuz evident that he wuZ goin fast He
drawd his breth painfully, and from
ugly NpuuuS On HIS DOug DhOOG bOLCu
slowly but depletinly.
"Who is he 2" | asked nv the Goddess
NV Liberty, witch sot at his he'd in deep
mournin and weeping violently.
"That's Republikinism, she answered,
''the only actooly, ginooine friend | ever
hed-the only one who RELY stood by
me- But they are KILN him. That
cash in his back Chase gave him; that
stab in the side wuz inflicted by Randall;
the itch witch so irritates him, he caught
from the Blairs, and-good heavens here
comes another squad NV his enemies l.
looked, and 10 Boss Tweed, HOff-
man, Seymour, Hendricks, and duzzen
Nv my pertickular trends were comm
in. They he'd mask. on their fBces,
and made NV New York 75j5oons, but |
knowed 'em for all nv that. Hoffman
seezed the he'd of the PROSTATE giant,
while Tweed poured down his throat
nauseous fiooid from jug marked ''Cin-
cinpati' fairly fOrcin it down him. The
victim shuddered ez he swolered it, ez
tho it wuz his last and final shudder.
"YoO'ye killed him" shrieked the
Goddess.
Eve bleeve we hev, madame" shout
ed the fellows in kOrus, pullin off their
masks, ''and yoo'll foller him within a
yeer.
xiii her now" yelled wun NV them,
witch wuz evidently from Georgy, ''she
haint got her champion to save her this
time"
And they seczed her, and gagged and
bound her. with friteful yells.
And in their joy they execooted a
most demoniac war dance about the
corpse, in witch jined with an ability |
didn't know | wuz possessed. But jest
eZ our exhultation wuZ at its highest, the
corpse gave fearful gasp-a konvu'-
shun NV ten boss power. He riz up from
the couch, assoOmed a sittin position, his
face NV -dethly paleness, and with a
reich that shook the bildin, vomjted ez
never saw a human being yomit.
"Good hevens!" shreeked Tweed
''wee've given him too much NV the
pizen, and it's actin ez an emetic.
The sick man gave heeye after beeye,
and in the flood NV bile witch he elected
| saw Greeley, GratZ Brown, SchurZ,
Cox and score NV SIGH. A very gentle
heeve landed SchurZ and GratZ Brown
on the floor; a little bigger one threw
out Fenton, and a gigantic one, witch
convulsed the sufferer, from center 10
circumference, histed out Greeley. But
once over, it wuZ tremendous relief to
the sick indiyidooal. Immediately a
great change came over him. The mo-
ment they was off his stumick the pale
ness disappeared-a healthy color came
to his cheeks and his week.-Mrs. all left
him Glazing about furlously he put
one foot on Greeley and Brown and
their miZable companions, eZ a man
brushes a beetle, and with the other he
kicked the jug out NV the winder, witch
Jug was follered by Tweed and his
friends, who went thro the same aper-
toor, prompted by the same motive pow
err He cut the bonds of the Goddess
tore off her mournin and was in the act
NV embracin her when / awoke.
| lay for hours cogitatin over this
dream. Wuz it profecy or billed pork
That's the conundrum. Is il warnin
Nv judgment to cum, or is il disordered
stummick +? Hey we dosed the Repub-
likan party too freely with Cincinnati,
and hez wat we fondly hoped wood be
pizen enough to kill our CRATE enemy,
going to be an emetic witch viii rid him
Nv the disturbin humors witch wuz des-
troyin Nv him, and make him stronger
than ever
1t trubbled me so that ] coodn't
sleep. | tosst about in the most restless
and frantic manner, and Good only injuce
the gentle goddess to fetch my eyelids
after four solid drinks from jug witch
keep in my room, WITCH isn't labelled
Cincinnati by any means. Heaven
grant that my dream Is simply baseless
fabric PETROLEUM V. NAsBY