Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-13
Nasty.
Mr.: Nasty Dreams a Dream, in which the
EOreshadOwed. man Is
CoNPRDRIT X ROADS, \
witch is In the State NV Kentucky. !

May "a 1872
am gettin old aud am feelin nv
years. lime wuZ when ten or dozen
drinks more than yoosual didn't make
any difference with me, but it's quite
different now. Ittells on my old body,
and | hcv to be guardid.
We he'd rati6cashen meetin last mite,
at which | did indulge more than
shood, and fell asleep in a chair at
Bascom's, and dreamed dream.
In my dream l saw high, elivated
plain, bounded on three sides by steep
precipitus bluff On the top of that
plain witch pleasant and breezy place
it wuz), and back somewat from the edge
NV the precipice, stood that bill lin witch
is the Mecca TO witch ALL Dimocrats hev
been turnin their eyes for the past II
years, the White House. On the very
edge Nv the precipice wuz group NV
individuals wich he'd no difficulty in
identifyn. There wuz Grant and Coifax,
and around EN- stood Morton, Butler,
Sherman, Shellaberger, and thousand
Others Nv sieh, while iist over their
heads there wuz hoatin in the air the
spirits Nv Washington, Adams, Jeffer-
son, Linkin and all Nv them deceest
lndlvldooals witch would hev sympathiz-
ed with the Republican party eff they
had continyood in the flesh.
Down at the foot Nv this precipice
there wuz low, swampy, marshy, NAL
arious deestrik, wich was the most I'M
comfortable seekshun Nv kentry l ever
see. The ground wuz full Nv cess-pools.
Nv quagmires, and quicksands. There
wuz bones Nv niggers scattered all over
lt-there wuz rooms of old skool- houses:
there wuz groceries and s'loons scatter
ed about it in wild proofusion there
wuz broken printin presses, and the
cheerful gallows-tree on wich old John
Brown he'd bin hung wuz distin ctly WIS.,
able. Attempts he'd bin apparently
made to klver up the burnt skool-houses
and println presses and the gallows with
resolooshens, but the kiverln wuz too
thin and they showed thro very plainly.
This spot wuz tenanted by Boss Tweed
and Holman, surrounded with Connolly,
Oakley Hall and all Nv them fellows,
and over their heads wuz the ghosts NV
Wigfall, Yancey and Benedict Arnold.
thought | saw His Majesty, Sat the
j, sailin about with the ghost Nv Yam
cey, but 1t mite hev bin some one else.
There wuz one quicksand marked where
Seward went down-in very bad smell
lin pool Chase wuz foatin about on a
board marked Supreme Bench" MAX
IN feeble attempts to land somewhere.
There wuz few solid spots Nv ground,
Moo York, Kentucky, and Maryland,
and on them the live men were standin.
From this unpromisin locality there wuz
path up to the heights above, but it
wuz narrer, broken, crooked and steep.
and besides that, passage from the low
er to the higher region wuz desperately
opposed by the array Nv men VINO ok
kepied it.
1 noticed that the party on the bluff
all wore sad expression. The ghost
OF Llnkin let fall a sperit tear. and Grant
and Morton leokt ez sad ez tho thew
wuz losin their fathers. Colfax, in per-
tlkeler, seemed inconsolable, and WIZ
a tearin his hair with greet. Curious to
know watit wuz that wuz causin all this
commoshen, | shifted my posishen SO ez
to get "a view Nv the entire arrangement,
and | saw it at once. Tweed and Hoff.
man he'd histed up a long ladder to the
top Nv the rock, wich wuz really Gu
rloslty. The sides wuz made out of
hickory campane poles witch he'd done
servls from the time Nv Polk down to
Seymour; and the rounds were spokes
from the wheels Nv Confedrit cannon.
The ladder wuz labelled "Cincinnati,"
and the rounds civil servis reform"
one-term," and SO on. Holman and
Connolly wuz holdin the feet Nv the
ladder steddy, and Boss Tweed stood by
EN-, holdin out scrawl labelled " Pres
ldency." On the top Nv the bluff stood
Horris Greeley, clothed in glory, and
perfeckly radiant in his attire. His old
head wuz crowned with laurels-in fact
he wuz walkin arbor NV EN-. He he'd
one foot on the first round Nv the lad
der.
Come back!' ~ shouted Colfax.
Come to US y shouted the crowd
below.
"Come back to yoor friends, 700
idiotr' sed Morton.
Come to US, and 700 shell hev this I"
sed Tweed, flauntin the scroll.
That settled him. His face changed
from the innocence Nv the lamb to the
hungry cagerdis NV the wolf, and down
ne went. He made mistep and par
shelly fell, knocking off all his laurels.
His appearance changed. The ladder
he'd bin rot ghly made, and wuz full Nv
spllnters. His ekal rites cloak caught
one Nv ern and wuz torn off. A nail
head on the next round stripped off
his proteckshen coat, another on the
next knockt his anti-corrupshen vest
into smithereens, his civil rites pants
Wuz taken off by the next, and by the
time he got to the fou1 tn, ne wuz di-
vested Nv everything under heavens
wlch made him stable, and stood there
shiverin in the wind, mizrable, de.
formed, weak, shaky, diminutive,
shrunken man, with nothin under
Heaven remarkable about him but his
white hat, and the fact that he he'd one
boot and one shoe on.
Tweed and his friends saw the shrinkin
process goin on ez he approached them,
and they become alarmed.
GOOD Lord p sed Okey Hall, " eff he
amt any bigger and more muskeler
than he looks now we can't make anv
yoose Nv him. He'll never be strong
enough to pull US out Nv thisl"
Them on the bluff witch he'd regarded
his deparcher with SIGH looks NV sad
ness. bust out into peels Nv laffture
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