Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-13
NASRY.
[From the Toledo Blade.1


lFrom the Toledo Blade.1
MR.. NAsBY DREAMS DREAM IN WHICH TIT
FUTURE OF A "GREAT AND aoop'' MAN !
FoRESHADowED.
CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
(wich is In the State NV Kentucky,)I
May oath, 1872. J
u am gettin old and am feelin nv wears
Time wuz when ten or a dozen drinks NOR
than yoosual didn't make any difference wit
sae, S1t us quite diffrent now. 1t tells o.
nay ola body, and hev to be guardid.
We he'd ratificashen meetin last n;te .
wien did indulge more than shood. and
ieH asleep in q chair at Bascom's. an
dreamed dream. "n
In my dream saw high, elevated pIair
eounded on three sides by steep, precipitu
uiam. ,,iaa IN tne top Nv that plain (wich
PHEASANT and breezy place it Wuz). and bacl
somewat from the edge NV the precinic
STOOD that bildn witch Is the Mecca to Vic
al Dlmocrats hev bin turnin their ewes fo
tne past IL years, the White House. On tn
very edge Nv the precipice wuz group u
!naivldooals wich he'd no difficulty in iden
tlfyin. There wuz Grant and Colfax. an,
around em stood Morton, Butler. Sherman
Sneliabarger, and a thousand others nv sicb
while Jist over their heads there wuz floati,
IN the air the spirits NV Washington, Adam
y;a, emerson, Llnkin and all Nv them deceesith
WISu WOulu HcV SyInDathISnvood
the Republican party ef they had n'oo"
In the flesh.
Down at the foot NV thisnalsrInus 5nere deeS
WI WIZ u low, swampy, marscomfortabIe seek.
shnn nn, w1ch mT hot was the most The ground wuz
full NV cess-pools = quagmires and quick
sands. There wm~,ones of niggers scattered
all over it-the,, wuz ;aa rooms 3 NV ola skool-
tered abo,s it in wild profession; there wuz
broken .,fintin presses, and the cheerful gal
lows-A ee on wich John Brown he'd bin hung
wp- distinctly visable. Attempts he'd bin
apparently made to kiver ap the burnt
skoolhouses and broken printin presses and
the gallows with resolooshens, but the xiv
erin wuz too thin. and they showed thro
very plainly. This spot wuz tenanted by
Boss Tweed and Hoffman, surrounded with
Connolly, Oakley Hall, and all Nv them fell
lows, and over their heads wuz the ghosts
NV Wigfall, Yancey and Benedict Arnold. I
thought saw His Majesty, Satan the l., sail
In about with the ghost NV Yancey, but it
mite hev bin some one else. There wuz one
Yulcksand marked where Seward went down.
IN very bad smellin pool Chase wuz 1oatin
about on board marked 'tSupreme Bench"
maxim 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, pas
sage from the lower to the higher region
wuz desperately opposed by the array Nv men
who Okkepied it.
noticed that the party on the bluff all
let fall sperit tear, and Grant and Morton
lookt ez sad ez tho they wuz losin their
fathers. Colfax, in pertikeler, seemed in
consolable, and wuz teariE his hair with
greet. Curious to know wat it wuz that
wuz causin all this commoshen, shifted my
n0SlShen to Oat a view NJ
rangepent, and l saw it at once. Tweed
and Hoffman had histed up long ladder to the
top Nv the rock, wich wuz really curiosity.
The sides wuz made out uy hickory campane
poles wich he'd done servis from the time NV
Folk down to Seymour; and the rounds were
spokes from the wheels Nv Confedrit cannon.
The ladder wuz labeled "Cincinnati," and
the rounds "civil servis REFORM" tone
term," and SO on. Holman and Connolly
wuz hold;n the feet Nv the ladder steddy,
scroll labeled PRESIDENCY" On the top NV
the bluff stood Horis Greeley, clothed in
glory, and perfeckly radiant in his attire
Ills old head wuz crowned with laurels-in
fact he wuz walkin arbor Nv em. He had
one foot on the first round Nv the ladder.
"Come backl" shouted Colfax
Come to us!" shoutid the crowd below.
"Come back to yoor friends, yoo idiot %
sed Morton.
"Come to us, and 700 shell hev thisp' sed
Tweed, flauntin the scroll
That settled him. His face changed from
the innocence Nv the lamb to the hungry ca
GERMS Nv the wolf, and down he went. He
made misstep and parshelly fell, knocking
Oft all his laurels. His appearance changed.
The ladder he'd bin roughly made, and wuz
full Nv splinters. His ekal rites cloak caught
on one Nv EN- and wuz torn off. A nall-head
on the next round stripped off his proteck-
shen 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 fourth, he wuz
divested nv everything under heavens wich
made him sizable, and stood there shiverin
in the wind, a miZable, deformed, 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 this shrinking
process goin on ez he approached them, and
they become alarmed.
"GoOd Lord" sed Okey Hall, "ef he amt
any bigger and more muskeler than he looks
now we can't make any yoose Nv him. He'll
never be strong enough to pull us out NV
thisr'
Them on the bluff witch he'd regarded his
deparcher with sich looks Nv sadness, bust
out into peels of laffture.
"There amt hundredth part ez much
Nv him ez we supposed" shouted they.
We've nothing to fear from himp' and they
laffed voclferOusly at the Ridiculous fgger he
wuz maxim Nv hissef.
ALI this time Eorris wuz a standin on the
One Term round Nv the ladder, wich wuz the
thinnest Nv all Nv EN-.
"Come down to us!' shouted Tweed.
~ can't 60 any further down than this p'
replied Horris, shudderin ez he saw the plite
he wuz in.
Whereupon Tweed and Hall and the others
run up the ladder to support him. They wuz
n fE.a
low, wich fairly kivered the poor old man e.
they rubbed agin him. Then they threw up
on him a Tammany banner and Confederi
flag. To keep him stiddy both NV EN- run VI
the ladder and got on the same round. San
Sinclair, John Cochran and sum others com,
down close behind him to assist, and the yoo
nited weight Wuz too much. The ladde
broke in two and Tweed, Hoffman, Greeley
Sinclair, Iri6oon and all plunged into tn,
quagmire. There wuz splash, gurgle OF
two and the entire bilin NV EN- sank out u
site.
half hour over this singular dream afOr,
takin another drink and goin home. 'tKin i
be-" thot I, s'that all there is in Horris is hi
Republikinism?" It hez trooly bin SO will
all our venchers. Chase comes to us, bu
when he stepped over the line, he left all hi
strength behind him. Seward, insted Nv bell
help to us, proved to be load to carry
Hev we taken Horris to our bozzums only tt
find him helpless dead weight to be carried
inted of Giant strong enuff to carry us? 1
this dream prophetic? Is the Cincinnati lad
der too weak too hold Greeley and US uns
and will it break down with our yoonite,
weight? fear me.
And pensively 1 dreamed my glass, an,
carelessly goin thro the regler form Nv tell
in Bascom to mark it down, went sadly home
fear me the day Nv our deliverence isn't ye
at hand.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
(wich wuz Postmaster)
The Liberals and Their Reforms.