Delaware weekly Republican., 1872-07-04
Mistell
The Nasty Letter.

Mr.. Nasby dreams q dream in which the
future of ''Great and Good" Man is forshad-
owed
Confederit y Roads (Which is in the State
NV Kentucky, May "A, 172.-I am gettin old and
feelin my years. Time wuz when ten or a doz-
en- drinks more than yoosual didn't make anv
difference with me, but it's quite different now
y , tells on my old body, and hev to be guard
we heu a ratiiieashen meetin last mite, at
wlch did indulge more than shood, and L fell
asleep in CHAIR at Bascoms aad dreamed a
dream.
In my dream saw high, elevated plain
bounded on three sides by steep, precpitus
ant and breezy place il wilz) and back some
wnat from the edge Of the preepce, stood that
Dlllldln which is the Mecca to wich all Demo-
crats nave been tilrnin their eyes for the past
twelve years, the Wite House. On the yery
edge NV the precipice was group NV indiyid-
GOALS Fich he'd no difficulty in identifyin.-
There wuz Grant and Colfax, and around 'em
sCood morton, Butler, Sherman, Shelaberger,
and q thousand others of sich, while list over
their heads there wuz toatin' in the air the
spilils Nv Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lin
Mn ana all Nv them deceest individooals yich
"auh hev sSmpathized with the Republican
parry ef they had cuntinYood in the 1esh.
DoWh AZ the foot NV this prccipee there Yuy
low, slnanpy, marshy, malarious Iestlict,
Which was the most uncomfortable seckshlIn
NV kuntry ever see. The ground wuz full nv
eess-pools, quagmires, and Quicksands. There
Wuz bones NV niggers scattered all over it--therc
wz room, ny old skooi houses th6fe n NV ;r-
f0osion there wuz broken printin' presses, aud
the cheerful gallows tree oil wich John Brown
had been hung, wuz distinctly visible. Attempts
asA% Din apparently made to kiver up the burnt
skool houses and broken printin' presses and
the gallows with resolooshens, but the kyerine
wuz very thin and they showed thro plainly
This spoct was tenanted by Boss Tweed and
Hoffman, surrounded with Connolly, Oakley
Hall, and all NV them fellers, and over their
head was the ghost of Yancey and Benedict
Arnold Thought saw His Majisty, Satin the
l., salin' about with the ghost NV Yancey, but
il might hcy bin some one else. There wllz one
quicksand marked where Steward went down
in very bad sinellin' pool Chase wuz tioatin
about on board marked "Supreme Bench"
maxim feeble attempts to land somewhere.
There wllz few solid spots NV ground. Moo
York, Kentucky and Maryland, and on them
the live men were standin'.
From this unpromisin' locality there Wllz q
path up the heights above, but It w,lz narrer,
broken, crooked and steep, and besides thai
passage from the lower to the higher region
wtz desperately opposed by the array uy men
who okkepicd il.
noticed that the party on the bluff all wore
II sad eSpreshen. The ghost NV Linkn let fall
a Spirit tear, and Grant and Morton looIst as et
they wuz losin their fathers. Colfax in pertike-
Ter seemed inconsolable, and wuz tcarin' his
hair with greet. Curious to know what il wtlz
that wuz causin' all this commoshen, shifted
my posishen SO as to get view of the entire
arrangement, and saw it at once. Tweed and
Holman had histed up long ladder To the top
NV the rock, wich wuz really a curiosity. The
sides WIZ made out NV hickory, canpane poles
wicll he'd done servis from the time uy Polk
down TO Seymour; and the rounds wtiz spokes
from the wheels Of Contederit cannon The
ladder wuz labeled "Cincinnati," and the rounds
"cyl service reform, j" some terln," and So on
Hoffman and Connolly wuz a holdin' the feet
NV the ladder steady, and Boss Tweed stood by
them, holdin' out scroll labeled 'Presidency.h
On the top of the bluff stood Horace Greeley
clothed in glory, and perfectly radisnt in attire
Ills old head wuz crowned with laurels--in fact
he wus walkin' arbor NV enl. He he'd one
foot on the first round NV the ladder
"COme back ~ shouted Coltax.
"Come to us!" shouted the crowd from be-
low.
"Come back to your friends, you idiotw scd
Morton.
"Come to us and yoo shall hev thlsm sed
Tweed, Haunting the scroll.
eagerness NV the lamb to the hungry eagerness
NV the wolf. and down he went. He made a
nisstep and parshelly fell, knocking off all his
laurels Ills appearance changed. The ladder
had bin roughly made, and wuz full NV splin-
tiers. His ekal rites cloak caught on one Nv
them and wuz torn of. nail head on the
next round stripped off his protekshen coat, an
other on the next knoclt 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 was divested NV everything under
the heavens which made him sizable, and stood
there shiverin in the wind, vulnerable, deform-
ed, weak, shalzy, diminutive, shrlnken man,
with nothln' under Heaven remarkable about
INN but his white hat, and the fact that he had
one boot and one shoe on. Tweed and his
ihtnds saw this shrinkin' process goin' on ez he
approached them, and they became alarmed,
"e2od LordF' said Okey Hall, 'ef he amt
any bigger and muskelar than he looks now, we
can make any yoos NV him. He'll never be
str9ns enough to pull us out NV this!n
Them on the bluff wich he'd regarded his de-,
parchef with such looks NV. sadness, burst out
lsto peeS nv latjter N
lhsre amt hundredth part as much as we
ssposeu, shouted they. "We've nothing to
ig iesu from him and they lafied vociferousIy at
i' iiuihulous llsllre he wllz maxim uy hisself
"a An I'm tlls time Horris wuz standin' on the
thinnesl NV all NV them. "s 'AS
| ''CUme down TO us y shouted Tveed
| - ~ can't 50 any further down than this II, ro
| WIZ in, o %" 'iie Piite ne
MheTe9pon Tweed and Hall and others run
| up .he ladder to support him. They wuz drin.
pili p WIN nastiness from the sium below. which
Tk 1lEes"d me poor man ez they rubbed agin him
rn,s inn snes arew upon him Confedrit and
iammany iias To keep him stddv hotb nv
| Them run up tile ladder and cot IN tio -
oam Sinclair, John Cochran and some otbsr.
came down close behind him to assist him and
the yoonighted weight was too much, The laJ.
DER broke IN two, aud Tweed, Hoffman. Greeley