New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-25
Nasby,s Last Letter.


Nasby's Last Letter.
He Has . Fearful Dream In which He Sees
Many Things.
From the Toledo Blsde.l
CoNrEDERIT ~ ROADS,
Joon %, 1872.
don't know what is the matter with me
but NV late dream more reglarly and more
feroshusly than ever did in my life. hev
he'd q successhun Nv nitemares ever sence
gave my adheshun to Greeley, sum of witch
wus stupenjusly friteful. 1 go to bed with
Greeley on my mind, and dream dreams so
horrible that awake with cold SWEETS onto
me. and shivrin as tho he'd the ague. Mite
afore last Greeley appeared to me with hoofs,
horns, and tail. He perched hisself on my
stumick, squattin like hidjus toad, and put
tin on his spectickels, delibritly read me from
an old copy Of the Triboon, six yards NV his
own editorials on the slavery question. He
finally sailed off thru the air, shrekin lost |!
Lost!" Whether he referred to me or his
self as "Lost," RELY don't no. Efhe felt
ez mean in my company eZ / did in hizz1n,
the remark wood embrace both NV us.
Last mite I had another friteful vision.
We hev a family in the village witch don't
live in harmony. The husband got intoxi-
Gated some wears ago, and KNOWN that it
wasent the gittin drunk that hurtz Teller,
but the gittin sober part, hes lodged that
trouble by stayin drunk. His principal
amusement is whalin his wife. The novelty
of this hevin worn off, yesterday morning he
gave her a couple Nv ounces Of arsenic.
Vaulting ambition o'erleaped herself-his
expressive liberality defeated his purpus.
The dose wuz too big-it sickened her-she
vomited and lived and whaled him within an
inch NV his life. 1 wuz at the house, and
late in the evenin left, stoppin at Deekin Po-
grams, where we took ginooine Kentucky
tea, witch consisted principally NV korn whis-
went home and retired, with my head full NV
the pizen and Greeley mixed in about ekal
proportions. Fallin asleep, dreamed.
Methawt wuz in bildin, where, / COO
dent make out. Stretched out onto couch
and kivered with flag waz the body NV an
enormous giant-the most huge and compre-
hensive giant 1 he'd ever seen, even in dreams.
His legs wuz like pillars, his arms wuz like
beams, and his hands spread out like the map
Of our wunst happy but now opprest country.
He seemed to be in the last stages Of a fear
full sickness. He he'd bin, in his day, giant
Of immense strength, and wuz even in his
illness ez handsome a human bein ez I snt
my eyes onto. But it wuz evident that he
fully, and from ugly wounds on his body
blood oozed slowly but depletinly.
"Who is he?' asked Nv the Goddess Nv
Liberty, which sot at his head in deep mournin
and weepin violently.
ssThat's Republickism," she answered,
!" the only actooal, genuine friend ever
hed-the only one who RELY stood hy 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
initiates him he caught from the Blairs,
and-good Heaven! there comes another
squad of enemies ="
looked, and 10! Bossy Tweed, Hoffman,
Seymour, Hendricks, and dozen NV my
pertikeler friends were comm in. They he'd
masks on their faces, made Nv Moo York Til
booas, but knowed 'em for all that. Hoff-
man seezed the head NV the PROSTATE giant,
while Tweed poured down his throat nau-
seous food from q jug marked Cincinnati"
fairly forcin' it down him. The victim shud-
dered ez he swallered it, ez tho it wuz his
last and final shudder.
"You killed him !" shrieked the Goddess.
"We believe we have, madam!n shouted
the fellers in korus, pullin off their masks /;
You'll foller him within year."
XIII her now, yelled one of 'enl, who wus
evidently from Georgy; she amt got her
CQ8luplOQ 10 save 0ef TINS Time. ~
And they seized her hand, gagged and
bound her, with frightful yells.
And in their joy they execooted most
demoniac war dance about the corpse, in
which jined with an ability didn't know
was possessed. But just ez our exultation
wuz at its highest the corpse give fearful
gasp-a convulshen Of ten horse power. He
riz up from the couch, assoomed sittin po-
sition, his face NV a deathly paleness, and
with wretch that shook the building, vomit-
ed as I never saw a human bein yomit.
"Good heavens ~ shreeked Tweed !;
"we've given him too much of the pizen, and
it's acting as an emetic."
The sick man gave heave after heave, and
in the flood NV bile witch he elected / saw
Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schllrz, Cox, and a
score NV SIGH. A very gentle heave landed
Schurz and Gratz Brown on the floor; little
bigger one threw out Fenton, and gigantic
one, witch convulsed the sufferer from centre
to circumference, histed out Greeley. But.
once over, it WIZ a tremenjus relief to the
sick indiyid0oal. Immejitly a great change
came over him. The moment they wuz off
his stomick the patents disappeared--a
healthy color came to his cheeks and his
week.-Mrs. all left him. Glarin about furiously.
he put one foot on Greeley and Brown and
their mizable companions, ez man crushes
Nv the window, witch jug wuz followed by
Tweed and his friends, who went through
the same apertoor, propelled by the same
motive power. lie cut the bonds off the
goddess, tour off her mourning and wlz in the
act Nv embracin NV her when awoke.
Lay for hours cogitating over this dream.
Wuz it prophecy or billed pork? That's the
conundrum. Is it warnin NV judgment to
come, or is it q disordered stumick Hev we
dozed the Republican party too freely with
Cincinnati, and hez wat we fondly hoped
wood be pizen enuff to kill our great enemy.
goin to be an emetic which will rid him NV
the disturbin humors witch wuz destroyin of
him, and make him stronger than ever?
It troubled me SO that coodent sleep. L
tossed about in the most restless and frantic
manner, and Good only induce the gentle
goddess to fetch my eyelids after four solid
drinks from jug witch keep in my room,
witch isn't marked Cincinnati" by no means.
Heaven grant that my dream is simply
baseless fabric.
PETROLEUM v. Nasty.
(Which wuz Postmaster,)