Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-09
NASBY.
Taking Advantage Of MIR. Greeley's
Tour. MIR. Nasby Goes to an Interior
Village to Organize it-An Ayvk-
ward Mix.
CHAPPAoUA, (Which is in the
State Nv Moo York;, August %, 1872.

ward Mix.
CHAPPAQUA, (Which is in the |
State Nv Moo York;, August %, 1872.
| 1t wUz determined by our resident
committee that it wood be ioodishus
thing to do to hev the great and good
/ Greeley go on to a toor thro the State
of New hampshire and Maine, to en-
courage the week, ank to sekoor the
vassilating in those States. I opposed
it, ez I he'd he'd some experience
with trips, having accompanied the
immortal johnson on all of hiz-
zen. [ was over-rooled, but they
conceded to me the arrangement Nv the
toor, tho they took control Nv the great
and good man from the start to its con-
cloosion. They insisted that it wood
hev two good effecs LIST, We should
dodge the frekent delegashuns which
affiict us at Chappaqua; and, I'd, That
the exhibition Nv aorris wood hev a
good effeck on the moral populis. I
yieldid, and set about fittin linn for the
journy. [ he'd a very diff
cult job to git the philosopher
up properly for the occashen. [ took
a whetstun and rubbed the inside of
his rite hand for hours, till it per
doosed sich callous spots onto it ez
the most hornyhanded labrer in Yer
mont might be proud Nv, and instruct
ed him that when shakin hands with
the yeomanry to grip hard, that there
mite be no mistake ez to feelin them
callous spots on hiz labor hardened
hands. then he'd him git out in the
sun two hours each day, with hiz face
upturned, till he became Drowned by
exposure to the elements after which
I he'd badly-fittin SCOT Nv close made
| for him, that the people mite feel that
he he'd attempted to dress upon their
account, but that, after all, he wuzn t
accustomed to much grandyer.
Then came the most difficult part Nv
the Outfttin biznis, wich waz to instruct
him in wat he shood say, but [ sue
ceeded. I charged him espeshelly that
he shood never menshun politix (ceptin
that he might now and then howl mild
ly suthin about the era of good feelin)
and shood be speshely keerfuI to dodge
all them pints out NV wich offence mite
come. "The toor," L remarkt, ''is to
be one Nv sentiment. We are on pill
grimage to the tooms Nv our ancestors
our childhood ez it were; to vive re-
membranes Nv our youthful days and
5lch, and 1T must be confined str1kIv to
that. L hev arranged with our commit
tees on the route to organize for a
spontaneous outpourin of the
people to receive yoo, and yoo
must speek to 'em at each stoppin
place. [ wood recommend that your
responses to the greetins be mostly al
loosions to the grandyer Nv the noun
tains, and the purity Nv the air and
water, and above all don't forgit the
mother biziness. Eff you Good ring in
a verbal pikter Nv yoor mother yearn-
ing for moose NV her absent son. it
wood hev good effect. You needn't
trot out yoor father, for fathers is
played out. It's the mother that
tetches the popular heart. And VOC
must git your eyes in condishen to
drop sympathizing teer or two eff oc-
cashen demands. [ nev done good
things before now by weepin perfoosely
at the rite time"
Thus prepared, the farmer-statesma
left the classic shades Nv Chappaqua.
The mint the procession he'd started
onto it's toor, [ packt my valise With
bottle, and possibly a shirt or twa
(tho [ reely forgit about the latter, paf
ing SO little attenshun ez I do to the
mere luxuries Nv life), and started for
an interior village Nv Pennsylvania,
where made a speech last year, and
consistently knowed all the principal
Demokrats. I put up at the old IA
milyer tavern, where the liker know
ed to be good. [ he'd barely time to
hist IN three or four slugs afore it wuz
nolsed abroad that I wuz there. In 20