Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-11
NO. ls4.
Misfellanspns.
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MR.. NASRT'S DREAM.
A PROPHETIC VISION. ~

Confedrit X Roads, i h1lT
(wich is in the State ~ Ksn.ucky,,
Joon %, 1872.
don't know wat Is the matter With me:
but nv late ! dream more reglarlr and
more feroshusly than ever did in nv life.
heT he'd succeshun Nv nitemares ever
since gave in my adhesion 70 Greeley,
some Nv wich wuz stupemusly friteful.
go to bed with Greeley on my mind, and
dream dreams 80 horrible that awake
with cold swets onto me, and shivrin ez
tho l he'd the ague. Mite afore last Gree.
ley appeared to me with hoofs, horns and
tail. He perched hisselfon my stumick,
ssquattin like hidjus toad. and putin on
his spectacles, deliberately read me from
an old copy of the Triboon, six yards nv
ms own editorials on the slavery question.
tie finally sailed off thro the air shrekin
Lost Lostr Whether he referred to me
or hisself ez Lost" reely don't know.
III he felt ez mean in my company ez |
did in hizzen, the remark would embrace
both NV us.
Last mite had another friteful vision.
We hev family in the village wich don't
live in harmony. The husband got intoxi-
Gated some years ago, and KNOWN that il
ism the gettin drunk that hurts a man.
but gettin sober. hez lodged that trouble
by stayin drunk. His principal amoose-
ment is whallin his wife. The novelty OF
this hevin worn off. yesterday mornin he
gave her couple nv ounces of arsenic.
'aulting ambishen o'erleaped herself
his excessive liberality defeated his pur-
pns. The dose wuz too big-it sickened
her-she vomited, and lived, and whaled
him within an inch NV his life. was at
"a md t,t4 al,
stoppin at Deekin Pogram's where we took
a ginooine kentucky tea, which consisted
principally NV korn whisky and cold billed
pork. From thence went home and re-
tired with my head full NV the pison. and
Greeley mixed in about ekal proposhens.
Falln asleep, dreamed.
Me,hawt wuz in a bildin. where. |
coodent make out. Stretched out onto
couch and kivered with flag was the
body NV an enormous giant-the most
huge and comprehensive giant had ever
seen. even in dreams. His legs wuz like
pillars, his arms wuz like beams, and his
hands was spread out like the map Nv our
wunst happy but now opprest country.
He seemed to be in the last stages Nv a
fearful sickness. He he'd bin, In his day,
giant nv immense strength, and wuz
even in his illness ez handsome human
eZ ever sot eyes onto. But It was evil
dent that he wuz goin fast. He drawd his
breath painfully, and from ugly wounds
on his body blood oozed slowly but de-
pletinly.
WHO is hep | asked Nv the Goddess
nv Liberty, which sot at his head in deep
monrnin and weepin violently.
That is Republikinism. she answered,
''the only actooal. ginuine friend I ever
had-the only one who reely stood by me.
But they are KILN him. The cash in his
back Chase gave him that stab in the
side WIZ inflicted by Randall; the itch
wich so irrtates him he caught from the
Blairs, and-good Heaven here comes
another squad NV his enemies!'
Hooked, and 10. Boss Tweed, Hoffman,
Seymour, Hendricks, and dozen Nv INV
pertikler friends were comm in. They wore
masks on their faces, made nv Moo York
Trihoons, but knowd en- for all that.
Hoffman soezed the head nv the prostrate
giant. while Tweed poured down his
throat nauseous fooid from q jug marked
''Cincinnati," " fairly forcin il down him.
The victim shuddered ez he swallered it.
ez tho it was his last and final shudder.
loo've killed him - shrieked the God
dess.
1--WE bleeve we hev, madam" shouted
the fellows in korus, pullin off their masks
land you'll toller him within yeer.'
kill her now"' yelled one, who wuz
evidently from Gregory, ''she amt got
her champion to save her this time.
And they seized her and gagged and
bound hear, with friteful yells.
And in their joy they execooted most
demoniac war dance about the corpse, in
wich jined, with an ability didn't know
| wuz possessed of. But jist ez our exulta-
ton wuz at its highest. the corpse gave
fearful gasp--a convulshen NV ten hoss
power. He riz up from the couch, assoom-
ed sittin position, his face Nv deethly
p tleness, and with re o. that shook the
buildin, vomited q never saw human
| bein vomit.
Good Heavens - shrieked Tweed:
"we've given him too much NV the pizen
and it's actin eZ an emetic.n
The sick man gave heaye after heave.
and in the flood nv bile wich he ejectid l
saw Greeley, Gratz Brown, Schurz, Cox.
and score NV SIGH. A very gentle heave
landed Schurz and Gratz Brown on the
floor; little bigger one threw out Fen
ton, and gigantic one, which convulsed
the sufferer from center to circumference,
Kissed out Greeley. But once over it wuz
tremenjus relief to the sick indiydooal.
lmmelitly a great change came over him.
The moment they wuz off his stumck the
palenis disappeared-a healthy color came
to his cheeks and his week.-Mrs. all left him.
Garin about furiously. he put one foot on
Greeley and Brown and their miserable
companions, ez a man crushes beetles
with the other he kicked the iug out Nv
the winder, wich jug was follered by
Tweed and his friends. who went through
the same apertoor. propelled by the same
motive power. He cut the bonds Of the
Goddess, tore off her mournin. and wnz
in the act NV embracin NV her when |
aweke.
lay for hours cogitatin over this dream.
Wuz it prophecy or billed pork? That's
the connundrum. Is it a warnin NV jndg-
ment to come, or is it disordered stun
ick ? IIev we dosed the Republican party
TOO freeley with Cincinnati, and hex wat
we fondy hoped wood be pizen enuff to
kill our great enemy, going to be emetic