The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-14
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Dreams IA Dream, In which the
FOreshnd0wed.
CoSPsDRIT Y ROADS,
witch Is in the State NV kentucky
MAY "a. 1872.


drinks more than yoosual didn't make
any difference with me, but it's quite
different now. lttells on my old body,
and hcv to be guardid.
Wehed a ratiticashen meetin last mite,
AZ which | did indulge more than
shood, and fell asleep in chair at
Bascom's, and dreamed dream.
In my dream saw a high, elivated
nlain. bounded on three sides by steep
precipitus bluff. On the top of that
plain witch pleasant and breezy place
!, wuzl. and back somewhat from the edge
nv the presipice, stood that bill lin wich
is the Mecca TO witch ALL Dimocrats hev
beenjturnin their eyes for the past IL
wears the White House. On the very
edgeluv the precipice wuz group NV
indiydooals witch he'd no diff Guilty in
identifyn. There wuz Grant and Colfax,
and around ~m stood Morton, Butler,
sherman, Shellaberger, and thousand
Others NV sieh, while jist over their
heads there wuz floatin in the air the
spirits Nv Washington, Adams, Jeffer-
son, Linkin and all Nv them deceest
individooals witch would hev sympathz.
ed with the Republican party eft they
had cOntlnyood In the nSSn.
Down at the foot NV this precipice
there wuz low, swampy, marshy, NAL
arious deestrik, WITCH was the most I'M
comfortable seekshun Nv kentry | ever
see. The ground wuz full NV cess-pools,
Nv quagmires, and quicksands. There
wuz bones Nv niggers scattered all over
it-there wuz rooms of old skool houses;
there wuz groceries and s'loons scatter.
ed about it in wild proofusion there
wuz broken printin presses, and the
cheerful gallows-tree on wich old John
Brown he'd bin hung wuz distinctly Wis.
able. Attempts he'd bin apparently
made to kiver up the burnt skool-houses
and printin presses and the gAllows with
resolooshens, but the kiverin 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 fellows,
and over their heads wuz the ghosts NV
Wigfall, Yancey and Benedict Arnold.
| thought saw HIS Majesty, Sat n the
i. sailin about with the ghost Nv Yam
cey, but it mite hev bin some one else.
There wuz one quicksand m srked where
Seward went down-in very bad smell
lin pool Chase wuz floatin about on n
board marked Supreme Bench" max
in 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 unpromisn locality there wuz
a path up to the heights above, but it
wuz narrer, broken, crooked and steep,
nd ha hot hn 1Nu
er to the higher region wuz desperately
opposed by the array Nv men VINO ok
kepled it.
| noticed that the party on the bluff
all wore sad expression. The ghost
of Linkn let fall sperit tear, and Grant
and Morton lookt ez sad ez the they
wuz losin their fathers Colfax, in per-
tikeler, seemed inconsolable, and wuz
tearin his hair with greet. Curious to
know wat it wuz that wuz causin all this
commoshen, | shifted my posishen so ez
to get view Nv the entire arrangement,
and | saw it at once. Tweed and Hoff-
man he'd histed up a long ladder to the
top NV the rock, wich wuz really GU
riosity. The sides wuz made out Of
hickory campane poles wich he'd done
servis from the time Nv Polk down to
Seymour; and the rounds were spokes
from the wheels NV Confedrit cannon.
The ladder wuz labelled Cincinnati"
and the rounds "civil servis REFORM
" one-term," and so on. Holman and
Connolly wuz a holdin the feet NV the
ladder steddy, and Boss Tweed stood by
EN-, holdin out a scrawl labelled " Pres.
idency." On the top Nv the bluff stood
Horris Greeley, clothed in glory, and
perfeckly radiant in his attire. His old
head wuz crowned with laurels-in fact
he wuz walkin arbor NV EN-. He he'd
one foot on the first round Nv the lad
der
"Come back ~ shouted Colfax.
"Come to Us ~ shouted the crowd
below.
"Come back to yoor friends, voc
idiot!' sed Morton.
Come to us, and 700 shell hev this ~
sed Tweed, hauntin the scroll.
That settled him. His face changed
from the innocence NV the lamb to the
hungry cagerdis NV the wolf, and down
ne went. He made a mistep and par
shelly fell, knocking off all his laurels
His appearance changed. The ladder
he'd bin roughly made, and wuz full Nv
splinters. His ekal rites cloak caught
one Nv EN- and wuz torn off. A nail
head on the next round stripped of
his proteckshen 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 four tn, he wuz di
vested NV everything under heavens
wich made him stable, and stood there
shiverin in the wind, mizrable, de
formed, weak, shaky, diminutive,
shrunken man, with nothin under
Heaven remarkable about him but hi.
white hat, and the fact that he he'd one
boot and one shoe on.
Tweed and his friends saw the shrinkir
process goin on ez he approached them
and they become alarmed.
Good Lord ~ sed Okey Hall, "ef he
amt any bigger and more muskelel
than he looks now we can't make an,
yoose Nv him. He'll never be stronl
enough to pull us out Nv this"
Them on the bluff..wic he'd regardiC
his deparcher with SIGH looks NV sad
ness, bust out into peels NV laffture.
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