Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-03
NASBY.
Taking Advantage Of. Mr.. Greeiey's
Tour, MIR. Nasty Goes to an Interior
Village TO Organize it-An Awk-
CHAPpAoUA, (Which is in the
+ te nv Moo York; Auous! % 1870 (

CHAPpAoUA, (which is in the
State Nv Moo York;, August %, 1872.
1t WIZ determined by our resident
com mittee that it wood be joodishus
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. / opposed
it, ez l he'd he'd some experience
with trips, having accompanied the
immortal Johnson on all of hiz-
zen I 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
atfiict us at Chappaqua; and, I'd, That
the exhibition NV Horris wood hev a
good etfeck on the moral populis. l
yieldid, and set about fifth him for the
iourny. he'd 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 SIGH callous spots onto it ez
the most hornyhanded labrer in Yer
mont might be proud Nv, and instruct
ed him that when shaHn 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
/ he'd a badly-httin 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, witch waz to instruct
him in wat he shood say, but | sue
ceeded. 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 keerful to dodge
all them pints out Nv wich offence mite
come. "The toor," 1 remarkt, "is to
be one NV sentiment We are on pill
grimage to the looms Nv our ancestors
we are goin to revisit the scenes nv
our childhood ez it We're; to vive re-
membranes NV our youthful days and
SIGH, and it must be confined strlklv to
that / hev arranged with our commit
tees on the route to organize for a
spontaneous outpourin of the
people to receive 700, and 700
must speek to 'em at each stoppin
place. L 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 dizziness. Eff you Good ring in
verbal pikter NV yoor mother yearn-
ing for moose NV her absent son, it
wood hev aood effect. You needn't
trot out yoor father, for fathers is
played out. It's the mother that
tetches the popular heart. And 700
must git your eyes in condishen to
drop a sympathizing teer or two eff oc-
cashen demands. l hev done good
things before now by weepin perfoosely
at the rite time"
Thus prepared, the farmer-statesman
left the classic shades NV Chappaqua.
The mint the procession he'd started
onto its toor, I packt my valise with
bottle, and possibly a shirt or two
(tho RELY forgit about the latter, pay
ing so little attenshun ez l do to the
mere luxuries nv hfe), and started for
an interior village NV Pennsylvania,
where I made speech last year, and
consistently knowed all the principal
/ Demokrats. | put up at the old ia
/ 30 b, |, +
ed to be good. l he'd barely time to
hist in three or four slugs afore it wuz
noised abroad that I wuz there. In 20
minutes a person appeared to inter
view me- He interdoost himself ez
Mr.. Slodgers-a Liberal Repub
likin-who had now determined
to vote fer Honest Old Horace. Iaskt
him to drink, which he did, and then
went, on. He was disguised, with the
corruption and raskality Nv the Repub-
likin party, and felt that he must leave
it. He wantid purity-he yearned for
a return to suthin beside otfis-seekin.
Hence, he had decided to support
Greeley But resumed he, 81 hev
made sacrifices in this, and I must hev
ashoorences. IL WIZ an unsuccessful
applicant for the Postotiis in this VII
lage under Linkin in 1861;
then agin in 1865. I succeeded
in getting it NV Johnson in
1866 when the then.incumbent wuz dis
mist, and held it till April, 1869, when,
the tyrant Grant dismist me and reap.
pointed my predecessor, and left me to
anguish all theseyears without offishel
position, and to subsist on the petty
earnings nv my wife, which is milll-
ner. Eff Horace is elected, kin have
that offs kin control the Liberal