The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-30
GFrom the Toledo Blade,
The Nasby Letters.
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF Mr.. GREELEY's
ToUR,-MR. NAsBY GOES TO AN INTERIOR
VILLAGE TO ORGANIZE IT.-AN AwK-
WARD FIX.
-- CHAPPAQUA,

CHAPPAQUA,
witch is in the State NV Moo York; |
i q. August %, 1872.
1t wuz determined by our resident COM
mittee that it wood be judishus thing to do
to hev the crate and good Greeley go ON
toor thro the States Nv Moo Hampshire and
Maine, to encourage the weak and to suk-
oor the vassilatin in those State. / opposed
it, ez l he'd he'd some experience with trips,
having accompanied the immoral johnson
on all Nv hizzen. / wuz overrooled, but they
conceded to me the arrangement NV the toor,
tho they took control Nv the great and good
man from the start to the concloosion. They
insisted that it wood hev two good effects !:
First, we shood dodge the frekent delegashens
that affiict us at Chappaqua; and, second,
that the exhibition Nv Horris wood hev a
good effect on the rooral populis. l
yieldid, and set about fittin him for the jour-
ny. he'd very difficult job to git the philos-
opher up properly for the occasion. 1 took a
whetsun and rubbed the inside NV his rite
hand for hours, till it prodoosed sich callous
spots onto it ez the most horny-handed labrer
in Vermont mite be proud NV, and instructed
him that when shakin hands with the yeo-
manry to grip hard, that there might be no
mistake ez to feelin the callous spots on his la
bor-burdened hands. l then he'd himgt out in
the sun two hours each day, with hiz face up
buIucu, tlu uc Dccdl1e DTOWn6Q Dy exposure
to the elemence; after witch he'd a badly-fit-
in SCOT of close made for him, that the people
mite feel that he he'd attempted to dress up
on their account, but, that, after all, he
wuzn't much accustomed to so much grandy-
er. atr - -.-.. ... --..-.
The came the most difficult part NV the
Outfittin biznis, wich wuz to instruct him in
wat he shood say, but succeeded. / charged
espeshelly that he shood never menshun poll
Tx (ceptin when he mite now and then howl
mildly suthin about the era NV good feelin).
ard shood be speshel keerfulto dodge all them
points out Nv wich offence mite come. 'sThe
toor," Iremarkt, sis to be one NV sentiment
We are on pilgrimage to the tooms
NV our ancestors we are going
to revisit the scenes NV our child
hood, ez 1t were; to revive remembrances of
our youthful days and sich, and it must be
confined strictly to that. / hev arranged
with our committees ON the rout to organize
for spontaneous Outporing NV the people to
receive you, and you must spesk to EN- at
each stoppin-place. wood recommend that
your responses to the greetings be mostly al
lushuns to the grandyer Nv the the mountins,
and the purity NV the air and water, and
above ALL don't forgit the mother biznis. Eff
you Good ring in a verbal pikter Nv yoor
mother yearnin for nooZe of her absent son
it wood hev good effect. You needn't trot
out yoor father, for fathers is plaved ol,t
It's the mother that teches the popular heart
And you must git yoor eyes in condition 70
drop ssympathizng teer or two eff oecasben
demands. Ihev done good things before now
by weeping profoosely at the rite time"
thus prepared, the farmer-statesman left
the classic shades NV Chappaqua.
:. Inc mint the procession had started onto
lls toor, packt my valise with bottle, and
possibly shirt or two, tho l reely forgit
ABOUT the latter, paying so little attenshun ez
l do to the mere luxuries NV life) and started
Tor an interior village NV Pennyslvany, where
l made speech last year, and consekently
knowed sll the principal Demokrats. Iput