The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-06-06

Nan IS FOFeshadOHeo-
CoEFEDRTT Y ROADS
f,s,,ch is in lie State Nv Kentucky I I
May q, 1872.
T.r, Getting old and am feelin my
-ssrs Time wuz when ten or a doZ-
sn drinks. more than yoOsual didn't
make spv difference with me- but ITS
,lT-ife fiiffnent now. It tells on my
oId hodv. and hey to be guardid.
we he'd q ratificashen meetn last
mite. at wich I did indulge more than
sho0d. and fell asleep i1 ensir al
Rascom's and dreamed-a dream.
m nv dream I saw high, elevated
DIofn- bounded on three sides by
teen n ecip'sls bluff. On the top Of
fbaf plain, wieh q pleasant and breezy
.rIaee h vEuzl and back somewbat from
Se az the precipece, stood That
lS.1fu Vgieli = the Mecca 70 wich all
Dimoerats hev been turnin their eyes
for the past y years, the White
House. On the very edge Nv the
precipice wuZ group Nv individOOals
wfeh / he'd no difficulty in identifyin.
There wuz Grant and COIfax, and
around EN- stood Morton, Butler,
Sherman, Shellaberger, and tbOus-
and Others Nv sich, while jist over
LneIE uCtIu6 bnCAE " = AADGNAl - 49,
sir the spirits nv Washington, Adams
Jefsfson, Lnkln and al ef them
r-iseee7 nd i7fd ooAls wleh WOuld hey
Esvh1bsLhIzea With tie Republican
a IL e. they had coutinyoOd in the
desh.
Down at the foot Nv this precipiee
there Wuz q low, sEampy, marsnyi
rnRIarious dsestrlk, WIch Wuz the most
uncomfortable seckshun nv keuntry l
ever see. The ground Wuz full Nv
eess-pools. Nv Quagnires and Quick
r 70 sanfs. There wlg bones q niggers
, Q sslttered ail over it-there Wuz gro
oerIes and 'sloons scattered about Il in
vvild profoosion; there wuz broken
Drintfn 1resses, and the cheerful gall
fovvs-tree on wich John Brown he'd
hin hung wuz distinctly visible. At
tanus he'd bin apparently made to
ffSef I'D the burnt skoOl-houses and
broken printin presses and the gal
lows with reaolOoshens, but the kiYer-
60 wuS too thin and they showed thro
verv plainly. This spot WuZ tenanted
bv Boss Tweed and Holman, sur
r6undsd with Ce1n0lly, Oakley bali
fsadaU ~ them sellows, and over
4 & sthefr baAds Wuz the ghosts Nv w igial,
Yancey and Benedict Arnold.
thought saw his Majesty, Satan the,
/, ssilin about with the CHEST Nv
Yancey, but it mite hev bin some one
else. There Wuz one quicksand
y NAKED where Seward went down
Ia 7err bad emelIln pool Ciase WuZ
fIoaHu about on 4 board marked
ttGuprene Bench,u maxim feeble at
tempts to land somewhere. There
wuz q few solid spots nv ground, N0o
u York. Ken tucizy End Maryland, and
d On fisem The 1--we men were standin.
From this unprOmisin locality there
wuz a path up to the heights above,
but IL wuz narrer, broken, crooked
and steQp and besides that, passage
g rom the lover to the higher region
wez desDsrately opposed by the array
y uv men who okkepied It.
Inoticed that the party on the bluff
al wore SD expression. The ghost
ofIinkfa let fall q sperit tear, and
Grant and Morton lookt ez sad ez tho
they wuz iozin their fathers. Colfax
IA 6srkfklsr. seemed fnconsolable, and
wua tsafin his hair with grief. Gu
rious u know what It wuz that wuz
causin al this commoshen, shifted
nv posishen so ez to get view Nv the
entire arrangement, and saw it st
once. Tweed and Hoffman he'd hist
fled up q long ladder to the top Nv the
rock, Nich Wuz really curiosity, The
ssides waz made out uv hickory cam
pane poles wich had done servis from
the time Nv Polk down 10 Seymour;
and the rounds were spokes from the
wheels OF Confedrit cannon. The lad
deF WIZ labelled "Cincinnati3 u and
the rounds fscivil servis reform, ,""one-
term,n and SO on. Hoffman and Con-
molly wuz Q holdin- the feet nv the
q oladdaf steddy, ard Boss Tweed stood
bv lem, holdin out scroll labeled
presidency" On top Nv the bluff
stood Horris Greeley, clothed IN glory
and perfektly radiant in his attire. His
old head Wuz crowned with lhurels-
IN fact ne Wuz walkin arbor Nv EN-.
He he'd one foot on the first round sIv
the ladder.
"Come back % shouted Colfax.
-yT t.Come tonsIT Shouted the crowd
Ehe1ozr AAGa ~ ~ a@+
''Come back to yOor friends 700 idi-
ot!D sed Morton.
stCome to US, and 700 shell hev
this % sed Tweed fiauntin the scroll. {
That settled him. His face changed
from the innocence Nv the lamb to
the hungry eagernis Nv the wolf, and
down he went He made q misstep
and parshellv fell, knocking of all bis
laurels. His appearance changed. The
ladder he'd bin roughly made, and WuZ
full Nv splinters, His ekal rites cloak
caught on one NJ EN- and Wnz torn
.khR IA nall head on the next round
stripped of his proteckshen coat, an
other on the next knOckt his anti-cor-
rupshen vest into smithereens, his
civil rites pants wuz taken en- by the
next, and by the time he got to the
fourth, he Wnz diVestsd nv everything
under heavens Wich made him slza-
bic, and stood there shivecin in the
wind, q miserable, deformed, weak,
shalzTt dlmfnutive, shrunken man,
with nOthin under Heaven remaEka'
Bile about him but bis white hat, and
the fact that he he'd one boot and one
shoe on t-s ner
lgTWeed and his friends saw the shrink
Ia process goin on ez he approached
them, and they became alarmed.
HGood Lsrdlp sed 0key Hall, 'ei
he amt any bigger and more muske-
Ter than he looks now we can't make
taayyoose nv him. He'll never be
strong enough to pull rs out Nv this!'
= Them on the bluff Eieh be regardid
his dsparcheT with sich looks Nv sad
ness b1st out into peels Nv lafter.
rhsre Amt hundredth part ez
much Nv him ez we spose.n We've
inothin % fesr from him ~ and they
LATED vocIferously at the figger be
Wuz 9 maxim nv hisselG
al this time Horris Wuz stendin
on the One Term round Nv the lad.
der, wich wuz the thinnest nv all Nv
EN-.
LCome down to usp' shouted
81 ednst to any further down than
this ~ replied Horis, shudderin ez he
saw the plight be wuz ia.
Whereupon Tweed and Hall and
the others run up the ladder TO sup
port him. They wuz drippin with
the nastiness NV the slam below wich
fairly kivered the poor old man eZ
they rsibbed Bgin him. Then they
threw upon him TAmmany banner
and Confederit flag. 10 keep him
stlddy both Nv EN- rIIn up the ladder
and get on the same round. Sam Sin
clair, John Cochran and some Others
come down close behind to assist and
the yOonited weight was too much.
The ladder broke In two and Tweed,
Hoffman, Greeley, SInolaiE and ri
boon al planged into the quagEnire.
There wuz splash, giIrsle OF two
Snd the entire bhin nv EN- sank out
Nv Site
The splash REoke me, aadI n1edi-
tated half hour over single dream
afore takin another drink and goin
home. tiTSin it be, fhOught I, tEthat
all there Is IN HoTris Is his Republi-
canism ?'' Il hez trooly bin so with
all our venchers. Chase comes to Us,
but when he stepped over the line,
he LET all BIS strength behind him.
Seward instead Nv bein 8 help to US,
proved to be load TO carry. Hev we
taken HorTis TO our bnzzums only to
find him helpless and dead weight
to be carried instead Nv Giant strong
enuf to carry rs Is this dream rro-
phetic Is the Cincinnati ladder too
weak TO hold Greeley and US uns. and
viii IL break down with our yoOnited
weizht2 fear me. atf at
AID raDrfx,aIxy 7 draaued NV ol,.-