New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-11-21
Nasby's Letter.


NasDy's Letter.
The Resuit-Nasby Indulges In q Prolong
Wait.
From the Toledo Blade
CHAPPAQUA,
(Which is in the State Nv Moo York;
November I, 1872.
hev heerd the news! Grant is elected
L acknowledge it. He is the most elected
candidate l ever he'd any knowledge NV. He
is so much elected that the other candidates
vote might very properly be put under the
head Nv scatterin.
The great and good CIR, which is to
say, that sodden old ass Greeley, is profound.
ly atiected-mOre so than am. He isn't SO
much used to bein beaten ez am. and then
he heznt the philosophy to endoor it. He
RELY he'd noshen that he wuz agoin to be
elected. He knowd, he sed, that he he'd
| agin him the trained cohorts Nv oppreshen
but he never feared. There wuz the people.
He depended onto the people and the Tri-
| boon. He felt that he he'd personal strength,
| and he he'd given it full course to be develop
| ed. He he'd showed hisself everywhere. No
matter about the result in October. In Oc-
tober he wuz embarrassed by lOkle tickets.
Objectionable men he'd been put upon tickets
wich weakened EN-. But now, that the con-
test wuz narrered down to him and Grant, he
he'd no doubt Nv the result. He he'd no
doubt that he he'd carried Ohio, Injiany, H.
linois, Moo Hampsheer, Connecticut, shoor,
many dollars ez he'd carry Moo York. The
only thing that troubled him now wuz the
formation Nv a cabinet.
And the old lunatic meandered ON in this
sort NV style till the telegraph come in short
and broke his dream. Ohio came fust, Penn
sylvany next, Injiany, Illinois, Michigan,
Connecticut, Moo Hampsheer, each stagger-
in blow. l will not dwell on the harrowin
scene. We put him weepin to bed at 2 A.
M, and immejitly packed my trunk, putin
into it, in tit NV Observation-Disclosures to which
l am subject, SIGH loose articles Nv clothing
and SIGH ez happened to be layin around
loose. ! shell hey yoose for every thing 1
kin capcher.
l wuz In a most depressed condishen NV
mind, and while in that state writ the follow
in, witch may be Of some comfort to the De-
mOcracy who he'd lOngin eyes on post officis
and SIGH. 1t wuz an Outgush Nv broken
heart:
A PSALM OF DESPAIR
Life is dream, hope delooshen, and ex-
pcctashen snare.
Man goeth out in his strength and boasteth
wat he will dO-he returneth scooped, with
his tail feathers dragon in the dust.
Wat is man that he shood take pride of his
self-wat is the son Nv man that he elevateth
his horn?
The OK rips grass and provideth not for it
the horse wanteth not the post offs that he
may live.
The cOney be feeble folk, but his habits
are simple, and he needeth not small change
for drinks. -a.
Weepin wall and wailin I weep.
Mine eyes are artesian wells, witch spouteth
brine continually.
In the wilderness abide There is no COM
fort in life.
For the great and good Greeley is beaten
and my hopes are bustid.
1 turned me to Ohio and Ohio ansers,
"Grant."
To Injiany we held out our hands and In
jiany says ''Grant."
Illinois we implored, and Pennsylvany we
entreated. but Illinois and Pennsylvany both
say "Grant."
October wuz pizen, but November is pi-
zener.
AS November is colder than October, so is
the woe witch is ON us now worse than the
woe we encountered then.
We offered them Greeley, but they lafft at
us.
We took Greeley to our hearts and sed,
''LO, we are like him."
We whitewashed Seymour and Blair, and
we painted four coats.
And we sed, we are no longer NV the tribe
Nv BOokananOn, we be even as 700 are, only
more so. But the people fiOuted and jeered.
The Democrats rose in wrath, sayin Eff we
must have Republican give us Grant and
not Greeley.
The Republicans sed Lo, Greeley may be
yet Republican, but his surroundings are
not pleasant to the smell. He is with Blair
and Seymour. Kin a man fetch pitch and
not be defiled? And they voted for Grant.
He'd we got the Democrats, we shood hev
spoiled the enemy.
He'd we got the Republicans, we shood hev
and then the camp wood hev bin
ours. But we got neither Nv them.
And the post officis are theirs, and the
custom houses likewise.
The postmaster will rise merrily in the
morn and draw his pay, but he shell not be
one Nv us.
The assessor shell MARBLE ez he pouches his
pay, but we shell not MARBLE, for pay we shell
draw not.
The custom house officer shell hev horses
and chariOts, and men servants, but we shell
be in rags and shell 60 on foot.
A vision rises before me.
Lubbock, whose skin is the color Nv moo
keeps the post offs at the Corners.
Pollock will be assessor, and will vex the
righteous.
1 shell 60 back with my throat parched, and
without the wherewith to buy an assuager.
1 shell 60 to Bascom, and shell say, "Give
me, pray thee, to drink"
And Bascom shell harden his heart and
stiffen his neck, and shell say, "Likker is
cash."
HIS bottles shell be filed with new whisky
and old Bourbon shell he hev in his casks, but
shell be continually dry.
His bottles shell gurgle, but the gurgle
thereof shell not be for me, but for the stran-
ger within his gates.
Like the lme-kiln shell my throat be-like
the great desert.
III T.,