The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-19
NASBNT.
Mr.. Nasty Has Another Iream, to Which
He Appends Moral Reflections.
CONFEDERATE y ROADS.
(Which is in the State NV kentucky.

| CONFEDERATE Y ROADS.
(Wich is in the State NV Kentucky,
.looly !. 1854. }
| am gettin to be second st. John in
the matter NV dreems. I am not eggs
ackly certin whether it is inspirashen or
cold pork wich perdooshes the vishuns,
but they seem to hev some meening, and,
hencely, | give EN- to the world.
he'd a vishun last mite wich left an
impress onto my memory SO strong that
when awoke it was with great difiikilty
that restrained myself from goin imme-
jitly to Bascom's and awakening him ard
demanC in 4 susuaner. But | WIZ com
PEELED to rename and toss onto my weary
piller, for knowd that Bascom wood not
arise and open his bar at that hour eff st.
John hisself, with his revelashens in his
hand, shood appeer and ask for suthin.
Bascom is horribly sot in his waos.
In my dreem WIZ on a rock bound
coast afar from the hants of men. 1t
wuZ island in the midst NV the oshen,a
bare rock ez it were, with nary n Degets-
shen, a rock without shade and onto witch
the pltilis sun wuz beetin onmcrC-
fully.
Onto the island wuz a badly worn out
female, holer eyed and gaunt, and Xiv
cred not at all presentable. Eff he'd
son | wood not that he should select sich
a one for his vile, for more battered cd
hag l never seed. She he'd blotches all
over her; and she wore sich hungry and
| ravenus look eZ | never seed on IL female
afore. And hoverin about her wuz three
more jest like her.
"Whoo are 700 ~ sed I, "any how
Then up spoke the female.
''My name," sed she, drawin Il long
sign, lis Dimocrisy."
''And who are the three witch might be
sisters NV yourn, witch is clingin to your
| skirts"
"This one is Slavery, this tother one is
| Secession, and this third is Repoodia-
| shen. We are a quartette, alluz together
and never separated. Weare four in one
and one in four"
1t okkurred to me that they consti-
| footed four flush which shood not de-
sire to draw to, but held my peace. No
will resent being called ugly. hev he'd
to do with females, hev made honist,
tho injoodishus remarks, and am bald
headid. hev paid for my wisdom.
Inotist number NV men dodgin among
the rox, pickin up wat they Good, all Nv
them i'll the last stages Of distress and |
asked who they wuz.
''These gentlemen 700 see about among
the rox, pickin up a Twin ez best they
may, are my vassals. That strappin
| young Teller is my only son and chief
support, the Solid South. That big In
| jun over there is Tamnany, and the
rowdy !ookin Teller in the red neck-tie is
Irving Hall. They are rather diversi-
fled lot. Theirs Free Trade and Perteck
shun, and Tiers Honest Money and Fiat
Money. It's a ruther large family and
no two of them alike. They quarrel like
cats and dogs, and I find it difficult to
manage 'em."
| looked 'em over and noticin that no
two NV 'em seemed to hev anything in
common, except an intolerable hunger,
concloodid the lady must hev bin extern
sively married, wich she blushingiy as
sented to, SO bushingly that it likewise
okkurred to me that she hedn't alluz
tarried till the ceremony wuZ pernounst.
This Judgment wuz partly based onto her
persnel appearance and partly on the dis
similarity NV her offspring.
l shoodent hev picked her out to be the
superintendent NV a ladies' seminary,
anyhow.
Swat place is this?'
This is the Island NV Defect. We hev
bin here twenty-fonr years. The feeEd
Linkin exiled us, and we hev bin here
subsistn on wat we brot with us. We
wuz pretty we'll fixed, for we he'd con-
trole NV things for many years before, but
oh it is awful stayin here now How
ever, we shell soon be delivered from this
hell. We hev advices NV expedishen to
our relief. The good ship Independent,
commanded by Captain Gawge Wilyum
Curtis, and armed with Harper's Weekly,
is on its way hither, and it will take us
off, and we shell, with ther help, go con-
KERN and to conker.
eve are goin to be taken off this des-
olate place immejitly. My enemy hez
split and the one fackshen is comm to my
reskoo. 1t is comm now and in few
months | shell be delivered from this
wuss nor hell Look Look Here
comes my salvashen
Hooked ont and 10 upon the oshen WIZ
gallant ship standin in toward the
island. With the help NV glass Good
reed her name-it wuz the ''lndcpendent
Republican," On her deck stood Mr..
George Wilyum Curtis, NV Uuper's
Weeklg, and that eminent carcatoorist,
Thomas Mast, the one in command and
the other his FuSt LOotenant, and about
'em wuz some hundreds Nv oilisers.
didn see no common salers, and ruthe
wondered how the ship WIZ being navi-
gated but anyhow it WIZ bearin down
upon the rock, and there wuz a scene NV
intense excitement on the island.
Dimocrisy wuz uuiverin with eggscite-
ment. ''Git out NV the way and hide
yerselvcs," she exclaimed, It'll | git
aboard the ship and git in command my
self Scoot, sisters, scoot, and the rest
Nv 700 hide in the rox and don't show
yerselves.
: 1t wuz done ez she directed. Slavery
laid down and counterfeitcd death, but
she Good not resist the temp.ashen t.
snatch shotgun that WIZ lyin handy
and Seceshu threw over her 4 cloak la
belled Estates rites" The Tammany
cheefs hid ahind one rock, Randall be
hind another, and little Sam Cox found ;
, pebble witch hid him entirely from view
| Il In pahhln Tho liz