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Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby

Locke, David Ross (1833-1888)
  
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DEDIKASHEN.
  
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INDORSEMENT OF NASBY.
  
CONTENTS.
  
ILLUSTRATIONS.

 1. 
I. HOW HE CAME TO BE A DEMOCRAT.
 2. 
II. WINGERT'S CORNERS SECEDES.
 3. 
III. NEGRO EMIGRATION.
 4. 
IV. OAD TO PEECE.
 5. 
V. HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH VALLANDIGHAM.
 6. 
VI. PROPOSES TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH.
 7. 
VII. ANNIHILATES AN OBERLINITE.
 8. 
VIII. MAKES A CANDIDATE “UV HISSELF.”
 9. 
IX. SHOWS WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE DRAFTED.
 10. 
X. IN CANADA.
 11. 
XI. IS FINALLY DRAFTED.
 12. 
XII. DESERTS—HIS EXPERIENCE IN CLOTHES.
 13. 
XIII. CAPTURES A TURKEY.
 14. 
XIV. IMPROVES HIS FORTUNES BY MARRIAGE.
 15. 
XV. CONVERSES WITH A SOUTHERN SOLDIER.
 16. 
XVI. AT HOME.
 17. 
XVII. ASSISTS DRAFT RESISTERS.
 18. 
XVIII. STRATEGISES.
 19. 
XIX. ADDRESSES THE SOLDIERS.
 20. 
XX. ORGANIZES A DEMOCRATIC CHURCH.
 21. 
XXI. GOES ON WITH HIS CHURCH.
 22. 
XXII. “CAPCHERD.”
 23. 
XXIII. STARTS A PAPER.
 24. 
XXIV. PREACHES AND MAKES A SUDDEN SHIFT.
 25. 
XXV. OBSERVES A DAY OF FASTING.
 26. 
XXVI. VISITS VALLANDIGHAM.
 27. 
XXVII. CONVERSES WITH A BROTHER.
 28. 
XXVIII. CONFESSION OF FAITH.
 29. 
XXIX. PREACHES—SUBJECT, “GIVIN.”
 30. 
XXX. VISITS CAMP DENNISON TO ELECTIONEER FOR VALLANDIGHAM.
 31. 
XXXI. IN THE “APOSSEL BIZNIS.”
 32. 
XXXII. WAILETH.
 33. 
XXXIII. “CHANGES HIS BASE.”
 34. 
XXXIV. HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT.
 35. 
XXXV. PREACHES.
 36. 
XXXVI. PROPOSES TO RESTORE THE UNION.
 37. 
XXXVII. SUBMITS A PLAN FOR THE SALVATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
 38. 
XXXVIII. TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 39. 
XXXIX. COMMUNES WITH SPIRITS.
 40. 
XL. TRIES AN EXPERIMENT.
 41. 
XLI. ADDRESSES JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 42. 
XLII. ESTABLISHES AFRICAN SLAVERY.
 43. 
XLIII. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF A MILITARY MAN.
 44. 
XLIV. PREACHES—SUBJECT: “THE PRODIGAL SON.”
 45. 
XLV. DREAMS.
 46. 
XLVI. TRIES TO AWAKEN AN INTEREST.
 47. 
XLVII. RECOMMENDS UNANIMITY.
 48. 
XLVIII. AGAIN REPUDIATES M'CLELLAN, AND GIVES REASONS THEREFOR.
 49. 
XLIX. ORDAINS A MISSIONARY.
 50. 
L. WILL SUPPORT M'CLELLAN.
 51. 
LI. GIVES THANKS.
 52. 
LII. WAILETH.
 53. 
LIII. FREMONT'S NOMINATION.
 54. 
LIV. NOMINATES A TICKET.
 55. 
LV. ADDRESSES JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 56. 
LVI. ON THE RETURN OF VALLANDIGHAM.
 57. 
LVII. DEFINES HIS POSITION, AND APPEALS FOR AID.
 58. 
LVIII. DECLARES FOR REPUDIATION AND UNION WITH THE SOUTH.
 59. 
LIX. SHOWS THAT A WAR PLATFORM WON'T DO FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
 60. 
LX. HAS A CLASS MEETING, AND DEPRECATES NEGROKILLING.
 61. 
LXI. STARTS A SOCIETY OF HIS OWN.
 62. 
LXII. INDORSES THE NOMINATION.
 63. 
LXIII. THE CANDIDATES AND PLATFORM.
 64. 
LXIV. WAILETH MUCHLY.
 65. 
LXV. DESPONDENT.
 66. 
LXVI. LAMENTETH.
 67. 
LXVII. THE PLANTER'S LAMENT.
 68. 
LXVIII. HAS A DREAM.
 69. 
LXIX. LOSES A FRIEND, AND WRITES HIS OBITUARY.
 70. 
LXX. ISSUES AN “APPELE.”
 71. 
LXXI. HAS A DIFFICULTY WITH HIS FLOCK AND LEAVES IT.
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LXXII. YE LAMENT OF JOSEPH BOWERS.
 73. 
LXXIII. TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 74. 
LXXIV. DEPRECATES THE ARMING OF THE SLAVES BY THE SOUTH.
 75. 
LXXV. HAS A FRIGHTFUL DREAM.
 76. 
LXXVI. PROPOSES THE EMIGRATION OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 77. 
LXXVII. CONSULTS THE SPIRITS.
 78. 
LXXVIII. “WAILETH AND CUSSETH.”
 79. 
LXXIX. RENOUNCES SLAVERY.
 80. 
LXXX. LAMENTETH.
 81. 
LXXXI. LINES ONTO O. P. MORTON, THE TIRENT UV INJEANY.
 82. 
LXXXII. DETAILS THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 83. 
LXXXIII. MR. NASBY AND HIS FRIENDS HOLD A MEETING ON THE FALL OF CHARLESTON.
 84. 
LXXXIV. LAMENTETH OVER THE APOSTACY OF THE SAINTS.
 85. 
LXXXV. THE FALL OF RICHMOND AND LEE'S SURRENDER.
 86. 
LXXXVI. THE ASSASSINATION.
 87. 
LXXXVII. “MAKES A DELEGASHUN UV HISSELF,” AND VISITS THE PRESIDENT.
 88. 
LXXXVIII. SONNIT-2 A LITTER UV LITTLE PIGS.
 89. 
LXXXIX. HAS A VISION.
 90. 
XC. LAYS DOWN A PLATFORM FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
 91. 
XCI. SONNIT-2 A OLD HOSS.
 92. 
XCII. MEETS A “RECONSTRUCTID SUTHERN SHIVELRY, AND HEZ CONFIDENCES.”
 93. 
XCIII. “DREAMS A DREAM.”
 94. 
XCIV. SONNIT-2 WHISKY.
 95. 
XCV. ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
 96. 
XCVI. SEARCHES THE SCRIPTURES, AND GETS COMFORT THEREFROM.
 97. 
XCVII. SUGGESTS A “PSALM OF SADNESS” FOR HIS FRIENDS SOUTH.
 98. 
XCVIII. HAS A DREAM WHICH UNVEILS THE FUTURE.
 99. 
XCIX. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF SOLDIERS.
 100. 
C. SONNIT-2 HANNER ANN.
 101. 
CI. MEETS A PARDONED REBEL, WHO ENLIGHTENS HIM.
 102. 
CII. THE WISE OLD RAT.
 103. 
CIII. SONNIT-2 MY NOZE.
 104. 
CIV. THE DISKONTENTID PEZANT.
 105. 
CV. SONNIT-2 A SKEETER.
 106. 
CVI. EMBARKS IN A NEW ENTERPRISE.
 107. 
CVII. INDULGES IN A REMINISCENCE OF HIS YOUTHFUL DAYS.
 108. 
CVIII. SONNIT-2 A KORN,
 109. 
CIX. ON THE DIVERSITY OF THE RACES.
 110. 
CX. SONNIT-2 A FIVE-CENT PIECE.
 111. 
CXI. ON SOUTHERN CHARACTER.
 112. 
CXII. A HORRIBLE VISION.
 113. 
CXIII. HAS A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL.
 114. 
CXIV. APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRACY.
 115. 
CXV. AFTER THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS, 1865.
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CXVI. THE BOW-LEGGED KNITE; OR, THE RED-HEADED APOTHECARY'S DOOM.
 117. 
CXVII. GIVES HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE MATTER OF NEGRO IMPUDENCE.
 118. 
CXVIII. A FEW LAST WORDS.

  
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105. CV.
SONNIT-2 A SKEETER.

RITTEN WHILE FITIN THE CUSSES.

Skeeter! you'm with us wunst agin! you'm cum
With sting uv strength—with teeth uv wondrous power,
Agin to vex us in the midnite hour,
With sleep-disturbin buz—with rest-destroyin hum.
Yoor here, and yoo 've a mishun,[1] 't is to bite
Awl sorts uv peeple, and 2 suck their blood,
Wich yoo perform jest ez a lawyer wood,
Only they bete yoo at it a darnation site.
Now sportivly yoo cup a old man's thigh,
And then, O luxury, yoo pierce a maden's neck,[2]
Then in2 childhood's brest yoor lance yoo stick;
Thus, like a epiqr, frum swete to swete yoo fly,
And frum eech fountin drinkin long and deep,
Like old McBeth, Esq., yoo murder sleep.
 
[1]

Most fokes who hev a mishun air, like the skeeter, meerly suckers.

[2]

Wunst only did I envy the skeeter. I wuz a settin onto a rockincheer, and Hanner Ann wuz on my knee. A skeeter, who hed a eye for the bootiful, lit onto her buzzum. “Hanner Ann,” sez I, syin. “Wat?” sez she. “Wood, O, wood that I wuz a skeeter,” sez I, lookin ez tenderly ez I cood, considrin that she wuz 190 pounds in heft, and I hed bin a holdin uv her 2 hours—“wood that I wuz a skeeter, and hed my bill where he hez hizn!” “Petroleum,” sed she, histerikly, givin me a hug that lamed me for 6 weeks, “spozn yoo play skeeter!” I did so, but, alas! 3 weeks after she died from eetin green currants, and went to that land where skeeters is unknown, and where currants is ever ripe. Then did I take 2 poetizin, and her untimely deth akounts for the vane uv sadnis that runs thro my effoosions.

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