32. XXXII.
WAILETH.
Church uv St. Vallandigum, October the 14th, 1863.
I 'm sad—and wexed. My hed is a fountin uv
teers, and mine eyes distil dilootid corn-joose.
My hart is lead, and my sole is pot-bellied with
greef. My lims ake with woe, my manly form is
bowd, and my venrable lox is turnd white. O,
Vallandigum, thow hast gone to the grave, and
in the same toom is berrid all my hopes. Adoo,
vane world, adoo! I'll be a nunnery.
The fait uv the peeple uv Ohio is seeld. Vallandigum,
“Our chosin standerd-barer,”
is not only a exile far away, but ther is a cheerful
prospek, wich is daily improvin, uv his continnerin
in the exile biznis fer an indeffynit
period uv time. A tyrannikle Presydent hez
taken our old habis corpusses from us, and persistently
refuses to furnish us new wuns; and the
peeple hevin acqwiest by their votes, we lay
bound hand and foot. Men fleein from conskripshen
and sich, kin be seezed and dragd in2
slavery; cavelry drest in odjus bloo hez license
to hunt the pantin fugitive, who, after drawin his
bounty and pay, changis his mind, and desires to
return to the buzem uv his family, and the shootin
uv enrollin orfisers and tax assessors will now be
considered a crime. Alas!
The news affectid me variously. I hed our
township all fixt, hevin distribbitid tikkits, and
knowin nun uv em cood skratch em, ez they
do n't rite enny. I reseevd the returns with a
gratifide smile. “Bless yoo, my children; you hev
dun nobly,” sez I. Presently a currier arrivd,
bringin the disturbin intellygens that the northern
countis give Bruff 30 thowsen, and 2 minnits
thereafter another arrivd statin that the suthrin
countis had got loonatik and given Bruff 35 thowsen.
With a hart-rendin and sole-tarin shreek,
I fell a inannymait corps on the flore. * * *
I awoke. A oder uv suthin natrel filled the room,
givin me life agin. It wuz whisky. The worthy
woman to whose house I board, hed bin rubbin
the soles uv my feet with a jug, and givin me
small dosis uv the restorer thro a funnel. Her
exershens restord me to life agen. I presume the
fact uv my owin six months board did not nerve
her frajile arm. It wuz revrens.
Despondent and weery uv life, I attempted
sooiside. I mixt my licker fer a day; I red a
entire number uv the Crisis; I peroozed “Cotton
is King,” “Pulpit Pollytiks,” and “Vallandigum's
Record,” but all in vane. Ez a last desprit resource,
I attemptid to pizon myself by drinkin
water, but that faled me. My stumick rejected
it—I puked.
I am 2 much prosteratid to offer either advice
or consolashen to my Dimekratik frends. We
air in a stait uv abgect cussitude. To see Waid,
and Chaise, and Oin Luvgoy, and that 3-ply
Abolishnist, Horris Greely, feelin good, is prusic
asid and strick9 to us. I shell seek releef from
my sorrers in the floin bole.
Petroleum V. Nasby.
P. S.—The printer will put mournin lines abuv
and below this letter.
