66. LXVI.
DETAILS THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRACY.
Saint's Rest (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Jersey), }
February the 10th, 1865.
People is queer! Humanity, pertiklerly Amerikin humanity,
viewed from a Dimekratik standpint, is a inscrootable mystery.
To the undersined it's a staggrer. For instance.
The normal instinks uv mankind is not to work. Dimokrasy
hez bin a holdin out to the Amerikin people the priceless boon
uv nigger slavery — the onspeakable happinis uv hevin others
sweat for em — uv passin a lifetime a suckin mint-juleps thro
straws, and smokin ten-cent cigars, on the work uv others. It
wuz rejectid.
I wuz a thinkin the matter over to-nite, and I wuz shockt at
the remarkable yoonanimity with wich every distinktive measure
proposed by the Dimokrasy hez bin repoodiated by the
people.
We told em the South wood rebel, ef they voted for Linkin.
They voted for Linkin.
We told em greenbax and guverment bonds wood be entirely
worthless. They take the greenbax, and subscribe for the
bonds with a loosenis onparalleled.
We told em they cood never whip the South. They went in
and are whippin the South, with neatnis and dispatch.
We warned em agin drafts, and sich. They go and vote for
drafts — indeed, I heerd wun recreant Dimekrat observe that
he rather liked a draft wunst or twict per annum, they varied
the monotony. “And then,” sed he, “a feller feels so good
when he finds he ain't drawd.”
We told em the war wood go on ef Linkin wuz re-electid.
They went and re-electid Linkin.
We told em that any interference with slavery wood rooin
North and South. They abolisht it in a lump.
In short, the peeple is crazy. Watever the Dimokrasy
endorses, the peeple reject; watever the Dimokrasy recommends,
the peeple condemn. I'm convinst uv the trooth uv
the Millerite doctrine — the end uv the world is at hand.
Ez for me, I care not how soon it comes. Life is not measured
by yeers. I am three score in yeers, but I hev consoomed
enuff whisky for a man uv a hundred. Therefore I am ready.
Whenever the Dimokrasy finally pegs out, I want to go likewise,
for with it my mission is ended.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
