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Divers views, opinions, and prophecies of yoors trooly Petroleum V. Nasby. Locke, David Ross, (1833–1888).
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Yoors trooly Petroleum V Nasby

DIVERS VIEWS, OPINIONS, AND PROPHECIES OF Petroleum V. Nasby.
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NASBY.

DIVERS VIEWS, OPINIONS, AND Prophecies OF Yoors Trooly Petroleum V Nasby Lait Paster uv the Church of the Noo Dispensashun WITH HUMOROUS DESIGNS BY THEE JONES.

CINCINNATI: R. W. Carroll & Co., Publishers, JOS. L. TOPHAM & CO., General Agents, (Opera-House Building.)

1866.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by R. W. CARROLL & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.

DEDIKASHEN.

TO THAT STERLIN PATRYOT AND UNKORRUPTIBLE CHRISCHEN GENTLEMAN,
FERNANDYWOOD, UV NOO YORK:

TO THAT HI-TONED MAN AND WOOL-DIED DIMEKRAT,
FRANKLIN PEERSE, UV NOO HAMPSHIRE;
TO THAT LONG-SUFFRIN BUT PASHENT DIMEKRAT,
JESSE D. BRITE, UV INJEANY,
Whose highest recommendashun is that he wuz eckspelled frum a Ablishn Senit, but
who wood hev resined hed ther ever bin a presedent fer a Dimekrat resinin;
AND TO THE GRATE
VALLANDIGUM, UV OHIO,
Who went to the stake with a kamness onparrallelled, fer prinsipple,
These Book
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDIKATED, BY

THE ORTHER.

Saint's Rest, (which is in the Stait uv Noo Gersey,) November the 1st, 1865.
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PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INDORSEMENT OF NASBY.

The subjoined account of President LINCOLN'S high appreciation of the wit and humor of Nasby was contributed to the New York Independent, by F. B. CARPENTER, Esq., the artist, who enjoyed the confidence of our late lamented Chief Magistrate, and whose reminiscences have an authenticity entitling them to implicit credit. Mr. CARPENTER says:

"The Saturday evening before President Lincoln left Washington, to go to the front, just previous to the capture of Richmond, I was with him from seven o'clock till nearly twelve. It had been a very hard day with him. The pressure of office-seekers was greater at this juncture than I ever knew it to be, and he was almost worn out. Among the callers that evening was a party composed of a Senator, a Representative, an ex-Lieutenant Governor of a Western State, and several private citizens. They had business of great importance, involving the necessity of the President's examination of voluminous documents. Pushing every thing aside, he said to one of the party, 'Have you seen the Nasby Papers?' 'No, I have not,' was the answer. 'Who is Nasby?' 'There is a chap out in Ohio,' returned the President, 'who has been writing a series of letters in the newspapers over the signature of Petroleum V. Nasby. Some one sent me a pamphlet collection of them the other day. I am going to write to "Petroleum" to come down here, and I intend to tell him if he will communicate his talent to me, I will swap places with him!' Thereupon he arose, went to a drawer in his desk, and taking out the 'letters,' he sat down and read one to the company, finding in their enjoyment of it the temporary excitement and relief which another man would have found in a glass of grog! The instant he had ceased, the book was thrown aside, his countenance relapsed into its habitual serious expression, and the business was entered upon with the utmost earnestness."

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CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

  • TITLE PAGE. 1
  • PORTRAIT. 2
  • NASBY DESERTS—HIS EXPERIENCE IN CLOTHES. 63
  • NASBY VISITS VALLANDIGHAM. 103
  • NASBY'S DREAM OF GREATNESS. 169
  • NASBY HAS A DIFFICULTY WITH HIS FLOCK AND LEAVES IT. 255
  • YE LAMENT OF JOSEPH BOWERS. 257
  • THE UNION AS IT WAS. 355
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