قراءة كتاب "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866.
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"Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866.
“Swingin
Round the Cirkle.”
BY
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
LATE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE NEW DISPENSATION, CHAPLAIN TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, AND P.M. AT CONFEDERATE × ROADS, KENTUCKY.
HIS IDEAS OF
Men, Politics, and Things,
AS SET FORTH IN HIS LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC PRESS, DURING THE YEAR 1866.
Illustrated by Thomas Nast.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1867.
DEDIKASHUN UV THIS BOOK.
TO
ANDROO JOHNSON,
The Pride and Hope uv Dimocrisy,
Who hez bin Alderman uv his native village,
Guvner uv his State,
Member uv the lower house uv Congress,
And likewise uv the Senit,
Vice President and President, and might hev bin Diktater,
But who is, nevertheless, a Humble Individooal;
Who hez swung around the entire cirkle uv offishl
honor, without feelin his Oats much;
The first public man who considered my
services worth payin for;
AND TO
ALEX. W. RANDALL,
Postmaster Genral,
His most devoted Servant,
Whose autograph adorns my Commishn ez Postmaster,
This Volume
Is Respectfully Dedikated.
Contents
Prefis, or Interductry Chapter
- After the New Jersey Election
- Converses with General McStinger
- A Remarkable Dream
- A Change of Base—Kentucky
- Abolition in Kentucky
- A Conversation with a Kentuckian
- A Vision—Spirit of Andrew Jackson
- A Plan for Up-building the Democracy
- A Vision of the Next World
- A Sonnet
- The Situation—The Democracy Warned
- The President’s 22d of February Speech
- A Warning
- Refuses to Support the President
- The Patriarchal System
- A Dream
- A Kentucky Tea Party
- A Cry of Exultation
- A Wail of Anguish
- Mournful View of the Situation
- A Psalm of Gladness
- A Discourse upon the Nigger
- Workings of the Freedmen’s Bureau
- Presides at a Church Trial
- Meeting to Indorse Gen. Rosseau
- Preaches—The “Prodigal Son”
- A Pleasant Dream
- The Reward of Virtue
- The Convocation at Philadelphia
- The Great Presidential Excursion
- The Presidential Tour Continued
- End of the Presidential Tour
- At Home Again
- The Cleveland Convention