prejudiced men aint present.

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.




V.

The Effect the Proclamation of Secretary Seward produced in Kentucky.


CONFEDRIT × ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
December 20, 1865.

At last! The deed is dun! The tiranikle government which hez sway at
Washington hez finelly extinguished the last glimerin flicker uv
Liberty, by abolishin slavery! The sun didn't go down in gloom that
nite--the stars didn't fade in2 a sickly yeller, at wich obstinacy uv
nachur I wuz considably astonished.

I got the news at the Post Offis (near wich I am at present stayin, at
the house uv a venerable old planter, who accepts my improvin
conversation and a occasional promise, wich is cheap, ez equivalent for
board). Sadly I wendid my way to his peaceful home, dreadin to fling
over that house the pall uv despair. After supper I broke to em ez
gently ez I cood the intelligence that three-fourths uv the States hed
ratified the constooshnel amendment--that Seward had ishood his