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Title: “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.
Author: Petroleum V. Nasby
Illustrator: Thomas Nast
Release Date: December 5, 2005 [EBook #17228]
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"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 I.--AFTER THE NEW
JERSEY ELECTION II.--CONVERSES WITH GENERAL
MCSTINGER III.--A REMARKABLE DREAM IV.--A CHANGE OF
BASE--KENTUCKY V.--ABOLITION IN KENTUCKY VI.--A
CONVERSATION WITH A KENTUCKIAN VII.--A
VISION--SPIRIT OF ANDREW JACKSON VIII.--A PLAN FOR
UP-BUILDING THE DEMOCRACY IX.--A VISION OF THE NEXT
WORLD X.--A SONNET XI.--THE SITUATION--THE
DEMOCRACY WARNED XII.--THE PRESIDENT'S 22D OF
FEBRUARY SPEECH XIII.--A WARNING XIV.--REFUSES TO
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT XV.--THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM
XVI.--A DREAM XVII.--A KENTUCKY TEA PARTY XVIII.--A
CRY OF EXULTATION XIX.--A WAIL OF ANGUISH
XX.--MOURNFUL VIEW OF THE SITUATION XXI.--A PSALM
OF GLADNESS XXII.--A DISCOURSE UPON THE NIGGER
XXIII.--WORKINGS OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
XXIV.--PRESIDES AT A CHURCH TRIAL XXV.--MEETING TO
INDORSE GEN. ROSSEAU XXVI.--PREACHES--THE "PRODIGAL
SON" XXVII.--A PLEASANT DREAM XXVIII.--THE REWARD OF
VIRTUE XXIX.--THE CONVOCATION AT PHILADELPHIA
XXX.--THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION XXXI.--THE
PRESIDENTIAL TOUR CONTINUED XXXII.--END OF THE
PRESIDENTIAL TOUR XXXIII.--AT HOME AGAIN XXXIV.--THE
CLEVELAND CONVENTION XXXV.--AN APPEAL TO THE
PEOPLE XXXVI.--THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS XXXVII.--MR.
NASBY'S OPINION ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESIDENT'S
DEFEAT XXXVIII.--ANDREW JOHNSON PRESIDENT OR KING?

XXXIX.--A CABINET MEETING XL.--SERMON ON THE
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS XLI.--A FEW LAST WORDS

PREFIS,
OR
INTERDUCTRY CHAPTER.
There is a vacancy in the mind uv the public for jist sich a book ez this,
else it had never bin published. There is a vacancy in my pockit for the
money I am to reseeve ez copy-rite, else I hed never slung together, in
consecootive shape, the ijees wich I hev from time to time flung out
thro the public press, for the enlitenment uv an ongrateful public and
the guidance uv an obtoose Dimocracy.
I didn't put these thots uv mine upon paper for amoozement. There
hezn't bin anythin amoozin in Dimocrisy for the past five years, and the
standard-bearers, the captins uv fifties and hundreds, the leaders uv the
hosts, hev hed a ruther rough time uv it. Our prominence made us
uncomfortable, for we hev bin the mark uv every writer, every orator,
ez well ez uv every egg-thrower, in the country. When that gileless
patriot, Jeems Bookannon, retired to private life, regretted by all who
held office under him, Dimocracy felt that she wuz entrin upon a period
uv darknis and gloom. The effort our Suthern brethrin made for their
rites, rendered the position uv us Northern Dimocrats eggstremely
precarious. We coodent go back on our friends South, for, knowin that
peace must come, and that when it did come we wood hev to, ez in the
olden time, look to them for support and maintenance, it behooved us
to keep on their good side. This wood hev bin easy enuff, but alars!
there are laws agin treason, and two-thirds uv the misguided people
north hed got into a way uv thinkin that the Dimocrasy South had
committed that crime, and they intimated that ef we overstepped the
line that divides loyalty from treason by so much ez the millionth part
uv a hair, they'd make us suffer the penalty they hoped to mete