“Swingin Round the Cirkle‪”‬

Petroleum V. Nasby is already spending the job he has been promised when a boy flings a newspaper through his window: “NOO GERSEY—5,000 REPUBLIKIN!” The news sends him sprawling—and his landlord checks his pockets before deciding whether to revive him.

In the anxious aftermath of the Civil War, Nasby’s letters roam from New Jersey to Washington, where old party loyalties collide with a country remade by emancipation and defeat. A luckless Democrat with grand political hopes, he mourns each electoral setback as if the Union itself were sinking, then meets a Southern general whose idea of reconciliation comes with a remarkably long list of demands. Nasby’s mock-biblical laments and crooked spellings turn political despair into farce, while exposing the self-interest beneath the speeches. With the old order slipping away, where can a faithful Democrat find refuge?

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