Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-06-28
For The Palladium.

Being about town last Thursday evening, and
hearing that wonderful thing. that is stuck or
hung Oh the top of that apology called a. Market
House, making terrible noise. Involuntary
began to scratch my Uranium to divine the cause
Il had not been long engaged in this truly poll
tic occupation, when suddenly IT flashed upon NE
that Tonight was 10 be performed the first act IN
the political dramina called 'tiIe Cass and Butler
campaign of 1879 Whereupon, consented to
exercise my powers of locomotion, and be IN, ms
the box say; and true enoug! before had time
to think. ! was there right III the midst OF the
4 "unterriied" in all their power and majesty; but
they were not all there, for they kept rolling IN
I-tumblinr in aud any way 50 they got IN, until,
all told, there were probably about seventy hVe.
about one-tliri OF whom were Wings, an!
some short haired friends as the Liberty men
are sometimes called; and yet the performance
did not commence. At length, after a long and
! serious consultation among EN-. STURDY demo-
crat arose, looking all sorts of valiant things.
and moved-so he did, that Nr. Bargis he appoin-
| ted ChLIrnau; ''second, says the Guch-hunter;
''ail in favor anl-so on; but Mr.. Birgis mod
esty forbade him to accept the intended honor
The ''ehrcr'' was yet unoccupied, and now the
agony orfu-it was! At last, the delicate
looking man. who presides over the Jciicrsonian,
arose, but he did not look halt 80 iIerce as his
predecessor, and said: Mr.. President an gen
tiemen move Mr.. Hoover take the c-h-a-i-r;'
..second.' No. =, says the same old postum; and
this time it stuck for my friend, Hiram, was new
err in his life suspected Of being nodcst-and he
slept forward UDI d5 I-silctp ana toiu tlt
vast assembly that he guessed that was Cass
and Butler ratification meeting; when, on mo
zion Of him of whom | have twice spoken, a
brace Of the faithful were ordered to take notes
that is: one took notes aud the other looked
ON; well, he didat do any thing elSe!-aut now,
what was be donc7 The post office and dele
gate man uprosc again, and moved that COM
mi;tce of five he appointed for something, and 1t
was done. The committee We're: Messrs. Elder,
Scott, Burgis, Dennis aud Perkins. Mr. Bargis,
~
q committee of two be appointed to go out and
find Mr.. West and the Judge; so out went
Messrs. Bargis and Elder. Mr.. Elder
turned, leading in MIR. West. who did not even
take a seat; but broke forth III Il very dry and un-
interesting manner for about ten minutes-he
told them that he a democrat-"l voted,
said he. ''six times for democratic iresIlen MIS-
three times for Gen. jackson, twice for Martin
Van Buren, and once for James IL. Polk, and,
said he, hravIur profound sigh, ''l-intcnd-to
-vote--for-Geueral Cass,'' here the speakers
emotions overcome him that he sat down.
Mr. West has not dabhed much in politics since
he published Delazon Smiths Tyler organ in
DAYTON in ii, and when Smith wentto nominate
John, West broke or ..boltcd.' as the phrase is
hostcd the Polk and Dallas flag, and then ''fiz-
rled cut Then ensued an awful pause, too
WIFI! 10 describe. until TIE post office man. preg-
nant with things he could not utter. arose and
commenced pulling from his capacious pocket
several documents, which he commenced read
ing, much to his own edification no doubt. for he
seemed very much pleased himself and so did
the faithful; he mixed up good many things and
talked about the "pah-ty" and all that sort of
tutl;--and thus FAR not a word had been SAID
about their candidates, no. not even that Cass was
"a youag feleralist and wore the black cock AIDE
in the palmy days Of Fedcralism-or that they
had any prnci pies but the loaves aud fishes! No
man, by -thc-by, could look on the fair proper
tons of the reader and think. for moment, that
lie wanted oflice--not he! But hold. what
causes the noise and hustle that greets my ear!
As sure as I'm sinner, if Charley Test isn't
coming at last! Sure Oh. there he did come,
ably supported on all sides by 'miue host of the
National; and, when he commenced. l thought
if il were possible he looked uglier than ever
he went at il with the determination of hero,
resolved TO conquer or--spend some breath and
physical exerton, and he done both! At this
stage Of the proceedings, my feelings quite over
come and gradually lost myself in revere
the only things | can now recall to my memo
ry were, first. indistnct recollection of Char
ley's having gone to Jay county, there-a-
bouts giggins frogs: and, second that heard the
delightful notes Of the banjo, ace mpanied by sa-
Bile MINISTRIES, singing: 'Oh carry mo back TO
Centre.'--herc the curtain dropt
One WHO WAS THERE.