The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-26

q Mcclellan meeting. Young ketChum
said 90. If the explosion of . limited
quantity of gas in Union Square killed
two women and wounded several the other
night, what will be the disaster when your
whole party bursts mp in Novenberf
"James Buchanan said he vas no longer
J. B, but the Cincinnati platform. You
reverse it, and ssy you Gro not the Chi
cago platforn, but G. B. Mac. Said Lord
Byron in Don Juan,
@The wellknown Hebrew word, am,
We Knglish to govern DIN.
"But 70 your letter. Bulwer said the
PEN was mightier than the sword.' Then
he had not made your acquaintance,
General. Nominated on your record?-
Yes. The draft The Proclamation
The suspension Of the habeas corpus.
The arrsst of Legislatures. Military at
tho polls, and disobedience of orders. Is
not that your public reeord7 Do you
mean, BY abiding to your record, that you
will do the same again?
"GENrLEMEN: have the honor to &C.
knowledge the receipt of your letter, in.
forming me Of my nomination (of course,
who else do you suppose it was y BY the
Democratic National Convention, (cer-
tainly, it was not the Republican National
Committee recently assembled at Chi.
cago. THAT'S so, it did not assemble at
Cleveland or New York, as their candi.
date at the next election for President Of
the United States. Exactly; it was moi
| for the last election.
aIt is unnecessary for me to say te
you that this nomination comes to m,
unsought.' (Why say it, then =
"Tske the whole letter, paragraph b.
paragraph, transpose it as have thi
sentence, and you will end it as weak al
Observation-Disclosures. inconsistent, nm
grammatical and egotisticaI The six al
lusions to the Union remind one of tb
stereotyped cry in the Fortunes Of Nige
watches. clocks, barpacles. The brigh
boy who cried barnaces, watches, clock.
introduced new idea into Scotland.
off frank. earnest and persisteu
effort to obtain those objects should fai
8 the responsibility for Interior con.eq uenct
will fall upon those who remain in arm
4 against the Union
g "Why not say war right out, not dode
round corner this way. Don't forge
that old Cass killed himself with the Mel
olson letter
believing that these views here e,
pressed are those Of the Convention an
). the people you represent, | accept II
F., nomination.
'" "You don't believe any thing Of IL
% kind. You know better The Nortbwe
q were all peace. So reads the platform
3 Five hundred delegates agree upon
= platform Here tits:
. Resolved, To please you. they ha,
war.
Il "sResolved. To please Pendleton, the
: have peace.
d. "'Resoved, To please all the outs, Il
war 90 on till the peace is signed
Remember that the Royal George
Bristol Channel went down with sill Q
). board, the result o. trimming
"Walter Savage Lander wrote on ii
IS Georges:
, "'Georee tho First reckoned vile,
~ Niier George the Second.
tn And what mortal heard
"a Any good Of George the Third,
~ When from earth the Fourth assembled,
st God be praised, the Georges ended
81 81 condense your letter in two tines
u "'Geutlemen: | accep. the nomin'
IL ton. but acknowledge myself totally ani
r. r. for the position
II II mean nothing unkind in this, Gsr
n eral, but you know that now you are
5, fair mark, not a large one. for all to sho
III at. GEO. FRANCIS Train"
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