The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-10-11
NASBY.
MIR. Nasby il Requested TO Act as
Chaplain of the Cleveland Con.
VemaiOn.
Posi- OFFIs, CoNrEDKT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)


ton from my comfortable quarters at
the Post Offs, to attend the conyenshun
Nv slch soldiers and sailors NV the Uni
ted States ez bleeye in Union Nv SO
States, and who hev sworn allejinse to
flag with 81 stars onto it, at Cleye-
land. My esteemed and ite-long friend
and co-laborer, Rev Henry Ward Bee
cher, wuz to hev bin the chaplin Nv the
cOnyenshun, but he failed us, and it wuz
decided in Cabinet meeting that |
shood take his place. / didn't see the
necessity NV heyin chaplin at every
little conyenshun Nv our party, and 50
stated, but Seward remarked, with a
groan, that if ever there wuz party,
since parties wuz invented, wich needed
prayin for, ours wuz that party-"and
Parson," sed he, glancin at list NV
delegates, "ef you hev any agonizin pc
titions, any prayers Nv extra fervency,
offer em up for these fcllers. If there
is any efficacy in prayer, its my honest,
unbiased opinion that there never wuz
in the history Nv the world, nor ever
will be agin, sich a magnificent chance
to make it manifest. Try yoorself par
ticularly on Custar--tho' after all" con-
tinyood he, in a musin, abstracted sort
Nv way wich he's fallen into lately,
"the fellow is sich a trifin bein that he
RELY kin hardly be held 'sponsible for
what he's doin, and the balance NV EN-,
good Hevens, they'r mostly druv to it
by hunger"-apd the Secretary maun-
dered ON suthin about sixty days" and
ninety days" payin no more attention
to the rest Nv us than ez ef we wuzn't
there at all. ... ....
So receiver transportation and suffi-
shent money from the secret service
fund for expenses, departed for Cleve-
land, and after tejus trip thro' an Alb
lishn country ! Iarrived there. My thots
were gloomy beyond expression. Ihed
recently gone through this same coun-
try ez chaplin to the Presidential tour,
and every stashen he'd its pecooliar on
pleasant remembrances. Here wuz
where the cheers for Grant were vocif-
erous, with nary a snort for His Eggs
lency-there wuz where the peasantry
laft in his face when he went thrO' with
the regler ritooal NV presentin the con-
stitooshn and the flag with 3G stars on
to it, to deestrick assessor-there wuz
but why recount my suffering! Why
harrow up the public mind? Suffice to
say l endoored it-sufiice to say that |
he'd strength left to ride up Bank street
in Cleveland, the seen NV the most aw-
tul insult the Eggsecutive ever reserved.
The evenin l arrived, the delegates,
sich ez wuz on hand, held a informal
meetin to arrange matters so ez they
would work smooth when the crowd fl
nally got together General Wool wuz
ez gay and trisky ez tho he reely be-
longed to the last ginerashn; there wuz
Custer NV Michigan, with his hair fresh
ly oiled and curled, and busslin about
ez though he he'd cheated hisself into
the beleef that he RELY amounted to
suthin, and there wuz seventy-eight 9th
er men who he'd distinguished their
selves in the late war, but who he'd new
er got their deserts, ceptin by brevet,
OWN to the fact that the Administrator
wuz Ablishn, which they wuznt. They
were, in Preliminary pint NV view,
suthin the worse for wear, tho why that
shood hev bin the case, l coodent see,
0hey hevin bin to an alarmin extent
quarter masters and commissaries, and
in the recrootin service till l notist the
pervalin color Nv their noses, and beerd
one Nv 'em ask his neighbor ef Cleve-
land wuz blest with faro bank? Then
| knowd all about it.
There wuz another pekooliarity about
it wich for time amOozed me. Them
ez wuz present wuz divided into 2 class
es-thoSe ez he'd bin recently appinted
to posishens, and them ez expected to
be shortly. l nOtist on the counten-
ances NV the first class a look NV releef,
sich ez hev seen in factories Saturday
night, after the hands wuz paid off for a
hard weeks work, and on the other
class the most wolfsh, hungry, fierce
expression l hev ever witnessed. Like
wise, notist that the latter set Nv pa
triots talked more hefty NV the necessity
Nv sustainin the policy Nv our firm and
noble President, and damned the Alb
lishunists with more emphasis and fer
vency than the others.
One enthusiastic individooal, who
he'd bin Quartermaster two years, and
he'd bin allowed to resign ''jest after the
battle, mother" wich, hevin his papers
all destroyed, made settlin with the gov
a easy matter, wuz so feroshus
that / felt called upon to check him.
"Gently, my friend" said l, gently!
hev bin thro' this thing-I hev my
commisshun. 1t broke out on me jest
ez it hez on 700, but yoo won't git your
Assessorship mint sooner for it."
"It amt a Assessorship, l want" sez
he II hev devoted myself to the task
NV bindin up the wounds Nv my beloved
country"
"Did you stop any body very much
from infictin them sed wounds ?" mur-
INJURED |. ..a,.
can eff l accept the Post Offs in my
native village which l hev bin solssited
80 strongly to take that / hey finally
yielded, | do it only that may devote
my few remaining energies wholly to
the great cause of restorin the 3G States
to their normal posishens onto the flag