The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-09
Massey.
tWHten for the Toledo B1ade.l
Mr.. Nasby has a Pleasant Dream, the
Philadelphia Convention being the
Subject thereof
CoNFEDRIT Z ROADS, (wich)
Is in the Stait NV Kentucky
JulV 2S. 1876.

s.. July Is, lS66.
My dreams, NV of wich 1 hev he'd
many douring the pust five years,
hevent bin overly pleasant-indeed they
hev taken more the shape Nv hideous
nitemares than anything else-Linken,
Grant, Sherman and armies dressed in
blue figurin extensively therein. But
last mite he'd a vision wich more than
repaid me for all hev suffered hereto
fore. Methought 1 wuZ in Philadel-
phia and the 14th NV August had arriv.
There wus glorious nssemblage, ez
Doolittle sed, NV the brains and hearts
nv the country, and may add, ez 1 and
Humphrey Marshall wuZ there, NV the
bowels likewise. The Convenshun wuz
assemblin. There wuz Seward present
engineerin NV it. On one side NV him
1 notist in my dream a shadowy bein
in n melankOly look, with one hand a
layin on his shoulder tryin to take
him out Nv the hall, while another bein,
with wings like bat, he'd him by the
nose and wuz twistin NV him jest as
he desired. notist that this last mem
toned bein he'd hoofs which wuZ split,
and tail which he wuz a flirtin in
great glee. The bein with the tail and
hoOfs whispered suthin in Stewards
ear, whereupon he moved that that en-
inent patriot, ex-President Franklin
Pierce be chairman, upon which the
shadowy bein in white unfolded her
wings and flew away, castin at Will
liam the most sorrowful look 1 ever1saw,
the hoofed and tailed individooal laugh
in tremendous. The ex-President took
the chair, and one Vice. President wuz
appointed from each State, ceptin Yer
mont and Massachusetts,. My buZzum
Swelled with emOshun ez that list wuz
red-it wuz like an old-fashioned dim
ecratic convenshun more than any
thing he'd herd for five long years. I
heard the hOnored names NV Toombs
and Rhett, Pryer and Lee, Slidell and
Rosso and cambridge, and Forrest
herd the names Nv Craven and Pollard,
Thompson and Forsyth, and 1 felt like
him NV old, "mine eyes hev seen the
glory, and let thy servant depart in
peace" Nothin but the certainty that
wood at last hev the Post Offs at the
Corners kept me from goin up. Sim
gler tits what slender ties hold us to
earth!
The Secretaries wuz appinted, and
then the committeeS-two on each from
the South and one from the North
wtch wuZ consiliatin. lwuZ put on the
committee on credenshals, Randall, the
ern Representative. Wehed our hands
full. There wuz a rush made for us, SO
many claimin seats, that we locked the
door for too hours to decide what shOod
be the proper qualification for place.
Finally we agreed to admit ez dele
gates
Z FROM THE NoRTH-All Dimocrats
who he'd bin arrested by Linkins' min
yuns-all officers who he'd resined
rather than to serve in Ablishun war,
and all Republicans who Good show q
comishun ez Postmaster and sich, and
this wuz considered necessary to guard
agin imposition) who wuzwillin to take
his solemn oath that he wuz a stedfast
believer in everything A. johnson he'd
did sents Janooary '66 (ceptin some
small items wicb wuz specitied) and all
he wuz doin, and all he mite do.
FROM THE SoUTH-All who Good
show officers comishun in the late
Confedrit army-all who he'd received a
pardon from A. Johnson, and all who
he'd lost their niggers in an unholy war,
wlch inclooded all present.
This decided upon, the work wu7
done. The delegates took their seats
and the CRATE work NV RecOnstructin
the Yoonyun commenced. Garrei
Davis wanted to make a speech, and a
hall wuz hired for him in another part
NV the city, and fifty OF sixty German
| enigrantS who coodent' understand q
word NV English hired at shiIlin an
hour to act ez audience. Five kegs Nv
lager beer, n hooid witch 1 hev bin told
Germans tie to, he'd bin rolled into the
hall, and most NV EN- stayed seven
hours and a half.
! In the regler Hall there wuz a com