Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-10-10
From the Toledo Blade
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Wr. Nasty Is Requested 10 Act as Chap
Lain of The Cleveland Convention.
PosT OFFS, CONFEDRIT Y ROADS,
which Is in the Staff nv Kentucky,

H.#. LOeI OAEAST OoNEEDhAI n -AoaDS
(which is in the Stait Nv kentucky
September Goth, 1866.
| wuz sent for to come TO Washington
from nv comfortable quarters at the Post
Offs, 70 attend the c~onvenshun NV slch
soldiers and sailors NV the United States
ez bleeye in 8 Union Nv 30 States, n
who hey sworn a~llejinse to a flag with 80
stars onto it, at Cleveland. My esteemed
and life long friend and %colsborer, Rev.
HrNRY WARD BEEcHER, wuz to hey bin
the chaplin Nv the ~conyenshun, hut he
failed us, and il wuz decided in a Cabinet
meeting that l shood take his place. /
didn't see the necessity Nv hevin a chap
lin at every little ~convenshun Nv our par
ty, and so stated, but seward remarked,
with a groan, that eff ever there WIZ q
party, since parties wuz invented, wlch
needed prayin for. ,ours wuz that patty.
and Psrson,' sed he, glancin at a list OF
delegates, 'ef 700 hev any agonlzln l'eti-
tons, any prayers NV extra tervehcy' 'Her
EN- up for these fellers. III there Is any
efficacy in prayer, itsmy honest, unolased
~oninion that there never wuz in the his
t6rv nv the world, nor ever will be agin,
SIGH a magnificent chance to maxi it
manifest. Try y~oorself particularly on
OukLaE"luO dllCI ala COANAAia wv nv IA
a musin, distracted sort Nv a way wich
he's fallen into lately the fellow is sch a
trihin bein that he RELY kin hsrdl, be
held 'sponsible for what he's dom, and
the balance Nv EN-, good Hevens, tlpey'r
mostly druv to it by hunger-and the
Secretary maundered on suthin about
sixty days and ninety days. payin no
more attention to the rest NV US than ez
eff we wuEn't there at all.
So receiver transportation and sufh-
shent money from the secret service fund
for expenses, l departed for Cleveland,
and after a tejus trip thro' an Ablishn
country l arrived there. Ny thots were
gloomy beyond expression. 1 he'd recent
" gone through this same country ez
chaplin to the Presidential tour, and
every stashen he'd its pecooliar onpleas-
ant remembrances. Here wuz where the
cheers for Grant were vociferous, with
nary q snort for His Eggslency-there1
Huz where the peasantry laft in his face
when he went thro' with the regler fitoo-
al Nv presentin the c~onstitooshun and the
flag with Sc stars onto it, to.a deestrick
asseEsor-there wuz-but why recount
my mferinSi Why harrow mp the pub
lie bosom or lssserate the public mind 7
Suffice to say I endoored it-sufhce to
say that I he'd strength left to ride up
Bank street in Cleveland, the seen Nv the
most awful insult the EggsecutiVe ever
reserved. ~
The evenin I arrived, the delegates,
SIGH ez Buz on hand, held q informal
meetin to arrange matters so ez they wood
work smooth when the crowd finally got
together. General Wool wuz eE gay and
risky ez tho he RELY belonged to the
last ginersshn; there wuz Custer Nv Mich
igAn, with his hair freshly oiled and curl
sd, and busstlin about ez though he he'd
cheated hisself into the beeleef that he
RELY amounted to suthin, and there VIA
seventy eight other men who he'd distin-
themselves in the lSte,waE but
who he'd never got their deserts, ceptin
by brevet, OWN to the fact that the Adj
wuz Ablshn, which they
They were, in a Preliminary pint
Nv view, suthin the worse for wear, the
why that shood heV bin the case, l Good
emit see, they heEin bin TO an slarmin ex-
tent quartermasteIs and commissaries,
and in the recrootin service till l notist
the prevalin color Nv their noses, and
heerd one.uv EN- ask his. neighbor eff /
Cleveland WIZ blest with a faro bank ? :
Then 1 knoWd all about it. {
There wuz another pekooliarity about ;
which for a time amoozed me. Them
sz Huz present III divided into classes ,
ez he'd bin recently appinted to
posishens, and them ez expected to be
1notist on the countenances ny
the first class 8 look Nv releef, SIGH ez Ilf
hev seen in factories Saturday night. 'sf
ter he-hands wuz paid off for a hard '
weeks work, and on the other class the
most wolfshs hungry. fierce expression l 4
have eyer witnessed. Likewise, 1 notist s
that the latter set Nv patriots Ia liked =
more hefsy Nv the necessity Nv sus'tuin E
the policy NV our firm and noble Presi- !
lent; and damned the Ablishunists with !
more emphasis and fervency than the 7
ua- 2
One enthusiastic indiYidoosl, who bed 4
bin Quartermaster two years, and he'd .
bin allowed to resign "jest after the bat I
lie, mother" witch, heVin his papers all
destroyed, made settlin with the govern =
ment a easy matter, wuz so feroshus that
felt called upon to check him. "Cient- ]
my friend" said l, gently l have 4
lin thro' this 5thing-I hev my commits 4
ion. 1t broke out on me jest ez or VOC, I
out 700 WON'T git your Assessorsliip a :
sooner for it." ?
at amt a Assessorship. I wsnt,'' SEE !.
ne. 81 hev devoted myself to the task t
up the wounds Nv my bel we'd 7
country" - 3
did you stop anybody very much rom !
themsed wounds :" murmur.d I. i
IAN ef l accept the Post 0rfis IT. my '
native village which heV finally vie lded, Q
do it not only that | may devote my :
remaining energies wholly to the
treat cause Nv restorin the sc States to :
heir normal posishens onto the flag With
i6 stars unto it, in spite Nv the J pdis !
skariots wich1 eff 1 am whom. wat lie the I
and where Is" 0
Perseevin that the unfortunate man q
ed got into the middle Nv a quota hen i
rom a speech Nv our noble and patriotic p
PRESIDENT, and known his intellek Wazn't ?
lefty enough to git it off fist as il wuz f
riginally delivered. l took him b., the E,
hrOat and shet off the food Nv his elo- y
fence. b
BE quiet. 700 idiot, remarked / santh- q
ngly to him. "yso'll git your appointment q
-ecoz for the fust time in the history NV in
his or any other Republic, there's a mar Or
,et for jist SIGH men ez 700, but all this sc
won't fetch it q minute soonpr." ID
Good Lord !" thot I, ez Turned away
wat a President A. j. is, to hey to buy
p sich cattle Wal a postmaster he
1ust be, whose gineral cussedness turns
" stummick p uaf.5.e. II
1t was deemed necessary to see nv wat ii
wuz composed. ghereupon Kerhd K =,
= who is now Kollector Nv Revenue in
asked eff there was airy man in
ne who he'd bin a primer d lrin
be late fratricidle struggle. A GENT man
v perhaps thirty sroze and said he wuz.
lie he'd bin takin three times and wuz, /
together, Is months in doorancs vile c,
j three diffrent prizuns. q
Custer fell on his neck and asked i'm, fu
ggitstidly, eff he wuz shoor-quite shoor.
fter hsvin suffered all that, he support
d the policy of the President? Are you T
ute shoor-quite shoor? I'll
III 80 IT