The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-08-18
gNisfellalteo1ts.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty has a Pleasant Dream, the
Philadelphia Convention being
the Subject thereof.
From the Toledo Blade
NASRY.

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Nv Kentuckey.) July 20, 1866. J
Ny dreams, Nv wich hev he'd many doorin
the past 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 tgurin ex-
tensiyely therein. But last mite he'd vision
which more than repaid me for all hev suffered
heretofore. | he'd been at the Corners assistin in
inauguratin new grocery. The proprietor Wuz
demoralized Ablishnist who he'd sold likker
surreptitously in Maine among them Ablishun-
lists, and consekently he'd no idea of the quantity
full-grown Kentucky Democrat Good throw
hissef outside NV. His entire capital with witch
he proposed to commence biznis, wuZ one barrel
Nv new corn whiskey and sum other necessarles
and ez a starter to make the acquaintance of
his customers he announced one free mite and in
vited the entire community. His invitashun was
considered generous, and we met in the same no.
BILE sperit, in more nobler spirit than the conf
din and ignorant man desired in fact, fur when
we got through in about 38 minits, there wuz' mt
drop Nv the whiskey left, and while the new
grocery keeper was rollin Nv US out he was GUS
sin hisself for fool. He didn't opin agin-he
consoomed his stock in trade in given the blow
out to likoor customers. His stock like A. john
| sons Unionism, didn't survive an inaugerashen.
succumbed in fence corner, and overpower-
ed ez | wuz slept.
I" A sweetly dreamin,
Dreamin the happy hours away"
Methought wuz in Philadelphia and the 18th
Nv August had arriv. There wuz aglorious assem-
blage, ez Doolttle sed, NV the brains and hearts
Nv the country, and may add, eZ and Hum
phrey Marshal wuz there, Nv the bowels likewise.
The Convenshun wuz assemblin There Seward
present engineern Nv it. On one side Nv him
notist in my dream shadowy bein with wings
draped in white and wearing a melonkoly look,
with one hand layin on his shoulder and 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. noust
that this last mentioned bein he'd hoofs, witch
wuz split, and tail which he wax firth in
great glee. The bein with the tail and hoofs
whispered suthin in Stewards ear, whereupon he
moved that that eminent patriot ex-President
Fanklin Pierce, be chairman, upon which the
shadoWy bein in white unfoded her wings and
few away castin at William the most sorrowful
look ever saw the hoofed and tailed individooal
laughin tremendous. The ex-President took the
chair, and one Vice President wuz appointed
| from each State, ceptn Vermont and Massachoo-
SITS My buzzum sweled with emoshenez that
list wuz read--it wuz more like an old fashioned
Democrat Conversion than anything he'd heard
for FIVE long years. heard the honored names
Nv Toombs and Rhett Pryor and Lee, Slidell and
and Rosso, and Dandrige and Forrest heard
! the names Nv Craven and Pollard, Thompson
and Forsyth and felt like him NV old, mine
eyes hey seen thy glory, now let thy servant de-
| part in peace" Nothin but the certainty that
wood at last hev that Post Offs at the Corners
kept me from going up. Singular tbs what slen-
der ties holds us to earth
The Secretaries wuz apinted, and then commit
| tees two on each from the South and the North
-wich wuz conciliatin. was put on the COM
mittee on credenshals, Randall, the Postmaster
General, being the Northern Representative
We he'd our hands full. There wuz rush made
| on us, so many claim seats that we locked the
| door for two hours to decide what shood be the
proper qualification for a place. Finally we
agreed to admit ez delegates
| FROM THE NoRTH-All dimocrats who had been
arrested by Linkin's minyuns, all officers who
| had resined rather than to serve in Ablllshun
war. and all Republicans who Good show COM
mishun ez Postmaster and sich, and this Wuz
considered necessary to guard against lmposltlon)
who wuz willin to take his solemn oath that he
wuz steadfast bleever in evrything A. johnson
he'd did sence Janooary, '66, (exceptln sum small
items wich wuz speci6ed), and all ne wu2 doln,
and all he might do.
FROM THE soUTH-All who Good show officers
commission in the late Confedrit army, all who
had received pardon from A. johnson. and all
who he'd lost their niggers in an unholy war,
wich inclooded all present.
This decided upon the work wuz done. The
delegates took their seats and the crate work Nv
Reconstructin the Yoonyun commenced. Garret
Davis wanted to make aspeech, and hall Wuz
hired for him in other part of the city, and fifty
| or sixty German emigrants who c0odent under
stand word Nv English hired at shillln an
hour to act ez audience. Five kegs oflager beer
q looid wich hev been told Germans tie to, he'd
| bin rolled in the hall, and most Nv em stayed
| seven hours and half.
In the reglar hall there wuz a commingln
which was edifying Doolittle wood make a mo-
| ton and Vallandigham wood second It, Forrest
made speech and Randall endorsed it. Seward
and John Morrissey were on the Oommltlee on
| Resolutions. and Dick Taylor and Cowan were
| occupyin one seat The resolutions were brief
/ to the pint. They resolved that Whereas there
he'd bin season NV unpleasantness In our nation
al history wich, OWN to circumstances over wlch
nobody he'd any control extended over several
periods NV ninety days each and Whereas the
unpleasantness resulted from the two sections
yiewin things each from its own standpoint, IN.
stead of viewin things from the other stand-pln'
and Whereas both parties wuz highly in the
wrong partikelerly the North and, Whereas,
the South, with magnanimity unknown in his
tory he'd thrown down her arms, and wuz ready
to resoom her old position in the Government
nav. more. to take more than her old share II
the trouble Nv runnin the Government there
fore, belt.
Reso1psd, That we are forth the Yoonyun ez 1
wuZ.
Resolved, That the persistency Nv sectlona
Congress in continuin the unpleasantness wlct
/ hez to some extent disturbed our system nv Gov
ernment, in legislatin while eleven sovereign
States is unrepresented, is pizen.
Resolved, That we view with alarm the mani
fest determination nv Congress to centralize IL
themselves the law-making power Nv the Gov
ernment, and we pledge our supper, to our wor
thy Chief Magistrate, who is second Jaxon, II
his efforts to check their centralizin schemes by
t vetoin all they may do.
Reso1ved, That all traces Nv the late onpleasant
ness may be wiped out ez soon ez possible we oe
! mand NV Congress an appropriation Tor ploWll
over all the fields on wich the citizens NV the tW
sections who wuz indoost by their respective Gov
= ernments, so-called, to carry muskets, cum TO
gether, partickierly them on wich our Soutnerl
brethren got the worst Nv the disputes tnas en-
sood,