The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1866-08-31
From he Toledo BLADE.
N A s BY,
Mr.. Nasty has q Pleasant Dream,
the Philadelphia Convention Be.
ing the Subject Thereof.
CoSFEDRIT X ROADS, (wicb is in the
Stait av Kentucky,) July 20, 1885.

sent-inceed they hey taken more the shap
NV hideous nitemares than eny thing else
Linken, Grant Sherman, and armies dress
ed in blue fgurln extensively therin. Bu
las mite he'd vision wich more than repni
me for all hev suffered heretofore. ha
bin in Mt the Corners assistin in naugurati
a new grocery. The proprietor wuz demor
allied Ablshnist who he'd sold likker ser
reptitiously in Maine amo"g them Abishin
lists, and consekently had no idea nv tn
quantity fnll grown Kentucky Democra
Good throw hisself outside NV His entire cap
ital with which he proposed to commenc
blzniz wuz one barrel NV new corn whisk,
and some other necessaries, and eZ q starte
to make the acquaintance nv his customers
he announced one free mite, and envited tn,
entire community. His invitation wuz con
sidered generous and we met in the sam,
sperit, in more noble spert, than the con.
fdin and ignorant man desired, in fact, fol
when we go: through, in about 38 minits
there wuzn'ta drop NV the whisky left, and
while the new grocery keeper wuz cussln his
self for IL fool. lie didn't open agn--he con.
soOmed his stock in trade in gIyin the blow
out to sekoor customers. His stock, like A.
Johncon's Unionism, didn't survive an inau-
gerashen.
succumbed in fence corner, and over
powered ez wuz, slept
! "a sweetly drcamin,
Dreamn the happy hours away
Methought wuz in Philadelphia and the 18th
NV August had arriy. There wuz a glorious
assemblage, ez Doolitte sed NV the brains
and hearts NV the country, and may add as
| nd nh hail a. Al
bowels likewise. The Convenshun wuz as
semblin. There wuzSrward present engineerin
Nv it. On one side NV him | nOtist in my
dream q shadOwy bein with wings draped in
white and wearln melancholy look, with
one hand layin on his shoulder u t.yin 10 take
him out Of the hall, while another bein with
wings like bat, he'd him by the nose and
wuz twistin Nv him jest ez he desired.
noIist that this last mentioned bein he'd hoofs,
which wuz split, and u tail which he wuz art-
ing in great glee. The bein with the tail and
hoOfs whispered suthn in Stewards ear
whereupon he moved that the eminent patri.
OF, ex-PresIdent Franklin Pearcc, be chair
man, upon which the shadowy bein IN white
uniolded her wings and flew away, castin ut
William the most sOrrowfu look ever saw.
the hoofed and tailed indiyidOol laughin tr.-
mendous. The ex. President took the chair,
and one Vice-President wuz appointed from
each State, cepting Vermont and Massachu-
sets. My buzzum swelled with emoshen ez
that list wuz read-it was more like an old
fashioned Democratic Convenshun than any
thing he'd heard for five long years. heard
the hOnored name of Toonbs and Rhett
Pryor and Lee, Slidell and Rosso, and DAN
bridge and Forrest-I heard the names of
Craven aud Pollard, Thomson and Forsytb
and felt like him NV old, "mins ewes hey
seen thy glory, now let thy servant depart in
peace. NOthin but the uncertainty that
wood at last hev that Post Offs A. tho
Corners kept me from goin up. Singler Ills
what slender ties holds US to earth
The Secretaries WAS appointed, and then
the Committees-tw on each from the Sonth
and one from the North-which wuz coucil.
lation--I wu1 put Oh the committee on cre-
denshals, Randall, the Postmaster.G eneral.
bein the Northern Representative We he'd
our hands full There wuz rush made on
us, SO many claiming seats, shat we locked
the doors for two hours to decide what sLood
be the proper qaliicauon for a place. Nj.
nally we agreed to admit ez delegates;
FROM rmE NoRTH-All D.mocrats who had
bin arrested by Linkins minyuns-all officers
who had resined rather than serve in A Ab-
lishin war, and all Republicans who Good
show commission ez Postmaster and sich.
and (this wuz considered necessary to guard
agiu impositioni who was willing TO take his
solemn oath that he wuz steaiiast believer
in every thing A Johnson had Gid sence Jnnoo- |
ary, '66 (ceptin some small items which wuz
specifed,l and all he wuz doin, md all he
mite do.
FRoM TnR SorTH-All who Good show Of |
fcer's commission in the late Confederit ar
my-all who he'd received pardon from A
Johnson, and all who he'd lost their niQpsrs
10 an unholy war, Wich inclooded all present. |
This decided on, the work wuz done. The J
delegates took their seats, and the great work |
Garret Davis wanted to make |
, speech, and hall wuz hired for him in an |
,ther part Of the city, and fifty or sixty Ger
nan emigrants, who coodnt understand A
word of English. hired At A shllin am bonr IN
,ct es audience. Five kegs OF lager beer, a
iooid which hey been told tiermans tie n
led been -olled in the hall, and most NV EN-
itayed seven hours and half.
10 the regler hall there wnz somminglin
which wuE edifyu. Doolittle wood make a
notion and Yallandigham wood second it.
Forest made speech and Randall endorsed