The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-26
From the Toledo Blads.1
Posr OrrlcR, CoxrEpRf K Ro4Ds
witch il in the Stait Of Kentucky,

I never knowd what psrfeck satisfa9tioa vsx
II II now. The first week wus married 70
my Looizer Jane il wus hevenly, ioe indie
pendent Nv the other classes incident to The
married state, believed that she wux the
aBdivided posseaser nv farm, or rethef her
father wus, wich on the old mans dscease
wood be hern, and the prospeck Nv . life>
time with amiable, wsll-built woman, with
. farm big enough TO support me, viii. pru>
dsnce on her part wuz bliss itself, and en-
joyed it with . degree nv muchnSss rarely
moro deeply with mortgages than it wuz ever
likely to be with crops, and my dreem nv
happiness busted. Sweet ez wuz this week,
it wus misery condensed when compared to
the sea son hev Just passed through
wux delegate to Philadelphia l vuzn't
elected nor nothing, and hedn't any creden-
tials, but the doorsnv the wigwamI passed
nevertheless. The door>keeper wuz . old
Dimokrat, and my breath helped me, my
nose, wich RELY blossoms like the lobster,
wuz NV yoose, but spect my hevin gray
coat on, with = stand up collar, with brass
star onto it, vuz vat finished the bi1nis. The
Southern delegates fought shy Nv me, but the
Northern ones, bless their souls, the minnit
coat, couldn't do enuf fur me. They id
dressed me ez Kernel and General, and sed
athis wuz trooly m unmerited HONOR and
paid for my drinks, and succeeded in bor-
rowing a hundred and twenty dollars Of en-
the first day. might hev doubled it, butt
fellows wuz took in so easy that no 6nanceer-
in wuz required, and it really wuz no amooze-
ment.
The Convenshun itself wul the most affect
in natherin ever witnist- he'd seat be-
side Randall, who wux managin the concern,
and Good see it all. The crowd rushed into
the bildin and filed it, when Randall desired
attenshun. He bein the Postmaster General
every one dropped into his seat as though he
he'd bin shot, and there wuz the most perfeck
quiet l ever saw. Doolttle who wuz the
cheerman, winked at Randall, and nodded
his head, when Randall announced that the
delegates from South Karliny and the dele
gates from Massachusetts, wood enter arm in
arm! With slow and measured step they
cum in. and ct signal from Randall the
cheerin commenst-and SIGH cheerin! Then
Doolittle pulled out out his white hankerchsr
and applied it to his eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment OF
my life, not that there wuz anything psrtik>
ilerly inspiriten in the scene afore me, for
there wuzzunt. Orr, from South Caroliny,
looked partikilerly ashamed Of hisself, ez tho
be wuz going thro . highly nessary but ex>
tremely disgustin ceremony, and wuz deter
mined to keep up stiff upper lip over IT,
and Couch looked MP to Orr ez though he
wuz afeerd NV him and ez though he felt fat
tered By Orr's condecension in walking at all
with such . umble individiooal. But to my
eyes the scene wuz significant. looked in
toe tn fucher and wat did see Ell them two
men, one sneekin and tother ashamed nv his
self, walked up that aisle? Wat did see !?
| saw the Demokrisy restored to its normal
condishun-I saw the reunion nv the two
wng-n fact saw the entire Dimokratic
bird reunited The North, one
wing and the weakest; Kentucky,
the beak, sharp, hungry and rapacious South
west, the strong active wing Firginny the
legs and claws; Ohio the heart Pepnsylva-
MIA the stomach; South Caroliny the tail
feathers, and Moo Jersey the balance Of The
bird. saw these parts, for FIVE years dissev.
cred, come together, hoIdn niger in one
claw and Post Offices in the othef, sayin,
flake EN- both together-they go in lots.
saw the old tinion-the bold, shivelrous
Southnef guidin, controllin and ldrectin
the machine, and assoomin to hisself the pla>
ces NV honor, and the Dimokrat NV the North
follerin like puppy dog at his heels, takin
SIGH fat things ez he Good snap up-the South
erner ashamed NV his associations but forced
to yoose em-the Northerner uncomfortable
in bis presence but tied to him by self-inter-
est. / saw comm back the good old times
when thirty four States met in consenshun
and let eleven rule EN-, aud ez | contem pla-
ted the scene | too wept, but il was in dead
earnest
swat are you blubborin for p aske en-
thoosiastic delegate in front Nv me who wuz
. swabbin his eyes with handkerchief.
"Im Postmaster" SEE /, land must do
my dooty in this crisis. Wa. are you shed.
din pearls for, retorted /. care you q Post
master p
| NO. sez he, ''but hope to be, = and be
swabbed away with renood vigger.
| "Wat's the matter with the eyes NV oil the
! delegates. sez /.
he, aud be worked away faster than ever.
While gettin . fresh Handkerchief fwich
borrered from the hind coat pocket w del
egate nesr me, and wich, by the ways in my
delirious JOY forgot to say anything 20 him
about it, J looked over the convenshsn, and
agen the tears welled up from my heart. Ny
sole was full and overAowin, and slopped
over at the eyes. There, before me. BET that
hero Dick Taylor and Cuth Bullits, and there
wuz the Nelson's and Yeadons and the repre-
sentatiyes nv the first families nv the South,
and in Philadelphia, at convention With all
the leadin democrats nv the North, cept VAL
l
around within call, with their watchf1l eyes
on the percedins. Here is prospeckl Here
is fatnis! The President into our confidence,
The Postmaster runnin the convention! The
banda playin Dixie and the Star Spangled
Banner alternitly, so that nobody Good com
plain nv partially, or tell RELY wich side the
convention wuz on, or wi3h side it he'd been
on in the past. All, my too susceptible sole
filled up agen, the tears started, but that vent
wuznt ennf. and fell faintin onto the fore
Twenty or thirty Northern delegates seed me
fallin, and ketchn site Nv the gray coat and
the brass star onto it, rushed 10 ketch me,
and they bore me ont of the wigwam; Sed
one, wat a techin scene, overpowered by his
feeliuc!' Yes. sed Anuther, he deserves
apintment.'
| didut go back to the Couvenshun COZ I
knowk it wont no yoose, and besides, after all
the teers that had been shed, the members
wringin their handkerchers onto the floor, it
wux sloppy underfoot. Cancellation AID ten
derness eushed ont Nv EN-. Iknowd il would
be all right-it couldn't be otherwise. There.
wuz bonds which held the members together
and prevented the possibility Nv trouble.
johnson hevin ambition to head sparty,
must hev party to head. The Northern
dclegashun, wich he'd formerly actid with the
Abilishinists, couldn't do nothin without the
Democracy North, and both on EN- combined
| couldn't do pothin without the Democracy
South. The President Good depend on the
Democracy North coz he holds the Offices
the Democracy North Good depend on the
President coz he must hev their votes the
President Good depend on the Democracy
South COZ they want him TO make fight agin
Abolishin Congris, wich is unconstitoosh
nelly keepn NV en- out and preventin EN-
from wollopin their niggers the Democracy
South Good depend on the President coz he
must hev their Representatives in their seats
to beat the Ablishinists in Congris-all Good
depend on all. each Good Deepen on the other,
coz each faction or ruther each stripe he'd its
little private axe to Crime wich it coodn't do
without the sther- to turn the grind stone.
The Southern delegates some on EN- wuzn't
so well pleased. "What in thunder" sed
one nv EN-, ibid they mean by pilin on the
agony over the Yanks We killed ?-bypledgin
on us to give up the ice Of seceshen, and by
rledgin on US TO pay the Nashnel Yankee
debtr'
s'Sh r sed I, easy over rough places. Ny
friend, they didn't mean it, or ef they did,
-. 1sdnff 7. . oath ~ hed IN kr~nk