Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-09-21
Miscellaneous.
Massey.
Mr.. HASBY ATTENDS THE COPPER
JOHNSON CONVENTION.
Post OTIS, Coafe4rit Y Roqds,
witch is in the Stait uy Ky.D

Post OTIS, LOafe3rit Y H0ads
witch Is in the Stait Nv Ky.1
AUG a. 1866.
Peace is into me hev spent many h.p-
by periods IN the C urse NV a eventful life,
but never knowd what potleck satisfaction
wuz uil now. The FIRST week | wuz morred
TO my Looizsr Jane DC WIZ hevenly, for indie
pendent the other blisse. incident too the
married state bleeyed that she wuz the un
divided possessOr uv farm, or ruther her
father wuz, witch on the old mans decease
wood be hern, and the prospeck NV lile-tme
with siraiable, weli-bullt woman, with a
farm big enough to supper M. with prudence
on her part, wuz bliss itself, and eli Iyed i5
with a degree Of muchnc-s rarely ekAlsd, uu
I'll found out that il wuz kivered more deep
ly with mortgages than 10 vuz ever likely o.
be with crops, and my dreem NV happne-.
busted. Sweet % wuz this week, IL WIZ
misery condensed when compared to The sea
son | hev Jest passed through.
VIZ delegate 20 Philadelphia Iwuzn
elected nor nothin and tedn' any credentials.
but the door nv the wigwam | passed never
theless. The doer-kecper Wuz a old Dino
KRAFT, and my breath helped me, my nose.
witch RELY blossoms Ike the lobster, Wuz a.,
yoose, but spect my heviu gray Goa. On.
with stand up collar, with brass star onto
it, wuz wat finished the bznis. The South
ern delegates fought shy NV me, but the Nor
thern ones bless their souls, the minnit they
taw the star on the collar Nv my gray coat.
couldn't do enuf for me. They addressed
me ez Kernel and Gineral, and sed " this wuz
trooly an unmeritid honor" and paid for ms
drinks and succeeded in borrowrn hun
dred ard twenty dollars Of en- them first day.
mite hev doubled it. but the fellows wuz
red, and it really wuz no amuozment.
The Convention itself wuz the most affect
mist gatherin ever witnist. he'd set be-
side Randall who wuz a manapin the concern.
and | Good see il all. The crowd ru. he'd
into the hildin and filed IT. when Randall
desired attention. He bein the Postmaster
General every one of EN- droup.d into his
eeat eg though he he'd bin SHOT. and there
WIZ the most petfeck Quiet everesw boo
little. VINO wuz the CbsetmAn. wiuked al
Randall and nodded his head. when Randall
announced that the deleoltes from SotrL K9r-
linz, and The deleoofes frgD lios,a,hoosits uood
enter arm IN oyn. Win a slow and meas
ured stem they Gun, in and at A signal from
Randall. the cneerin commenst and SIGH
cheerin Then Doolittle pulled our sis white
hspketcher and applied 1t to mis- ewes. and
every delegate simultaneously pulled out
white Handkerchief and applied il to his ewes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment NV
my life, not that there wuz any thing partiki
lerly inspititin in the scene nfore me for
there wuzzent. Orr, from South Caruiin,,
looked paruckilerly ashamed of hisseif. a
though he wuz going thro biuhly pessar,
but extremely disgustin ceremony. and WIZ
determined to keep up s,if upper lip over
it, and Couch looked up to Orr ~ though he
wuz Altered NV him and ez though he felt
fat,ered by Orr's condecension in wak;n al
oil with sich umble indivioiooal But /,
my eyes the scene wuz significant. locke,
into the fucher and wat did | see ez them two
men. one snet kin and tother ashamed NV his
self. walked up that eislei Wat dad see
saw the Democrisy restored to It's norma
condishun-I saw the reunion NV the tw,
wings-in fact saw the entire Dimokrau
bird reunited. The North, one wing an,
the weakest; Kentucky the beak, sharp, hun
CRY, and rapacious Southwest, the stronI
active wing Virginny the legs aud claws
Ohio the heart, Pennsyk ihs stomach
South Carolny the tail .eis, and No
Jersey the balance of tire bad. saw thee
parts, for FIVE years discovered, come togeth
er, holdin niger in one claw and Post q fR.e
in the other, sayin Take EN- both togethe
they 20 in lots" law the old Union
the bold, shivelrous Southner guidin, con
rollu and directin the machine. and assoc
min to hissef the places NV honor. aud Il
Dmocrats Nv the North folerin like a num-
dog at the heels, takin SIGH fat things ez h
Good SNAP up-the soutbner ashamed NV nj
associations but forced to yoose em-th
Northerner uncomfortable in his presene
but tied to him by self.ipterest saw
comm back the good old times when thirty
four States met in eonvenshun and let eleye
rule EN-, and ez | CONTEMPLATED the seene
too went. but il wuz in dead earnest
swat are Won blubberin for ;" asked
enthusiastic delegate in front NV me VIII
wuz swabbin his eyes with hankerober.
"Pm Postmaster" seq !, land must d
my dooty in this crisis. Wat Are you shedi