The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-09

49, An1Au Convention
Aqpl tksI I4b1ela Blade.
PosT-O ORFIs, CoNFEDERATR x ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait nv Kentucky. II !
~ 80 90 4,. September %, l868lb
Iwuz sent fur to come to Wastfnf,-
ton from my comfortable quarters at
the Post iOrfs, to attend the conven-
shun of slchs soldiers, and sailors nv
the United States ezibe4ieVed IN Onion
l,ot, So States, and who have sworn allie.
1iase to q flag with SO stars ont0,iit, at
Cleveland. My este9med and 9lffe-lonu
friend and co-laborer, Rev Z Henry
ward echer, llWuzI to hev bin the
chaplin nv the conYenshun, Ibutp he
Jailed psf and 1T WIZ decided in a Cabi-
net meeting that 'sho hoHld takethi place
4 d1dnitsee the ne6essityquvi hevinI a
chaplin ateevery little cohvefishun of
our party, and so stated, but, Seward
Eemarked,i With, 9 gfoan, that it ever
there AVnz q party since parties wuz in
vented, which needed pEayin9 for, ours
Wn2 that party" and Parsoni.'' sed he.
glancing at a list NV delegates, eff you
hey.s9yagonizfng Petitio4st eny pray
these M tsere ehsF fs sn% ns@ ePpasg sP 1oF
in prayer, its my. honest, unbiased
opinion that there never was in the
history Of the world, nor never will, be
agtnt SIGH q magnih6 h6ent chance to make
1t manifest. Try yoorself particularly
IiSAAL AAASSgA7E-bAu .AlLSIs GQQLl0s
I5yoodiheyt i'm musinj distracted sort nv
way, which he's fallen into lately!
the fellow is sich a triflin bein that he
RELY Kin hafdly' be- held 'isb6nsi ible for
what he Is doin, and the balance Nv
empgoo9lhe eSens5 they 'rnmQ " dEpH to
It oy hunger"-and the Secretary
Emaundered onIsuthi6 about ttt6O- -days3 J,
and 80 days." payin no more atten-
l;tton to the rest NY us than ez efgWe
Huztst there ut all 5ail!ilAf ,lsIl6ii lAoI4 I
isoreceeYin transp tas hen, and SUM
shenti: money from the secret service
iund Tor expenses, departed for OleVe4
land and after teius trip thro' an
Ablishn country arrived there, NV
thots were gloomy beyond expression.
he'd recently gone through this same
country ez chaplin to the Presidential
tour, and every stashen he'd its pecoo-
liar unpleasant remembrance. Here
Wuz where the cheers for Grant were
yociferous, with nary snort for His
Eggslency-there wuz where the peas
antry laft in his face when he went thru
with the reglar ritooal NV presentin the
constitushun and the flag with SO stars
onto it, to a deestrick assessor-ther
wuz-but why recount my sufferins?
Why harrow up the public bosom or
lacerate the public mind2 Suffice to
say endoored it-suffice to say that I
he'd strength left to ride up Bank street
in Cleveland, the seen NV the most aw-
fult insult the Eggsecutive ever re-
ceIved.
The evenin I arrived the delegates.
sich ez wuz on hand, held informal
meetin to arrange matters so ez they
would work smooth when the crowd
finally got together. General Wool wuz
ez gay and frisky ez though he RELY
bbelpnged4 to the last generRshpn; there
twas GusteRnXi N ichigan, with hisshRir
Freshly oiled and c1rfed, and b1ssIfn
about ez though he had cheeted hisself
into the beleef that he ree1y amounted
to suthin, and there wuz seventy-eight
other men who he'd disting ngdished them
selves in the late war, but who had
never got their deserts, eeptin by bIeyeti
OWN to the. fact that the Administers
shuntwas Ablishuni which they wuznt.
They were, in "a peknnlary pint nv
Il view, suthin the worse fof Wear, tho
why that should, been the case coodent
see, (they hevin bin, to an alarmin ex-
tent, quartermasters and commissaries
and in the1 ecrootin service), till notist
the pervalin color NV their, Roses and
heerd one NV them ask his neighbor et
Cleveland wuz blest with faro bank
Then knowd all about it.
There wuz nother pek oliafity about
it wich for a time amoozed me. Them
ez wuz present wuz divided into 2 class
es-those ez he'd bin recently appinted
Ito ppsishens, and them Ell expected To
be shortly I notist on the 3codntenan-
ces Nv the first class a look NV releef
sich ez hev seen in factories Saturday
might, after the hands wuz paid or for
a hard week Is work and son the other
class the most wolfish, hungry, fierce
expression 1 hev ever witnessed. Like
wise, notist that the latterset NV pa.
triots talked more -hefty NV the necessi-
ty Nv sustainin the policy NV our firm
[ and noble President, and damned the
AbolishuniStS with more emphasfs and
t1raV1 rNF1r
One enthusiastic individual, who
he'd bin quartermaster 'twotyears, and
he'd bin allowed to resign t.jest after the
battle, mother, F" wich, hevin his papers
destroyed, made settlin with the Gov.
ernment easy matter, wuz so feroshus
j "Gently, my friend" sed /, "gently
hev bin thro' this thing-I hev my
commission. It broke out on me jes
ez II hez on 700, but yoo won't git yool
Assessorship a mint sooner for it,
ut amt a Assessorship / want" Sc;
ne. heV devoted myself to the tasl
! NV bindin up the wounds NV my beloved
country"
"Did you stop anybody very mucl
from minhinctin them sed wOunds?" mur
! INJURED L.
? An eff l accept the Post oms in m,
. native village wich hev bin solissiteC
so strongly to take that hev finally
! yielded, do it only that 1 may devotl
my few remaintn energies wholly to th
great cause by restorin the 36 States t,
their normal posishens onto the flaI
with the SO stars onto it, in spite of tht
Judis Iskariots wich, eff 1 am whom
wat is the Savior and where is" co
. PerseeYtn that the unfortunate maj
had gotinto the middle NV quotasheI
: from aApeech NV our noble and patrfo
tic President, and KNOWN his intellel
: wusn't hefty enough to git it off jist a
8 It was originally delivered, I took hin
his elokence. 4N
2 "Be squiet, yoo idiot" remarked
soothtpBly to him, ''yousl git your ap
n pointment becoz for the. first time in th
history NV this or any other Republic
T there's market for jist4ich men as voc
but iall-this blather won't fetch 1t
! mint sopner." 49, 10
Il "Good Lord ~ thot II ez tnrne
away, twat President A. j. is, to he
to buy mp sieh cattIelsTW a.Posl
II masteF hAmust be whose ginefal Gus
sedness turns mg gstunimfeklp =
I'll nsWu2Tdeemed necessary to- see u
y y what We wHz eomposed, whefaupol
Kernel who IS now Cofiecto
nv Revenue in Hlinoy, asked ef ther
l- wuz anydnRn in the room who had bil
a a prizhet doorin the4late fratricidl
!. struggles A gentlemanf of perhap
2 thirty Rroze andsaid he. wuz. dFe ha
r bin taken three times, and wazs alto
y gether. 1S months in d6ofance vile il
: three diderent prizns. 80, X
Custer fell on his neck and asked him
agitatia4y,, ef he wuz sshoor1ouit
, shoor, sdiferin all thAt, that he sur
. ported the policy uvi.the President
Are you quite shoor 2-qniteshoof3