The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-09-11
Vasby Attends the Philadelphia
Convention
from the Toledo Bladc.l

from the Toledo Bladcl
Posr-OFFICE CoSFEDRIT Y ROADS (wich !
is in the Stait Nv Kentucky.
August IA, 1866.
Peace is onto me l hey spent many
happy periods in the course w eyentful
life, but | never knowd what perfeck salts
faction wuz till now. The first week | wuz
married to my Looizer Jane it wuz heyenly,
for Independent Nv the other blisses incl
dent to the married state | bleeved that
she wuz the undivided possessOr of farm,
or rather her father wuz, which on the old
mans decease would be hern, and the pros
peck of a lifetime with a amiabie, well
built woman, with farm big enough to
support me, with prudence on her part,
wuz bliss Itself and l enjoyed it with a
degree of muchuess rarely ekaled until |
found out that it wuz kiyered more deeply
with mortgages than it wuz ever likely TO
be with crops, and my dream Nv haPpines
busted. Sweet ez wuz this week it wuz
misery condensed when compared to the
season | hev Just passed through.
WIZ delegate to Philadelphia. l
wuzn't elected nor nothiu, and hedn't any
credentials, but the door Nv the Wigwam |
passed nevertheless. The doorkeeper wuz
a old Dimokrat and NY breath helped me,
my nose which reely blossoms like the
lobster, wuz Nv yoose, aud l spect my hevin
a gray coat on with a stand up collar with
a brass star onto it, wuz wat finished the
biznis. The Southern delegates fought
shy NV me, but the Northern oues; bless
their souls, the mint they saw the star on
the collar wv my great coat, couldn't do
enutf for me. They addressed me ez Ker-
mel and Gineral, and sed "this wuE trooy
an unmeritid honor" and paid my drinks,
and succeeded in borrowin hundred and
twenty dollars NV EN- on the first day, I
might hev doubled it, but the fellows wuz
I took in so easy that no financeerin wuz re-
quired and il RELY wuz no amoozment.
The Convenshun itself wuz the most af-
fectini>t gatherin | ever witnist. l he'd a
seat beside Randall, who wuz a managn
the concern. and | cood see it all. The
crowd rashed into the biIdin, and filed it,
when Randall desired attention. He bein
the Postmaster General, every one Of EN-
dropped into his seat ez though he he'd bin
shot, and there waz the most perfeck quiet
+ | ever saw. Doolttle, who wuz the Cheer
man. winked at Randall, and nodded his
head. when Randall announced that THE
DELEGATES FROM SOUTH KARLINY AND
The DELEGATES FROM MASSACHUSETTS
WOOD ENTER ARM IN ARM With a slow
and measured step they cum in, and at a
signal from Randall, the cheerin commenst
ana sich cheeriui Then DooIittIe pulled
out his white handkerchief and applied it
to his eyes, aud every delegate simultane-
ously pulled out a white handkerchief and
applied it to his eyes.
To me this wuz the pl0udest moment
Nv my life, not that there wuz anything
partikiIery inspirtin in the scene afore me,
for there wuzzent Orr, from South kar-
oliny, looked partjkierly ashamed Of his
self, ez though he WIZ going through a
highly nessary but extremely disgustin
. Ceremony, and wuz determined to keep a
stiff upper lip over it, and Couch looked
up TO Orr as though he wuz afeerd Nv him
and ez though he felt fiattered by On's
condescension in walhin at all with such
umbe indiyidjooal. But to my eyes the
scene wuz significant looked into the
fucher and whit did | see ez them two
men, one sneakin and tother ashamed Nv
hisselG walked up that aisle? Wat did !
see4 saw the Democrisv restored to its
material condishun-I saw the reunion Nv
the two wings-in fact J 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; Virginny, the legs
and claws; Ohio, the heart; Pennsylvania
the stomach; South Caroliny, the tail feath
ers, and Noo-Jersey, the balance Nv the
bird. saw these parts for five years dis
severed come together holdin niger in
one claw and post-ofices in the other, sain,
Take EN- both together-they 90 in lots >
! saw the old UGion-the bold, shivelrous
Soutkerner & guidin, controlling and di-
rectin the machine, and assomin to hIsself
the places w honor, and the Dimokrat uy
the North follerin like a puppy dog at his
heels; taking sich fat things ez he Good
snap up--the Southemer ashamed Nv his
associations but forced to yoose 'em-the
Northerner uncomfortable in his presence
but tied to him by self interest saw a
comm back the good old times when 81