The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-09-13
Nasty at the Philadelphia r4fh
Of August Convention.
PosT-oFFJs CoNFEDRIr X ROADS, \
which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,
August Ia 1860

happy periods in the course NV a eventful |
lite, but never knowd what perfeck sat |
lstactlon wuz till now. The first week | !
wuz married to my Looizer Jane it wuz
hevenly, fur Independent Nv the other
blisses Incident to the married stait, | be- |
leaved she wuz the undivided possessor Nv
farm, or rather her father wuz, wich on
the old mans decease would be hern, and
the prospek Nv lifetime with amiable
well-built woman, with "a farm BIG en- ough
to support me, with prudence on her part,
wuz bliss itself, and | enjoyed it with
degree of muchness rarely ekaled, until
found out the farm wuz kivered more deeply
with mortgages than it wuz ever likely to ne
with crops, and nay dream NV happiness
busted. Sweet es wuz this week, it wuz
misery condensed when compared to the
season L hev just passed through.
wuz a delegate to Philadelphia
wuzn't elected or nothin, and hedn't any
credentials, but the door NV the wicwam
[ passed nevertheless. The door-k keeper
wuz old Dimokrat, and my breath help
ed me, my nose, which RELY blossoms like
the lobster, wuz Nv yoose, but I spect my
hevin gray coat on, with a stand-up col
lar, with brass star onto it, wuz wat
finished the biznis. The Southern dele
gates fought shy Nv me, but the Northern
ones, bless their souls, the minnit they
saw the star on the collar Nv my gray
coat, couldn't do enuff for me. They ad-
| dressed me as Kernal and Gineral, and
sed, 'sthis wuz trooly unmerited honor"
and paid for my drinks, aud I succeeded
in borrowing hundred and twenty dol
lars Of EN- the first day. [ mits hev
| doubled it, but the fellows wuz took in 50
| easy that no fnanceerin wuz required, and
| t really wuz no amoozment.
The convenshun itself wuz the most
affectinist gatherIn ] ever wiCnist ] had
seat beside Randall, who wuz a managin
! the concern, and [ Good see it ALL The
| crowd rushed into the bildin and filled it,
! when Randall desired attention. He bein
| the Postmaster Giural, every one of EN-
| dropped into his seat ez though he he'd
| bin shot, and there wuz the most perfecb
! quiet ever saw. Doo!ittIe, who wuz the
| Cheerman, w;nked at Randall, and nodded
! his head, when Randall announced that
! the delegates from South Karlny and the
| delegates from Massachusetts, wood enter
arm In arm With slow and measured
| step they cum In, and at signal from
| Randall, the cheeriu commenst, and sich
cheerin ! Then Doolitlle pulled out his
white Handkerchief aud applied it to his
| eyes, and every delegate simultaneously
pulled out white Handkerchief, and ap-
piled it TO his eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment
Nv my life, not that there wuz anything
partikilerly inspiritin in the scene afore
me, for there wuzzent. Orr, from South
Karoliny, looked partikerly ashamed of
hisself, ez though be wuz going through
highly nessary but extremely disgustin
| sermOny, and wuz determined to keep up
stiff upper lip over it, and Couch looked
up to Orr ez tho he wuz afeerd Nv him
and ez though he felt fattereG by Orr's
condecension in walkin at all with sich
humble individjooal. But to my eyes the
| scene wuz significant. l looked into the
| fucher and what did [ see ez them two
men, one sneekin and tother ashamed Nv
hisself, walked up that aisle What did
[ see l saw the Democrisy restored to
| it's normal condlshun-L saw the reunion
| Nv the two wings-in fact, saw the en-
tire Dimokratic bird reunited The North,
one wing and the weakest Kentucky, the
beak, sharp, hungry and rapacious
South west, the strong, active wing; Vir-
ginny, the legs and claws Ohio, the heart;
P-nnsy lvania, the stomach South Caro-
lina, the tail feathers, and Moo Jersey The
balance Of the bird. [ saw these parts,
for FIVE years discovered, come together,
holdin nigger in one claw and post Off
ses in the other, sayin, "Take EN- both
together, they go in lots" [ saw tie old
Union-the bolG, shivalrous SoutherEer
guidin, controllin and directin the ma
chine, and assuming to hisself the places
Nv honor, and the Dimokrat Of the North
follerin like a puppy dog at his heels,
takin sich tat things ez he could snap up
the Southerner ashamed of his assoca-
tons, but forced to yoose em-the North
erner unc 0mfortable in his presence, but
tied to him by self-interest. [ saw a
comin back the good cd times when
thirty Our States met in convenshun and
let eleven rule EN-, aud ez | contemplated
the scene too wept, but it wuz in dead
earnest.
"Wat are you blubberin for ?" asked
enthoosiastic delegate in front Nv me, who
was swabbin his eyes with haudker-
cher.
81 m postmaster" sez I, "and must
do my dooty in this crisis. Wat are you
shed6in pearls for ?" retorted 1. "Are |
you postmaster z"
"No,'' said he, "but hope to be !" and |
he swabbed away with renewed vigor.
"Wat's the matter with the eyes Nv all |
the delegates 2" sez [.
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