Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29
Nasty.
MT. Nasty Attends the Philadelphia
Convention.
Posr OFFS, CoNFEDRIr X ROADS,
(which is in the Staff Wv Kentucky
August IS, 1866. J

August Is, 1866.
Peace is into mel 1 hev spent many
happy periods in the course NV q eventful
life, but I never knowd what perfeck sat
isfaction wuz till now. The first week l
wuz married to my Looizer Jane It wuz
hevenly, for independent Nv the otner
blisses incident to the married state, l De-
leeyed that she wuz the undivided pos
SCISSOR Nv q farm, or ruther her father Wuz,
witch on the old mans decease would be
hern, and the prospeck Nv a lifetime with
q amiable woman, With a farm big enough
to support me, with prudence on her part
wuz bliss itself, and 1 enjoyed it with s
degree Nv muchness rarely ekaled, until L
found that it wuz kivered more deeply
with mortgages than it wuz ever likely to
be with crops, and my dream Nv happl-
ness busted. Sweet ez wuz this week, 1t
wuz misery condensed when compared TO
the season I hey just passed through
1 waz q delegate to Philadelphia L
wuznit elected nor nothin, and hedn't any
credentials, but the door NV the wigwam
I passed nevertheless. The door-keeper
wuz- a old Dimokrat and my breath help
ed me, my nose, which freely blossoms
like the lobster, wuz Nv yoose, but 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 dele
gates fought shy Nv me, but the northern
ones. bless their souls, the mint they saw
the star on the collar Nv my gray coat
couldn't do enuff for me. They addressed
me as Kernel and Gineral, and sed "this
was trooly an unmeritted honor and
paid for my drinks, and 1 succeeded in
borrowin a hundred and twenty dollars
Nv EN- the first day. / mite hev doubled
it, but the fellows wuz took in so easy
that no fnaneeerin was required, and 1t
wuz really no amoozment-
The Convenshun itself was the most af-
| fectionate gatherin l ever witnist. l he'd
a seat beside Randall who was a managin
the concern, and Good see If all. The
crowd rushed into the bildin and filed IT,
| when Randall desired attention. He bein
the Postmaster General every n Of an
dropped into his seat ez though he had
| been shot, and there wuz the most perfeck
quiet 1 ever saw. Dotlittle, who wuz the
| Uheerman, winked at Randall, and nod
| ded his head, when Randall announced
that the Delegates from South Kdrttay and
| Massachusetts, a0oOd enter the C~Onrs1tiOn
arm in arnl With a slow and measured
| step, they cum in, and at q signal from
| Randall, the eheerin eommenst, and SIGH
| chee-inl Then Doolittle pulled out his
white handkerchief and applied it to his
| eyes, and every delegate simultaneously
pulled out a white handkerchief and APP
piled it to his eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment
NV my life, not that there wuz anything
| pertickerly inspiritin in the scenes afore
me, for there Wuzzent. Orr, from South
Carolina, looked partikerly ashamed of
hisself, ez though he wuz going through a
| highly necessary but extremely disgustin
ceremony, and wuz determined to keep up
a stiff upper lip over If, and Couch looked
to Orr as though he wuz Altered Nv him
and ez though he felt fiattered by Orrs
| condescansion in walkin at ali with SIGH a
umble individiooal. But to my eyes the
scene wuz significant. l looked into the
fucher and what did / see ez them two
men, one sneeking, and tother ashamed OF
hisself, walked up that aisle? What did
l see? 1 saw the Democrisy restored to
its normal condishun[I saw the reunion
NV the two wings-in fact l saw the
entire Dimokratic bird reunited. The
North, n wing and the weakest
Kentucky, the beak, sharp, hun
CRY and ~rapacious Southwest the strong,
active wing; Virginny, the legs and
claws; Ohio, the heart Pennsylvania,
the stomach; South Caroliny, the tail
feathers, and Moo Jersey the balance Of
the bird. / saw these parts, for five years
discovered, come together, holdin Niger
in one claw and Post Offices in the other,
sayin-"Take EN- both together-they &C
in lots-n 1 saw the old Union-the bold
chivelrous ~Southerner a guidIn, controIlin
and directing the mashine, and assumin tc
hisself the places NV honor, and the Dino
KRAFT Nv the North follerin like a puppy
dog at his heels, takin such fat things a:
he could snap up-the Seuthner ashamed
NV his associations, but forced to yoost
them-the Northerner uncomfortable il
his presence, but tied to him by self-inter'
est. l saw a comm back the good ole
times when thirty-four States met in con
venshun and let eleven rule EN-, and ez
contemplated the scene l too wept but il
WIZ in dead earnest.
Wat are you bluberin for?" asked s
enthusiastic delegate in front Nv me who
wuz a swabbin his eyes with a banker
cher,
"Tm Postmaster" SEE 1, "and mus
do my dooty in this crisis. Wat are you
sheddin pearls for retorted L. Are
you a Postmaster"
HNo," SEE he, shut I hope to ber' and
he swabbed away with renood vigger.
WAITS the matter with the eyes Nv all
the delegates" SEE L.
They've all got Post Ofises in EN-, .
SEE he, and he worked away faster thar
ever
While gettin a fresh Handkerchief, (wict
1 borrered from the hind coat pocket NV
delegate near me, and witch, by the way
in my delirious joy,I forgot to say anythi1
to him about it. 1 looked over the Con.
venshen, and agin the teers welled NJ
from my heart. My sole wuz fnll and
overfowin, and 1 stopped over at the eyes
There, before me, sat that hero Dick Tay.
lor and Cuth Bullitt and there wuz the
Nelson's and Yeadons and the representa-.
tives NV the first families Nv the South
and in Philadelphia at a Convention, witt
all the leadin Democrats Nv the North
ceptin Vallsndigham and Wood, and they
wuz skulkin around within call, with theil
watehfnl eyes on the p~erceedins. Here il
a prospeckl Here is faiths The Presi
dent into u c~onidencel The Postmas.
ter General runnin the Convention The
bands a playin Dixie and the Star Span.
glad Banner a%lternitly, so that no body
Good complain Nv parciality, or tell REILLY
witch side the Convention wuz on, or wici
side it had been on in the part. All my
too susceptible sole filed up agin, the teeri
started, but that vent wuznt enuf, and
fell faintin onto the floor. Twenty O
thirty Northern delegates seed me fallin
and ketchin site Nv the gray coat with tn,
brass star onto it, rushed to keteh me ant
they bore me out Nv the wigwam. SCI
one: swat a techin scene; overpowere,
by MS feelins ~ "Yes,r sed another, ali
deserves q apartment !"
didn't 60 back 20 the Convenshen co,
Iknowd it wont no yoose, and besides
after all the tears that had been shed, tn
members wringing their handkerchers ont
the floor, it wuz SLOPPY under foot. Con
Citation and tenderness gushed out of en-
l knowd it would be all right couldn'
be otherwise. There Wuz bands witch hel,
the members together and prevented tn
possibility of trouble. johnson kavin a
ambition to head a party, must hev a part
to head. The Norther delegashun, vic
he'd formerly actid with the Ablisnist,
couldn't do nothing without the Democ
. racy North, and both on en- combine
couldn't do nothin without the Democrat
, South. The President Good depend O
the Democracy North coz he hold
f the, Offices. the Democracy Mort