The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-13
From tho Louisville Courier.
Important Political Document.
A VoIcE FROM 'P0sSUN HOLLOW.
BY o. P. DELDoo.

| fault for once. l had calculated on gen
eral bust-up. / didn't believe much in
that copperhead report about Gov. Curtin
agoing to call out the melish, but did be-
liovc It would igsplode from SPONTANEOUS
combustion Tho very air was crackiin
with signs of hurrycane botoro IL met,
and I didn't believe even the ghost OF
BENJAMIN Franklin could save it from be-
ing struck by tho lightnin of discord.
About the time thought it was meetln
held a long and awful breath, usin rye
straw to help mo draw it, and bein ateard
of suckin in so much fresh air l stuck the
other cend Of the straw into somethin.
When the fust report come could skaso-
ly contane myself while I red it. When
| saw who was nominated as tempory
checrman my hair begun to stand on oend,
and as old mars said, my fawces got very
dry. remedid the latter in short order
by ticklin EN- with the rye straw, which
soon brought about q holtby secretion.
Bein one of the few who doesn't know
vet whether our brethren, who went
astray in the late war (of which am
ono) are altogether out of the woods yet,
am opposed to anything impudont, and
am constantly tellin' of our boys that II
they don't stop talkin' so much on the
street corners and stay at homo more,
thoy will be jerked up, or any way om-
barrass Andy in his great work Of recon
struction. When l saw, thon, that Con.
Dix had boon made tempory choormaan,
thinks to myself, tho fats in the fire
now, sure. The tone Of that Convention
! is agoin' to bo too Dixie, and instead OF
acting as poor mans plaster to his spl-.
nal oollum, its goin to fernish the oussed
Radicals with club to beat his brains
out, and then what'll became OF us poor
orphlinsl But when remembered the
distinguished services of Gen. Dix in i'm
prisonin' SO many copporhoads in Fort
| Lafayette, and read his patriotic speech
on takin' the cheor, my mind was set at
rest, and 1 took another long broathln'
1 spell through the straw.
When they got through the fust days
percedins without putin their foot IN IT.,
| 1 was then worked up to high pitch OF
excitement, for knew tho fust day was
only preliminary, and that if any good
work was done, it must begin on tho Sec
ond. Of course was concerned to soc
who would bo tho pirmanent cheerman,
and when I saw his name l was mon
strously afeerd the convention would do
yerv little, and again drew another long
breath, and think / should have tainted,
except that you know that the smell OF
| mint is powerful good for sick stomick.
But when I had sufficiently revived to
collect my scattered thoughts and remem-
hored that Mr. Doolittle had cut wide
| swathe in the Radical fold, that he had
4 in his time eulogized John Brown and
had bravely fought tho battles of his
country in his scat in the Senate, and
when I read his gollorious speech, in
which he put in some heavy licks tor tho
"wayward sisters" stiffened up conside-
rablo. Fortunately I was we'll fortifde,
or I should never havo gone through with
all that happened in that first openin' In
the wigwam Kin it bo true that Massa-
/ chusetts and South Caliny came in arm
| in arm? The buildin' must have looked
like genuine maison dor, South Caliny
notwithstandin her seedy and shittless
condition funishin the d'ors. l think in
| nv phansy sec Massachusetts, with his
spindle shanks, with Plymouth rock in
his bosom for a breast pin and Bunker
Hill monument for walking cane, takin
Miss Garry up to the altar of his country,
while tho blushin bride, her niggers all
set free and her rice fields cultivatin them
selves, keeps step to the music of Hail
| Columbial and forgots her burning
wrongs Verify, sho may be called q
grass widow, if We think of her ruined
cities and plantations and should have
been dressed in weeds Shade of john
| C. Calhoun! didn't you turn over in your
grave and hide your face when you saw
your mother goin to prostitute herself
| in that way2 Why, if the marridge had
to come off, wasn't Butler selected, and
then it would havo boon the old story Of
Beauty and the Beast? But s'pose he
did the liberal and furnished tho spoons
for the weddin'. And as it was mar
ridge, the old Bay State furnished her
best couch-hor general couch. Alack-a-
day Poor miss Carry, she couldn't help
it; she was in poverty and had to take
! the first offer. Other States are humbled.
It's no longer the House of Hapsburg,
but since Sadowa it's the House of Mis-
haps-burg. Lets drink her health
4 where's the rye straw? And though, as
| in the other case her dover may prove o.
/ Sad(d)o let's hope that with Miss Car
ry it may not prove miscarriage. Re.
| tire, blushing bride, in vincuIo mlatrinnonls {!
Pennsylvania, receive your guests Draw
| your curtin-there let them sleep. Cod
! fish and rico! Boston and Charleston !
| Beast Butler and Wade Hampton! Pu-
ritan and cavalier.i Jemima cracky
what weddin!!
| But hello who's that disturbin the
meetin. It's somebody calm for three
cheers for the Union, and darn my picturs