The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-30
From the Toledo Bldtle.
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Attends the Philadelphia
Convention.
PosT OFFS CONFEDRIT Y ROADS, !
(Which is i'll the Stait nv kentucky,


Convention.
PoST OFFS CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
(Which is i'll the Stait NV Kentucky,
August IA, 1866.
Peace is into me! hev spent many
happy periods i'll the course NV n event.
full life, but never knOwd what perfeck
satisfaction wuZ till now. The first
week I wuz married to my LooiZer
Jane it wuZ hevenly, for independent
NV the other bliSseS incident to the mar
ried state | believed that she wuZ the
undivided possessor NV II farm, or ruth
er her father WIZ, wich on the old
mans decease wood be hern, and tho
prospek NV lifetime with u amiable
we'll built woman, with farm big
enough to support me, with prudence
on her part, wuz bliss itself, and I en-
jOyed it with IL degree NY muchness
rarely ekaled, until found out that it
wuZ kivered more deeply with mort
cages than it wuZ ever likely to be with
crops, and my dream NV happiness
busted. Sweet eZ wuZ this week, it
was misery condensed when compared
to the season hev jest pissed through.
wuZa delegate to Philadelphia!
Wu2n't elected nor nothin, and hedn't
any credentials, but the door NV the
wigwam passed nevertheless. The
dOor-keeper wIIZ n old Dimokrat, and
my breath helped me, my nose, wich
'
yoose, but l spect my hevin II gray coat
on, with II stand up collar, with brass
star onto 1t, wuZ wat finished the biZnis.
The Southern delegates 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
enutftor me. They addressed me ez
Kernel and Gineral, and suid "this wuz
trOOly an unmeritcd honor" and paid
for my drinks, and succeeded in bOr-
rowing hundred and twenty-five dol
lars OF EN- the first day. l might hev
doubled it, but the fellows wuZ took in
so easy that no tinancccrin wuz re-
qulred, and it really wuZ no amooz-
ment.
The Convention itself wuZ the most
atlectinist gatherin l ever witnist. /
he'd seat beside Randall who wuz IL
nlanaEin the concern, and / Good see il
all. The crowd rushed into the bildin
and filled it, when Randall desired at
tentiOn. He bein the Postmaster Gcn-
eral every l of EN- dropped into his seat
eZ though lie had been shot, and there
wuZ the most perfeck quiet 1 ever saw.
DOolittle who wuZ the Cheerman, wink
cd at Randall, and nodded his head,
when Randall announced that the dele
gates from South Knrliny and the dele
gates from Massachusetts wood enter
arm in arm With n slow and mea-
sured step they cum in, and mt signal
from Randall, the Cheerin commenst,
and sich cheerin! Then Doolittle pull
ed out his white handkerchief and APP
piled it to his eyes, and every delegate
simultaneously pulled out n white
handkerchief and applied it to his eyes.
To rue this wuZ the proudest moment
NV my life, not that there wuZ any
thing Partikilerly inspirin in the scene
1fore me, for there wuzzent. Orr, from
South karliny, looked particularly
assumed NV hisself, eZ though he wuZ
goin thro highly necessary but extre-
mely disgustin ceremony, and wuz de-
termined to keep up n stiff upper lin over
it, and Couch looked up to Orr eZ
though he wuz afeerd NV him and as
though he felt hattered by Orr's cOnde-
censlOn in wHlkin ut nll with SiCh an
umble individjoOal. But to my eyes
the scene was significant. l looked in
to the fucher and wat did see eZ them
two men, one sneekin and tother nshams
ed of hisSelf, walk up that aisle? What
did see? | saw the DemOcrisy restored
to its mOril cOndishun-I saw the re-
union NV the two wingS--in fact l saw
the entire Dimocratic bird reunited.
The North, one wing and tho weak
est; Kentucky the beak, sharp, hungry
and rapNCiOus; Southwest, the strong
active wing; Virginny the legs and
claws; Ohio the heart, Pennsylvania
the stomach, South Carolina tho tail
feathers and Moo Jersey the balance of
the bird. l saw these parts, for five
years discovered, come together, holdin
nigger in one claw and PostoiIises in
the other, sayin, Take en- both togeth-
er-they go i'll lots" ] saw the old
UniOn-the bold, shivelrOus Sothner Il
guidin, cOntrollin and directin the ma
chine, and assOOmin to hlsself the place
NV honor, and the Dimokrat NV the
North folierin like puppy dog at his
heels, taking sich fat things eZ he Good
snap up-the SOuthner ashamed NV
his association but forced to yOOSe em
the Mortimer uncomfortable in his
presence but tied to him by Self-inter-
est. saw comm back the good old
times when thirty-fOur States met in
convcnshun and let eleven rule en-, and
ez contemplated the scene too went.
but it wuZ in dead earnest.
"Wat are you blubberin for ?" asked
enthusiastic delegate in front NV me
who wuz swabhin his eyes with n
handkerchief.
"Im Il Postmaster" sez l, "and must
do my dOOty in this crisis. Wature you
sheddin pearls for" retOrted l, "aroyou
n Postmaster"
mo-" sez he, "but hope to bc!'' and
he swabbed away with rcnood Vigger.
"Wat's the matter with the ewes NV
all the delegates?" sez I.
"They'vo all got POstOnisses in en-"
says he, and he worked away faster
than over.
While getten a fresh Handkerchief,
(wich 1 borrered from the hind coat
pocket Nv II delegate near me, and wlch,
by tho way, i'll my delirious joy, for
got to say anyIhin to him about it,
looked over the ConVenshen, and again
the tears welled up from my heart. My
sole wuz full and overfowin, and I
stopped over Mt the eyes. There, before
me, sat that hero, Dick TaVlOr and Cnth
Bullitt, and there wuz tho Nelson's and
Seadons and the representatives OF The
first families NV the South, and i'll Phil
adelphia ut n Convention, with all the
leadin Democrats of the North,
ceptin Nallandigham and Wood, and
they wuz skulkin around within
call, with their watchful eyes on
peck! Here is tntnis! The Pres
ident into our confidence! The Post
muster IL runnin the Convention! The
bands playn Dixie and the Star
Spangled Banner altcrnitly, so that no
body Good complain NV pnrtiallity, or
tell RELY wich side the Convention wuZ
on, or wiCh side it had been on i'll the
past. All my too susceptible sole filled
up agin, the teers started, but that vent
wuZnt enuff, and fell faintin onto the
floor. Twenty or thirty Northern dele
gates seed me fullin, and ketchin site
NV the grny coat with the brass star onto
it, rushed to ketch me and they bore me
outuv the wigwam. Sed one: "Wat IL
techin scene overpowered by his feel
ins!" EYES," sed another, "he deserves
n apintment"
l didn't go back to the Convention
coz I knowd ii wasn't no yoose, and be-
sides, after all the teers that had been
shed, the members wringing their
hnnkerchers onto the floor, it 'wuz