Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-08-31
Petroleum =. Nasty at the Philadelphia
Convention.
From the Toledo Blade. /


Is in the Siait Of Kentucky,) Aug. Il, 1866.
Peace IS into me hev spent many happy
periods in the course Nv eyentful life, but
never krcwl what perfeck satisfaction wuE till
now The first week WIS married TO my Loo
izer Jane. it wuz heyenly, for independent Nv
the other blisses incident 10 the married state, /
b'eeyei that she wuz the undivided possessor NV
a farm. OF rather he father Wuz, which on the
old man deceAse would be hern. and the pr Os-
peck uy lifetime with a amiahle, well built NO
man, with a farm big enough to support with
prudence on her part, wuz bliss itself, and en-
i1yel u with degree NV muchness rarely ekal-
81 until found out that il wuz kiyered more
deeply with mortgages than it Tuz ever likely to
he with crops, and my dream " happiness bus
ted Sweet q wuz this week it Wuz misery con-
densel when compare! to the season hev jest
Vassel through.
wuz delegate to Philadelphia wuzn't
elected nor uothin, and hadn't any credentials,
but the door Nv the wigwam passed neyertha-
less The dolrkeeper wuz a old Dimokrat, and
M breath helped ne, my nose, which rely BIOS
sons Ike the lobster, WIZ NV yocse, but spect
nay heyln gray coat on WITH a stand up collar,
with g. brass star onto IL wuz vat finished the
b:zuis The Southern delegates fought shy Nv
lie. but the Northern ones. bless their souls, the
mint they saw the star on the collar uy my gray
4 coat, couldn't 10 enuf r me. They dressed
me e. Kernel and Gineral. AMI sci, "this wuZ
trcoly Az Unmeutii honor, and paid my drinks
and / succeeded in b0r0Win a hundred and TWEEN
ty dollars Of em the frs. day. l mite hey d0ub-
lei Il, but the fellows wuz took iu so easy. that
no fnanceeriu Wuz required. aui !, RELY wuz no
amcozment.
/ The Couyeashuu itself WIZ the most aiiectiu-
let gstherin I ever wituist ! he'd a seat beside
/ Rainfall who wuz a mauagin the concern, and
Good see il all The crowd rushed into the bill
I jim AMI filled 1t, when Randall desired attention
/ he hein tie Postmaster General. every one Of
/ EN- dropped into his seat e though he hei BIN
/ shot. ana there wuz the most perteck quiet
/ ever saw. Doolittle, who wuZ the chcerman,
Wiukei 81 RAINFALL, aul nodded his head, when
Randall announced that THE DELEGATES FROM
/ SoUm kAELINy AND TIE DELEGATES FR0N Mas
/ sACHoosIrs WOOD ENTER Arm IL ARM With
[ slow and measured step they cum in, aHI at
signal from Randall, the che5rin mmeust. and
/ sch checrin Then D.0little pulled out his
/ white hinkercher and applied il to his eyes, and
/ every delegate simultaneously pulled out white
/ haukcrcher and applied ito ais eyes.
I To me. this wuE the prouiest moment uy any
life, not that there wuz anything partikIlerly IL
sr.Iitiu ~ tie scene aore me, for there vuzEeut.
I Or. from South Clroliny, looked partikilerly
ashamed Of hisseli, q though he Wa going thro
a highly ness4ry hut extremely disgustin ce.e-
mouy, AMI Wuz determined TO keep stiff upper
| lip over il. and Couch looked up 20 Orr q tho
| be WuI ai,erl uy him aul a though be felt fat
| tered by Orr's c5nieceusicn IN WilkIn At al
/ with sch 4 uml!e niiviii0csl Bot 10 my eyes
7 the s,eue wuz significant.
/ / Looked into the fGcher, and VAT did [ see ez
I them two men, one sneakin aud tother ashamed
uv hisself. walked up that aisle Wat did /
I see ! -sw the D.m0crisy restored o. rs normal
ccuiisluu-l slw the reunion w the Two wings
in fact | saw the entire Dim0kratic bird re-
united. Tie North. one wing Eul the weakest;
Kentucky the beak sharp, hungry and rapa-
cious; Southwest the strong active wing; Viz
GINA the legs and claws Ohio the heart; Penn
srlyauia the stomach, South Caroliuy- the tail
feathers, and Noo Jersey the balance w the
bird. I saw these parts, Tor five years discover
81, come together, holdiu Il yg,r 10 one claw and
Postcfices in the other, sayin Take EN- both to
gethsr-they 20 in lots" slw the old Union
the bold, shivelrous Sou,hner guidin, con-
trolliu aui directn the machine. and assumiu 10
hsself the places Nv honor, and the DimOkrat
Nv the North folerin like a puppy dog at his
heels, takin SIGH fat things ca De Good snap up
the S0uihsruer ashamed " his associations
bu, forced Go yoose em-the Northerner uucom
f.rtaUie in his presence but tied 70 him by self
interest. ] saw comm back the good old times
when "a states met in c1nyenshun and let II
rule EN-, and e. I contemplated the scene 7 too
Wept. hut il wuz IN dead earnest.
''Wat are you llub5ern for2'' asked g euth5o-
si4s,.c delegate in front uy me who WIZ sv,b-
bin his eyes With hankercher.
"I'm postmaster. seE "ani must 10 my
dcoty n this crisis. Wat are you sheliia pearls
for p" ret0rtei l. ''Are y0u postmaster
NO." SCI be, "bui l hope 10 be- and he
sTabjel away with Ienool yigger.
watts the matter with the eyes nv an the
delegates p" se1 l.
They've all got uos,ofises in en- So he,
and hswlrked away faster than ever
While getting fresh Handkerchief lWich |
l1rIegel from the hind coat pocket Nv a delegate
near ne. AMI wich, by the way, 10 my de.irious
joy frg1; 10 say anythiu 90 him about it, |
looked over the Convenshun, and agin the teers
Wellei up from my IA art. Ny sa.e wuz full and
oTerf5Rin, AMI stopped over 40 theeyes, there.
before me, slt that hero Dick Taylor and Cuth
Buliitt, and there Wuz the Nelson's sni Ycsdons
and the representatives, Nv the fret families "
the South, and in Philadelphia, u a Convention,
with all the leading Dimokrats Nv the North,
ceptin Ya.lanlgham, and Wood, and they wuz
sAulkin around within call. with their watchful
eyes on the rroceelius Here is urcsreck -
Here is fltnis The President into our conf
dercc The Postmasters ruuuin the C0nyen-
elAu Inc NallA- Ilhg III hAAil AuA lue sur
SDangled Banner al;ernitly, so thst no body Good
complain Of Partially. or tell REILLY wish side
the Convention WIZ on. or wich SIDE It had been
on in the past Al ny too susceptible sole
filed up agia, the teers started, but tlst vent
wuzut onud. and iel hint!n on the floor
Twenty or so Northern delegates seed me fallin,
and ketchin site Nv the gray coat with the brass
star onto il, rushed 10 keteh me, and they bore
NE out Nv the Eigwam. Sei one ''Wat a
techin scene overpoWerei by his fealins ~
"Yes," sel another, ''He DESERVES apint-
meut."
didn't 20 back to the Conyeushun coz | knoWd |
it wont yOose, and besides after all, the teers
that had been shei, the members Wringin their
haudkerchers onto the floor. it wuE sloppy under |
foot. Cancellation and tcnirness gushei out NV
EN-. Iknowl it would be all right-it couldn't |
be otherwise. There Euz bonds which held the |
members together and prevented the possibility |
NJ trouble. johnson hevin a ambition to head |
party, must hev a party 10 head The North |
ern deleglshun, Wich he'd formerly ac,id with the
Abi-hnisis, couldn' Z 10 n0thin without the Dim
ocray North, and both on EN- combined couldn't |
do nuthin without the Dimocracy South. The |
President coed depend on the Democracy North, |
coz be holds the ofiises; the Democracy North |
could depend on the President coz he must hev |
their votes; the President Good depend on the |
democracy oOAln. coz tney want MIN 70 make l
fight agin Abolishin Congris. wich is a unoon- /
stooshnelly keepin Nv cut and preventing |
EN- from wollopin their niggers; the Democracy |
South coed depend on the President, COZ he must |
hev their Representatives in their seats to beat /
the Ablishnsts in Congrs, all Good depend on
all, each Good depend on the other, eoz each fac
tion or rather each stripe he'd its little private
axe 10 grind web il cooient 10 without the 9TH
ers to turn the grinlstoue.
The Southern delegates some on en- wuznt so
well pleased. what in thunder" sed one Nv
EN-, did they mean by pilin on the agony over
the Yanks We killed by pledgin US to give up
the ice Nv secsshin, AMI by pledgin on US to pay
the Nashnel Yankee debt -
- 'Sh ~ sei I, "easy over the rough plaees"
My friend they didn't mean it, or ef they lid
zee didn't. Is oath so hard to break Wood
it trouble that eminent patriot Breckenridge az
ter all the times he swore to support the Constl-
tushun, TO sgare TO il wunst more and wood il
trouble him to break it any more than it did in
'6l Nay verify. Dismiss them gloomy thots.
Vsllandigham wuz licked out, but a thousand
mules, and all nv EN- old and experienced, Good
emf kick him ny nur eerviea nootitt1a ,a1baJ