The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-12
Asa Eartz t0Briok Pomeroy.
no. XLvIII.


Asa Kartz toBriok Pomeroy.
10. XLVIII
Peerless Brick have returned from the
Philadelphia Convention. | am at home.
From having been d subjugated soyer.
eighty, am now reconstructed cuss. ]
know no North, no South, no East, no West
know Nothing.
Except that the Union is preserved in its
integrity; A. J. engineers the machinery,
and the country is saved.
The Convention, my dear Brick, was a
big thing. South Carolina and Massachr'
setts entered arm-in-arm; everybody cried
aud Rugged everybody else. ] cried, too
and went Ato the hugging business gene
rally. Commenced on young female pa.
triot Of America andrather likedit Wept
ndhugged again. Thensh wept. Didn't
wish to be considered too special il my
hugging, aud turned my attention to a
large sized delegate from Vermont. It
wasn't so pleasant, but then was harmon.
izing and reconstructing. Continued to
weep and hug and feel good. Forgot, in
the excess Of patriotic feeling, that Mr.. Da-
VS. was prevented by physical weakness
and other causes, at Fortress Monroe, from
being present to enjoy the scene and help
harmonic, weep, hug and reconstruct.
Others, from Dixie, seemed to forget it
too.
IS When yonr old friend Doc, alluded, in !" a
voice trembling with emotion,p to the fra
tefnal squeeze between Mass and S. c., it
affected me, to tears again, and wanted to
hug some more. This time I hid away The
only quarter had in my pocket, and tried
to find ButlerJ wanted to hing him but
he was absent, my Brick, and thereby vent
unhugged
/ felt like alamb that was hankering to
lie down with some innocent lion, and be
docile; but Pope was in New Mexico,
Fighting Joe hadn't come in, and Banks
was in New York. Fortunately, the sooth-
ing strains of !: Hail Columbia ninterspers-
ed with /" Dixie" from a patriotic collec-
lion Of fifty pieces of harmonious brass,
stole upon my senses, and grew calmer.
/ looked around the eight thousand pairs
Of eyes, to see il any Of the la1Eyma1 was
moistening Che cheeks of hndo and
Glen; but they were not PAL batting, my
Brick. They were two Lazarlises, who
were being dry-niufissd in the bosom Of
some political patriarch, /" afar off" Each
had 4 bandanna, with which he wiped
away the gushing tear-drops that started,
unbidden, from the overloaded heart
They hadn't on the wedding garments, my
Brick, and failed to show their tickets be.
fore the doorAwere closed. s,
but they wept and Rugged.
/ turned again to your friend Doc. He
too, is brick; and on this occasion, a
Philadelphia brick. As a speakist he is
good. His reference to the little trivial III
cident in which s. G. fred the first gun, and
Mass. she'd the first claret was happy, and
set Orr and Couch to Illuminating on the
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scenes of the past However, they looked
at each other, smiled, wept, Rugged again,
and were inefably happy. But when Doc
proclaimed the glad tidings that peace had
returned, and had brought her knitting
with.her to stop a week, the applause was
deafening. Mass, and s. G. locked arms
again-because siamese twins forever, and
reminded me of the beautiful sentiment
taught by Miss Parthenia's mother, (slight-
1y altered, howevef,)
Two souls with but single thought;
|. Two hearts, that beat us one!
But all things must have an end, nay
Brick, and SO had this grand wedding
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Henry j. framed the marriage certificate,
and then violated the consistency of his
past record by voting for it! The benedic-
ton was pronounced; the horns footed, the
drums rolled and the marriage party broke
up. Some went home with dray-loads Of
JOY in their bosoms-jOy, because they hon.
estly believed they had good thing
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