The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-09-11

"Nhat are you bubberln for asked a
enthusiastic delegate in front Nv me who
was a swabbin his eyes with a handkerchief.
I'm postmaster" sez /, "and must do
nv dooty in this crisis. What are you
sheddin pearls for" retorted l. care you
a postmaster"
mo" sez he, ''but 1 hope to be-" and
lie swabbed away with renood yigor.
"Wats the matter with the eyes Nv all
the delegates? z" sez I.
They've all got postof1ces in EN-" sez
he, and be worked away faster than ever.
While gettin fresh handkerchief (which
borrered from the hind coat pocket Nv 4
delegate near me, and wich, by the way,
IN my delirious JOY, l forgot to say anythin
to him about it), looked over the Con
yention, and agin the teers weled up from
my heart. My soul wus full and over
fowin, and I stopped over q the eyes;
there, before me, sat that hero Dick Taylor
and Cuth Bullitt and there wuz the Mel
/ sons and Yeadons and the representatives
Nv the first families of the South, and in
Philadelphia, at Convenshun, with all the
Ieadin Democratic, Nv the North, ceptin
/ VaIIandigham and Wood, and they wuz
skukin around within call, with their
watchful eyes on the proceedings. Here is
prospeck. Here is fatnis! The Presi-
dent into our confidence! The Postmaster
a runnin the Convention! The bands
playin Dixie and the Star SpangIed Ban
ner alternitly, 50 that nobody Good complain
Nv partiaIity, or tell reely wich side the
Convention wuz on, or wich side it had
been on in the past. All! my too sus-
ceptibe sole filed up agin, the tears started,
but that vent want enuff, and | fell faint
ing on the floor. Twenty or 80 Northern
delegates seed me falin, and ketchin site
NV the gray coat with the star onto it,
rushed to ketch me, and they bore me out
Nv the Wigwam. Sed one "Wat techin
scene, overpowered BY his tealins.' YES"
sci another, "he deserves a apintment"
didn't 90 back to the Convenshun coz
| knowd it want no yoose, and besides after
all the tears that had been shed, the mem
bers wringin their handkerchiefs onto the
floor, it "uz sloppy underfoot. ConciIia-
tion ard tenderness gushed cut NV EN-. I
knowd it would be all right it couldn't
be otherwise. There wuz bonds which
held the members together and prevented
the possibility NV trouble. johnson heyin
a ambition to head 6 party, must hev q
party TO head. The Northern deIegashun
which he'd formerly actlI with the AbNsh-
uIsts, couldn't do nothin without the De
mocracy South. The President Good de-
pend on the Democrisv North. coz he holds
the offices; the Democracy North could
depend on the President coz he must hey
their votes; the President Good depend on
the Democracy south coz thev want him
to make a fight agin a Abolishen Congris
wich Is a unconstitooshneIlv keepin Nv EN-
out and preventin EN- from woIoping their
niggers; the Democracy South Good depend
on the President coz he must have their
Representatives in their seats to beat the
AboIishnists in CoDgris; all Good depend
on all, each Good depend on the other, coz
each faction or ruther each stripe he'd its
little private axe 10 grind wich it coodent
do without the others to turn the grind
stone.
The Southern delegates some on EN-,
wuzzent so well pleased.
~What in thunder" sed one uv EN-, "diI
they mean by piIin on the agony over the
Yanks we kilIed?-by pIcdgin US to give
up the ice Nv secesheD, and by pledgin on
Us to paw the NashneI Yankee debt?'
"Sh!' sed |, easy over the rough places.
Ny friend they didn't mean it, or if they
did re didn't. Is an oath so hard to break
4 Wood It trouble that eminent patriot Breck-
inridge, after all the times he sworc to sup
port the Constitution, to sware to it wunst
more? and wood it trouble him to break it
any more than it did in 81! Nay verify.
Dismiss them gloomy thots, Na,landig-
ham was kicked out, but a thousand mules
and all NV EN- old and experienced, coodn't
kick hin cut CT our service. DooIjttle
talked Northern talk coz It's habit he got
into doorn the war, but he'll get over it.
RAYMOND will be on our side this year,
certain, for last year he wuz agn US, and
bY the time he is ready to turn agin he'll
be worn to 50 small pint that he won't
be worth hevin, and the Dimocrisy Nv the
North wuz aIluz ourn, and if they wuzzent
the offices Johnson hez in reserve will draw
EN- like lodestun.
MY deer sir, l wunst knowd Irishman
who wuz sense killed in a Fenian raid, en-
ployed as a artist in weII-digging. L vuz
bis lot to 90 to the bottom Of the excaya
ton and load the buckets with earth. The
dinner horn sounded and be, with the alac-
rity characteristic nv the race cprapg into
the bucket and told them to hist away,
and they histed, but ez they histed they
amoozel themselves droppin earth onto
him. "Shtop" sed he, ''or be gorra I'll
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