The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-09-06
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty attends the PhiIOdcl-
pEHln Convention.

PosT OFFICE C0NFEDRIT \ ROADS,
(Wich is in the Stuit Nv kentucky)~
August II, 1869
Peace is into me. Ihev spent many
happy periods in the course NV a event
full life, but never knowd what perfeck
satisfaction wuz till now. The first week
Iwuz married to my Looizer Jane it wuz
hevenly, for independent Nv the other
blisses incident to the married state /
believed that she wuz the undivided
possessor NV farm, or ruther her father
wuz, wich on the old mans decease
wood be hern, and the prospeck NV a
lifetime with amiable, well-built wo-
man, with farm big enough to support
me with prudence on her part, wuz bliss
itself, and enjoyed it with degree NV
muchness rarely ekaled, until found out
that it wuz kivered more deeply with
mortgages than it ever wuz 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 l hev jest passed through.
l wuz delegate to Philadelphia! |
wusn't elected nor nothin, and hedn't
any credentials, but the door NV the
wigwam | passed nevertheless. The
door-keeper wuz a old Dimokrat, and
my breath helped me, my nose, wich
RELY blossoms like the lobster, wuz NV
yoose, but l spect my hevin a gray coat
on, with q stand up collar, with a brass
star onto it, wuz wat finished the biz
mis-. 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 grey coat, couldn't
do enuff for me. They addressed me
ez Kernel and Gineral, and sed "this
wuz trooly an unmeritid honor" and
paid for my drinks, and succeeded in
borrowin a hundred and twenty dollars
of EN- the first day. | mite hev doubled
it, but the fellows wuz took in 80 easy
that no financeerin wuz required, and il
really wuz no amoozment.
The Convenshun itself wuz the most
anectiopist gatherin ever witnist.
he'd seat beside Randall who WIS q
mangin the concern, and | Good see il
ALL The crowd rushed into the bildir
and filed it, when Randall desired at
tention. He bein the Postmaster Gen
eral every one of em dropped into his
seat or though he had bin shot, and
there wuz the most perfeck quiet ! ever
saw. Doolittle, who wuz the Cheer
man, winked at Randall, and nodded
his head, when Randall announced that
the DELEGATES FROM SoUTH KARLINi
AND THE DELEGATES FROM MAssACHoosI'
WOOD ENTER ARM IN ARM! With a slow
aud measured step they cum in, and al
signal from Randall, the cheern com
menst, and sich cheerin! Then Doc.
little pulled ont his white hankerchel
and applied it to his eyes, and every
delegate simultaneously pulled out 3
white hankercher and applied it to hi
eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest momen
nv my life, not that there wuz anything
partikilerly inspiritin in the scene ator,
me, fer there wuzzent. Orr, from Soutl
Caroliny, looked partikilerly ashamed
of hisself, ez though he wuz going thr,
a highly necessary but extremely dis
gustin ceremony, and wuz determined
TO keep up stiff upper lip over 1t, an,
Couch looked up to Orr ez though h
wuz afeerd Nv him and ez though he fel
Aattered by 0rr's condecension in walk
in at all with sich q umble individj jooa
But to my eyes the scene wuz signili
cant l looked into the fucher and Wa
did ! see ez them two men, one sneeki
and tother ashamed of hisself, walk u
that aislei Wat did seef saw tn
Democrisy restored to its normal cor
dishun-I saw the reunion Nv the tw
wings--In fact saw the entire Dino
kratio bird reunited. The North, on
wing aud tho weakest; Kentucky tn
beak, sharp, hungry and rapacious
Southwest, the strong active wing
virginny, the legs and claws OH
the heart, Pennsylvania the stomach
South Caroliny the tail feathers aud No
Jersey the balance of the bird.
saw these parts, for five years disseve
cd, come together, holdin nigger in OF
claw and Postoffises in the Other, sayi
'sTake EN- both together--they 60 !
lots."s ] saw the old Union--the boil
shivelrous Southner guidin, control
ana directin the machine, and assoom
10 bisself the places NV honor, and Il
Dimokrat nv the North follerin like
puppy dog at his heels, takin sich I
th;hgs ez LIE Good snap up--the Soutl