The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-16

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Mr.. Nasty has . Pleasant Dream. the PHIL
adeiphia Convention being the subject
Thereof. -s1Esa e.
CONFEDERIT ROADS, (Which is in the Z
Staff Nv Kentucky July 26, 1866.
Ny dreams. of which hev he'd many doorin
the past five years. hevent bin overly plesent-
indeed they hev taken more the shape Nv hide
Us nitemAres than eny thing else-Linken, Grant,
Sherman and armies dressed in bloc fgurin ex-
tensively therein. But last mite l he'd avishun
wich more than repade me for all my suffsrin
hereto4. he'd bin At the Corners assistin in
the inauguratin of . new grocery.
The proprietor was q demorolized Ablishnist
who had sold ticker surreptitiously in Maine,
among these ablishnists, and Consistently hec
no idea how much fuIl grown Kentucky De-
mocrat could throw himself outside Nv. His
entire capital with which he proposed to com
mence bisinis WAS one barrel Of new corn whis-
Ky and some other accessories and ez . starter
to make the acquaintance Nv his customers. he
announced one free mite, and invited the entire
community. His invasbun wus considered
generus, and We met in tho same noble sperrit
than he confidin and ignorant man desired. in
fact, for when we got through, in about 80 min
its, there wasn't drop Of the whisky left, and
while the new grocery keeper was rolling NV US
out, he was cussin hsself for a fool. lie didn't
open -consoOmed his stock in givin the
blow out to secoor customers. His stock, like
A. Johnson's Unionism. didn't survive an inau-
gurashun.
/ he'd in a fem nd
cred OF WIZ. slept
"a sweetiy dreamin,
Dreamin the happy hours away"
Methought wus in Philadelphia, and the 14th
Of August bad arriy. There wuz glorious
assembage, ez Doolitte sed, NV the brains and
hearts Of the country and may add, as ! and
Humphrey Marshall wuz there Nv the bowels
likewise. The Convention assemblin
There wuz Seward present engineerin Of it.
On one side him l noticed my dream
shadowy bein with wings draped in white and
wearin melancholy look. with one hand lyin
on his shoulder tryin to take him out OF the
hall, while another bein, with wings like bat,
he'd him by the hose and wuza twistin him
jest he desered. noticed that this last men
toned ben he'd hoofs, which were split, and
tail which he wuz firth in great glee
The bein with the tail end the hoofs whisper
ed suthn in Stewards ear, wherupon he moved
that nhe eminont patriot, ex President Frank
In Pierce, be chairman upon which the shad
owy bein in white unfolded her wings and flew
awoy, casting at William the most sorrowfui
look ever saw, the hoof and tail individual
laughn tremendous. The ex- President took
the chair, and one Vice President for each State
-ceptin Vermont and Massachusetts, wuz APP
pinted. My bnzzum swelled with emoshun ez
that list wuz read wuz more like old fash
toned Democratic Convention than anything l
had heard for five long years. heard the hon.
ored names Of Toombs and Rhett. Pryor and
Lee, Slidell and Rosso, and cambridge and For
rest heard the names Nv Craven and Pol
lard, Thompson and Forsyth, and fe, like he
ole: mine eyes hev seen thy glory, now let
thy servant depart in psese.' Nothin but the
certainty that wood At last hev that Posofhs
At the Corners kept me from going up. Singlar
tits what tender ties hsd US to earth.
The secretaries wuz arpinted, and then the
commitiees-two on each from the South and
one from the North which wuz consilliatn.
Randall, the Postmaster General, bein the
Northern Representatv. We he'd our hand full.
There was n rush made on US, so many claimir
seats that we locked the door for two hours, to
decide what should be the proper qualihcashun
for the place. Finally we agreed to admit ez
delegates
From the North: All Democrats who had
bin arrested by Lncuns miny ons-and olfsers
who had resigned rather than to serve in Alb
lishun war, and all Republicans who Good show
commishuu ez Postmaster and SIGH and (this
wuz considered necessary in order 10 guard
against irnposishun) who wuz within to take his
solemn oath that he wuz stediast believer in
every thing A. johnson had did since Janooary.
'66' Iceptin sum small items which wuz speci-
Redl and all he wux dom, and all he mite do.
From the South: All who Good show a Off
GERS cenamissioh in the lait Confedsr,t army,
all v no received = pardon from A. johnson. and
al who bed lost their niggers in an unholy war,
wieh included all present. IS =
This decided upon, the wurc wuz dun. The
delegates tooc their seats and the crate wurc Nv
recons,ructin' the Yoonyun commenced. Gar
j, ritz Davis wanted to delivura speech and hall
WIZ hired fur him in a nuther part OF the city,
aud dfty OF sixty German emgrants who Good
on, understand wurd English, hired at
shlin an hour to act sz audieEee. Five Gags
Nv lager beer, tued witch l hev bin told Cor
mans tie 70, he'd bin rolled into the hail. and
most Nv EN- stayed seven hours and Il.
In the regier hall, there wuz . comninglin
wich wuz edifyin- Doolittle would moov
moshua and vallandigham wood secund it,
Forest made speech and Randall Endorsed it.
Seward and John Aorrissey were out on the
Community on Resefushuns, and Die Taylor and
Cowan ware occupyin ono seat. The resolu,
shuns wuz breef and to the pint. They resol-
we'd that whereas, there had been . season NV
aunplessantness in our national history wich,
OWN to circumstances over wich nobody he'd