Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-09-07

nSip Dlck 1hylof ana Cuth Bullitt, and there
wuz the Nelson's and Yeadons and the repre-
sentatves NV the first families of the South.
and in Philadelphia, at Convenshun, with
all the leadin Democrats NV the North, ceptin
Vallandingham and Wood, and they wuz
skulkin around within call, with their watch.
iul eyes on the proceedings. Here is pros
peck Here is fatnis The President into
our confidence The Postmaster runnin the
Convention The bands play Dixie and
inc Star Spanglcd Banner alternitly, so that
nobody Good complain NV Partially, or tell
reelly which side the Convention wuz on, or
wich side 1t had been on in the past. All II
my too susceptible sole filled up agin, the
teers started, but that vent wuznt enuif, and
l fell iainting on the floor. Twenty or 30
Northern delegates seed me fallin, and ketcll-
IN site NV the grey coat with the brass star
onto if, rushed to ketch me, and they bore
me out NV the Wigwam. Sed one "Wat
teehin scene, overpowered by his fealins p
YES" sed another, ''he deserved apint-
ment p'
didn't go back to the Convenshun coz |
knowd it want no yoose, and besides, after
all the teers that had been shed, the mem-
bers wringin their hankerchers onto the
hoor, it wu2 sloppy underioot. Cancellation
and tenderness gushed out nv en-. knowd
it would be all right-it couldn't be other
wise. There wuz bonds which held the
members together and prevented the posi-
bility NV trouble. johnson hevin ambition
to head party, must hev party TO head.
The Northern delegashun, wich he'd formerly
actid with the Ablisllnists, couldn't do nothin
without the Democracy North, and both on
EN- combined couldn't donOthin without the
Democracy South. The President Good de-
pend on the Democracy North, coz he holds
the offices the Democracy North could de-
pend on the Democracy South COZ they want
him to make a fight agin Abolishen Con-
girls, which is unconstooshnelly keepin NV
EN- out and preventin EN- from wollopin their
niggers; the Democracy South Good depend
on all, each Good depend on the other, COZ
each faction or ruther each stripe he'd its little
private axe TO grind wich it coodent do with
out the others to turn the grindstone.
The Southern delegates, some on 'em,
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 ijee NV seceshen,
and by pledgin on us to pay the Nashnel
Yankee debt?"
Gosh ~ sed l, 'easy over the rough places.
My friend, they didn't mean it, or if they
did aoe didn't. Is an oath so hard to break
Wood it trouble that eminent patriot Breck-
inridge, after all the times he swore 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 '6l Nay verify.
Dismiss them gloomy. thots. VAllandigham
was kicked out, but thousand mules, and
all NV EN- old and experienced, cooden't kick
him out nv our service. Doolittle talked
Northern talk COZ its habit he got into
doorin the war, but he'll get over il. Raw.
mond will be on our side this year. certain,
for last year he wuz agin us, and by the time
he is ready to turn agin he'll be worn 10 SO
small pint that he won't be worth heyin.
and the Democrisy NV the North wuz alluz
ourn, and efthey wuzzen! the offices johnson
hez in reserve will draw qm like lodestun.
My deer sir, / wanst knowd q Irishman
who wuz since killed in Fenian raid, Elm.
ployed as artist in weli-Ggging. 1t wuz
his lot to go to the bottom Nv the excavation
and load the buckets with earth. The dinner
horn sounded and he, with the alacrity char.
acteristic NV the race, sprang into the bucket
and told them to hist away, aid they histed
but ez they histed they amoozed themselves
droppin earth on him. "SthOpg, sed he
TOR be gorra I'll cut the rope NV dear.
Sir, Randall and Doolittle and Seward and
Johnson are histin us out Nv theoit we fell
into in 1860.
All went off satisfied-the Nortliel, men.
for they carried home with them thehcom-
misshuns-I feeling that my Post Oificeyuz
sekoor, for ef, with the show we've got, We
can't re-elect johnson, the glory Nv the d,
mocracy hez departed indeed.
PETROLEUM " NAsBY, p. M.
(Which is Postmaster.