Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-08-31
MIR. NASBY ATTENDS THE PHILADEI-
PHIA CONVENTION.
Posr OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,
August ii. 1861.


August IA, 1866.
Peace is into me l hev spent many happy
periods in the course NV eventful life, but I
never kuowd what perfeck satisfaction wuz till
now. The first week l wuz married to my
Looizer Jane it wuz bevenly, for independent
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 pros
peck Nv a lifetime with amiable, well-built
woman, with farm big enough to support me,
with prudence on her part, wuz bliss itself, and
enjoyed it with degree NV muchuess rarely
ekaled, until found out that it wuz kiyered
more deeply with mortgages than it wuz ever
likely to be with crops, and my dreem Nv hap
piness busted. Sweet ez wuz this week, it wuz
misery condensed when compared to the season
hev Jest passed through.
l wuz delegate to Philadelphia wuznt
elected nor nothin, and hedn't any credentials,
but the door Nv the wigwam passed neverthe-
less. The doOr-keeper wuz a old Dimokrat, and
my breath helped me, my nose, wich RELY
blossoms like the lobster, wuz NV yoose, but
spect my hevin gray coat on, with stand up
ed the biznis. 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 l succeeded in borrowin
hundred and twenty dollars of EN- the first
day. l mite hev doubled it, but the fellows
wuz took in so easy that no fnanceerin wuz re-
quired, and it really wuz no amoozment.
The Convenshun itself wuz the most affeo-
tinist gatherin 1 ever witnist. he'd seat be-
side Randall who wuz managin the concern,
4 oil Tka II bo1 into
the bildin and filled it, when Randall desired
attention. He bein the Postmaster General,
every one of EN- dropped into his seat ez though
he he'd 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 KARLINY AND THE DELEGATES FROM
MASSACHUSETTS WOOD ENTER ARM IN ARMl With
a slow and measured step they cum in and at a
signal from Randall, the cheerin commenst, and
sich cheerin Then Doolittle pulled out his
white handkerchief and applied it to his eyes,
and every delegate simultaneously pulled out a
white Handkerchief and applied it to his eyes.
To me, this wuz the proudest moment Nv my
life, not that there wuz anything parhkilerly
inspiritin in the scene afore me, for there wuz-
zent. Orr, from South Caroliny, looked Parti-
kilerly ashamed of hisself, ez though he wuz
going thro highly nessary but extremely dis
gustin ceremony, and wuz determined to keep
up stiff upper lip over it, and Couch looked
up to Orr ez though he wuz afeerd Nv him and
ez though he felt flattered by Orr's condecensiOn
in walkin at all with sich a umble indiVidjooal.
But to my eyes the scene wuz significant. AS
looked into the fucher wat did see ez them
two men, one sneekin and tother ashamed Nv
hisself, walked up that aisle? Wat did l see
| saw the Democrisy restored to its normal con-
dishun-I saw the reunion Nv the two wings
in fact saw the entire Dimokratic bird reuni-
ted. The North, one wing and the weakest;
Kentucky the beak, sharp, hungry and rapa-
cious Southwest the strong active wing; Vir-
ginny the legs and claws; Ohio the heart Penn
sylvania the stomach South Oaroliny the tail
feathers and Moo Jersey the balance of the bird.
| saw these parts for five years discovered, come
together; bOldin niger in one claw and Post
Offises in the other, sayin "Take em both to-
gether--they go in lots" | saw the old Union
the bold, shivelrous Southner guidiD, con-
trollin and directin the machine, and assOOmin
to hisself the places Nv honor and the Dino
KRAFT NV the North follerin like puppy dog at
his heels, takin sich fat things ez he Good snap
uD-tbe Southerner ashamed NV his assOci-
ations but forced to yoose em-the Northern
er uncomfortable in his presence but tied to him
by self-interest. saw comm back the good
old times when thirty-four States met in con-
venshun and let eleven rule EN-, and ez l con-
| templated the scene too wept but it wuz in
dead earnest. --...- .'.s--
await are you blubberin for ?" asked enthoo-
siastic delegate in front Nv me who wuz swab-
bin his eyes with handkerchief.
sI'm a Postmaster" sez /, ''aDd must do my
dooty in this crisis. Wat are you sheddin
pearls for" retorted l. "Are you Postmaster!
aNo," sez he, "but hope to be p and he
swabbed away with renood vigger.
"Wats the matter with the eyes Nv all the
delegates" sez 1.
"They've all got Post Offises in EN-, sez he,
and he worked away faster than ever.
While gettin fresh Handkerchief, (wich
borrered from the hind coat pocket NV dele
gate near me, and wich, by the way, in my de-
lirious ioy, forgot to say anythin to him about
| it. l looked over to the ConvenshuB, and agin
| the teers welled up from my heart. My sole
wuz full and overfowin, and l stopped over al
the eyes. There, before me, sat that hero Dick
| Taylor and Cuth Bullitt, and there wuz the
N elsons and Yeadons and the represents
tiyes Nv the first families NV the South, and
| in PHILADELPHIA AT A CONVENTION with all
the leadin Democrats NV the North, ceptin Val.
landigham and Wood, and they wuz skulkin
| around within call, with their watchful eyes Oh
the perceedins. Here is prospeck Here is
fatpis The President into our confidence i
| d
bands a playin Dixie and the Star Spangled
Banner afternitly, so that no body Good COM
plain Nv partiality, or tell reelly wich side the
Convention wuz on, or wich side it had been Oh
| in the past. All my too susceptible sole fill.
ed up agin, the teers started, but that vent
wuznit enuff, and fell faintin onto the floor
Twenty or thirty Northern Delegates seed me
fallin, and ketchin site Nv the gray coat with
the brass star onto il, rushed to ketch me and
they bore me out NV the wigwam. Sed one:-
swat a techin scene oveTpOwered by his feel
ins p "Yes" sed another she deserves apint-
ment ~
/ didn't 90 back to the Convenshun coz
| knowd it wont no yoose, and besides, aftel
| all the teers that had been shed, the members
| wringin their handkerchers onto the floor, il
wuz sloppy under foot. Cancellation and ten
derness gushed out NV EN-. / knowd it would
be all right-it couldn't be otherwise. There
wuz bonds wich held the members together and
prevented the possibility Nv trouble. Johnson
heyih ambition to head a party, must hev 8
| party to head. The Northern delegashun wich
he'd formerly actid with the Ablishnists couldn't
do nothIn without the Democracy North, and
both on EN- combined couldn't do nothin with
out the Democracy South. The President Good
depend on the Democracy North, coz he holds
the offices; the Democracy North Good depend
L
the President Good depend on the Democracy
South coz they want him to make fight agin
Abolishen Congris, wich is unconstooshnel-
ly keepin Nv EN- out and preventin EN- from
wollopin their niggers; the Democracy South
Good depend on the President coz he must hev
their Representatives in their seats to beat the
Ablishnists in Congris,-all 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 without the others to
turn the grind-stone.
The Southern delegates some on EN- wuzn't
so well pleased. ''What in thunder" sed one
NV en-, adid they mean by pilin on the agony
over the Yanks we killed ?-by pledgin US TO
give up the Jee Nv seceshen, and by pledgin on
us to pay the National Yankee debt %
aShl" sed l, "easy over the rough places.
My friend they didn't mean it, or ef they did aoe
didn't. Is oath so hard to break 2 Wood it
trouble that eminent patriot Breckenridge after
all the times he swore to support the COnstitu-
ton, to sware to it wunst more and wood it
trouble him to break it any more than it did in
'6l a.? Nay verify. Dismiss them gloomy thots.
Vallandigham wuz kicked out, but thousand