The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-27

r. Peace is into me! I hev spent
many happy periods in the course Nv
a eVentful life, but I never knowd
what perfeck satisfaction wuz till now.
| The first week / wuz married to my
LoOizer Jane it wuz hevenly, for in
dependent Nv the other blisses incl
dent to the married state believed
that she wuz the undivided possessor
Nv farm, or ruther her father wuz.
wich on the old mans decease would
be hern, and the prospeck NV life
time with a amiable, we'll built wo-
man, with a farm big enough to
support me, with prudence on her
part, wnz bliss itself, and | enjoyed it
with a degree Nv muchness rarely
ekaled, until | found out that it wuz
kivered more deeply with mortgages
that it wuz ever likely to be with
crops, and my dreem NV happiness
busted. Sweet ez wuz this week, it
wuz misery condensed when compared
to the, season | hev jest passed
through.
| wuz delegate to Philadelphia!
| wuzn't elected nor nuthin, and he'd
no credentials, but the door NV the
wigwam I passed nevertheless. The
door-keeper was old Dimocrat, and
my Cbreth helped me, and my nose,
which RELY blossoms like the lobster,
was Nv use; but | spect my hevin a
gray coat on, with a stand-up collar,
with brass star onto it, wuz wat fin
ished the biznis The Southern dele
gates fought shy NV me but the
Northern ones, bless their souls! the
mint they saw the star on the collar
Nv my gray coat, couldn't do enuff for
me. They addressed me as Kernel
and Gineral, and sed this wuz trooly
an unmerited- honor" and paid for
my drinks, and | succeeded in bor-
rowin a hundred and twenty dollars
of EN- the first day | might have
doubled it, but the fellows wus took
in SO easy that no fnanceerin wuz
required, and RELY it wuz no amooze-
ment.
The Convenshun itself wuz the
most afectinist gatherin [ ever wit
mist. l he'd a seat by Randall, who
wuz cmanagin the concern, and /
Good see it ALL The crowd rushed
into the buildin and filed it, when
Randall desired attention. He bein
the Postmaster General, every one of
EN- dropped in his seat as though he
he'd bin shot, and there wuz the most
perfeck quiet / ever saw. Do little,
who wuz the Cheerman, winked at
Randall, and nodded his head, when
Randall announced that the DELE
GATES FROM SOUTH CARLINY AND
THE DELEGATES FROM MASSACHoO- |
SETS WOULD ENTER ARM IN. ARM
With slow and measured step they
come in, and at signal from Randall
the cheerin commest, and SIGH cheer
inl Then Doolittle pulled out his
white Handkerchief and applied it to
his eyes, and every delegate similari-
ously pulled out white Handkerchief
and applied it to his eyes
y To me, this wuz the proudest mo-
ment wv my life, not that there wuz
anything partikilerly inspirin in the
scene afore me, for there Wuzzent. |
Orr, from South Caroliny, looked par
tlkilerly ashamed of hisself, ez though
he wuz goin thro a highly nessary
but extremely disgustin ceremony,
and wuz determined to keep up stiff
upper lip over it, and Couch looked |
up to Orr ez though he wuz Altered Nv
him and ez though he felt flattered bv
Orr's condecension in walkin at all
with SIGH umble indivijooal But
to my eyes the scene wuz significant.
| looked into the fucher and wat did
| see ez them two men, one sneekin
and tother ashamed NV hisself, walked
up that aisle? Wat did | see? | saw
the Democrisy restored to its normal
condishun-l saw the reunion Nv the |
two wings-in fact / saw the entire |
Dimokratic bird reunited. The |
North, one wing and the weakest;
Kentucky the beak, sharp, hungry
and rapacious; Southwest, the
strong active wing; Virginny the
legs and claws; Ohio the heart, Penn
sylyania the stomach, South Caroliny |
the tail feathers and Moo Jersey the |
balance of the bird. [ saw these
parts. for five yeers discovered, come
together, holdin niger in one claw
and Post Offises in the other, sayin,
: Take EN- both together-they go in
lots. | saw the old Union-the
bold, shivelrous Southner a guidin, /
controllin and directin the machine,
and assoomin to hisself the places NV
honor, and the Dimokrats, NV the
North follerin like puppy dog at
his heels, takin SIGH fat things ez he
Good snap up-the Southerner asham-
ed of his associations but forced to
yoose em-the Northerner uncom-
Portable in his presence but tied to
him by self-interest. [ saw comm
back the good old times when thirty
four States met in convenshuns and
let eleven rule EN-, and ez | contem-
plated the scene [ too wept, but it
wuz in dead earnest. I
Wat are you bluberin for?" asked
enthusiastic delegate in front Nv
me who wuz a swabbin his eyes with
a hankercher.