The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-08-29
NAsBY ON THE CONVENTIoN.

dream, and While in visionary state
beheld the gathering of the Philadelphia
Conventon. In the hope that his
method Of setting all triaing differences
between the opposing factions may be
found useful to the managers Tor their
reference this week we quote briefly:
The Secretaries. was appointed, and
then tho oinmit,ees--two,o ,one each from
the South and one from the North.
Which wuz conciiatin. WIZ oat. i9h'
the committee qa credenshals, Randall,
The Postmaster General, beiH1ha-Narths-
ern Representative. We had our hands
full. There wuz rush made on us,
so many clainin seat, that we locked thG
doors for two hoursto decide what shood
be the proper qualification for place,
Finally we agreed to admit ez delegates:
h .tr0M the NoHh--All Dimoerats who
had brcn arrested by Lnkin's miayuns
all officers who he'd resined rather
han to serve in an ALlIshun war, and
| all Republicans who Good show COM
mishun ez Postmaster and sich (and tins
wuz considered necessary to guard agin
mpostiou) who wnz wiIlIn to take his
solemn oath that he wuz q steadfi.st
b'eever in everything A. Johnson he'd
did sence Janooary 'G6, (ceptin sum
small items which wuz specitied) and all
he wuz doin, and all he mite do.
From tie Smtk--All who Good show
officers comniShun IN the late Cons
fedelt army--all who had received a
pardon from A. Johnson, and all who
had lost their niggers in an unholy war,
which inclooded all present
This decided upon, the work wu2
done. The delegates took their seats,
and the CRATE work nv Reconstrustin tie
Yoonyun commenced. Gorret Davis
wanted to make speech, and a hal
wuz hired for him in another part Nv the
city, and fifty or sixty German emigrants,
who coodent understand ward Nv
: English, hired at shllin an hour tc
act ez audience Five kegs Nv larger
beer, a flooid which | hev bin told ger,
, mans Tie to, he'd bin rolled IN the hall
and most Nv en- stayed, seven hours an(
a half, .f.''.
In the regler hall there was com
mingln which wuz edifyin. Ooolittl'
, wood make a motion and Velland!gham
. wood secor it. Forrest made speecl
and Randall indorsed it. Seward anC
,, John Mornssey were on the Committee
, on Resolutions, aud Dick Taylor anc
! Cowan were occupyln one seat. The
G resolutions were brief and to the pint
{ They resolved that,
} Whereas, There he'd bin a seas Il,
, unp,casantncss IN our national history
which, OWN to circumstances over whicl
nobody he'd any control, extended owe
n several periods NV ninety days each; an'
Whereas, The unpleasantness resulted
= from the two sections .viewin thing
i, from Its own standpoint instead of vewi
things from tho others stond"pnt; and
@ whereas, Both parties wuz highly il
O the wrong, partickelcrly the Nor'hi an'
!. Whereas, The South, with magma
e nimiiy unknown in history, he'd throw
h down her arms, and was ready to resoor
her old position in the Government
nay, more, To take more than her oil
share in the trouble NV runnin tho Gov
ernment; therefore be it
+ ReSd!red, That we are for the Yoonyu
>r ez it wuz
sc Reso'ccd, That the persistcncy nv
n sectional Congress in nontinuin I'll
. unpleasantness which hez to some eXteI
" disturbed our system nv Government, i
a: legslatln while eleven sovereign Stat'
r- is unrcprescnted, is pizen.
cs RrSoiCcd, That we view with alarm Il
ID manifest determination Nv Congress
i. centralize in themselves the law nakl
~ power uv,he Government, and wcpled!
IN our support to our worthy Chief Mag
On trate, who is a secoHd JaXon, i'll h
he efforts to check their conlrallsm suhcm
- by vctoin all they may do,
!, Rcsolcctl, That the citizens NV L
Nv Southern States which losttheir lives al
- legs, and sich, in the late uhpleasantne
cd wich hez bin referred to, ought to
lit, placed ON the pension rolls, the same
,,o the Northern citizens who suffered lik
% wise, and that the debt incurred by t
NV South in upholding things ez view
''y from its standpoint, is entitled to be p;
he the same ez the debt incurred by I
IAN North In upholding things cz view
err from its standpoint.
'le- Resolved, That we are willing Tor
W sake Nv harmony to admi. that Sherm
d n and Grant were, all things considers
pr? worthy NV being ranked with Lee a
abs Jackson
,en ReSolred, That the safety Nv the &c
the ernment demands that slch ez took p
- in the late uppleasantiz from the Son
| ern States, be TO wunst admitted to O
gress, and to the other poslshens VIII
nim they yoost to ornaments; and that
was more unpleasant they was dooring
way trouble, the more they ought to be
mittej.