Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-08-22

/ OEA hEES SOBRA
Petroleum V. Nasty has had anoth-
er dream, and while in visionary state
beheld the gathering of the Philadel-
phia Convention. His report is as fol-
lows:
The Secretaries was appinted, and
| then the c0mmittees-two, one each
from the South and one from the North
which wuz conciliatin. | wuz out
! on the committee on credenshals. Ran.
dali, the Postmaster General, bein the
Northern Representative. We had
| our hands full. There wuz a rush made
on us, so many claimin seats that we
locked the doors for two hours to de-
! eide what shood be the proper qualifi
cation for place. Finally we agreed
to admit ez delegates:
From the North-All Dimocrats who
had been arrested by Linkin's minyuns
all officers who he'd resined rather
than to serve in an Ablishun war. and
all Republicans who Good show a com.
mishun ez Postmaster and sich (and
this Wuz considered necessary to guard
agin imposition) who wuz wilIin to
take his solemn oath that he wuz
steadtast bleever in evrything A. John.
son he'd did sence Janooary &c.. (cep-
tin sum small items which wuz speci-
fed and all be wuz doin, and all he
might do.
From the ,South-All who Good show
officers commishun in the late Con.
tcderit army-all who he'd received a
pardon from A. Johnson, and all who
had lost their niggers in an unholy
war, wich inclooded all present.
This decided upon, the work wuz
done. The delegates took their seats,
and the CRATE work Nv Reconstructin
the Yoonyun commenced Garret Da-
Wis wanted to make a speech, and hall
wuz hired for him in another part ov
the city, and fifty or sixty German en-
igrants, who cOodent understand
wurd Nv Engligh, hired at shillin an
hour TO act ez audience. Five kegs
Nv lager beer, fooid which | hev
been told germans tie to, he'd bin roll
ed in the hall, and most Nv EN- stayed,
seven hours and halt.
In the regler hall there was com.
minglin which wuz edifyin Cowan
wood make motion and Blair or Rev
erdy Johnson wood second it, For
rest made speech and Randall in
dorsed it. Mosby and John Morrissey
were on the Committee on Resolutions,
and Dick Taylor and Cowan were oc-
cupyin one seat. The resolutions were
brief and to the pint. They resolved
that
Whereas, There he'd bin a season NV
urpleasantness in our national history
wlch, OWN to circumstances over wich
nobody he'd any control, extended over
several periods Nv ninety days each;
and
Whereas, The unpleasantness result.
ed from the two sections viewin things
from it's own nd-pint, instead of
viewin things from the others stand
pint; and
Whereas, Both parties wuz highly in
the wrong, partickelerly the North
and
Whereas, The South, with a magma
nimity unknown in history he'd thrown
down her arms, and was ready to re-
SOON her old position in the Govern
ment; therefore be it
Resolvea, That we are for the Yoon-
yum ez it wuz.
ResolUed, That the persistency Nv a
sectional Congress in continuin theun-
pleasantness wich hez to some extent
disturbed our system nv Government,
in legislatin while eleven sovereign
States is unrepresented, is pizen.
Resolved, That we view with alarm
the manifest determination Nv Con-
gress to centralize in themselves the
law making power nv the Government,
and we pledge our support to our wor-
thy Chief Magistrate, who is second
Jaxon, in his efforts to check their
centralism schemes by vetoin all they
may do.
Res0loed, That the citizens Nv the
Southern States which lost their lives
and legs, and sich, in the late unpleas
antness wich hez bin referred to, ought
to be placed on the pension rolls, the
same ez the Northern citizens who suf.
fered likewise, and that the debt in
Cured by the South in upholding
things ez viewed from its standpoint, is