Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-21
Posi- OFFICE CoNFEDRIr X RoADs,
(Which is in the Stait NV ky.)
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Posi- OFFICE CoNFEDRTr Y RoADs,
(Which is in the Stait NV ky.)
Nov. 25, 1867.
Last week / received from P6stmasttr 7
General Randall the follerin breef ncte:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1G.
SIR: the tenor Nv offs act does not
sheeld you from removal. Wood it rot
be well for you to declare yoor preference
for the Presidency? 1t is my opinion
that President Johnson Good be indoost
to accept the rominashen.
A. w. RANDALL, P. VI. G.
To p. V. Nasty, T. NJ. Conf d. it Y
Roads.
This note, kivcrin a threat, put me in
to perspirashen. Why, bless the Pres
ident's dear sole, NV course | kin express
my preference for the Presidency. Ger
tainly kin. / believe in A. Johnson
He is my fust and only choice, and will
be for fifteen months to come, without
fail. | can not say very much for him,
but / kin aboose his competitors, and
that, possibly amounts to the same thing.
The follerin is a note | shell send the
President for insershun i'll his organ:
Ed NAsHSEL INTELLIGENCER:
The question wich just now agitates
the mind NV Kentucky more perhaps,
than any thing else, is: Who shel be
the nominee NV the next Dimocratic
Nashnel Convenshun There are many
gentlemen spoken NV i'll connecshun with
the place, and their claims l perpose,
breetiy, to consider.
The first is Gen. Geo 3. Mcclellan,
whose body hez recently bin raised for
that purpose. Gen. Mcclellan is not, l
don't Think, Objectionable to the South
ern people. They hev natral and nor
nal objection to the man who drawd his
sword agin them in the late unpleasant
mis-, but they do not believe that Gen. G.
b. did this. At least if he did it, it WIZ
only fgerative. His services to the Con-
federacy in buryin the tens NV thous-
ands NV Fedril sojers afore Richmond, the
brilliant strategy nv his lootcnants in
tyin the hands NV Pope and Burnside,
and kcepin them from hurtin us, and fin
ally, his rupnin with Pendleton agin Lin
kin, all bind him to the Southern heart.
Any one who Good hev run agin Linkun
in 1864 they consider must hev bin true
to the South. He is the soothinest man
to the Southern people wich ever wore
bloc. But he won't anser. In the first
place there isn't time between this and
the next election for him to make up his
mind whether he accept the nominashen
or not; and secondly, if he did decide in
time, he lacks prestige. He hez bin de-
feated wunst, hez George, and it won't
do to take up a whipt rooster. Evident
ly he is out NV the ring.
Next on the carpet is Pendleton.-
Geo. E. Pendleton, say unhesitatingly,
won't do. He won't anser. There is to
great q distance atween him and the
masses NV his party. He uses good Eng
I'lish, and wears clean shirt collars, and no
sich man kin ever hey the confidence and
esteem NV the Democracy NV the trooly
Dimocratic States. These things, yoo
may aver, are small and incoLsequenshel,
but deny it. They are Nv vital import
ance. There is material affinity between
Dimocrasy and dirty collars. Didst
never observe when Pendleton addrest
the freemen NV Injiany, how cold and
stun-like wuz the aujience ez his tirished
periods fell upon their ears? Didst never
hear Henry Clay Dean, whose shirts are
worn three consecutive months, and
whose stockins are never changed p
Didst never notis how he lifted 'em? II
amt there's any difference in the talk
it's in the shirt collar Besides, Pendle
ton hez none Nv the qualities necessary
to successful candidacy. He wuz born
tolerable well off, and he'd nary struggle
He didn't drive on the canal and study
Algebra on the back nv a kickin mule
and get knockt off by a profane Captir
for neglectin his duty; he wuzn't born in
log cabin in the backwoods, neither did
he study grammar by the lite NV pine
knot, witch he held in one hand and the
book in the other. He didn't learn shoe
maxim in his boyhood daze, when tbs
death Nv his father, which wuz lamenteo
by all who knew him, drove the family