Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-12-11
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NASBYs
Mr.. Nasby PrOnOunces I'm Fa-
VOr of A. Johnson.
Posr OFFICE CoNTEDRIT X ROADS,
(which is in the Stsit Nv Ky.l
Nov. 25, 1867.

(which is in the Stait Nv Ky.l
Nov. 25. 1867.
Lest week l received from Postmas-
ter General Randall the follerin breef
note:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.
SIR: The tenor Nv otis act does
not sheeld you from removal. Wood
it not be we'll for you to declare yoor
preference for the Presidency 1t is
my opinion that President johnson
Good be indoost to accept the nomina-
shen A. W. RANDALL. P. NJ. g.
To P. V. Nasty, P. NJ. Confedris Y
Roads.
This note, kiVerin threat, put me
into a perspirashen- Why, bless the
Presidents dear sole, Nv course l kin
express my preference for the Presi-
dency. Certainly l kin. believe in
A. johnson. He is my fust and only
choice, and will be for fifteen months
to come, without fail. L can not say
very much for him, but l kin aboose
his competitors, and that, possibly
amounts to the same thing The fol-
lerin is a note l shel send the Presi-
dent for insershun in his organ:
Ed. NAsHNEL INTELLIcENcER:
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 DimOcratlc
Nashnel Convenshun There are
many gentlemen spoken Nv in connec-
shun with the place, and their claims
l perpose. breehy, to consider.
The first is Gen Geo. B. Mcclellan,
whose body hez recently bin raised for
that purpose. Gen. Mcclellan is not,
1 don't think, Objectionable to the
! Southern people. They hev a natral
and normal objection to the man who
drawd his sword agin them in the late
onpleasantnis, but they do not believe
{ that Gen. G.. B. did this. At least if
he did it, it VIVA only Operative His
services to the Confederscy in bnryin
the tens NV thousands ~ Fedril sojers
afore Richmond, the brilliant strategy
NV, his lootenants in tyin the hands Nv
Pope and Burnside, aud keepin them
/ from hurtin US, and finally, his runnin
with Pendleton agin Linkin, all bind
| him to the Southern heart. Any one
who coed hev run agin Linkun in 1864
4 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 thegnext 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 pres
tige. He hez bin defeated wunst, hez
George, and il won't do to take up
whipt rooster. Evidently he is out Nv
the ring. ----s
Next on the carpet is Pendleton.-
Geo. f. Pendleton, I say unhesitating-
", won't do. He won't anser. There
is too crate a distance atween him and
the masses Nv his party. He uses good
English, and wears clean shirt collars,
and no sich man kin ever heV the con-
fdence and esteem NV the Democracy
Nv the trooly Dimocratic States. These
things, yoo may aver, are small and IN.
consequenshel, but deny it. They
are NV vital importance. There is A
material affinity between Dimocrasy and
dirty collars. Didst never observe
when Pendleton addrest the freemen
Nv JDjiany, how cold and stun-ike
wuz the anjience ez his finished peri
DDS fell upon their ears ? Didst never
hear Henry Clay Dean. whose shirts
are worn three consecutive months,
and whose stockins are never changed?
Didst never notis how he lifted 'em
1t amt there's any difference in the
talk-it's in the shirt collar. Besides,
Pendleton hez none Nv the qualities
necessary to successful candidacy. He
wuz born tolerable well of, and he'd
nary struggle in his yooth. He didn't
drive on the canal and study Algebra
on the back Nv kickin mule, and get
knockt off by profane Captin for ne
glectin his duty he wuzn't born in a
log cabin in the backwoods, neither
did he study grammar by the lite Nv a
pine knot. Wich he held in one hand
and the book in the other. He didn't
learn shoemakin in his boyhood daze,
when the death NV his father, which
wuz lamented by all who knew him,
drove the family into poverty neither
did he, while on the shoe bench, feel
within him the oravins Nv a noble am
bishen, and risin, rush with his apron
on to law offs and demand to be re-
/ ceeved ez q student. None Nv these.
He wuz born Nv rich, but respectable
parence, who put him thro' college and
started him in life ez comfortable ez
ever a young man Wuz started in the
world. It's plane to me that Pendle-
I ton won't do.
The same objekshens hold agin Sey-
mour. 1 hev no objekshuns to him,
he hez done his party seryis. TWuz
him who made a speech to our Irish
fellow citizens who wuz engaged in as
sertin their sooperiority over the Afri
kin 0rfun Asylums, in Moo York, IN
1868, by burnin Nv EN- and beatin out
the brains Nv the orfuns, and no man
| doorin the war wuz a firmer friend Nv
our Southerns than he, but he's auoth-
er Pendleton. Sich a man might an
ser for Vice President. but never for
the head Nv the ticket.
Pierce amt to be thot nv, Booksnan
coodnent stand the pressure the pres
sure NV the offis-seekers q mint at his
age, and sich NV our Southern Dino
cratic Statesmen ez are fit for the place
are either far away in exile, or are pro-
hibited from acceptin the oils wich
we would be glad to give EN-, by the
laws Nv a unconstooshnel COngris for
particapashen in the late unpleasant
MIS-
Vallandygum remains to US. but he
amt aTaleable. The fact is, Vallandy-
gum hez out-lived his day. He'd he
bin actooated by desire to benefit his
party he wood hev purposely irritstei
the guard wich arrested HIM, to the
extent that they wood heV perforated
his bowels, and died on the spot, with
appropriate words for us to put on ban
ners and sich. Then he wood hey bin
Nv use to us. We Good hev pinted TO
his dead body and in Sepulkrel tones
exclaimed martyr" But he selfishly
res5osed to die, and took remarkable
good care to preserve hissef intact,
and returned to plague US. A live po-
litikle martyr is a most inconyenient
piece Nv furnytoor. Msrters are very
ike gruntin swine. Nv yoose only alter
death, and then they are fit only for
present yoose. However sweet they
may be while fresh, they won't do 10
salt down. The story Nv his wrongs
did well enuff for two. or three cam
paigns, but the people hev he'd enutf
NV it-It sours on their stumiks. Its
got to be to the Democracy, wat hash
| Is to boarders. 1t obtrudes ITSELF
| Wbap thara Ia q Sanatcr -tO elect I'M