Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-06-11
solaced myself with three fingers NV

ally fell among. The s'loOn keepers
wieh in remembrance NV the Demo
cratic Convenshun NV 1864 had mad
extra preparashuns, wnz gloomy, ss'
and disappointed These places
garnisht for the occasion wuz sa'
ard lonely. There wuz an entir
absence NV that gentle gurgle wiel
to me is so pleasin, there wuz non
NV the generous noses and face
lighted with the radiance born u
the bari which 1 am so accustomed
to. No, Chicago wuz no place 70
me: o
Its the last Republican convensher
I shel ever attend. The idea NV /,
conference sittin In the same city witt
a convenshen! The idea nv minglir
politics with religion! Will ther'
be conferences in Moo York in Jooly
Methinks not, onless indeed my
church shood decide to hold one.
On my return we wuz settin in
Bascom' s dlscussin the nominashuns
Deekin Pogram wuz indignant, and
sed, with horror in his sainted face,
s'Kin it be that men perfessin nash
mel views wood offer sich insult to
Kentucky ez to nominate sioh man
ez Grant, who, sword in hand, devas-
tatid her turtle fields and piled the
bodies NV her nootral sons who re-
sisted his advance mountain high? -
Kin it be that" aes
EASY, Deekin," replied I, .stiddy!
stiddy! Don't take posishen rashly
1t amt improbable that we may hey
to, nominate Hancock or some other
soGer. In that event-but I've sed
enuff." . ir-
"Well, at all evence," sed the
Deekin, ''it's most hoomiliatin
thing to hev thrown in our faces in
famous proposishen to pay a debt
injured in q infamous attempt to
subjoogate us--to pledge our labor
to pay a debt unconstitooshnally in,
kurred, and un--"
"Deekin," said 1, "yoor zeal / dc
admire. but yoor RELY indiscreet.--
1t may be found necessary in order
to carry Moo York to nominate Bel
monts man, who will be pledged to
this very thing. Go little slow"
swell, however that may be, it's
burnin shame to throw into Ken,
tucky's face Abolisnnist-two Nv
EN- in fact--and-"
"Deekin," l spoke this time Sc
verely) '"syoor very indiscreet to-day
It's possible, and may say proba
BILE, that that noble patriot, Chez
Justis Chase, who hez bin fritefu
Ablishnist, and who, eff he runs, will
for obvius reasons, make US swallel
at the beginnin portion Nv his her
estes, may be our candidate. Say
nothin Deekin that yoo'l hev TO take
back"
--- Foslin that rits here wnz splen
did chance for an lmprovin discorst
on the nacher, objicks and aims oI
Dimocrisy, / opened out onto em.
Dimocrisy, I remarkt, is distin
guished cheefly fur its elasticity in
adaptin means to ends. One wood
suppose that Postoflis is its cheei
emil In one sense it is. Dimocrisy
is willin' to sacrifice anything which
it hez for Postoflis. 1t mite raise
Deekin Pogram's ire to sujest the
nominashen NV Hancock, on akkount
NV his insistin on payin' off the
nashnel debt, or Chase, who hez biz
in his day suspected Nv bein tainted
with Ablishnism. But, my brother
iEg, let it he remembered that sue
cess is the main objick. Success il
what Baseom wants, that l, being
continyood in oils, may hev tn
means to pay for the likker | con
SOON, and avoid the necessity W
bein continyooally rekested to chali
it down, which practis he esteemi
disgustin, and one which greatly in
creases his labors. Ceptain McPel
ter wants success that he may con
tinyoo to hev Assessors, Collectors
Revenoo officers with which he car
divide the profits NV the 81 tax on
the whisky he makes, and Deekir
Pogram wants success that he mal
hev his niggers agin, or at least tha
he may hev the privilege Nv hiril
EN- for $14 per month, deducting q
cents per dag for each days absence
without no Burow ofliser or militar.
satrap hanging about to molest o
make afraid. Success is the mai
pint, and ef Hancock is the way
walk We in it--ef Chase or Seymou
is the way, walk We ditto, for will
each NV these men all these thing
we'll hev. When they come to us
they leave their former selves be
hind. @.-'4 .ii19 - '''-
But melhinks i hear one say, Han
cock is soljer, Seymour anti re
pudiator, and Chase a Ablishnist!-
| Wat NV that? They may be wat they
| like when they, go into oflls--assosia
shun with us fetches them sooner o'
later. Kin 700 fetch pitch and mo-
be defled? Doolittle, 'Cowan anc
Dixon wuz Ablishnists When they
split from Ablishnism--the mini
| thew fell into our embraces--they be
came ez satisfactory Dimokrats ez
| Good wish. The road down is al
easy one to travel. It's easier tC
slide than to climb, wich IS the rea
son why so many more are damned
than saved. Dlmocrisy, like Bas
! CONS new likker, holds man whel
4 it gifts him. Johnson wuz a goot
enuff Ablishnist till he called ont
us for help, and then he wuz lost
Let Chase stay with US a week an
4 he'd forget all his old ideas, yo
bet. Shood yoo poke that silve
pitcher at him the niggers give hir
at Cincinnati, for defendin a fugi
tive, he'd swear he never saw it,
And there is no goin back for tn
principal ,one. Their remerse kln'
o. drives em deeper and deeper ~
they finally are worse than ez .n' s
they originally wuz Nv u.s. LEI ol, i,