The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-23

Otuteg tennessee t..r.
/ almost tainted This nigger, then,
wuz delegate He wuz reger del
egate, armed and equipped with regler
credenshels to. a Democratic Nashnel
Convenshen, and / he'd been guilty in
my zeal Nv assaultin Nv him! Gladly
l apologized, and further, / bumbly
begged permission to sit beside him
wich he accorded with graciousnis |
never saw exalted. a ER aaf
1t was astonishin the change that
crept over the Injeany delegates. They
crowded round us aud shook him by
the hand-they didn't smell any odor
at all any more on the contrary they
seemed to like him. They addrest him
ez Mister" and sevral Nv EN- in iu-
terdoocin him to their friends who got
on at various stashens, yoosed the pre-
fix, Honorable" Its wonderful wat
a difference it makes with a niger to
hev vote. and also how he votes a.!
He'd that Williams bin infected with
AbIishnism, / make no doubt that the
stencil wich | RELY fancied ! smelt
when | fust undertook to subjoogate
him, wood hey continyood to the end
NV the trip. In olden time it was OBJ
served that slave niggers didn't smell
lit wuz only the free ones. 1t is a
settled fact now that Democratic mig
gers are inodorous Unite bev known,
however, that tie nigger was free mig
ger, by the way he pitched into me.
No nigger in state of servitood wood
ever hev did such thing. That much
they owe to the war, anyhow.
My principal ohjick in going to Moo
York wuz to do wat Good toward Sc
coorin the Dominashen nv Jethro l..
Kippins found the delegates badly
tore up. The offers made for votes
wuz so ridiculously low that there wuz
much disgust manifested. The trouble
wuz that the markit wuz oyerstockt.
He'd the convepshun bin pretty ekally
divided, and the balance Nv power held
by few clost mouthed souls, they Good
hev made a good thing Nv it. But
where whole Convenshen is in the
markit, and all their infooenshel trends,
no candidate kin afford to buy. !
withdrew Mr.. Kippins to-wunst, for ez
he he'd but small farm, and that mort
gagged to a grosery Keeper, the dele
gates | approacht laft me to scorn.
wuz on the Committee on Resolu-
shens, or ruther wuz in the room ez a
sort Nv advisory committee while the
resolooshens wuz bein draftid Gen.
Forrest, nv Tennessee, wuz partiklerly
anxsaus that resolooshen shood be
adoptid denouncin the Radicals, who
wuz, with unholy hands, strivin to
destroy the best government the sun
ever shone upon, aud one the destruc-
ton of wich wood be calamity wich
unborn millions wood shed tears over
He desired a resolooshen pledgin the
Dimocrisy to stan by the old Stars and
Stripes, witch flag he'd braved a thou
sand brepzes, and wuz synonomous, ct
settry. Mr. Woolley, Mr. Cobb, (Mrs
Cobb's husband), and Perry Fuller per
tikelery desired a resolooshen demand
in the turnin out Nv offs Nv corrup
men, that the government mite be ad'
ministered with suthin like the purity
wich distinguished it doorin the ad
ministrashen NV the late lamentid Book
annon, at the menshun NV whose name
ever delegate present held handker.
cher to bis eyes for FIVE consecutive
minits, ez tho great greet he'd fallen
onto him.
Vallandygum insistid that plank b.
inserted wich recognized niger suff
rage, but that wuz withheld ontil i
Good be definitely assertained whether
Mississippi wuz RELY carried by niggel
votes or not. Eff a majority NV tht
niggers did RELY vote the Democratic
ticket, it wuz decided that they shooC
be recognized ez our ekals--ef not
we'd see EN- id first. aru .ra
Cheet Justis Chase wuz espeshelly
anxyus for a resolooshen denouHcin IL
the severest terms them onprineipled
fanatical Radicals, who for years heC
bin laborin to subvert the government
by interferin with the persons and prop
erty NV citizens, and also pledgin th'
Convenshun to that wise conservatism
without wich ther Good be no perman
ence in our government,
dropt into the SoGers' and Sailers
Convenshen, but I didn't stay long
Them whose noses wuzn't red all want
ed to be either President or cabine
offisers; and Nv the balance Nv em, tn
leastest sed the better. My sole indig
mated ez / saw seated among EN- tn
very sutler who refoosed me credi
when ] wuz seryin ez a drafted man II
1862; and also claim agent who go
$40 NV me on the promis Nv gettin m!
bounty, wich when he got it he absorb
ed ip fees, costs and commissions
There wuz Nv coorse some troo men
Their wuz soljers ther wich resigne
early in the war on account Nv it bell
id Ablishin war, and others wh
left becoz Linkin wuznt rapid enutf il
maxim Nv EN- Major Generals. Their
wuz no limit to ther speekin. Ever
wun he'd the speech wich he delivere
at the Cleveland Convenshen in 1876
carefully preserved, and they all insist
on deliverin EN-, wich ez l left the
were doin, all to themselves. Ef the
kin stan it | am willin. We are goi
IN hev a Soliers' Convenshen in Rich