Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-05
MIR. Nasty Returns from New
York before the Adjourn
ment of the Convention
How the Nominations Were
Received at the Corners.

EOsf OAklS OONFEDRIr x ROADS,
Wich is in the State Nv Kentukcy,
July 13, 1868.
I didn't stay in Moo York till the Con-
venshun adjourned, for most. excel
lent reason, to wit, viz: my money run
out The Milesiau female with whom
1 wuz forst to board required payment
in advance, and Nv course, under such
an arrangement there wuz nothing
left for me but to succum- The length
Nv my stay redoost itself to mere
matter Nv money. tried the borrow
in dodge, and the cheekin dodge, but
good Lord wat Good ! do with an en-
tire Convenshun, all 'em more or less
tryin to live in the same wayf | left
and come home when l Good. and be-
fore it wuz everlastingly too late.
When left l spozed there wuz no
doubt Nv the nominashen Nv Pendleton.
The young. eagle Nv the West" he'd
received l55 votes, and wuz q gainin,
and Seymore he'd declined so often an
SO persistently that goin back on my
yoosal disbelief in these fellers, heyin
declined great many offices myself
that | wanted, / really thought the
cuss wuz in earnist, and saw that moth
in Good stand between Pendleton and
success. Ez l left the Ohio riYer, l got
out Nv resch Nv the railrOdes and tele-
graphs, and told the people all along
that PendletoE had Din nominated on
the 10th ballot, and that the country
wuz all ablaze with enthooziasm for
him and greenbax, so certin wuz l Nv
his success.
On arriyin at the cofners 1 found
that intense anxiety wuz manifested
by the citizens thereof. They were all
gethared at Bascomb's dircussin the
matter when l hove in site on mule
wich he'd borrered at SecessionVille to
ride over onto.
"Who is it?" asks Deacon Pogram,
ketchin the mule by the bride, "Who
is its, and wat principles hev we got to
support this fall ?"
"Pepdleton and greenbax" shouted
1. "Pendleton, the young eagle Nv the
west, who is opposed to the bloated ar
istocratic bondholders, Wich wood
crush US labrin men into the dust.
Pen6leton, who believes that ef green
bax is good enaf for US home labrin
men, they are good enuf for the aris-
tocrat, who like the king in the nur-
sery rhyme, sits in the Parlor counting
his money. Pendle-"
-'Enuff," sed BascOm, "enutf. Save
that speech, Psrson, till we heV our
ratifcashen. In the meantime get OF
and take suthin. So good do / feel over
the result, that 1 am willin to stand
treet for the crowd. Come one, come
all"
These few remarks Nv Bascom wuz
hailed with satisfaction. EZ one man
the entire crowd moved into his place,
and ez one man they all asswaged their
thirst. Bascom kin move the Corners
quicker than any man in it. Wat 3
happy posishen is hizzin"
The next mite it Wuz desided to hev
a ratifcashen, that the Corners might
contribbit her mite towards swellin the
enthooziasm on the buzzum Of wich
Pendleton wuz to sweep to glory. We
met in the open air, in front nv Bas;
CONS, and the impashent crowd called
upon me to give an account Nv my
stewardship.
opened by Stain that 1 went to
Moo York under peeoolyerly embarass-
in circumstances. The whole money
power Nv the east wuz agin US. The ar
istocratic Belmont, wich is the agent
nv the Rothehilds, the money kings
Nv the world, was determined to foist
onto Dimocrisy either Chase, the &C
cursed abolitionist, or Seymour, the
pecoolyer pet Nv Wall Street, wich
street is, may sling in here for the
benefit nv my hearers, where the mon
ey bizness is mostly done, and where
they sleep on Government bonds, and
spend the heft Nv their lives a clippin
of the coopons."
"Wat is coOpons ?" asked Deekin
Pogram.
l explained to the blessed old saint
wat eoOpons wuz, and went on.
"Thls Wall Street influence wood
my brethren heV corrupted the Dimoc-
risy. Wall Street came into Tammany
Hall and wanted to control our ackshen.
But we wuznt to be purchist. The more
Wall Street offered to enslave the Dim
ocrisy, the more yoor representatives,
gloryin in their manhood, ,spurned ther
proffered bribes. We went ther deter
mined to emaneipste the yomanry Nv
the country from the bondage of the
bloated bondbolder-we went ther
pledged to Pendleton, the young eagle
Nv the west pledged to tender the
bloated bondholder the same dirty
rags wich he pade for his bonds
pledged to pay the bloated bondhold-
er, if we pade them anything. green
bax for his bloated bonds or nothin.
We went ther determined to annihi-
late this yer Seemore and his bloated
supporters"
"Rah for Pendleton !" sung out the
crowd. d.
"Three groans for Ssymore, the
bloated bondholders' agent"
Both cheers and gToans were given
with a will, and proceeded
my trends, you neV'H know wat we,
the peoples defenders, he'd to contend
with. The bloated bondholders he'd
money-we he'd none. They we're de-
termined to fasten the yoke on yoor
necks-We were determined TO hist 1t
off. They wuz determined to heY Sey-
mour with all Wall Street at his back
fastened onto your back to grind you
into dust, but feelin ef he should be
nominated we Good never support him,
we riz in our mite and compelled 'em to
withdraw this man and give US the
peoples choice, George II. Pendleton,
the eagle Nv the"
At this pint Deekin Pogrsm's son
Gamaliel, Wuz seen putin down the
hill ez fast ez his mule Good git. Joe
Bigler no:ist him fust, and rusht out
nv the crowd to intercept him. The
boy he'd q noospsper in his hand wich
Josef took from him and rusht to
where l wuz standin on the head Nv a
barl.
Here's the last Louisville paper, "
sez Josef unfolding it. "Shel read
it Z"
"Reed Reed !" yelled the crowd.
"GiV US the moose Nv the downfall Nv
the hloated bondholders-"
Before l reed" sed josef, who he'd
glanced at the headins Nv the telle-
graft collum, "giV three more cheers
for Pendleton and greenbax. Hip,
hip"
sRah p' cheered the crowd
"Now three groans, and let them be
good ones, for Seymore and his cussid
doctrin wich will grind US into the
dust under the heels Nv Belmont, and
aid the furrin capitalists to pay the
bonds in gold"
And they groaned ez heartily ez they
chaarad