The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-19
A. HEAD GOES To THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
Written for the Sunday Crescent

Having loaded my cart with some white beans,
lard, garden ssrse and ak handles, started for
New York to attend the Democratic Convention.
was told before started, that they was a set Of
sharpers, them New York fellers, but l made up
my mind they couldn't play no roots onto me. In
our town, where come from, / am counted
shrewd, calculstin' consumptive, and commenced
my political career by being appointed fence
viewer when very young. afterwards rising to
the gnity of stlectman and coroner. The latter
Office not the thing at all, as, the year that
had it. it was uDprOftaby and disgustngly quiet
there not being any suicides, murders or any OF
+ that sort Of thing, you know" only sOt on
Dne body during the year, and that never would
have paid me AIRED cent If hadn't had IL dug up
and cold 10 the doctors. But this has nothing 20
do with the Democratic party. for they never re-
surTected men except to vote the straight ticket.
dTiv into New York, and found the town was
full of folks talking rs though their cup was full
But they said it wssnt--saId they had drained il
TO the dregs during the last eight years. | went
and put up at Mister lrvDgs tavern after selling
my stOf, and giving my money TO the clark, told
him to give me resate and lock II mp. he took
il and put it into the refrigerator, and started
out 10 see what was going on. ] struck into
crooked street which they told me was Broadway,
but / couldn't see any broad about the way.
There was good many folks coming and going,
and sll dressed up in their Sunday .go.to-meetin'
clothes, and the fellers had such little coats and
tight pants that they looked as if their taiors had
run short Of cloth. They wouldn't make much
headway holding pillow or rolling cotton on the
levee. but they can lift about many betty cock
tails as snybodys son. | noticed good many of
'em take piece of lemon peel in their ice-Wster
before breakfast.
At last got to where lot of flags was strung
out, and they told me it was Tammsny Hall. |
started to go 10, but big chap with blue clothes
and silver buttons said "stsnd back )" and pointed
his club at me. j told him was selectman in
our town, and | had come TO the Democratic
| Convention. said he, "hev you your creden-
- Al
ard told him | bad sold 'em. He told me to
| git" and got. Was these liberty? thought |.
Was these what we was payin' taxes for, aud suf-
| FERN the high price of beef? would not, as a
free and henlightened citizen of the United
States, submit to such an iDdignty. / told 'em |
belonged to the press, and | was gOin' to press
in and at last | did. True the press is migh'ier
| than "tbe saber Of my paW 1t is the Archim.
edes handrpIke that moves the world, ana re-
cords the deaths and marriages for the body
polite. If the Dimercratic nominees is elected
| IN November the press will be principally to
blame. and il is to be hoped that =
Well, got into the convention with the crowd
and, contrary TO the u0Oly lOil" newspapers, |
found the stars aud stripes as thick as bees in
country flower garden, and portraits of sIch
rebels as Washington, Clay Jefferson aud Jack.
son, the straight haired feller who said that the
Union must and shall be preserved" (Instead
Of preserved the "radikle" papers make 1t
pickied.) We all took seats and one of the dele
gates proposed that the rules of the present
| House of Representatives govern this assem-
blsge," when no jumped another and said that
| the House of Representatives couldn't govern
themselves with them rules. and he didn't think
they fit for the Dimercratic party. This
disloil remark, but II took just as well. This
was copDeIhead' body, you know, and saw
| in it. takin' an active part, sich rebels Gen,
McCleTnsrd, Gen. Franklin, Gen McCoOk, Gen.
Steedman, Gen. G anger and them, who had made
a mistake and been fighting or years for the
Constitution it used to was. Gen. Hancock,
another rebel, wasn't there in body, but he was
in spirit, and spirits has got to be very bad now
adHys. How is it possible that these generals
can forget that the was fit for the Union and
the Institution as it will be after it is washed
and ironed, and the Republican party as it now
hangs out to dry! II is unfOrtu ate that they so
far forget themselves as to remember sich shinn
lights as Ben Butler and them.
But then there was about twenty FIVE or thirty
thousand soldiers and sailors in MisterE CoOpers
Institute that as just IS blind and Infatuated as
| the generals up above spoken Of, and they was
| hOlOIn' a convention too, in which the disloil
cusses said right out 10 meetin' that they thought
they was fghtin in the Union army for white men
ard white mems rights. and that when the South
erners sad they had got enuH II was time to quit.
And then they went on TO state that the Southern
folks ought to be trested like civil zed beings aud
have white men to govern 'em, and have cafe
o'lGH with milk into it if they wanted all of
which was tIsitorous talk and tended to break MP
the Union or bend it bad, anyhow. The truth is,
neither of these conventions should have been
| allowed. Let us force these disOyal Democrats
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| speech as exemplifed by our great and glorious
| Republican party for the past six years. II the
Democrats wantliberty, let em pay their taxes and
| be quiet To think of them Dimercratic soldiers
| who only fit years, hsyin' the impotence to
| claim a share of the Offices! 1t wont work
/ White amt a fast color
| Well Tammany II all proceeded 10 call the roll
of the Northern States and Southern stRtuses and
| strange to cay, the ignorant Democrats knew their
| names and was perfectly able TO read and write
| had been told and had read in the Bsgpipe OF
| Freedom noOsepaper that nobody IN the Demer
| cratic party could read or write. But il seems a
| good many of em were sent to school in the Old
| Capitol Prison and some of the forts, because
beydidn't hurraw on the right side, aud pay their
taxes and be quiet, and enjoy the great blessings
of liberty durin' the suspension OF the hdbedS cor
| Ulis aud Mrs. Surratt
| Tammany Hall was now ablaze. II looked diff
| ferent from the conventions DOM South there
wasn't any Of the Abyssinians there. Why! |
| asked with vehements. Because there was no $40
| "Ler diem per day." & because the slol Demo.
| Gratis wouldn't have 'em. Thunder! How could
they hold convention without 'em. Bat no
tced that with the absence of "colored" delegates
| at Tsmmsny Hall. there was an abundance OF
| poultry at the botesl Singular coincidence
| But after two or three days good natured fight
| in, the Dimecrsis have nominated obscure
| re bells called Sew mOur aud Blair. Orr Republican
| party is laughing itself to death to thilk you
should have picked out them men when they are
| so easy TO beat. Ha, ha, haw! Why. you fel,ers
can't carry moren New Hampshire, Connecticut,
| New York, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Oregon,
Co ifoina and pc, sbly Missouri and or Southern
States TO save ye all the rest goes Republican
Then If we should let you electa Dimecratic preh
dent. we've got Congress and wen tie his hands
These is "the legitimate fruits Of the war"
But we will wait till November, and then we
| may See more Peacefully yours, A. HEAD.
|
| The largest and most enthusiastic political pro
| cess on ever seen in the streets of New Orleans
l l.. Anrln rnirk