The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-06-05

I'LL pCSsuO h1S3 s>haN ia s>NA
askt wich wuz ahed ON the last ballot,
ColfaX or Wade?
Sir sed he, are 700 a johnson
= ~ --.-f,
Il am sed / definantly. How
didst determine that pint 2
BY yoor BREATH sed be. 'Yoor
mistaken in the place, my trend
This is q Methodist. Conference
That wicked and perverse boy he'd
intenshnelly deceived me. -ss-a.7 ss-i'.
Unable 10 obtane admission into
the Opera House. l whiled away the
rosy hours D visitin tue delegashen
rooms. The Ingeany delegashen OF.
fered me water when intimated
wuz athurst- The Ohio delegashel
knew me on site and rekested me tG
dust, and the Caliiorny delegashen
NV wfch expected better things. hed
the impudence to ofsr me wine
Wine. Wine. to feed sich nose ez
carry about. Wine to satisfy, tn,
cravins NV sich q stumick ez mine
Faughi Aud the man ~h0'did it het
bin in Californy twenty yeers!
Disguised at the thinness NV thu
beverages. ] retired into friendl,
hostelry kept by Dennis O'Shsugh
nessey, and at his hospitable bar
solaced myself With three fingers u
Kentucky sustenance.
There wuz no enthoosiasm amOnI
the citizens NV Chicago wich 1 mater
ally fell among. The s'loon keepers
wich in remembrance Nv tine Demo
kratic Conyenshun NV 1864 had mad
extra prsparashans. wuz gloomy, sa'
and disappointed. Thess places
garnisht for the occasion, Euz So
and lonely. There wuz an entire alb
sence NV that gentle gurgie wich +
me is so pleasin, there wuz none W
the generous noses and faces lights'
up with the radiance born Nv the bari
wich am SO accustomed to. &c
Chicago wuz no place for me.
Its the last Republican convenshel
/ shel ever attend. The idea nv
conference sittin in the same city wit
convenshen! The idea NV minglil
politics with religion! Will there b.
conferences in Moo York in JOOlyi
NJ ethinks not, Onless, indeed, my
church shOOd decide to hold one.
On my return we wuz q settin il
Bascom's a discussin the nomina
shens. Deekin Pogram wuz indig
nant. Good Heayensr sed he will
horror in his saintsd face, Kin it b.
that men perfessin nashnel views
wood offer sich a insult to Kentucky
ez to nominate sich a man ez Grant
who, sword in hand, devastated hel
fertile zelda and piled the bodies u,
her nootral sons wilO resisted his ad
vance mOuntins high2 Kin it b'
that
Easy, peekin,' replied I, 'stiddy
stiddy! Don't take q pOsjshen rashly
1t amt improbable that we nay he'
to nominate Hancock or some othel
soGer. In that event-but I've sec
enuff.'
We'll, at all evence,' sed the Deck.
in, its a most hOOmiliatin thing tG
hey thrown in our faces a infamous
propOsishen to pay debt injured
in infamous attempt to subjoogate
us-to pledge our labor to pay debt
unconstltoOshnally injured, and
un-
'Deekln,' sed /, 'yoor zeel / do ad-
mire, but yoor RELY indiscreet Ii
may be found necessary in order to
carry AOO York to nominate Bel
monts man, who will be pledged to
this very thing. Go little slOw.'
well, however that may be, it's a
burnin shame to throw into Ken
tacky's face a Abolishnist-two Nv
EN- in fGct-and-'
'Deekin,' { 1 spoke this time sever
ely) 'yOOr very indiscreet to day
It's possible, and l may say probable,
hat that noble patriot, Cheef Justis
Chase, who hez bin iriteful Ablish-
1ist, and who, eff he runs, will, for
,bvius reasons, make us swaller al the
oeginin a porshen NV his heresies,
nay be our candidate. Say nothin,
)eekin, that yoO'l hev to take back.
Feelin that rite here wuz a splendid
haRce for an improvin discourse on
he nacher, objicks and aims NV De.
nOeracy, opened out onto EN-.
'Dimocrisy,' l remarkt is distin- |
5uished cheefy for its elasticity in
daptin means to ends. One wood
uppose that Postoflis is its cheef
nd In one sense it is. Dimocrisy
wlllIn to sacrifice anything which it
ez for POstOtlis. 1t mite raise Deekin
ire to sejest the nomina
hen Nv Hancock, Oh akkount nv his
or Relm0nt's candidate ON
kkount NV his insistin on pawn off
he Sachnel debt, or Chase who hez
in in his day sus pected NV beip
linted with Ablishi. ISM. But nv
retiring let it be remembered that
lccess is the main objick. Success
wat BascOm wants, that l, bein
in offs, may hev the
eans to pay for the likker l con-
,om, and to avoid the aecessity NV
Elm continyOolly rekested to chalk!
down, which practis he esteems dis
lstin, and one wich greatly increas
his labOrs. Captain McPelter $
ants success that he may continyooI
hev Assessors, Collectors and Rev.
100 offiseIs with wIch he kin divide
e profits NV the $500 tax on the {
lisky he makes, and Deekin Pogram c
ants success that he may hev his '
ggers agin, or at least that he may {.
v the privilege NV hirin EN- for "a +
r month, deductin 25 cents per day u
r each days absence. withuot no
lrow offiser or other military satrap
ngin about to molest or make 90
aid. Success is the mainpint, and q
Hancock is the way, walk We in it i
et Chase or Seymour is the way, o
TX ye ditto, for with either Nv these Ii