The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-07-30


pretty ekally divided, and the bal
ance Of power held by a few close
mouthed souls, they Good hev made a
good thing of it. But where a whole
Convenshen is in the markit, and all
their infoOenshel friends, no candidate
kin afford to buy. I withdrew Mr..
Kippins tn wunst; ez he hez but a
small farm, and that mortgaged to a
grosery keeper, the delegates I ap-
prOacht laft me to skOrn.
Wuz on the Committee on ResO-
looshens, or ruther wuz in the room
ez sort Nv advisory committee while
the resOlooshens was bein drafted.
Gen. Forrest, NV Tennessee, wuz par
tikerly anxhus that a resOlooshen.
shood be adOptid denouncin the Rad
icals, who wuz, with unhOly hands, a
striven to destroy the best Govern
ment the sun ever shown upon, and
one the destruction NV wich wood be
a calamity wich unborn millions wood
shed tears over. He desired a resO-
loOshen pledgin the DimOcricy to stan
by the old Stars and Stripes, wich flag
he'd braved a thousand breezes, and
wuz synonymous, ct settry. Mr..
WOolIey, Mr.. Cobb, (Mrs. Cobb's hus
band), and Perry Fuller pertikelery,
desired a resoloOshen demandin the
turnin out Nv offs corrupt men, that
the government might be administer
ed with suthin like the purity wich
distinguished it durin the administra-
tiOn Nv the late lamented BoOkannOn,
at the mention of whose name every
delegate present held a hankercher to
his eyes for five consecutive minits, ez
tho a CRATE greet had fallen onto him.
Vaflandygum insisted that plank
be inserted wich recognized nigger
suffrage, but that wuz withheld ontil
it Good be definitely assertained
whether Mississippi wuz RELY carried
by the nigger votes or not. Eff ma
jOrity Nv the niggers did RELY vote
the Dimocratic ticket, it wuz desided
that they shoOd be recognized ez our
ekals-ef not, we'd see 'em id fust.
Cheef Justice Chase wuz espeshelly
anXyus for a resOlOoshen denOuncin
in the severest terms them Onprinci-
pied, fanatikal Radikels, who for years.
he'd been labOrin to subvert the gov
ernment, by interferin with the per-
suns and property Nv citizens and also
pledgin the COnvenshun to that wise
conservatism without wich there Good
be no permanence in our government.
I drOpt into the SOjers' and Sailors
COnvenshen, but / did MT stay long
Them whose noses wuznt red all want
ed to be either President or cabinet
Orfsers; and NV the balance Nv EN-,
the leastest sed the better. My sole
indignated ez l saw seated among 'em
the very sutler who refOOsed me credit
when l wuz servin ez a drafted man in
'62; and also claim agent who got $40
NV me on the promise NV gettin my
bounty, which when he got it he alb
snrbed in fees costs and commissions.
Their wuz of cOorse some trOO men.
Ther wuz sOGers ther wich resigned
early in the war on akkOunt Nv its
bein a id Ablishin war, and others
who he'd left becoz LinKin wuznt rap
id enuff in maxim NV 'eln Major Gen
erals.
Their wuz no limit to their speekin. |
Every wun he'd the speech which he
delivered at the Cleveland Convenshen |
in 1866 carefully preserved, and they
all insisted on deliverin EN-, wich ez 1
left they were dOin, all to themselves.
Eff they kin stan it I am willin. We
are agOin to hev Soljers Convenshen
in Richmond to ratify the nOmina-
shens, witch will amount to suthin.
We shell hev Forrest ther, and |
BOregard and Breckenridge, and ther
speeches will count. We will hev the
flags NV the two Governments entwin-
I'd, and will hev the moosic Nv both
sections played. Sich a Convenshen
will amount to suthin.
Wat the platform will be, or who
he candidates will be, the Lord only
knows. 1 am prepared for anythin,
md so are all the delegates. Eff its
PendietOn, on reputation platform,
we'll and goOd-ef its Seymour, on IA
Nashnel Bank platform jest ez good.
shood be happy to see Breckin-
'idge the choice NV the party, and de-
lighted ef Hancock shood be chosen.
kin hurrah for Chase, and with ekal
7igger kin swing my hat for Vallan-
iygum, and find all the delegates
affected. The Post Offs is
S the lean kline wich swallers up all
The others. We are willin to sink
every thing in Post Offs. That my
sincerity may not be doubted, let it be
that I.hev rid with Mig
ger from Ingeany to Moo York hev
been whaled by one and hev felt good
over it, hev bin hurrahin for old line
and swearin the while.
T'liked it, Ef any other evidence Nv
iexibility is needed, 1 feel ekaI to the
ask, Politically am ekal to all en-
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ,
(Which is PUstmaster.)