Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-06-10
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THE CHICAGO CONVENTION-MR NASBY
ATTENDS IT AND GETS ON A HEAVY
DISGUST-A LECTURE ON DEMOCRACY.

THE CHICAGO coNvENTIoN-MR. NAsBY
ATTENDS 1T AND GETS ON A HEAVY
DISGUST-A LECTURE ON DEMOCRACY.
Posi- OFUs, CoNFEDERIr X ROADS.
(Which is III the State ny Kentucky May "a,
L wuz at Chicago one day, and that
one day satisfied me. Nv ears WIZ
stunned with rOrs for Grant; whichever
way turned my eyes | saw nothing
but Grant badges and Grant medals
the bands wuz all playin the Star Span
gled Banner and SIGH, and even the
street organ grinders he'd attooned their
Tyres to the same Ablishun melodies.
On my arrival / askt vishus boy
lwlch l knowd wuz Dimerkratic, from
the fact that his little shirt wood hev
hung out NV his little pants eff he'dhed,.
any shirth. eff he Good show me WheM
the Ablshun COnvenshun WIZ hOldin
itself
en- InT1er sin,iyy Kin, my old buffer sed
with a steeple to it. - y ''''"t''
L entered it, and wuz surprised, not
only at the fewness NV the delegates Oh
the floor, but at their pecoolyer appear
ance. They did MT look like delegates
to any Convenshun | he'd ever attended.
Their noses wuzn't NV the color he'd
ben accustomed to. They wuz all sol
emn lOokin chaps with gold spectacles,
black coats, high foreheds and white
neckerchcrs. as this" thot l to my
self, "the uniform delegates wear at
Republican conversions ?'
At this pint | turned to a man sittin
beside me, and in an undertone askt
wich wuz ahed on the last ballot, Col
fax or Wade?
"Sir," sed he, care you Johnson
postmaster?o
ssT o,r, ~ cod | IofontJx, ttIJov, J;Jt,
determine that pint?n
"By yOor breth," sed he. "Yoor mis-
taken in the place my friend. This is
a Methodist conference"
That wicked and perverse boy he'd in
tenshenelly deceived me. al
On my return we wuz settin in Bas-
CONS a discussin the nominashuns.
Deekin Program wuz indignant, "Good
Heavens ~ said he, with horrors in his
sainted face, " Kin it be that men per-
fessin nashnel views wood offer SIGH an
insult to Kentucky ez to nominate SIGH
a man ez Grant, who, sword in hand,
.deyastaid her fertile fields and piled the
bodies NV her noOtral sons who resisted
his advance mountains high? Kin it
be that
easy, Deekin," replied l. "stiddy!
stiddy! Don't take posishen rashly. 1t
amt impossible that we may hev to
nominate Hancock or some other sOjer.
In that event-but I've sed enuff.p ~
"Well at all evence,v sed the Deekin,
'its a most hoomiliatn thing to hev
thrown in our faces a infamous propo-
sishen to pay debt injured in infa-
nous attempt to subjoogate us-to pledge
our labor to pay debt unconstitoosh-
unally injured, and I'M"
''Deellin," sed l ''yoor zeal do adj
N, ir, bnt ,rnor raoIv inI;ooroaf II n,ox,
be found necessary in order to carry Moo
York to nominate Belmont's man, who
will be pledged to this very thing. Go
a little SLOW"
swell, however that may be, it's a
burnin shame to throw into Kentuck's
face Abolishinist-two NV EN- in fact
-and-n ''t.4'
"Deexin," q spoke this time severely
''yOor very indiscreet to-day. It's pos
sible, and may say probable, that that
noble patriot, Cheef Justis Chase, who
hez bin a friteful Ablishnist, and who
eff he runs, will, for Obvius reasons,
make us swaller at the beginin q pOl-
shen NV his heresies, may be our candi-
date. Say nothin, Deekin, that yoo'l
hev to take back" .1st..l '
Feelin that rite here wuz splendid
chance for an improvin discourse on the
nacher, Objicks, and aims NV democra-
cy, | opened out onto EN-.
" Dimocrisy," I remarkt, sis distin
guished cheeiiy for its elasticity in adap-
tin means to ends. One wood suppose
that Post-O Offs is its cheef end. In one
sense it is. Dimocrisy is willin to sac
rifice any thing which it hez for Post
Offs. 1t might raise Deekin Pogram's
ire to sejest the nominashen NV Han
cock, on akkount NV his slawterins, on
Belmont's candidate on account NV his
insistin on paying off the Nashnel Debt,
| or Chase who hez bin in his day suspec-