The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-03

July 27. 1868.
We he'd meetin at the Corners nite
afore last for the purpus NV orgRniztn
Seymore and Blare Club. Their wuZ
ruther spectacle show Nv enthoosi-
asm at the beginnin. Deektn Pogram,
who hez an ambishun nv becomin the
collector Nv The Deestrik, wuz reely
affected ez he spoke NV the many good
qualities NV our noble standard bearer,
| Seymore; and Kernel McPe1ter, who
| hez his beamin eye onto the Assessor
ship, wuz similarly bold and outspoken
| in his admirashen NV their crate quail.
ties. The Kernel wuZ espeshly elO!
kent, ez he spoke NV the gratenis Nv
Gineral Frank Blare, wich he he'd
rite to admire. Ther wuZ suthin about
him so noble. so grand, SO patriotic,
and SO troo, that he felt that he must
weave, one little oratoricle chaplet for
his classikle brow. Ez soljer, he
shood cbeertly support soljer.
Nv coorse 1 made the regler speech
wich is alluz expected Nv me. slung
sliteIy into the biography Nv our cheef-
tains, tribooted meekly to ther good
qualities nv head and heart, discussed
the platform and commended 1t, and
wound up with an impressive appeal TO
the Dimocrisy 10 rally to ther support
without division or hesitancy.
wuz about gittin fairly lanched into
my perorashen, when Elder Penni-
DAGK9E arose 11o LSLAoLAN AS AGA q
word which he must say.
"Certinly, Elder, "sed l, "say yoor
saw. We want all the faithful 10 speek.
Free Yoor mind. Gush onto us."
II shell, )" sed the Elder, trust me for
that. To begin with L Pernounce this
entire bizuis a most onmitigated swim
die. I.may possibly vote the Seymore
ticket, but don't-like it. A man who
ct crow wunst remarkt that while be
Good eat crow, he coodent tconshtenshus-
ly saw that he hankered arter it. Even
SO with the nominashun. wuz and
am a Pendletonian; am bleever in
the doctrin Nv greenqack payments Nv
The bonds. 1 haint no bonds myself,
but 1 hate the bloated bond holders.
Ez don't pay no taxes myself, l, in
common with the heft Nv the Dino
crisy, hate and loath the party which Is
Prindin us into dust with taxashen for
The payment NV the unconstooshnel
debt. WIZ Pendletonlan, for 1t wuz :s
the fust step toward repoodiashen, and
repoodiashen is balm for all Dino
cratic wounds.
Now wat did the delegates wich as
sembled at Moo York mean when they
put sich a man ez Seymour on the
! track. Wat did they mean when they
throwed overheard the Young Eagle Of
the West and put in charge Nv our ban
ner the hooked vulcber, Seymore to
preV onto our vitals? 1dOn't fancy the
| stvle of Dimocrisy we are having now.
a.days. Durin the war opposed war
vishusly. wuz fornenst bein drag
ged into the service OF Government
Wich 1 detested, and to fitin for coz
wich 1 hated. he'd my rifle put into
order, and shot Fedral pickets at mite
reglerly for months, and jlned John
| Morgan's excursion into Ohio, Our
convenshun at Shecago declared the
! war a iaiyoor and the DlmocTisy op-
| posed TO 1t, but wat tollered. Why
| they nominated towunst solger whose
| sword was drippin in gore, and who
wuz ez fierce for continyooing the war
| on us as the old goriller Linkin hisself.
Is this DImocrisy 1 asked myself Ell
| SO count me out.
"Wat different is the sitooashen now?
We declared agin the non payment Nv
| the bonds in any but greenbax, wich is
equivalent TO not payin NV 'em at ALI
| and forthwith went to Moo York,
where 1, your speaker, was enticed by
| n stranpe woman, and lost my watch
and a black satin vest, my boots ana
| eight dollars and sixteen cents, all the
money 1 he'd, wich it would hev bin
the same he'd it bin more similarly, and
nut in nominashun man wich sleeps
| ONTO bonds and spends the hetC of his
time a cuttin off the coopons! Brethren,
il have to pay the debt wat dlderence
does it make 10 who leVies the tax? I? L
kin standit ez long under Grant ez KIN
under SeSmore. 1t amt the person
| wich leyies the tax wich obieck to,
40 much ez it is the levyin Nv the tax.
| n / hev to pay gold why not as we'll
under Grant ez Seymore'
| "Likewlse is my sole veXed at an
other thing, wich can't or won't git
| over. on my way to Moo York, where
! I was SO Wiley yoosed, was compelled
fsr twenty miles either TO stand up or
| set down in the seat with dirty niger,
| Joe Williams, A DELEGATE TO THE Con-
vENsHUN, whose moother wunst
owned. That he is a mulatto don't
help the matter. That delegates on the
train fancies they saw in his face my
teachers reflected, don't make it any
better. He is niger, and my polili-
kle faith is based upon the endoOriu
rock thut nigger amt ez good ez
| white man. That is Dimocratic doc.
trine. took it in with my mothers
milk, and can't get rid OF II. and yet
| l wuz compelled 10 associate with TINS
| aigger on terms Nv ekality all the way
| down,to Moo York, where 1 lost my
vest, et.seLtry, and his seat in the Con-
shun wuz next to mine, stood this,
but at our boardin house, only two
SQUARES from where I lost my boots,
&c, with the American flag floating
over our heads, wuz compelled, in
| conscience uythe house bein crowded,
| to sleep with him! And the infamous
| stinkin nigger absolootly he'd the i'm
poodence to object to the arrangement
becoz, ez he sed, MY FEET sMELT! Then
the iron entered my soul! Then felt
| the Democrisy wuz trooly sucked egg
IA shell without any meat in 1t. -H
HWhen saw that nigger in that con-
venshun, j felt that the pillera Nv the
Republic wuz totterin, that the chaos
| WuZ come agin5 felt that Ameriky,
1 bein no longer for white men, wuz no
| place for me. feltthat Republican In
stooshuns wuz forever destroyed, and
4 that henceforth and forever there wuz
no place for me in my native land"
And the teers rolled downthe Elders
i nose, the pearly white thereof tOrmin
| pendents wich glittered like diamonds
| in contrast with the red nose at the end
NV wich they hung. 4
| "Now wat is to be done? Am Ito ac'
cept niggers ez my ekals? Am to
vote beside Nv the joe Willi8mses Hv
| Kentucky? Am 1 to ride with EN-, and
| eat with EN-, and sleep with EN-, and
| hev the stinken wretches object TO the
oder nv my feet, and all this at the bid-
ding Nv Dimocrisy? Why this very
thing Is wat DImocrisy hez alluz oP-
posed. Opposishen to this is the corner
| stun Nv the party. Take out niger
hatin and repoodiashen, and wat is
ther left to die for2 With Seymour
payin gold and Joe Williams sleepin
| with me, wat compensation hevl L FOR
the loss Nv my vest, my boots, my eight
dollars and my watch? Wat better are
| we than the Ablisbnist? They heV
gained ther pint, for this is wat they
/ wentinto the bizhess fur. When GIT
| read y to do it'll line em. I hev done
| The Deekin, McPelter, and 1ssaker
| GavifE unZ hilin OVpF in mint, IleY