Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-07-22

1t wuZ observed, III Olden times.
that slave niggers didn't smell-it
wuz only the free ones. 1t is a set
tied fakt now that Demokratic Mig
gers are inoderous. | might have
knone, however, that the nigger wus
a free niger by the wa he piched into
me. No niger IN a state of servi-
tude wood ever hev did sich thing.
/ That much tha owe to the war, any
/ how.
Ny prinsipal opgek in goin to Moo
Y ork waz to do wat | cud toward Sc
curing the nominashen of Jethro L.
Krippins. | found the delegates bad
| " tore up. Tho offer made fur votes
wuz so redikulusly low that there
wuz much disgust manifested. The
trouble wuz that the market waz over
stokt. He'd the Convenshun BIN
pretta equally divided, and the bal
ance of power held by few clost-
mouthed souls, tina Good have made a
good thing NV it. But where whul
! convenshun IL in the market, and all
there inauinshel frens, no candydate
can afford to buy. | withdrew Mr.
! krlppins tu wunst, ez he haz but a
small farm and that morgaged to gro
-keeper,-the delegates approached
! laft me tn scorn.
| ! wuz on the Committee on Resolu-
| shuns, or rather waz III the room az
| sort of advizory committee while the
resolushuns was bein drafted. Gen
eral Forrest, of Tennessee, waz par
| tixularly anxious that resSolushun
shud be adoptId denouncin the Radi-
Gals, who wuz, with unholy hands, a
strivin to destroy the best govern
ment the sun ever shone upon, and
one the destruction of which woud be
calamity which unborn millions wud
| shed teers over. He desired resolu-
shun pledgin the Democracy to stand
by the old stars and stripes, which
flag had braved thousand breezes,
and waz synonyms. etsettry. Mr..
WoolIey, Mr.. Cobb Mrs Cobb's hus-
| bandl. and Perry Fuller, particularly
| desired a resolushun demandin the
turnin out Of offs NV corrupt men.
| that the government might be admin
istered with suthin like the purity
which distinguished it durin the ad
ministrashun NV the late lamented
Boochanan. a the menshun Of whose
name every delegate present held
Handkerchief to his eys for consequ-
tive minuts, az tho CRATE great had
fallen onto him.
Vallandvgum insisted that plank
be inserted which recognized nigger
suffrage but that wuz withheld un-
til it Good be definitely ascirtaned
whether Mississippi waz reeIy cared
by Niger votes or not. Eff maiori-
ty Of the niggers did RELY vote the
Democratic ticket, it waz decided thit
tina shud be recognized az our ekals-
eff not, we'd see um id fust
Chief Justice Chase waz especially
anxshus fur resolushun denouncin,
in the severest terms them unprinci-
pied, fanatical Radicals who fur vers
had been laborin to support the Gov.
ernmeut by interferin with the per
suns and property of sitizens; and al
also pledgin the support nv the Con
venshun to that wise conservatism
without which there cud be no pirma-
nince in our government.
dropped intu the Solgers and Sail
or's Convenehun, but | didn't stay
long. Them whose noses wuzn't red
all wanted 10 be either Presidents or
cabinet officers and, Nv the balance
Nv them, the leastest said the better.
My sole rndignated az l saw seated
among en- the very sutler who refusd
me credit when | WIZ serving az a
drafted man in 1862, and also a clam
agent who got ten dollars nv me, on
the promise NV gittin my bounty. wich
whin he got it he absorbed IN fees,
costs and commissions. There wuz,
NV corse, sum tru men. Thar wuz
soljers thar which refined erly in the
war, on akkount NV its bein a demd
Ablishn war: and others who left be
coz Lincoln want rapid enuff in MAX
in uv EN- maiorjenerals. Thar waz
no limit 70 thar spekin. Evry one
lad the speech wich he delivered at
the Cleveland Convenshun III 1866,
carefully preserved; and tha all IN
sistid on deliverin them, which az |
left tina war doin, all tn thurselvs.-|
Eff tia can stan it l am wilIin.
We are agoin tn hav solger con-
venshun in Richmand to ratify the
nominashuns, which will amount to
suthin. We shall hav Forrest thar,
and Borugard and Brekenrig and the
speeches will kount. We will have
the two goFinments intwinin, and we
will hav the mo0sic nv both sections
PLAYED. Such q convenshun will
amount to suthiE.
What the platform viii be or who
the kandydates will be. the Lord only
knows / am prepared fur anythin,
and so ar all the dehgats. FL it's
Pendleton, on a repudy alton platform,
well and gocd-ef Is Seemore, on a
nashnel bank platform, gist az good
shud be happy to sea Brikinrig the
chois nv the party, and delitid if Han
cock shud De chosn. ! can hurrah for
Chase, and with equal vigor kin swing
my hat for Faliandygum and l find
all the delegates similarly affected
The Post Ofic Is the lein khan which
swallers up all the others We air
willin to sink evrythin IN Post Offic.
That my Sincerity ma not be doubted,
let it be remembered that | hav rid