The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-06-27

day satisfied me. My ears wuz stunned
with rors for Grant, which ever way | turn
| ed my eyes saw nothing but Grant badges
| and Grant Medals; the bands wuz all playin
the Star Spangled Banner and sich, and even
| the street organ grinders he'd attooned their
| Tyres to the same Ablishun melodies.
On my arrival askt vishus boy witch
knowd wuz Dimekratic, from the fact that
his little shirt wood hev hung ont NV his lit
tie pants eff he'd he'd any shirt, eff he Good
| show me where the Ablshun Convcnshun
wuz holdin itself.
"Certainly kin, my old buffer" sed he.
CTS in that yer bildin," pintin' ez he
spoke, to rather gorgns edifce with a
steeple to it.
| entered it, and wuz surprised, not only
| at the fewness NV the delegates on the floor,
but at Their pecoolyer appearance. They
didn't look like delegates to any Conven-
shun | he'd ever attended. Their noses
wuzn't NV the color he'd ben accustomed
to. They WIZ all solemn lookin chaps with
gold spectacles, black coats, high foreheds
and white neckerchers. Is this" thot
to myself, "the uniform delegates wear at
Republican Convenshuns ?"
At this pint turned to man sittin be-
side me, and in an undertone askt wich wuZ
ahed on the last ballot, ColfaX or Wade?
or, Stu nv, are YOU d 'ohhsou Post'
master ~
81 am" sed l defantly. How didst
thou determine that pint ?"
"By your BREATH" sed he. "Yoor mis-
taken in the place, my friend. This is a
Methodist Conference
That wicked and perverse boy he'd inten-
shnely deceived me.
On my return we WIZ settin in Bascom's
discussn the nominashens. Deekin Pogram
wuz indignant, p" Good Heavens - said he.
with horrors in his sainted face, " Kin it be
that men pesfessin nashnel views wood offer
SIGH an insult to Kentucky ez to nominate
SIGH man ez Grant, who sword in hand,
| devastated her fertile fields and piled the
bodies w her nootral sons who resisted his
advance mountains high? Kin it be
| that"
Easy, Deekin," replied |, "stiddy!
| amt improbable that we may hev to nouli
nate Hancock or some other solier. Inthat
cvent-but I've sed cnuff."
"Well, at all evencc,' sed the Dcekio,
''its a most hoomiliatin thing to hev thrown
in our faces infamous rroposishen to pay
Il debt injured in "a infamous attempt 10
SURROGATE us--to pledge our labor to pay II
debt unconstitooshnally injured, and IN,
| Deekin," sed !, yoor zeal do admire,
! but yoor RELY iudis'incl. 1t may be ueces
sary 10 carry Moo York to nominate Bel.
mont's man, who will be pledged to do this
very thing. Go little slow.
Well, however that may be, il IA bnrnin
shame to throw into Kentucky S face q Ado
llshnlst-two Nv eu in lact-and -
"Deekin,' Il spoke this time severely
"yoor very ndiscreet to day. It's possible,
and may say probable, that that noble pa
fr,o ,,r L.,
lritetnl Ablishnlst, and who. ef lie runs, will
beginin rorsleu wv his heresies, may be
our candidate. Say nothin Deekiu, that
700 hev to take back.
Feelln that rite here wuz speudid chance
for an improvin discourse OH the nacher, oh
ticks, and aims NV democracy, | opened out
onto EN-.
Dimocrlsy,n Iremarkt, sis distinguished
cheefly for its elasticity in adoptin means
! to ends. One wood suppose that Post Oils
is its cheet end. In one sense it is. Dino
crisy is willin to sacrifice any thing which it
hez for Post Offs. 1t might raise Deekin
Pograms ire to sejest the nomnashen NV
Hancock, on akkount NV his slawterins, or
Belmont's candidate on account NV his in
sistin on paying off the Nashional Dobt, or
Chase who hez bin in his day suspected nv
bein tainted with Abishinism. But my
brethring let it be remembered that success
is the main objick. Success is wat Bascum
wants, that ], bein continyooally in oils,
may hev the means to pay for the likker
consoom, and to avoid the necessity NV bein
continuously rekested TO chalk it down,
which practis he esteems disgustin, and one
witch greatly increases his labors. Captain
McPelter wants success that he may contin-
700 to hez Assessors, Collectors, and Reeve.
moo otlisers with which he kin divide the
profits NV the 81 tax on the whisky he
makes, and Deekin Pogram wants success
that he may hev his niggers agin, or at least
that he may hev the privilege of hirin EN-
for 81 per month, deducting Is cents per
day for each days absence, without no Bur
row oifiser or other military satrap hangin
about to modest or make afraid. Success is
the main pint, and eff Hancock is the way,
walk ye in t-ef Chase or Seymour is the
way, walk ye ditto, for with either Nv these
men all things we'll hev. When they come
to us they leave Their former selves behind.
i" But methinks hear one say, Hancock
is soljer, Seymour ant-repudiator, and
Chase Ablishnist Wat NV that? They
may be wat they like when they go into offs
-assosiashen with us felches EN- sooner or
later. Kin 700 tech pitch and no. be de-
lieu boOlllue, SOWdH, anu DlAOn WuX
Ablishnists. When they split from Abish-
nism-the mint they fell into our embraces
they became ez satisfactory Democrats ez
Good wish. The road down is easy one
to trvael. It's easier to slide than TO climb,
| wich is the reason why SO many more are
| damned than saved. Democracy, like Bas-
| CONS new likker, holds a man when it gifts
| him. johnson wuz good enuF Ablishnist
till he called unto us for help, and then he
wuz lost. Let Chase stay with us week
and he d forgit all his old ideas, you bet
Shood you poke that silver pitcher at him
the niggers give him at Cincinnati for de.
fendin fugitive, and he'd swear like Peter
he never saw itonly ditferin from Peter is
| that he'd stick to it. And there is no goin
back, for the principal ones. Their remorse
| kind drives EN- deeper and deeper, till
| they finally are worse than ez tho they orig.
inally wuz NV us. Let us, my brethrin, nev.
err reject any help we kin git. Let it come
| in any shape and from any source, it'll lin
ally assmilate to us and be NV us. Remem.
| Der, johnson, Cowan, DooIiitlc and Dixon
swore, when they started at Philadelphia,
that they never Good 60 Into the ranks NV
the Democriey in Il year they wuz maxim
speeches for us in Connecticut.
III conclooded my remarks, my circle
/ agreed that it wuz safe TO take whatever we
Good git from the enemy, aud we retired,
feelin that whatever othe, localities unite do,
the Corners wuz safe. Wat an outrage it is,
though, that the Ablishpists nominated sich