Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-09-11
PEPPER's TAVERN, HOLMES Co., o., }
August 8, 1869. {

August 8, 1862
There wuz Providence in my being
compelled to leave Kentucky-a speshel
and CROWN Providence i'll my comm to
Ohio. shel never doubt Providence
agin. thought it hard to be compelled
to leave my comfortable quarters at the
corners, and i murmurred when com
PEELED TO trust myself to the charities of
an onteelin world at my advanst age,
but it wuz after all for the best. Ez
high and cxaltid ez is the posshun of
Kentucky postmaster, the posishun uy
guvner NV the third State NV the Yoon-
ion is more exaltdcr. @
The declinin NV Rosecrans was not
Unexpected. Indeed, when Senator
Thurman started for California the next
day after the convenshun, to indoose
him to decline, l knowd he wood succeed.
Thurman hez winnin way with him,
wich Valandygum discovered two years
ago next winter
Rosecnns wuzn't never the proper
man TO lead the DimoCrisy of Ohio TO
victry. No matter how sound he NAV
be on all the questions now before the
people, there is an odyum attached to
the name wich is stencil into our nos
trlls, and the men wich run our State
copVenshun ought to hev knowed it,
The troo Dimocratic intelleck is limited,
1T doesn't take i'll too many idees to
wunst, nor does it shift with facility
Doorin three years NV the late onpieas-
antness we wuz kept bizzy tIainin the
Dimocrisy to hate this name, with sech
ez Burnside, ct cetry. We succeeded
About the time NV the figtin NV the bat
ties NV Stone River, Iuky, Chickamauga,
and partikerly about the date NV the
arrest and exile NV our then martyred
saint, Vallandygum, the very mention NV
Rosecran's name wood set any Dimmy-
erat in Ohio to trothin at the mouth like.
mad dog. The Dimmycratic antipathy
to the name amt changed We mite
tell them that this Rosecrans wuz our
candidate, but the people wood, in mo-
ments NV torgetfuluess, heeve stones at
the man who wood perpose ''three cheers
for Rosecrans." They'd apologize i'm.
lnejity when they remembered them
selves, but kin an apology repay for u
broken head? Half NV our orators
wood hev bin killed before the campaign
waz half over. There amt no use in
tryin to get up enthoosiasm under such
circumstances.
Now that Rosecrans is out of the way
the question is which NV our cheettains
shel take his place?
For obvious reasons it wood be sooi-
cide to nominate Vallandygum. lie
can't get Republican vote, and there
are hosts of Democrats who don't like
to hav it sed they votid fur him out NV
regard fur their posterity. 1t woodn't
do to nominate Cary, for he's too recent
a convert, and besides, he used to lecture
occasionally on temperance
Ranney won't answer because Ran
ney alluz wears clean shirts; takes a
bath twict week, and goes somewher
to church with hiz family every Sunday.
He would doubtless get some Republican
votes, but he'd lose more than enuf NV
the Democracy to balance the akkount.
Henry Clay Dean wood SCOT exactly but
he lives III Iowa. Jesse ID. Bright would
anssr, but he is 4 citizen NV Kentucky
Sammy Cox hez alluz lived cleanly, tho
he is sufficiently versateel to change all
that i'll time, but onfortunitly he's in
Spain, and besides, he's citizen NV Moo
York.
Who then shell zoe nominate?
anser without hesitashun, without
any atfcctashun Of modesty-ME.
am, just now, the chief among ten
thousand, an the one altogether lovely.
l am the Moses witch is 20 lead the De-
moeracy NV Ohio out NV their land NV
bondage into the land fowin with milk
and honey.
is One advantage in nominatin me wood
be, there amt no danger NV my decliain.
never decline nothin.
1t may be urged that amt known
That's the very reeson why l shood be
nominated. What wood Valandygum
give et he wuzn't known? We never
succeed with a known candidate. We
o. En- say in counties where they prefer
men whose hands wuz drencht with
goar, that i killed my thousands; in
counties where they went for peece, by
s. Killing provo marshals and sich, that 1
Q wood hev died in my door yard, eff I'd
Y he'd one, sooner than hev gone South.
My other pints are as follows:
l.kin hold more NV the Democratic
party strate in traces than any man in
the State. wuz ORIGINALLY Democrat.
voted Tor Jackson and for every Demo.
! cratic nominee from that date to the
present. It's my proudest boast wioh /
2 inscribed onto my tombstone when hey
gone hence, i never skratehed a ticket
My war record is clear. AT the breakin
/, out Nv the war opposed everything the
government did. / did not stun the
Massachusetts, soljiers in Baltimore, becozs
., wuz not there, but ! slung up p,y hat
s. wen Ieherd OF it, swept bitter teers 6ecoz
! .wuz not there. ] did not volunteer.-
On the contrary, when drafted, made
the best Nv my way to Canada to Join
Vallandygun, and only failed to make
my escape through the treachery NV an
Ablishnist who wormed himself into nv
c9l a lens by hsvin a copy NV the Neio
? fss& Dry Book and pint bottle of
: Soa.oorn a W hiskey ia his hind coat pocket.
l thot, in my innocence, that one SO
EQUIPPED ECU, could never be anything but