Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-23

The Nomination of ROsecrans in Ohio.

! NASBY.
The Nomination of Rosecrans in Ohio
Mr.. Nasby, having lost his "post or
/ fis' at Confederate Cross Roads, has
made a a.ehange of base. In his last tC
the Toledo Blade he writes from
| PEPPERS TAVERN, HOL1rEs Co.,
/ OHIO, JOoly II, 1869.
| left the Corners the day after I lost
my position and without any speshl
purpose wandered up into my old
! stampin grounds in Ohio. I wuz re-
| ceeved with q cOTiality wich affected
me profoundly. Them Wich he'd bin
| turned 0GItiuV offises Good sympathize
| with nae, and them wich he'd never got
/ EN-, fe4t 1t still more deeply, ez they
| eggsaggerate the benefits to be derived
/ from offishl pOsishen and actilly won
kan survive decapitashen.
j he'd no difficulty in bOrrOWin enufi
i dollars nv the sturdy yeomanry NV
this section, to not only keep me afiOat
here for time, but to pervide agin a
passage through an Ablishn country eff
sich need be- My expenses here Will
be light, ez [ am bOardin and drinkin
on tick exclusively. I told the land
lord the first day to mark it down ez it
wuz incOnvenient to make change fifty
times per day. He possibly may wish
he he'd taken the trouble to make
change.
The day after the Democratic State
Convenshen at Columbus we held a in
formal meetin Nv the Democracy at
the tavern, to Wich I wuz stayiA, the
most NV the veterans bein there. The
sc5en reminded me Nv Basco'nn's so
much that I actilly shed tee9s. Democ-
rasY is alike everywhere Their wuz
with tansy in it, and the big-belIied
bottle without tansy IN it ther wuz
the box nv pipes, the two lemons Wich
are doomed never 60 be yOosed ez lem
On-ioose wealxens likker; ther Wuz
Pepper, the landlord, with his sleeves
rolled up, lea1in onto his elbows on
to the bar; behind him a portrate NV
Jackson, on his fOmin steed, wavin his
sword toward the British; beside it a
hand-bial for mass ConVenshun NV
the Deestrick dast year, commensin
with the troOly orthodox line: "D Do
you want to marry a nigger 20 in large
black type, with picter NV Wendell
Phillips kissin a wench, at wich the
Dfmocrasy haYe indignated reglerly
for ten yeers. Seetid on bustid cheers,
empty nail kegs, and Ieanin on the
| bar, wuz groop wich wuz simply a
| dooplikit Nv the x Roads, and so ak
1 kerIt that caught myself sayin
Z" Deekin" lots NV times. I sed sc Cap
/ tin " to man who wuz so neer like
I McPelter, ez to justify the suspicion
that the father nv the present Hugh
/ he'd many. yeers before bin a citizin NV
that visinity, but I wuz keerful not to
do so agin. Ketchin me by the throte,
| he sternly remarlxt: "Sir! don't put
eny nv them titles onto me, sir. I Wuz
no Captin, thank Heven." He wuz
passified when told him that his re-
markabIe resemblance to q Confedrit
"a AoT- IL,
pleased him so that he to-wunst askt
me to take suth'n. This opened a new
field to me, Wich I worked. / diskiv-
cred to-Wunst an amazin resemblance
between all NV EN- and distinguish
Southern commanders.
While waitin the return NV Squire
PettibOne, witch wuz delegate to the
State Convenshun, we fell to taIkin NV
the old times wich tried mems sOles,
in the earlier yeers NV the war. Pep
per, the landlord, gave a most affectin
remeniScenco Nv the shootin NV two
returned veterans, in the very room in
witch we sOt. The spot on Wfch thew
fell, he he'd put the Stove over that IL
mite be kept saSfed. Mr. Bortle. an
old saint, whose nose wuz lightin his
pathway to the toOm, he'd a more
tragicle tale to tell. He Wuz one nv
them wicla shOldered his fowlin peece
to resist the draft up in this county,
anu W uE bdhG Gll DY DlOO-COaLe0 nlTelImE
and carted off to Camp Chase where he
wuz kept in d9orance vile for weeks.
with nothin whatever to live onto but
the yOosual rashens Nv a sOlier One
old relic Nv the war, Wich his name it
wuz Babbitt, accompanied Vallandv-
gum through the lines, wich lines wuz
commando by ROsecrans. He wuz
present when that aceursed villain
that tool NV the despotic ape Linkin-
he'd the impudense to aboose our
martyred Saint, and his blood billed ez
he heered it. At this pint, the entire
assemblage profaned. The letter NV
ROsecrans to the Legislator NV Ohio
wuz dOoly read, and the audashus SEN
timents therein contained wuz dOOly
and emphatfcally damned. Ez the lik-
ker circulated, we got more and more
enthOOsiastic on this pint, and our
| blood warmed and thrObbed more
Yilently through our veins ez we toast
ed Nallandygum and forever and ever
cursed the wretched hirelins who op-
prest him, and through him, us.
Finally we heerd the rumblin NV
wheels over the hill and we knowd
that it wuz Squire PettibOne a comm
from the stashun with the news NV the
Convenshun. He drove up and we
rushed out to greet him.
' Ror for-who shel we 'rOr for ?'' ex-
claimed Pepper.
" Ranney, NV course :" shouted one.
For Vallandygum," sed another.
" For Carey Z" sed another.
g NV friends - shouted Pettibone
+" NV friends 'ror for-Rosecrans and
victory :"
'WSt 20 remarkt dozen NV us.
Who ?" remarkt the others.
He'll :" remarkt the balance.
Yoor triffiin with us" remarkt
/ q None nv yoor jokes" eiaclSilated
Bortle.
And the astonisht Pettibone wuz in
danger NV bein roughly handled. But
| he finally convinst them that Rosecrans
wuz reely and trOoly the Dimocratic
nominee, and that it wuz no joke wat
ever.
I he'd a great deel NV trooble with
EN-. They wuz bound not to touch
| Rosecrans, and they swore they he'd
| bin betrayed and sold out. The plat
| form, however. saved rs. When 1 red il
| to EN- and explained how cleerly it con-
/ demned the war by refoosin to pay the
| Indebtedness injured in prosekootln
! it, and how indignantly it spurned the
administration and so on, they Decaine
cool.
9" If Roseerans hcz RELY come to
us" sed, "let us open our arms ana
! take him in" They retired not pleas
| ed but in sich state that 1 hev no
| doubt the heft NV EN- Will vote, ez
voosual, an unscratched ticket. They
! took down Micklelan, why not Rose
/ Grams?
MISSISSIPPI.