The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-18

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saint, VallRndygum, the very men.
ton nv Rosycran'a name wood set any
Dimoorat In Ohio 10 froGhIn at the
mouth like a mad dog. The Dimocrat-
10 RntipAthy 10 the name amt changed
We mite tell EN- that this same Rosy.
Grams wuZ our candidate, but the PEG
pie wood, In moments nv foTgetfulness
heeYe stones at any man who wood
perpose 'three cheers for Rosycrans !
They'd apologize immejetly when they
rendered themselves, bnt kin an apol.
oRy repay for broken head2 Half nv
our orators would hev bin killed be.
fore the campaign wuz half oyer. There
amt no yoose In tryln to git up enthoo.
siasm under sich circumstances.
Now that Rosycrans is out nv the
way. the question is witch nv our chief.
talns shell take his placeR
For obvious reasons, 1t wood be Hooi,
cldle to nominate Vallandygum. he
can't get q Republican vote, and thel
are hosts Nv Democrats who don't like
TO hev It sed they voted for him out Nv
regard for their posterity. 1t won't dc
to nominate Cary, for he's too recent q
convert, and. besides, he used to occa,
sionAlly Letter on temperance. Ranney
won't anser becoz Ranney alIuz wears
clean shirts; takes bath tWIct week
and goes somewhere 10 church with his
family evry Sunday. He would doubt.
less git some Republican votes, bui
he'd lose more than enuff Nv the De-
mocracy to balance the account. Henry
Clay Dean wood SCOT exactly, but he
lives In Iowa. lessee D, Brite wood
anser, but he is citizen nv Kentucky,
Sammy Cox heZ alluZ lived cleanly,
tho he IL sufficiently versRteeI to change
all that In time, but onfortunatly, he's
In Spain. and, besides, he's citizen nv
Moo York.
Who then shel we nominate?
1anser without hesitashen, without
any atfectashen Nv modesty-ME,
| l am lust now, the CHIEF among ten
thousand, and the one altogether love.
". lam the Moses witch Ia TO Iced The
Democracy Nv Ohio out Nv their land
Nv bondage into the land howln with
milk and honey. ...I.
One advantage In nominatln me wood
oe-there aint no danger Nv me declln.
In. never decline nothin.
It may be urged that I amt known.
That's the very reason why l shood be
nominated. What wood Vallaudygum
give ef he wuzn's knownH We never
succeed with known candidate. We
kin say In counties where they prefer
men whose hands WIZ drencht In goal
that killed my thousands: In coun-
ties where they went for peece, by kill.
In Provo Marshals and sich-that
wood hey died In my door yard, Of ia
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 other
man In the State. l wuz originally a
Democrat; l voted for Jackson and for
every Democratic nominee from that
date on to the present. It ism proud.
est boast, witch wish inscribed onto
my tombstone when Ihev gone heuce-
never scratched q tikkit. NV war
record Is cleer. At the breakIn ont nv
the war, | opposed everything the Gov.
erment did. l did not stun the Mas.
sRchoosetts soljers In Baltimore, becoz
/ wuz not there, but I slung up my hat
when heerd nv It, and went bitter
teers becoz ! wuz not there. 1 did NOT
volunteer. On the contrary, when
drafted, made the best Nv NV wav In
Canady to join Vallandygum, and only
failed 10 make my escape thro The
treachery IVA Ablishnist- who wormPd
hisself into my confidence By heyin a
copy Nv the Moo York Day Book and a
pint bottle nv sod.corn whlskey In his
hind coat pocket thought, In my in.
nocence, that one so equipped Good not
be anything but troo Dlmocrat, but
found, TO my sorrow, that wolves often
put on sleeps clothing, 30 perfeckly ez
10 deceive the very elect. Arrested
and taken TO camp nv LInkln hire.
llngs, WIZ clothed In oIus bloc. A
mnsket wuZ forst Into my unwiilIn
hands, and wuz transported aouth.
ward to dip, my hands into the goar nv
my friends. Did doit? MOI / de-.
serted tho first mite, and escaped
to the Democratic hosts, with whom
served till a battle WIZ imminent,
when made my way North aRIn,
Rooined BY this unlawful secure, for
the bars at wich wunst he'd credit re-.
loosed 70 open accounts with me aRln,
l devoted myself 10 aboosln a tyranni.
Gle government engaged in prosecootin
an unconstooshenel var. 1headed the
Holmes County patriots who resisted
drafts, / organized The Kultes nv the
Golden Clrkle In Ohio and Injany, and
organized more riots than any one
man In these two States. kin say troo.
~ thai doorln that short time, no less
than twenty young mon framed and
dedicated by me, who hadn't the Cies-
creshen TO get out at the proper time.
was incarserated in Basteels, where
they langulBht for months.
Ny career Bence the mournful entlIn
nv tho war, 10 we'll known. Isupported
Andrew johnson the moment he de-
serted the Abllshinists. I wpz with
him in his triumphRl progress thro Inc
North. held up his hands doorln The
impeachment struggle, and bought
up three OF the Union Senators witch
voted for Rcqulttal. l assisted also In
the slaughter Nv niggers In Memphis
and Moo Orleans. -us
am, Nv course, acceptable 10 the
stfateout Dimocrisy, ez hold Views
entirely In oonsouance with them, l
am inaexibly opposed TO the payment
nv the nashnAl debt, am opposed TO
the fifteenth amendment, and nv daW.
tet5, II he'd sich, Bhood nsyer marry
nlggers. On these questions no man
In Amertky 10 more sounder than am I.
GThe DlmocrlBy Nv Ohio owe me this,
for services rendered. l hey bin DING.
ged throo horse trofis for hurrahIn for
VallandYgum. I hev bin pulled ont
nv my bed In Janooary by .sollsrs and
compelled to take oaIhs nv allegiance,
and l langulshed once In Basiile Tor
my stedfastness TO Dlmoorlsy. These
things l ought not to dwell onto, but II
no one else will, 1 must.
I hev made other sacrifices, When
torn from my peaceful home 10 flte our
friende Of the South, he'd wife wIch
loved. Life wnz q peecefal ssreeme
and we doated calmly along, She took
In washin and I talked politics at q
neiRhborin grocery, lnVestln The pro-
oeeds nv her labor In the sustenancs
afforded at the bar. When i returned
wat met mef The KILN nv man outs
rite wuz not the most hart. rondIn In.
eidents nv that fratriaIdle atruRRle, II
RuE the sevrin nv domestic ties-the