Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-08-28
miscellaneous.
Nasty.

MIR. Nasty DADBLES IN OHIO POLITICS
THE DECLINATION OF GEN. ROSECRANs
OPENS A FIELD FOR HIM WHICH lie Is
10TH TO ENTER-IIE ANNOUNCES HIM.
SELF AS A CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
IN HIS MODEST WAY.
PEPPER's TAVERN, Holmes county,
August g, lS69.-Therc wuz Providence
in my bcin compelled to leave Kentucky
Il speshel and CROWN Providence in my
comm to Ohio. l shell never doubt PrOvi-
dencc agin. thought 1t hard to be com
PEELED to leave my comfortable quarters at
the Corners, and l murn.lred when forced
to trust myself to the cold charities Nv an
unfeclin world at my advanst age, but it
wuz after all for the best. Ez high and
exaltid ez the posishen Nv a,Kentucky Post
Master, the posishen uv Governor of the
third State Nv the Yoonyun is more cXal-
teder.
The declinin Nv Gen. Rosecrans wuz not
unexpected. Indeed, when Senator Thur
man started for California the next day af-
ter the Convcnshcn to indoose him to de-
cline, l knowed he wood succeed. Thur
man heg winnin way with him ez Val
landygum discovered two years ago next
winter.
Rosykrans wuznt never the proper man
! W lCslu llc ullliOCGuCN Nv oillO W NlclIN.
No matter how sound he may be on air the
questions now before the people, there is
an oder attached to his name which is a
! stencil into our nostrils; and the men wich
run our State COnvcnshun ought to have
known it. The troo Dimocratic intelleck
is limited-it don't take too mlny ideas to
wunst, nor does it shift with facility Door
| ing thI e. years Nv the late unpleasantncss
we wuZ kept biZzy tranin the Dimocracy
/ to hate this name, with sich ez Burnside,
ct cetcry. We succeeded. About the
! time Nv fightin NV the battles NV Stone
/ River, Inky, Chicamauga, and partikcrly
| about the date NV the arrest and eXil NV
our then martered saint, Nallandygum,
/ the very mention of ROsykrans' name wood
/ set any Dimocrat in Ono a trothin at the
mouth ike mad dog. The Dimocratic anti
/ pathy to the name amt changed. We mite
! tell EN- that this same Rosykrans wuZ our
candidat =, but the people wood, in moments
Nv iorgetfLlness, heve stones at any man
who wood pcrpose ''three cheers for Rosy
krans!" They'd apolygise immejitly when
they remembered themselves, but kin apol-
ogy repay for broken head? Half NV our
orators wood hev bin killed before the cam
in tryin to get up enthoosiasm under sich
circumstances.
For obvious reasons, it wood be sooicidle
to nominate Vallandygum. He can't get
a Republican vote, and ther are hosts Nv
Dimocrats who don't like to hev it scd they
voted for him out NV regard for their pos,
terity 1t won't do to nominate Cary, fol
he's too recent a convert, and, besides, he
used to occasionally lecter on temperance
Ranney won't anser becoz Rauney allus
wears clean shirts; takes a bath twice a
week, and goes somewhere to church with
his family every Sunday. He wood doubt
less git some Republican votes, but he'd
lose more than enulf Nv the Democracy to
balance the account Henry Clay Dean
wood SCOT exactly but he lives in Iowa.
Jessee ID. Brite wood anser, but he is q
citizen Nv Kentucky. Sammy Cox he2
allus lived cleanly, tho he is sufficiently
vcrsateel to change all that is time, but on
fortunately, he's in Spain, and, besides
he's citizen NV Moo York.
Who then, shell we nominate?
anscr without hesitation, without any
aflectashen NV modesty-ME.
/ am jist now, the chief among ten thou
sand, and the on altogether lovely. l an
the Moses wich is to lead the Democracy
NV Ohio out NV ther land Nv bondage into
the land flowing with milk and honey.
One advantage in nominatin me woot
be--there amt no danger Nv my declinin
never decline nothin.
1t may be urged that l amt known
That's the very reason why shood be nom
mated. What wood Vallandygum give e
he wuns't known? We never succeed will
known candidate. We kin say in coun
ties where they prefer men whose hanC
wuz drencht in goar that killed my thou
sands; in counties where they went fO
peace, by KILN Provo Marshals and sicl
that L wood hev died in my door yard
ef I'd he'd one, sooner than hev gon'
South.
My other pints are ez follows:
kin hold more NV the Democratic par
ty strate in traces than any other man il
the State. wuz originally Democrat;
voted for Jackson and for every Dimocra
tic nominee from that date on to the pre-
sent. 1t is my proudest boast, wich wisl
! inscriben on my tombstone when lhev gon
hence-I never scratched tikket, NJ.
war record is cleer. At the breakin ou
Nv the war, opposed everything the Gov
) ernment did. l did not stun the Massa
, choosetts soljers in Baltimore, becoz wa
; not there, but slunS up my hat when
! heard NV it, and wopt bitter teers becoz
: wuz not there. / did not volunteer. o
Q - 49, l. .