Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-01

The declinin Nv General Rosecrans wuz
not unexpected. Indeed, when Senator
Thurman startid for California the next
day after the convenshen to indoose him to
decline, | knowed he wood succeed. Thur
man hez winnen way with him, ez Val
landgum discovered two years ago next
winter.
Rosycrans wuzdt never the proper man
to lead the Dimocrisy Nv Ohio to yictry.
No matter how sound he may be on all
the questions now before the people, there
is an odor attached to the name wich is
stencil into nostrils. and the men wich run
our State Convenshun ought to have
knowed it. The troo Dimocratic intelleck
is limited-it don't take in too many ideas
to wunst, nor does it shift with facility.
Doorin three years NV the late unpleasant
ness we wuz kept bizzy trainin the Dimoc-
risy to hate this name, with sieh ez
Burnside, ct cetery. We succeeded.
About the time NV the fghtin NV the
battles Nv Stone River, Inky, Chicamauga,
and partikerly about the date Nv the
arrest and exil of our then martered saint,
Vallandygum, the mere mention of Rosy
Grams name wood set any Dimocrat IN
Ohio to frothing at the mouth like mad
dog. The Dimocratic antipathy to the
name amt changed. We mite tell EN-
that this same Rosycrans wuz our candi-
date, but the people wood, in moments NV
forgetfulness, heeve stones at any man who
wood perpose three cheers for Rosy
Grams :" They'd apologize immejitly when
they remembered themselves, but will an
apology repay for broken he'd? Half Nv
our orators wood hev bin killed before
campaign wuz half over. There amt no
yoose in tryin to git up enthoosiasm under
sich circumstances.
Now Rosycrans is out of the way, the
question is wich NV our chieftains shell take
his place
For obvious reasons, it would be
sooicidle to nominate Valandygum. He
can't get a Republican vote, and ther are
hosts NV Democrats who don't like TO hev
it sed they voted for him out of regard
for their posterity. 1t won't do to nomin-
ate Cary, for he's too recent convert,
and besides he used to occasionally lecture
on temperance. Ranney won't answer,
beeoz Ranney alluz wears clean shirts,
takes a bath twict 4 week, and goes some
where to church with his family every
Sunday. He would doubtless git some
Republican votes, but he'd loose more than
enuf NV the Democrisy to balance the
account. Henry Clay Dean wood SCOT
exactly, but he lives in Iowa. Jesse ID.
Brite would answer, but he is citizen Nv
Kentuky Sam Cox has alluz lived clean
ly, though he is sufficiently versateel to
change all that in time, but unforcunatly
he's in Spain. and besides he's a citizen of
Moo York.
VINO THEN sHaL WI NOMINATE
answer without any hesitashen, with
out any afectashen Nv modesty-NE.
am, Just now chief among ten thou
sand. and the one altogether lovely. [ am
the Moses wich Is to Iced the Dimocraey
Nv Ohio out NV their land Nv bondage into
tue land nowin with milk and honey.
One advantage in nominatin me would
he. there amt no danger or my deflnln. L
never decline notnin.
1t may be urged that | amt known.
That's the very reason why should be
nominated. What would Nalandygum
give if he wuz'nt known We never sue
ceed with known candidate. We kin say
in counties where they prefer men whose
hands wuz drenched in gore that l killed
my thousands, in counties where they went
for peece, by KILN Provo Marshals and
sich-that | would have died in my door
yard, eff | he'd one, sooner than hev gone
South.
| kin hold more Nv the Democratic par
ty strate in traces than any other man IN
the Stait. | wuz originally a Democrat
votid for jackson and for every Dino
cratic nominee from that date onto the
present. 1t is my proudest boash wich |
wish inscribed onto my tombstone when l
hev gone hence-I never scratched a
tickkit. My war. record Is cleer. At the
breakin out Nv the war, | opposed every
thing the Government did. did not stun
the Massachusetts, soljers in Baltimore,
becoz l wuz not there. l did not volun-
teer On the contrary, when drafted,
made the best Nv my way to Canada, to
join Vallandygum, and only failed to
make my escape through the treachery Nv
a Abiishnist who wormd hisself into my
confidence by hevin a copy of the Moo
Y York Day Book and pint bottle NV sod
corn whisky in his hind coat pockit L
thought, in my innocence, that one so
equipped Good not be anything but troo
Dimocrat, but found, to my sorrow, that
vol YES often put on sleeps clothing, so
perfectly ez to deceive the very elect. Ar
rested and taken to a camp of Linkin hire
lins, L wuz clothed in sojer bloos, musket
was forst into my unwillinhands, and wuz
transported southwark to dip my hands in
the gore NV my frens. Did do it? No
l deserted the first mite, and escaped to the
Dimocratic hosts, with whom | served till
a battle wuz imminent, when ~Esade my
way North agin.
Rooined by this unlawful secure, for the
bars at wich wunst he'd credit refOosed to
open abcounts with me, / devoted myself
to aboosin tyrannicle government engaged
in prosecootin an unconstooshcnel war
headed the Holmes county patriots who
resisted drafts, L organized the knites Nv
the Golden Circle in Ohio and lnjany, and
| organized more riots than any one man
in these two States. kin say that doorln
that short time, no less than twenty men
framed and eddicated by me, who had mt the
discreshen to go out at the proper time, was
incarserated in Bastiles, where they IAN
guishd for months.
NV career sence the endin Nv the war; is
well known. supported Andrew johnson
the moment he dererted the Ablishlnlsts L
wuz with him in his triamphal progress
thro the Norf. | held up his hands In the
impeachment, and bought up three Nv the
Union Senators wich voted for acquittal. L
assisted in the slaughter Nv niggers in Moo
Orleans
am accountable to the strate Dimoc-