The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-07-23
NASBY.
GWritteh for the Toledo BIade.l
The Nomination of Roseerans in
0hio-A Dream.

! I left the Corners the day after
lost my position and without any spe
shal purpose wandered up into m,
i old stampin grounds in Ohio. l wa
received with corjality wich affected
4 me perfoundIy. Them wieh he'd BIZ
turned out NV ofiises Good sympathiz
with me, md them Wich he'd never go
Eem, felt it still more deeply, ez theI
leggsaggerate the benefit to be deriv
ed from ofishl posisben and aetilly
wonder how a man wich ever held al
offs kin survive decapitashen.
!. 2 1 he'd no difficulty in borrowir
enuff dollars NV the sturdy yeomanry
NV this section, to not only keep ms
afoat here for a time, butto pervidt
again passage through an Ablishr
country eff sich need be. Myexpen.
ses here will be light, ez 1 am boar
4 din and drinkiu on tick exclusively
Il told the landlord the first. day tc
mark it down ez it wuz ineoYenient
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 informal meetin Nv the Democ.
racy at the tavern, to wieh ] wu2
stayin, the most NV the veterans bein
there. The sceen reminded me Nv
Bascom's so much that | actilly shed
teers. Dimoerasy is alike every
where. Therwuz the bar, with the
big beliied bottle with tansy in it
and the bigtbellied bottle without
tansy in it; ther wuz the box Nv pipes
the two lemons wich are doomed neY-
er to be yoosed,e ,ez lemon ,joose weak
ems likker; ther wuz Pepper, the
landlord, with his sleeves rolled up,
a leanin onto his elbows onto the
bar; behind him pOrtrate NV jack
son, on his fomin steed; wavin his
sword toward the British, beside it
a nd-bill for mass Convenshun Nv
the Deestriek last year, 2commensin
with the trooly orthodox line; 'DO
you want to marry a niger p in
large black type, with picter Nv
Wendell Phillips kissin q weneh, at
wich the Dimoerasy have indignated
reglerly for ten yeers. Seetid on
bustid cheers, empty nail kegs, and
lleanine on the bar. Wuz a groop Wich
was simply a dooplikit Nv the x
Roads, and so akkerit that 1 caught
myself sayin qDeekin" lots nv times.
sgd ~Captain' to a man who wuz
so near like McPelter, ez to justify
the suspicion that the father Nv the
present Hugh he'd many yeers before
bin citizen Nv that visinity, but l
wuz keerful not to do so agin.-
Ketchin me by the throte, he sternly
remarkt: "Sir don't put any Nv
them titles onto me, sir. wuz no
Captain, thank Heven." He wuz pas
sifed when 1 told him that his re-
markable resemblance to a Confedrit
Captin occasioned the mistake, wich
pleased him so that he to-Yunst askt
me to take suthin. This opened a
new field 10 me, wich 1 worked. I
diskivered to-wunst an amazin re-
semblence between all Nv EN- and dis
tlnguisht S Southern commanders.
While Waitin the return Nv Squire
Pettibone, wich was delegate to the
State Convenshn we fell to talkin Nv
the old times wieh tried mems soles,
in the earlier years Nv the war. Pep.
per, the landlord, gave most afectin
reminiscence Nv the shootin Nv two
returned veterans, in the very room
in wich we sot. The spot on which
| they fell, he he'd put the stove over
that it mite be kept sakred. Mr. Bor-
tie, an old saint, whose nose wuz light
in his pathway to the toom, he'd a
more tragicle tale to tell. He wuz
one Nv them Rich sholdered his fow-
lin peece to resist the draft up Id this
County, and wuz taken by bloc coat
ed hirelins and carted off to Camp
Chase where he wuz kept in doorance
vile for weeks; with nothin watever to
live onto but the yoosual rashens Nv
soljerl One old relic Nv the war,
wich his name it wuz Babbitt, accom-
panied Vallandygum through the
lines, wich lines wuz commando by
Rosecrans. He wuz present when
that accursed villain-that tool Nv the
despotic ape Linkin-hed the impu-
dense to ahoose our martyred Saint,
and his blood billed ez he heered it
At this pint, the entire assemblage
profaned. The letter ofRoseorans to
the Legislator Nv Ohio wuz doOly
read, and the audashus sentiments
therein contained wuz dooly and en-
phatically damned. Ez the likkeI
circulated, we got more aud more en-,
thoosiastic on this pint, and our blood
warmed and throbbed more vilently
Through our veins ez We toasted Val
Ilandygum and forever and ever ours
ed the wretched hirelins who oppress
ed him, and through him, US.
Finally we heefd a Iumblin uy
wheels over the hill and we knOwd
that it wus Squire Pettibone eomir
from the stashen with the news uN
the convenshun. He drove up an(
we rushed out to greet him.
"Ror for-who shell We TOR for 2
exclaimed Pepper.
aFor Ranney, Nv course y shoutec
one.
"For Yallandygum p sed one.
'For Cary" !" sed another.
"My friends !" shouted Pettibone
i"My friends 'ror for-Roseerans ant
victory !"
"Wat?" remarkt a dozen of US.
"Who ?" remarkt the others.
"Hell T. remarkt the balance
"YOor triain with US remark
Pepper.
aNOue NV yoor jokes ejaekilatec
Bortle.
And the astonished Pettibone WI
in danger Nv bein roughly handled
But he finally conyinst them tha
Rosecrans wuz RELY and trooly tn
!. Dimocratic nominee, and that it WI
no joke watever.
1 l he'd a great deel Nv trouble wit
!em. They wuz bound not to toucl
Rosecrans, and they sWore they he,
f bin betrayed and sold out. The plat