Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-05-28

Adopt III sug. est iOp Of t1s Cd &c n II
nand si-ma.-a What xvn.Leff Of ihs
organ nizatiOn after the Completion
Os The Work.
from the Toledo Blade. n 98
Posr 0Fris, CoyFgpRr X ROADS,
witch is in the State Nv Keniucky,) 7
May 8, 1869.
] notist in an evenin paper wich got hold
nv last nigh. sit come wrapped around q
new bonui: wich Mirandy Pogram received
from Looisviile) J, that Vailands gums organ,
and in fact most NV the reu ocra,ic papers
NV the North, he'd decided that the oniy hope
for the Dem mocrisy is 10 bury the dead past,
throw overheard the lnmber,, clear the decks
for ackshen, and go in to win.
Before he'd fnisht reading the extracks
I fell into n,ostprofound sleep the words
NV The text, " Let Us bury the dead past
| being loreibly fixed in my mind. Sleepin,
| dreamed ez alluz do.
In my vision found myself standin in
irontnv an immense b,lldin which he'd bin
erected fes the purpose Of. Ihold,n Demo
cratic Nashpel C,nyenshiu igio. Over the
afc'iwsy w,ch served as an .s.tras,cc wuz this
ihsc. ipshen, N o,hin succeeds like succees
--er yihing for success Ez felt that hey
rise 20 participate in enything Democratic
altered the buildin, and interdoosin my
self y he Ke .tucky dciegashcn, observed
the procee i;s A committee he'd bin ap.
pinted on the condishen and prosper w
the Democratic party and that committee
wuz Jest reporiin. They Informed the con,
venshen that Democracy wuz in decidedly
bad way, and that TREY saw but one way
out Of the politii.le wdernis in wich they he'd
bin wandering FOR eight long years Ike sec.
ond Israelites, without the mama TO live on
to witch The first he'd, ard tina, way wuz to
bury the dead past, and threw overheard the
dead weights that ned feitercG the Democra.
cy and pervented EN- from wis,nin the heats
wich they SO much desired.
"Amen!'' shouted Vallandrgum alond,
addin in an undertone. "tbat'n Kill Pehdle>
ton."
"Amen!'' shouted Pendle.or, addin in a
whisper to one nv his guard which accom-
panied him 10 Moo York, "iha,kills of Val
landygum."
And each uvthe le aders hollered Amen y
feelin that the ackshen killed off everybody
else. q 1t is well Y sed the Chairman. " Nov
let's get at this work uy buryin tie dead rast
ez soon as possible, for The Lord knows
there's enough Of it 10 do. AID when it's
all done tie Dimocracy relieved and
sire enpthened viii 20 ON conkcriu and Ia con
ker."
A hearse wuz drawd up Store the Chair.
mans desi, who called out in a s,eptor;an
voice, . wat shall We commence On ~
Free trade NAV be counted as n hefy
part oil the dead past rernarkt a delegate
from Pcpnsylvany. ~
Hustle it in II yelled the Conyensheu.
and it wuz according hustled.
I've may ez we'll be buried with it, sed
tie Moo York in,portin Dimocrats, and they
composed themselves beside il, and The hear.e
pulled out.
The Virginia resolooshens.' - sung on,
the chairman, and forthwith, Garre,, Davis
and his followers remarkt that If them reso>
looshens wig a part Nv the dead past. tbey
must be coun,id in ez dead pasters also. and
sending in their regrets to their consitooen,s,
they composed their llunbs for buriel and the
hearse loaded with the fearful weight rolled
out.
States Rites - sung out the chairman
and forthwith all Nv the party knowd more
pertikeleriy as Conservative Copperheads
laid down without . murmur to be lifted in
with it. Ittook large number NV hearse.
to carry this load, and the takin NV em GU,
thinned the convenshen terribly.
Secession" wuz the next call made by
the Chairman, and immeiitly all the Knites
NV the Golden Circle, ami the Sons NV Lib.
eriy w the Moth, and ninc>tenths NV tie
Sout hern delegates, fell PROSTATE, with their
hands up to be tied, and their eyes closed 10
hev pennies pu, onto em.
Slavery - sung out the Chairman, and
to wunst there wuz a sound like the rushin
Nv many waters. Down went full half Nv
wat wuz left Wv the Convenshen, and long
time wuz consoomed in pickin Nv EN- up and
loadin EN- in. r
"Re2oodsashen.' wuz the next cali. and
withou; sigh, the delegates from Southern
lllinoy, Injeany and Ohio went down and
wuz loaded.
"Class suffrager' remark, the Chairman,
nervouslg, for the convenshen wuz gittin fear
fully thin, and with groan, two-thirds oi
vat wnz left wuz huddled into the heerses
wich went out slowly. szas
Now = said the Chairman, "let the
lumber, the dead weights, them whose pres
ence in our party makes it . stencil Ia the
nostrils nv the American people, let them be
buried that we may hev nothin in Our rauks
Objectionable"
And immeiitly the drivers Nv the hearses
prccipitated themselves upon valland veum
Voorhees,, Fernandy Wood. Pendletou, Heff.
man, Frank Peerce, and all Nv that class,
wich, BY the way, wuz al that remained.
Tie Chairman locLt at me wolfshIy, and
| glowered at him.
"Sir!' sed he, :" / must carry roo ont and
bury yoo, and them
"And then wat?" sed I.
"And then spose must commit sooi>
side, ez voted for all them wich We hev
buried, and for All the principles we be this
day condemned. Ispose !, too, am dead
weight.
Aud he went for me, out doorin the s.rug.
gle wich ensood, awcke.
The dream wux only q dreem, and / wuz
glad that it wuz SO. It's all very well to talk
NV huryin dead ishocs. and SO on, but sposin
we undertake that Herculian task, wat fol-
lows? Troo, we hev bin regerly bus,id on