The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-29
From the Toledo Blade. !
N A - B Y.
The Nomination OfHgOsecrans I'm
OhiO-A Dream.
PFPPER's TARvERN, HOLMES Co, or
Jooly 13, 1869.


purpose wandered up into my old
stampin grounds in Ohio. | wuz re.
ceived with corjality wich affected me
perfoundly. Them witch he'd bin turned
out NV office Good sympathize with me,
and them wich he'd never got EN-, felt
it still more deeply, ez they eggsager-
ate the benefits to be deriven from Off
shell posishen and actilly wonder how a
man witch ever held offs kin survive
decapitashen.
| he'd no difficulty in borrowin enuff
dollars nv the sturdy yeomanry Nv this
section, to not only keep me afoat
here for time, but to pervide agin a
passage through an Ablishn country eff
sich need be. My expenses here will
be light, cz am boardin and drinkin
on tick exclusively. Itold the landlord
the first day to mark it down ez it wuz
inconvenient 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
Convenshun at Columbus, we held a
informal meetin NV the Democracy at
the tavern, to wich l wuz stayin, the
most NV the veterans bein there. The
sceen reminded me NV Bascom's so
much that actilly shed teers Dim
ocrisy is alike everywhere. Their wuz
the bar, with the big bellied bottle with
tansy in it, and the big-bellied bottle
without tansy in it; ther wuz the box
NV pipes, the two lemmons wich are
doomed never to be yoosed ez lennon
joose weakens likker; ther wuz Pep
per, the landlord, with his sleeves rolled
up, leanin onto his elbows onto the
bar; behind him portrate NV Jackson,
ON his fomin steed, wavin his sword
toward the British; beside it hand
bill for a mass Convenshun NV the De-
strick last year, commensin with the
trooly orthodox line: "Do you want
to marry niger ?" in large black type,
with a picter Nv Wendell Phillips kissin
a wench, at wich the Dimocrasy have
indignated reglerly for ten years. Seetid
on bustid cheers, empty nail kegs, and
leanin on the bar, wuz a groop wich
wuz simply a dooplikit Nv the x Roads,
and so akkerit that caught myself
sayin "Deekin" lots Nv times. l sed
"Captin" to man who wuz so neer
like McPelter, ez to justify the suspi-
cion that the fatheruv the present Hugh
he'd many yeers before bin citizen Nv
that visinity, but 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. I wuz
no Captin, thank Hevin." He wuz
passifed when | told him that his re-
markable resemblance to a Confedrit
Captin occasioned the mistake, wich
pleased him so that he to-wunst askt
me to take suthin. This opened a new
field to me, wich I worked. I diskiv-
cred to-wunst an amazin resemblance
between all NV em and distinguish
Southern commanders.
While waitin the return of Squire
Pettibone, wich wuz a delegate to the
State Convenshn we fell to talkin NV
the old times wioh tried mems soles, in
the earlier years NV the war Pepper,
the landlord gave most affectin
remeniscence NV the shootin NV two
returned veterans, in the very room in
wich we sot The spot on wich they
fell, he he'd put the stove over that it
mite be kept sakred. Mr.. Bortle, an
old saint, whose nose wuz lightin his
pathway to the toom, he'd more
tragicle tale to tell He wuz one Nv
them wich sholdered his fowlin peece
to resist the draft up in this County,
and wuz taken by bloo-coated hirelins
and carted off to Camp Chase where he
wuz kept in doorance vile for weeks,
with nothin whatever to live onto but
the yoosual rashens Nv solier! One
old relic NV the war, wich his name it
wuz Babbitt, accompanied Vallandigum
through the lines, wich lines wuz COM
mandid by ROsecrans. He wuz present
when that accursed vilian--that tool
NV the despotic ape Linkin-hed the
impudense to aboose our martyred
Saint, and his blood billed ez he heerd
it. At this pint, the entire assemblage
profaned. The letter Nv Rosecrans to
the Legislator NV Ohio wuz dooly read,
and the audashus sentiments therein
contained wuz dooly and emphatically
damned. Ez the likker circulated we
got more and more enthusiastic on this
pint, and our blood warmed and throb-
bed more vilently through our veins ez
we toasted Vallandygum and forever
and ever cursed the wretched hirelins
who opprest him, and through him, us.
Finally we heerd the rumblin NV
wheels over the hill and we knowd that
it wuz Square Pettibone comm from
the stashen with the news nv the con-
venshun. He drove up and we rushed
out to greet him.
wRor for-who shell we 'ror forl'
exclaimed Pepper.
"For Ranney, Nv course!" shouted
one.
"For Vallapdygum!" sed another
"For Carey!" sed another.
"My friends!" shouted Pettibone
"My friends 'ror for-Rosecrans and
victory"
"Wat7" remarkt dozen of US.
"Whoi" remarkt the others.