Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-07-28
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fOwlin peee to resist the draft up in
this county, and wuz taken by bloc
coated hirelins and carried off to Camp
Chase, where he wuz kept in durance
vile for weeks, with nOtbin whatever
to live onto but the yoOsual rashens
Nv a sojerI One old relic NV the war,
wieh his name it wuZ Babbitt, accom-
panied Vallandygum through the
lines, wich lines Wuz commanded by
Rosecrans. Hewuz presentwhenthat
| aceursed villain-that tool NV the des-
/ potic ape Linkin-hed the impudense
TO abOose our martyred Saint, and his
blood billed ez he heered it. At this
/ pint, the entire assemblage profaned.
| The letter NV ROsecrans to the Legis-
! later NV Ohio wuZ doOly read, and the
audashus sentiments therein contain
ed wuz dOOly and emphatically
damned. Ez the hkker circulated,
we got more and more enthusiastic
on this pint, and our blood warmed
and thrObbed more vilently through
our veins ez we toasted Vallandygum
and for ever cursed the wretehed hire
ling who opprest him, and through
him, us. .l. 1fl l..- ll.l .ll..l-7l
Finally we heered the rumblin NV
| wheels over the hill and we knOwed
- HAA AJAIAAC CAlAOOnC u EOAAAAAA
/ from the stashun with the news
Nv the cOnvenshun. He drove up and
we rushed out to greet him.
"'Ror fOr-whO shel we ror for 90
exclaimed Pepper.
"FOr Ranney, Nv course ~ shouted
one. -.....--
"For Vallandygum ~ sed another.
"For Carey ~ sed another.
"My friendsw shouted PettibOne,
''My friends, 'ror fOr-Roseerans and
victoryIi
"Wat? remarkt dozen Nv US.
"Who?" remarkt the Othersr
'Hell ~ remarkt the balance.
"Yoor trifiin with US !" remArkt
'NOne of yoor jokes" ejakilated
BOrtle.
And the astonisht Pettibone wuz in
/ danger Nv bein roughly handled. But
he finally eonvinst them that Rose
Grams wuz RELY and trooly the Dino
erat nominee, and that it was no joke
whatever.
1 he'd a good deal of trouble with
EN-. They wuz bound not to touch
| Roseerans, and sWore they he'd bin
betrayed and sold out. The platform,
/ however, saved us. When / read it
to EN- and explained how eleerly it
condemned the war by refoosin to
pay the Indebtedness injured in pros
ecutin it, and how Indignantly 1t
spurned the administrator and so
on, they became cool.
/ "Ef Rosecrans hes RELY come to
u.s." sed, "let us open our arms and
take him in" They retired not pleas
ed, but in sieh a state that hev no
doubt the beft NV EN- will vote, ez
yOosual, an unseratched tiekit. They
took down Mcclellan /; why not Rose
Grams?
That mite after retired to my vir-
ehus couch, l fell into a troubled sleep
and dreemed. The dreem wieh af.1ie-
/ ted me wuz more instructive than en-
| tertainin.
Methawt the Dimocraey Nv Ohio
wuz in council, seekin for a leeder in
| the comm eOnfiick. They trotted out
IN review, all Nv EN-, but they could
not find man in the party who wuz
so fearfully defective ez to be totally
and entirely worthlis for the pOsishen.
| Vallandygum wuz es spotted ez lep-
er; Ranny Nguz tinged with the rath-
er advanced DemOcrisy NV 1858, and
the other men spoken NV wuz full NV
| politikle ulcers, biles and rOnning
| sores. The menshun NV their names
made the people hold up their noses.
/ One more wise than the rest, in q fit
nv inspirashun sung out 'ROseerans =
I and the lice hit 'em. Rosecrans wuz
| trotted out and they all fell to admir-
in him. He wuz well built and COM
/ ly, and hiz figger showd strenth and
endOOranee. He wuz eneased into a
glitterin coat NV bloc onto wieh shone
the most gorgus deeorashen wieh Good
be conceived. In letters Nv lite NV
exceedin brilliancy wuz the words,
''West Virginia. "Stone River"
''Iuka," aud "Chieamauga, with the
names of other achievements more or
less notorious, and these deecrashuns
with his epauletts, military sash and
sword, spurs and sieh, enyelOped him
from head to foot in q brillisncy the
gorgeousnis Nv which wuz beyond
compare. The managers of the show
which trotted him out .squinted at
these things a mint, but they squint-
ed more pertickerly at the multitood
which surrounded them, to see the ef-
feck which it perdoost upon EN-, they
slidin out of site eZ he advanst, so that
they woodn't obstruct the view. The
site. took the people-ther rose up
from the throng most enthusiastic
cheer, and hats went up into the air
by thousands.
"Itll do! it'll do Thank the Lord
it'll do!" shouted the managers, and
they immejetly fell to embracin him
in their extacy. Vallandygum fell
onto his neck, but the spot where his
hand struck the General, obliterated
''West Virginia :" another delegate
now blOtted out "Stone River" and
the next embrace bustid "Iuka,"
Chiekamaugua, /" and the rest Of it. An
other delegate from Holmes county,
which had taken an active part in the
resistance to drafts, slyly drawed his
sword and threw it away another
delegate hacked orf his spurs; third
snaked OFF his epiletts, and before the
poor fellow knew what was bein done
to him, they he'd gobbled pretty much
all NV the ornaments which he'd gilt
tered so bravely unto him.
Don't for Heavens sake, DON'T"
ejackilatid one who wuZ a candidate
for a county offs in a close county.
''Wat are you dOin ?'
''These things must come orf NV
him to make him acceptable to our
people" and they eagerly stripped Orf
one thing after another.
''Git out Nv the way, there" shout
ed another party comm up, 'put these
resolOoshens onto him and he's ready
They clapped em over him-he stag
gered and gasped, but managed to
stand up.
"FOr Heavin's sake" he said in q
pleadin tone, ''fOr Heavin's sake take
this Orf.
'Impossiblew returned them wich
he'd the matter in hand. "You'r all
rite nOw-stand aside all Nv yoo and
see how the people take him now"
They stood aside, but to their sur
prise the people turned up their noses
ez though they smelt suthin, and hiss
ed Ominously instid Nv eheeTin.
Show US our Rosecrans, they cried.
'This is Rosecrans," replied Valan-
dygum, putin his arm round his neck
atfeckshunitly.
"We don't know him in them
clothes and in sieh company" return
the multitoOd, leavin in disgust.
In my dreem, the managers, when
they saw the multitood treat their
man so scornfully, fell to revilin NV
him, and kicking and cuffIn Nv him.
1 awOke jist ez he wuz trying to git
away, battered, bruised, besmeared
and besmiehed .--