The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-17
THE NASBY LETTERS.
MR.. Nasty AT THE NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC
STATE CoNvENTIoN-THE PART MR.. TWEED
TOOK IN IT-How THE PUPPETS WERE
WORKED AND WHO WORKED THEM.
From the Toledo Blade.
CONVENIENT X ROADS,

WORKED AND WHO WORKED THEM.
From the Toledo Blade
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
WITCH is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY :
October IA, 1871.
am in the sere and yaller leaf, and
hev seen much Nv politics, but never in
my life did I ever see "a convention SO
beautifully managed ez the late Demo
cratic Convenshun at Rochester, Moo
York. | wuz there by the speshul invi-
tation NV my old time friend, Dennis
OShaughnessy, NV the Sixth Ward, Moo
York, who, sence ! left the Harp w
Erin saloon, hez improved wonderfully
in a worldly point NV view. He wuz
then nod carrier by profession and a
repeater by practice. He attracted the
attention NV Mr. Tweed by zeal in votin
and his bravery in knockin down oppo-
sition voters, and wuz NV course reward
ed. He is now assistant Inspector NV
musket triggers NV the ninth regimental
armory, at a salary NV $500 per month,
skool Inspector in the sixth ward at a
salary Nv 800 per month, and thirty
second assistant law adviser for condem-
min private property, at salary Nv
$4,000 per year, besides which he hez a
tenth interest in the contract for keepin
the glass in repair NV the two back win
dows Nv two armorles, out Nv which he
made $4,000 in the first six months.
He wuz to hev he'd the contrack for the
two front winders in addition, but the
raid the people made onto the ring bust
ed that. He hez, however, invested
largely in city lots, and wears kid gloves.
and diamond ez big ez a peach stone.
Dennis sed that eff the Internal Ameri-
cans and Germans ken be beat down,
and the control of Moo York left with
the Irish where it belongs, he will be
tolerably well off in year or two.
Dennis being NV consequence in the
party, wuz, NV course, in the private
counsels NV the managers NV the State
Convenshun. He and Tweed, Sweeney,
Connolly, Mayor Hail. Keyser, Garvey,
and the entire convocashun wuz at
Rochester, though nobody knowed it.
They went in a speshel private car, and
he'd rooms at the Osborne House, with
telegraph wire runnin directly to the
hall into witch the convenshun wuz held.
1t wuz the most impressive scene | ever
witnessed on wich these old eyes will
probably never look onto agin. Their in
an esy chair sot one man directin the
deliberashens Nv a convenshun NV the
great State NV Moo York-one brain
thinkin for thousand-one hand guidin
thousand. He directed the conven-
shun to cheer when Seymours name
wuz announced ez delegate, and they
cheered he directed EN- to reject the
Tammany delegashun from the city, and
they wuz rejected he directed EN- to do
everything that wuz done.
MY dear sir" sed |, in astonishment
at the power he welded, "why don't
you 90 over to the hall and direct the
convenshun p
"My gentle sir" retorted he, with a
bland smile, ez he dictated message
directin the convenshun to cheer when
the rejection Nv the Tammany delegates
wuz announced, "my dear sir, | am
there There's a hundred NV my hats
goin up to the ceilin this mint
there's two hundred NV my hands clap
pin vociferously at this mint. There's
great many NV me in that hall. -
After the adjournment NV the conven-
shun for dinner the chairman NV the
committee on resolushens came into the
room to submit the resolooshens they
he'd prepared, that they mite be shoor
they wood meet Mr.. Tweed's idees. The
great man read EN- attentively, and
handed NV EN- back.
"They won't do" he said senten-
tiously,
" In what respeck are they faulty ?"
asked the chairman, obsequiously.
Woodent it be well enough" said
Tweed with a smile still more bland
than the first, to put in resolooshen
denouncin corrupshen, in general terms,
Nv course, specifyin pertikerly, however,
the espeshel corrupshen NV the nashnel
government, and that NV States witch is
under radikle control ?'
The sublimity of SIGH a seiestion comm