Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-08
From the Toledo Blade.
P. V. Nasby as q Liberal"


CINcrNNATI, (Which is in the State of
Ohiu) May Z, lS72.-I wuz not origin
ally IA delegate to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, which is to say, wuz not appoint
ed ez a delegate. We had meetin at
Bascom's NV me and Deekin Pogram.
Kernel McPelter, Isaaker Gavitt, and
one or two other Republicans, but it wuz
desided not TO send delegate.
he'd, tho, some hopes nv the conven-
shun. Eff Adams, Davis or Brown Good
be nominated, it wood be good thing
for us. Adams is rather too spectacle a
man for first-class man, but he is still a
shun wood hev accepted him. Davis
and Trumbull amt Dimocrats eggsactly,
but all the roads ont NV the Republican
camp leads to ours. aud ez they hev tax
en- that pertikerlerly fatriu one, amb-
shun, we could trust either NV them. |
wuz anxns to see one NV these three
nominated, and wood hev counted it
big thing for Democracy Good it hev
been done.
wuz surprised at the feclin manifest
ed. There was n denunsiashun of the
tyrant Grant, more deep and t,rvid than
| had heard since the fall of Vicksburg.
There wuz torrent of aboose heaped
upon oflis-seekers, ofiiS-hoders, corrup-
shen in the civil selvis, appointments of
relatives 10 offs, and scl, which pleased
me. jined in heartily, and wuz imme-
diately asked by delegate whose nose
recommended him to me TO wunst, wet
State / wuz a delegate from. answer
ed that | was a citizen NV Kentucky,
but no delcgate-that we sent no DEL
gates.
"rhat don't NATTER" sed he, his nose
gloin with zeal, eve wuzn't any nv us
sent-we come. Yoo shel be delegate"
And atore l Good decline the honor, he
he'd an lllinoy delegates ticket in my
hand, and when sed was tor Judge
Davis inhexibly, he asked me to take
suthin. Now, ef there's anything Pm
pertikerly distinguished for, it's acceptin
invi,ashuns to take sulhn, and that dele
gates alacrty in askin Good only hev
been exalted by my aIacrity IN acceptin.
He was Davis man, too, and prompt
ly borrowed twenty dollars of him. Ez
whisky wuz free, that wuz enutf TO take
me home and sulhin to pay Rascom on
account.
The morning nv the first day the del.
egashun from the dpestrict | helped to
represent met. There was twenty dele
gates present, and more earnest set NV
men never mingled with. Five NV EN-
was eX-poslmasters who had been ap-
pinted by the saintcd Johnson and most
OutrageOnsly dismist by the despot who
is now President two NY EN- were ex-
collectors, three ex-assessors and the ten
remainin wuz n biln with indignashun
becoz the offises in their respectiv towns
wuz filed, they swore, with the most
unfit men IN that seckshen.
"Rather than to have the country and
the servis ruined" sed one, "I wood ac-
cept the Post Ortis myself, was solisit-
ed by my fellow-oitizens to serve in that
capacity, but no. A military friend NV
Grants, who had served under him, wuz
appinted. Wat kin be expected NV sch
an administration Faugh p.
The other ten, l ascertained, had been
applicants for posshens, but somehow
didn't get EN-. They were very certain
that unless there was an imlnejit change,
there wuz nothin ahed but ruin. There
cum in aiterward an ex-member NV Con
gress, who had been defeatid for renomi-
nashun two years ago, and his denun-
siashin of oflis-holdin was affeclin in the
extreme. Io
We finally got to bizinis. One dele
gate moved that ex-Collector Jawkins
act as Chairman. This produced fear
tul uproar. Immejitly six or eight 9TH
ers wuz nominated.
"Don't vote for Jawkins," whispered
reformer, she wants prominence that
he may control the appointments in the
deestrik, and he's brothers and brothers
in-law all over it,"
"Don't vote for that id Smith
ers," whispered another, she wants to be
assessor"