Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-05-25
miscellaneous.
A Letter From Mr.. Nasty.
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION MIR. MAS
BY'S EXPERIENCE AS A DELEGATE.
CINCINNATI, (wich is in the State !
Nv Ohio. May Z 1879


NV Ohio, May I, 1872.
l wuz not originally delegate to the
Cincinnati Convenshun, wich is to say ]
wuz not appointed ez a delegate. We he'd
p meetin at Bascom's NV me and Deekiu
Pogram, Kernel McPclter, Issaker Gavitt
and one or two other Libral Republkins.
but it wuz desided not to send delegate.
he'd, tho, some hopes NV the conven-
shun. Ef Adams, Davis or Brown Good
be nominated it wood be a good thing f.v
us. Adams is ruther too spectacle a man
for first-class Democrat, but he is still a
Democrat, and the Democratic convenshuu
wood hev accepted him. Davis and Trum-
bull amt Democrats cggsacky, but all the
roads out NV the Republican camp lead to
ours, and ez they hev taken that pertike-
lerly tlatrin one, anbishun, we Good trust
either NV them. | was anXshus to sec one
NV these three nominated, and wood hcv
counted it big thing for Democracy Good
/ it hcv been done.
/ wuz surprised at the fcelin manifested.
! There wuz denurshiashun NV the tyrant
/ Grant, more deep and fervid than had
! heard since the fall NV Nicksburg. There
| wuz torrent Nv abuse hcepcd upon oils
seekers, ollice-holders, corrupsheu in the
civil scrris, appointment NV relatives to
oils, and sich, wich pleased me. | jined
iii ii heartily, and wuz iinmeity asked by
delegate, whose nose recommended him
to me to-wunst, wat State | wuz delegate
from. L ansered that | wuz a citizen NV
kentucky, but no delegatc-that we sent
no delegates.
That don't mattcr,n scd he, his nose
gloin with zeal, ''we wuzn't any NV us
sent-we come. You shell be delegate.n
And aiOre L Good decline the honor he
he'd an lllinoy delegates ticket in my hand,
and when | scd l wuz for Judge Davis, in
tleXibly, he asked me TO take suthin. Now,
eff there is cnything Pm pertikcrlv distin-
guished for, its acceptin invitations TO take
suthin, and that delegates alacrity in askin
Good only hev bin exalted by my ulacrity in
acceptin. lie wuz Davis man, too. and
| promptly bOrrered twenty dollars NV him.
Ez whiskey wu2 free, that wuz enuif to
take me home and suthin 10 pay Bascom on
account.
The mornn NV the first day the dclega-
shun from the decstrik help to represent,
met. There wuz twenty delegates present,
and more earnest set NV men l never
mingled with. Five NV em wuz ex post
masters who he'd bin appinted by the saint
cd johnson, and most Outrageously dis
misst by the despot who is now President
two NV EN- were eX-collectOrs, three eX-as-
SCISSORS, and the ten remainin wuz a blin
with indignashun bccoz the oflises in their
respectiv towns wuz filed, they swore, with
the most unfit men in that seckshun.
"Rathcr than have the country and the
servis rooined," scd one, 81 wood hev ac-
cepted the Post Oils myself. l wuz soils
sited by my fellow citizens TO serve EN- in
that capassity, but no. y military friend
Nv Grants who he'd served under him, wuz
appintcd. Wat kin be expected of sich au
administration Faugh -
The other ten, | asscrtaned, he'd bin ap-
Plieanto for roeishNns. but somehow didn't
git en-. They were very certain tnat uu-
less there wuz an immejit change, there
wuz nothing ahed but room. There cum
in aflerward an eX-member NV Congress,
who he'd been deieetid for re-nominasheu
two years ago, and his denunshiashun Nv
ollis-holdn wuz aiicctin in the extreme.
We finally got to bizuis. One delegate
moved that OX-coliector Jawkins act ez
chairman. This prodoost fearful uproar
Immejitly six or eight others wuz nomina-
ted.
Don't vote for Jawkins," whispered
one Relormer, "hc wants prominence that
he may control the appointments in the
deestril, and he's brothers and brothers
in-law all over it,
Don't vote for that ID Smithcrs,"
whispered another, "he wants to be as
sessor.n
TO my utter and entire astonishment. l
diskivered The alarmin fact that evry Re-
former in the delegation he'd suthin in his
eye. The caucus wuz finally organized by
q compromise, and a man wuz elected
chairman who coodn't possibly want moth
in, ~ lie hedn't The iuaushel staudn in
his respCctv community to give bonds lOr
cnythiug. He he'd come to Cincinnati ON
Il free pass furnished By Il committee, and
his expenses paid, wich, cZ he remarkt, Cz
he hedn't enythiug TO do ut home, Nuz
cheaper than staying there. He rcmaIkt
TO me that he thought he shood go into the
Reform Delegate biZncs exclusively.
The preliminary bizues Nv the cOnven-
shun wuZn't cny easier sailin than the eau
cusses. There wuZ fearful diversity wv
opinion cz to wat wuz first to be done.
Had it been left with Brown and Schriiz
and a few others, cz we do III re%lar Dem
Ocratic convenshuns, il wood hev bin easy
cnulf, but there wuz dozen or more luna
tics who supposed that the movement wuz
in dead earnest, aud who he'd ideas to plO-
mulgate. They made trouble but we soon
got lid Nv EN-. To give the conyenshuu
character we compelled Senator Fenton To
leave tor his home, in Moo York, and to
hey it managed properly Frank Blair wuz
leItgrO pncu IOr. lnCn lnc DlLnlS WuG UC-
tooly commenced, and / wuz in high
feather. 1t seemed a moral certainty that
either Adams or Davis wood be nominated
and wot a glorious prospect opened. The
Democracy wood adopt EN-, the Relormers
wood all vote for em-well, l woodeLt hey
give Il Caniedrit ten cent scrip to hev bin
ashoored OF my posI-otlis in March next.
The platform wuzn't cz much NV Stun
bin block ez | supposed it wood be. The
protcctiOuists, for the sake nv harmony,
gave up their proteckshun ideas, the free
traders their iree-trade, tho paper money
men wuz perfectly wiliin to adopt the hard
money theory--the hard money advocates
declared themselves satisfied with paper
money plank the anti-b men cOnseutid
to hanks, and the bank men were perfectly
willin to hey EN- abolished. The amnesty
men had no obiecshun to permanent dis
franshisement. and the disiranshisors wuz
entirely willin to go the entire swine on
amnesty. Wat they all wanted wuz re-
form aud purity in the civil service. They
all wanted to cleanse Augean stables--to
hey a change-to restore the Government
to its aiushent purity. On this pint Frank