Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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fFrom the Toltee Blsda-1 v ; ■ MM. NASBV DRKAMS— THE DEMOCRACY ADort" TUX BUOOEBTIOM OV THEIR LEADING FAFEBB AMD ATTEMPT TO BITRY DEAD ISSUES—WHAT WAS LETT O* THE ORGANIZATION AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE WORE. • Post ofms, Coamarr X Roads, 1 (Wicfc is In the Blate nv KentnckyJ > May 0, 1H69. I I NOTiST in an eveln paper wich I got j hold uv last nite (it come wrapped around i a new bonnit wicli Mirandy Pogram received from Looisville), that Vallandyg- ! urn's organ, and in fact most cv the Democratic papers uv the North, hed decidid I that the only hope for the Democrby ia tt> bury the dead past, throw overboard i the lumber, clear the decks for ackshen, t and go in to win. Before I hed finisht reading the extracks, ■ I fell intg amoet profund sleep, the words uv the text, “ Let ns bury the dead past,” 1 being forcib'y fixed fa my mind. Sieepin I dreamed es l alius do. zT u my vision I found myself a stand in in front uv an immense buildin wigh hed Sin erected for the purpose of hold fa a Democratic Nashnel Convenshin into. I Over the arch-way wich served as an enI trance wux this inscripshen, “Nothin succeeds like gnoccee—anything for success* Ez I felt thkt I hev a rite to par- , ticipate in any thing Democratic I entered the buildin, rud interdoosin myself to the Kentucky del egashen, observed the proceeding A commit’ e hed bin appinted on.-“ the condishcn and prospex uv the Democratic party," and that committee wuz jest reportin. They informed the convenshen that Democracy wus in a decidedly bad way, and that they saw but one way out of the politikle wildern is in wich they htd bin wanderin for eight long years like second Israelites, without the manna to live onto wich the flrtt hed, and that they wus to bury the dead past, and throw the dead weights that hed fettered the Democracy and prevented em from winnfa the heats wich they so much desired. “ Amen 1” shouted Vallandygum aloud, addin in an undeitone “ that’ll kijl PendletqA.” u A ’ "AmenT’ sHodtcff Pendleton, Uddin in k Whhrper to one uvhh guard wich accompanied bftn to Noo York, * that kills off Vallandygum.” And each uv the leaders hollered “Amen I” felin that tbe ackshen killed I off e'se. - witteevell I" sei the j Cbltiman. “Now lets get at this work uv buryin the deid psst ez soon ez porsible, for the Lord knows there’s enough of it ti'-fifiT ~Ard when i*s all done the Dimoerasy relceve d and strengthened will go Ob cenkeiin and to conker? A hearse w at drawd up afore the Chairman’s d ik, who called out in a stentorian voice, “ wat shall we commence on f” “ Free trade may be counted as a hefty partuv the dead past,” remarkt a dele gats from Penvsvlvany. “ Hustle it in 1 ’ yelied the Convenshen, and it w <it according hustled. “We may ez well ba buried with it,” . 1 the Noo Yoik impoilin Dimocrats, a 1 they compotcd themselves beside it, w«d the hearse ov’icd out .» ■ I •• The Virgitaa resolooshens I” sung out I ’he cbahma’s, and forthwith, Garrett ' Dav : sand h’s followera lemarkt that es them re?olocshei s w az a pai i uv the dead pest, thev must be tounjid.in ez dead p ter® a so, and ; endin the'’ regrets to the‘l constitpr rnts, they composed their ,: mbs for bu riel-and the'hearse loaded with the feey 11 weight rolkd out. ‘ Str’es Rit si” sung out the chairman, auu lOrthwi’h all uv the pirty knowd Uteie pertikelerly es Conservative Copperheads laid down without a murmur to be Hftit fa with it. It took a large num-' ber uv hearses to.cany this load, and the takin uv em out thinned the convenshen ’ rribly. “ Secession I” w uz the next eall made by the chairman, and immejitly all theKnltes uv the Go'den Circle, and tue Sons uv Lib sy uv e North, and nine-tenths uy ’he South fell prostrate wrth their hands up to De tied, and their eyes closed to hev pennies put onto em. “Slavery 1” sung out the chairman, and to wr~>st there aaz a sound like the i ashin uv many waters. Down wen t fall half uvwat wuz leftuv the Convenshn, and a long time wuz consoomed in pickin trv em np and loading em in. “ Repoc Jeashen!” wuz the next call,’and without a sigh,;4he delegates from Southern Illinoy", Tnjeany ana Ohio went down; and wuz loaded. . “ OUss -Suffrage 1” remarkt the chairman nervously, for the Convenshen wuz gittin fearfully thin, and with a groan, two-thjrds, of wat wuz left wuz huddled into the hearses wich went out slowly. « “.Now I” sed the chairman, ‘ let the lumber, the dead weights, them whose presence in our party makes it a stench in the nostrils uv the Amerikin people, let them be buried that we may hev nothing in our precipitated theirsefaes upon Vallaniygam, Voorhees, Fernandy Wood, Pendletoq. Hoffman, Frank Peerce, and all uv that class, wich, by the way, wuz all’ that remained. . The chairman lookt at me wolfishly, and I glowered at him. 4 **pjrl’*eedh«, “I must carrv yoo out and bury pea,and then—- “ And then wat L “ And then I spose I must commit sooL tide, ez I voted for all them jvhich'"we hev buried, and for all the principles we hev this day' condemned. I spose I too. Ana he went for me, hut doorin the struggle wich ensood, 1 awoke. The drekin wuz only a dream, an<j I wuz glad that it wuz so. It's all very Well Ur J -Ufa' Rv batafosta wr uisdertakv tbat Hutculjan task, WRt foHows ?-> Trite' we hav'e bin reglerly bustid on distinctive Democratic ishoos, but when we throw em overboard, wat is left uv us? In wat respeck do we differ from the Ablishnists | Hfwoknock <Jdt Ht the Democratic creed Ul&fcserti<Hi that thfC'nlgger'iss babhoidto, wat isjto prevent us from going over to Wendejl Phildead ishoos, and histem out u v oqr platt tffi Uiftr from theblood-

thirsty wretches who drenched the country with gore? Bf we deny thedtvfoe nteUv we hot to wunrt bow oar neeks to ths bondholders, and become the grinders uv the faces uv the few Dim ocriyy wich pay Hxe> ? And it we bury them wich hev madetheirselvesobnoxyin to Abllshnists by advocatln all their doctrines, in what pertlkeler do ws differ from the Abliahniate theirselvAs who hav bin tryin to bury em for ths past twelve years? and es when we cut out uv our creed al) that ia trooly and distinctively Democratic, we bev.no creed left, so wb«h we bury all nv them wich hev held to these creeds do we bury the Democratic party. Th<j Idea, however it may look theoretically, wont do to practls. We must still hold together, tiaytin to the jolly uv our adversaries ra’heT than to our own strenth. Suthin win turn up sometime to let us out, es we hev faith and kin endure long enuff. So mote it be. Petroleum V. Nabat, P. M., (Wleh la Post Master.)