"Swingin round the cirkle" : $b His ideas of men, politics, and things, as set forth in his letters to the public press, during the year 1866.
John Locke · en
This decided upon, the work wuz done. The delegates took their seats,
and the grate work uv Reconstructin the Yoonyun commenced. Garret Davis
wanted to make a speech, and a hall wuz hired for him in another part uv
the city, and fifty or sixty German emigrants, who coodent understand a
word uv English, hired at a shillin an hour to act ez audience. Five
kegs uv lager beer, a flooid wich I hev bin told Germans tie to, hed bin
rolled in the hall, and most uv em stayed seven hours and a half.
In the regler Hall there wuz a comminglin which wuz edifyin. Doolittle
wood make a motion, and Vallandigham wood second it. Forrest made a
speech, and Randall indorsed it. Seward and John Morrissey were on the
Committee on Resolutions, and Dick Taylor and Cowan were occupyin one
seat. The resolutions were brief and to the pint. They resolved that,--
Whereas, there hed bin a season uv unpleasantness in our
national history, wich, owin to circumstances over wich nobody
hed any control, extended over several periods uv ninety days
each; and
Whereas, the unpleasantness resulted from the two sections
viewin things each from its own stand-pint, instead of viewin
things from the other's stand-pint; and
Whereas, both parties wuz highly in the wrong, partikelerly the
North; and
Whereas, the South, with a magnanimity unknown in history, hed
thrown down her arms, and wuz ready to resoom her old position
in the Government--nay, more, to take more than her old share in
the trouble uv runnin the Government; therefore be it
_Resolved_, That we are for the Yoonyun ez it wuz.
_Resolved_, That the persistency uv a sectional Congress, in
continuin the unpleasantness wich hez to some extent disturbed
our system uv Government, in legistatin while eleven sovereign
States is unrepresented, is pizen.
_Resolved_, That we view with alarm the manifest determination
uv Congress to centralize in theirselves the law-makin power uv
the Government, and we pledge our support to our worthy Chief
Magistrate, who is a second Jaxon, in his efforts to check their
centralizin schemes by vetoin all they may do.
_Resolved_, That all traces uv the late onpleasantness may be
wiped out ez soon ez possible, we demand uv Congress an
appropriation for plowin over all the fields on wich the
citizens uv the two sections who wuz indoost by their respective
Governments, so-called, to carry muskets, cum together,
particklerly them on wich our Southern brethren got the worst uv
the disputes that ensood.
_Resolved_, That Congress shood, ez soon ez it convenes, change
the names uv Murfreesboro', Gettysburg, Atlanta, Vicksburg, et
settry, to sich names ez Smithboro', Brownsburg, Jonesburg, et
settry, that the serious unpleasantnesses wich occurred at them
places may be remembered no more forever.