The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-09-27

RICHMOND. md, SEPT. ~. 1866.
Our National. Tailor Portrait Drawn
in Chalk by Knight Of the Shears.
'.Show me who has. been engaged in
these conspiracies, who has fred upon
our flag, who has given instructions to
take our forts, custom houses, arsenals
and dock-yarl1s, and will show you
traitor Were President of the Unit
ed States. ] would do as Thomas Jeffer-
son did in 1906, with Aaron Burr
would have them arrested, and if con-
victed. within the meaning and scope of
the Consultation. by the eternal God, l
would execute them.-Andse,o johnson
in tie United States Senate, March %, 1861.
believe we must leave the killing out
when all is DONE Robert Starveling, the
Tailor, Aidsumsser NiyAfs Dream.
In my opinion, a certain notorious rep
resentative of our craft is but $3.50
journeyman;y after running well for q
time, lie is taking long back Stitches
He is trying to mend our brooches with
shoddy. He is putting new pockets into
our national coat.of- arms, for foreign in
suits, and patches ito grand bullet holes
with Confederate gray. s5@s Il .lis
1 suspect that he 10 going into the old
clothes business this same Mr.. Moses.
He has sponged out his old honorable
record, aud is no longer . credit to our
cloth. In undertaking to fit the grand
mantle of the great President to his
diminutive proportions, he has clipped,
and shipped, and reconstructed it into
a monkey Jacket"
He'll not give the rebels the hasty
basting they deserve. but he is bent upon
binding mp their wounds. He is not the
man to end J. DIS thread of life with a
slip not. ordi ini se - az
He has sat too long ON a narrow bench
to stand firm and erect on broad plat
form. ,sfnoA ".ia4,, s-saf-.ai.,ar 81
In my opinion all of said A. j. stories
of great sacrifices for the Union are ''cut
out Of the whole CLOTH He can't make
me swallow tails of that sort.
He is too we'll used to turning his coat.
He isn't sound on the goose. He will
make a cabbage garden of the White
House grounds, He would extingush
libertys torch with his thimble. His
needle turns to the South pole. I would
there was another needle in the seat Of
government to prick him on to duty.
confess 1 don't admire his round
about policy. ! don't like his habits;
they are either too loose or too tight /
don't like his measures. He don't fit
the situation. There is too much seem
ing about him. He is poor Teller. He
overcasts our fair sky with doubt, and
shirts it with lightnings. He keeps the
nation "in suspendcrs," as Mrs. Parting
ton would say. I would set him to max
ing corduroys. He isn't fit for our ducks
-dux. He needs buckram in his prin-
ciples. He wants drilling He has less
heart than padding. He hasn't .'soul
above buttons" He faces both ways
He is full Of platitudes. He doesn't
gather wisdom from experience. He
tacks and trims. Hisjudgmenti is warped
He doesn't listen to good advice. He
would come the Nap over US with his
yard stick for sceptre. He wants men
after his own pattern to follow the patch
he chalks ont He wakes saucy, but if
he don't mind hts eye in threading his
way, he'll raise the choler of the nation,
and get hemm ed in and pressed on all
sides. He needs to be stayed, to be
slashed, to be goared, to be pinked.
If the fates should be inclined to cut
him with HIS -own sAesrss j. for one,
should ss4y,k 'cut Away.', If fortune
were about to undo him, should say,
= "let her rip"