Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-18
OUR NATIONAL TAILOR.
A Portrait Drawn in Chalk by q
Radical knight of the Shears.

StElsn hs Anti SLAYER, Standard,
Show me WHO has been engaged il
these conspiracies, who has fired upon ou
flag, who has given instructions to taxi
our forts and custom houses, and arsenal
aud dock-yards and l will show you /;
traitor. Were President of the United
States would do as Thomas jefferson did
in 1906, with Aaron BErrs L would have
them arrested, and II convicted, within
the meaning and scope of the Constitu-
ton, by the eternal God, would execute
them-Andrei0 johnson iH the United
States Senate, March %, 1862.
| believe we must leavo the killing out
when all is done.-Ro6ia StdrDeLhsg, tie
Taylor, Midsummer Nights Dream.
In my opinion, a certain notorious re-
preventative of our craft is but a $3.50
| Ijourneyman; after running well for a
time, he is taking long back stitches. He
is trying to mend our national breeches
with shoddy. BE i& putting new pock-
els into our national coat of arms, for
foreign insults, and patching its grand
bullet holes with Confederate grey. 1
suspect that he is going into the old bust
ness-this same Mr.. Moses. He has
spongsd out bis old honorable record, and
is no longer credit to our cloth: in an
dertaking to fit the grand mantle of the
great President to his diminutive proper
tions, he has clipped, and shipped, and
reconstructed it into 3 monkey jacket.
He'll not give the rebels the hasty bsst-
ing they deserve but is bent upon bind
ing up their wounds He's not the man
TO end j. DIS thread of life with a Slip
not.
He has sat too long on narrow bench,
TO stand firm and erect on a broad plat
In nv opinion, aa Said A is stosdios4 4 Z ]
of great sacrifice for the Union are "cut
out of the whole cloth" He can't make
me swallow tales of that sort.
i He is too well used to turning his coat.
He isn't sound on the goose" He will
make a cabbage garden Of abe White
House grounds. He would extinguish
libegty's torch with his thimble. His
needle turns 70 the South PoleA l would
there was another needle in the seat of
government TO prick him on to duty.
1 confess don't admire his roundabout
policy. I don't like his habits !; they are
either too loose or too tight. don't like
his measures He don't fit the situation
Thefe is TOO much sesining about him. He
is poor fellow He bvercasts our fair
sky with doubt, and skirts it with light
nings. He keeps the nation Gin suspen-
ders, as Mrs. Partington would say.
would set him to making corduroys. He |
isn't fit for our ducks-dax. He needs |
buckram in his principles. He wants |
drilling. He has less heart than padding. |
He hasn't "a soul above buttons" He |
faces both ways. He is full of platitudes. |
He doesn't gather wisdom from expert
ence. He tscks and trims. His judgment |
is warped. He doesn't listen to good ad-
vice. He would come tho Nap. over us,
with bis yard stick for a sceptre 9sHei
wants men Of his own pattern TO follow
the patch he chalks out. He wakes saucy,
but if he don't mind his eye in threading
his way, he'll raise the choler of the nation
and get hemmed in and pressed on all
sides. He needs to be stayed, 10 be gored,
10 be slashed, to be pinked.
IL the fates should be inclined to cut
him off with his own shears, for one
should say, "Cut away If fortune were
about to undo him, should say, "Let her
-ip."