Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-19
from the Toledo BladeI
Nasty.

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From the Toledo BIadeI
NASBY.
Mr. Nasty with the Presidential Party
AT THE BIDDLE HOUSE,
(which is in Detroit, Michigan,
Sept. the 4Ih, 1861
Step by step 1 am assendin the ladder
Nv fame-step by step l am climbin to 8
proud eminence. Three weeks ago |
wuz summoned to Washinton by that
eminently CRATE and good man, Androo
johnson, to attend a consultation ez to
the proposed Western tour, wich wuz to
be undertaken for the purpose Nv arous-
in the masses Nv the West to 4 sence Nv
the danger witch wuz threatip Nv EN- in
case they persisted in centralizin the pow
er Nv the government into the hands Nv
a Congress, instid of diffusin it through
out the hands Nv n man, which is John.
son. | got there too late to take part in
the first Nv the discussion. When l ar
rove they had everything settled, ceptin
the appointment Nv a Chaplain for the
excursion. The President insisted upon
my film that position, but Seward OBJ
Jected. He wanted Beecher, but johnson
wuz infexibly again him. "I am deter
mined" seq he, ito carry out my policy,
but l heV some bowels left, Beecher hez
done enuf already, considerin the pay he
got. Mo- mol he shell be spared this
trip-indeed he shell"
VERY good" said Seward, "but at least
find some clergyman who endorses us
without heyin P. N. to his honored name.
It would look better"
81 know it wood,"' replied johnson,
''but where kin we find SIGH a one? l
hev swung around the entire circle and
haven't ez yet seen him. Nasty it must
be-"
There wuz then a lively discussion ez
to the propriety before the procession
started, of removin all the Federal offs
holders Oh the proposed route, and appin-
tin men who believed in US, (Johnson,
Beecher and me), that we might be shoor
~ a sootable recepshun at each pint at
which We wuz to stop. The Amounted
wuz in favor Nv it. SEE he, s'them ez
won't support my polisy shan't eat my
bread and butter" Randall and Doolit-
tie chimed in, for it's got to be q part of
their religion to assint to whatever the
President SEE, but l mildly protested
[ owe a duty to the party and | am de-
ternined to do it.
'Most High" sell, "a settin hen which
is lazy makes no fuss-cut its head off and
it hops about for awhile lively LiaOoln's
offce-holders are settin hens. They don't
like 700 nor yoor policy, but while they
are on their nests they will keep moder-
lily quiet. Cut off their heads and they
will squirt their blood inyour face. Ez to
bein enshoord of areception st each point
you need fear nothin. Kslkerlatin mod
erately, there are at least twenty-five or
thirty patriots who feel acall for every
offs in your disposal. So long, Yoor
Highnis, ez them ofisis is held just where
they kin see EN-, and they don't know
which is to git EN-, 700 may depend upon
the entire ~enthocsiasm Nv each, indIvid-
| yooly and collectively. nshort, eff there's
4 ofises in town and 700 make the ap-
p~ointmerts, 700 hev sekoored 4 supper
ters-tM 700 make the appointments 700
hev the hundred who expects to get en-"
The President agreed with me that un-
I'll af r the trip the gullotine shood stop.
Secretary Seward sejested that a clean
shirt would improve my personal appear
ance, and akkordingly a cirkular wus
sent to the clerks in the Departments, as.
sessin EN- for that purpose. SIGH Nv en-
ez refoosed to contribute their quota wuZ
instantly dismissed for ~disloyalty.
At last we started, and / must say we
Wuz got up in a highly conciliatory style.
Every wun of the civilians Nv the party
wore buzzum pins, ct settry, which wuz
presented to EN- by the Southern dele
gates to the Philadelphia Convention,
which wuz made NV the bones Nv FEEDER
eral soldiers which hed.fallen at various
battles. Sum NV EN- wuz partikerly valua-
BILE az anteeks, hevin bin made from the
bones NV the fust soldiers who fell at Bull
Run.
The Moo York reception wuz a gay
affair, / never saw His Imperial High
ness in better spirits, and he delivered
his speech to better advantage than l eV-
err heard him do it before, and 1 bleeve
I've heard it a hundred times. We left
Moo, York sadly. Even now ez I write
the remembrance Nv that perceshun-the
recoIlecshun Nv that banquet fingers
around me, and tina taste Nv them wines
is still in my mouth. But we he'd to go.
We he'd a mishen to perform, and we put
ourselves on a steamboat and started.
ALBANY-There wuz a immense crowd,
but the Car Nv all the Amerikins didn't
git OFF his speech here. The Governor
welcomed him, but he welcomed him ez
the Cheef Magistrate Nv the nashen, and
happened to drepin Lincoln's name
That struck a chill over the party, and
the President got out Nv it es soon as
possible. Bein reserved as Cheef Magis-
trate and not ez the CRATE Paciicator,
amt his ~Eggslency's best holt. It wuz
unkind Nv Gov. Fenton to do it. If he
takes the papers he must know that his
Mightiness amt got but one speech, and
he ought to hev made such a reeepshun
w wood hev enabled him to heY got it
off. We shook the dust off NV our feetI
and left Albany in disgust
SKENEACTADT.-The people Nv this de-
lightful little village Waz awake when
the imperial train arrived. The changes
haven't been made in the offices hereand
Consistently there wuz a splendid recep-l
shun. l didn't suppose there wuz so
many patriots along the Mohawk. l wuz
out by sum ez the Presidents pri-
vate adviser-a sort Nv private Secretary
State, and after the train started |
found jest Oil petitions for the Post Offs
Skenaktdey in my side coat pocket,
wich the patriots who he'd hurrahed 50
vo~cifferously he'd dexterously deposited
there. The insident wuz a movin one.-
Thank God" thought $50 long ez
hev the post offices to give, we kin
alluz hev a party" The Sultan swung
around the circle Wunst here and leaving
constooshun in their hands the train
off.
RONE-Here we had a splendid recep
and | never heard his mqiesty speak
more felicitously. He menshuned to the
audience that he he'd swung around the
Southern side NV the cirkle and wuz now
sNlnglnn arnnHI a. NnnaLnnn :.