Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-12-05

that he (Gen Custar) wuz not nor
never he'd bin a supporter nv his poll
cy, and ohlige,
Yoors trooly, ez before.
| wuz too hrarthrol<en at this to
make any reply, and Cowan and Doc
little wuz in the same fix. The kur
nelcy wich wuz given to Custar TO keep
him in posishen, he'd been promised to
a dimokratic captin, who wuz led by
a company in the first Bull Run fight,
and who threw up the next day in dis
gust, not likin the manner in witch the
war wuz conducted, but the kurnelcy
wuz gone and Custar too, wat wuz
worse, there wuz no sich thing to be
thot NV ez dismissin him The entire
company yoonitcd in minglin their
teers.
The next letter wuz red by Seward,
ez it wuz addressed to him 1t wuz
from Raymond He opened with the
romark that for the Presidential offs
he he'd the highest respeck.
Aside from the cOnsiderashun that
it he'd been okkepied by the good
WashintOn, the great Adams, and the
sainted Linkin, the President might be
considered the father Nv his country
havin SO large number Of helpless
children to provide for, besides he'd
instinktive respeck for the dispense of
any thing 1t wuz difficult for him,
bein a supplemented man, not to nd
here to the President, but
Good Heaven ? shriekcd Johnson,
that little fox aint goin TO speak of
his reputashenY
'Dooty requires the readin NV the
entire dockeyment, painful to my feel
ing ez it tmay be- said Seward, he con
cludes thusly:'
| am forced to ask You ez one en-
iovin confdenshaI relashuns with Him
who occupies the Presidential chair, to
hev it given out that | stand in oppO-
sition to him A doc regard for my
reputashen impels me to this course
l remain, yoors troolY.
There wuz or three more. Gen,
Carey, Nv Ohio, requested the Presi-
dent to remove him from his Collector
ship, cz the holdin Nv it wuz injurin
his reputashen; editor out West,
! who wuz sedooced into takin Post
offs, begged TO hcv it taken off his
| hands, that he might save his circula-
shen before it wuz everIas,ingly too
late; and finally we come to wun, the
zeal of wich wuz a coat nv arms, bull
/ dog rampant, bowie knife couchant,
supported by trottin horses, on field
NV green cloth. 1t wuz from Hon
John Morrissey, who he'd jest been
| elected to Congress in Moo Y YOrk.
Mr.. MOrrisscy remarked, that ez one
Nv the pillars NV the Democracy, he
! felt he he'd a rite to speek. He wish
| ed it to be understood that he washed
! his hands NV any cOnnecshun with
Johnson or his party. He he'd seed
a life. In States where the Democra
cy, Nv which he wuz a pillar, he'd tied
| themselves to johnson, they he'd gone
| down to prematoor grave. Respect
| for the high offs restrained him from
sayin that the Democracy coodent car
ry sich cussid load, but he wood say
| that the result Nv the election in Moo
York, where they dependid solely on
muscle and nigger, witch is reel Dino
cratic capital, and succeeded, while
where Dimocracy wuz loaded down
with Johnsonism they failed, satisfied
| him that the President wuz a inkubus.
He sed this with all doc respeck for
the offs Mr.. Morrissey further re,
marked, that he he'd also personal rea-
sons for maxim this request. He com
menced in humble position, and he'd
filled the public eye long enoutf to sat
isfy his mOdist ambishen-he he'd wal
IOped Sullivan and Heenan-he he'd
owned the fastest horse and won more
money at faro than any man in Amer
| ika His ambishen wuz satisfied so
fur ez he wuz concerned, but he hop
ed to leave behind him for his infant
son, (wich wuz only twelve years Nv
age and which he'd a development NV
! intelIecl1 aud muscle remarkable for
one so tender, hevin already wallOped
every boy in the skool to which he
wuz goin. he desired to leave that son
! a honorable name 1t he'd been given
out that he wuz supporter nv the in
dividooal who okorpied the Presiden-
! shell offs, and it wuz inj0orin him. Ho
wished that stigma removed-a regard
for his reputation forced him to insist
upon 1t.
And this epistle was dooly signed.
his
JOHN n MORRISEY, NJ. G..
mark.
There wuz silence in the Cabinet.
This last stroke intensified the gloom
witch he'd settled onto the Government,
and ez | turned my tear bedewed eyes
| saw the great drops coursin down
the cheeks Nv every one present Mr..
| Seward retired without saying any
thing about ninety days, and one by
one they all departed.
| II yruz solapn time There wuz