Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-28

on sayin the country wich he'd honored him.
| Ez for himself his ambition wuz more than
| satisfied. lie he'd bin Alderman member
| of the Legislacher, Congressman, Senator.
| Military Governor, Vice President and
| President. He he'd swung aronnd the en-
| tire cirkle NV Offices, and all he wanted now
| wuz to heal the wounds of the nashun. He
felt safe in leavin the constitooshun in their
hands. Ez he swung around the cirkle--
At this pint | interrupted him. i told
him that he he'd swung around the cirkle
wunst in this town, and ez yooseful ez the
sphrase wuz it might spile by too much use.
At Cleaveland we began to get into hot
water. Here Is the post where the devil Nv
aboHshnism IS chained, and his chain is long
enough to let him range over nearly the
whole State. / am painedto to state that the
President Wusnt treated here with respeek
due his station. He commenct deliverin his
speech, bet wuz made the subieck Of ribald
latture. Skarsely he'd he got to the pint Nv
sWingin around the cirkle, when a foul
mouthed Niger lover yelled Veto and
another yocifferated Moo Orleans" and
after another interruption occurred until
His Highness wuz completely turned off
the track and got wild. He forgot his
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wuz out of him and he was Worsted. Grant
which he he'd taken along to draw the
crowds, played dirt on us here, and stepped
into the boat for Detroit, leayin us only
Farragut as a attraction, who tried twice to
get away ditto, but Wuz timely prevented
The President recovered his ekanimity and
swung around the circle wunst, and leaYin
the CONSTRUCTION in their hands, retired
AT the next pint we wuz astounded at
seein but one man at the station. He Yuz
dressed with sash over his shoulder, and
Wuz wavin a flag with one hand. frin a
saloot with a revolver with the other, and
playin Hail to the Chief on mouth
organ, all to wunst. who are you my
gentle friend ~ sez l. I'm the newly
appointed Postmaster, sir, saz he. ST M
a perceshun waitin here tu du honor to our
Cheef Magistrate, all alone, sir. There
wuz twenty Johnsonians in this hamlet, sir,
but when the commission came for me, the
other nineteen wuz soured and said they
didn't care d-n for him nor his policy,
sir Where is the President? ?' Androo
wuz a goin to swing around the cirkle for
this man and leave the CONSTRUCTION in his
hands, but Seward checked him.
AtFremont we had a handsome recep-
shun for the offises heven't bin changed
there, but Toledo didn't do so well. The
crowd didn't cheer Androo much, but when
Farragut was trotfed out they gave him a
rouser, wich wuz anything but pleasiu to the
Cheef Magistrate NV this nation who be-
leeves in bein respected.
FINAL we reached Detroit. This bein a
Democratic city the President was hisself
agIn. His speech here wuz one of rare
merit He gathered together in one quiver
all the sparkfn arrows he had used from
Washington to this point, and shot EN- one
by one He swung around the cirkle-he
didn come to make a speech-he he'd been
Alderman Nv his native town-he might
IIcy bUvlI dictator but uUULlOnt-an Ondod
with a poetical cotashun which | eoodent
ketch, but which ez near ez | Good under
stand wuZ:
''Kum wun-Kum all this rock shell Fly,
From its firm base--in a pigs oye.'
Here we repose for the mite Tomorrow
we start onward, and shell continue swing
in aronnd the cirkle till we reach Chicago.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, 7. NJ.
(which is Postmaster
land likewise chaplain to the EXPEDITION.