The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-24
Nasty.
Written for the Toledo iiade.l Ni
The October EiectlOns---Mr. Nasby's
Opinion ON che Cause OF the Be-
feat or the President.
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October 10. 1880.
wuz called to Washington in haste
10 be- present 40 a Cabinet meetin
called TO consider the causes av the
unparalleled looaenin nv the Naahnel
Union johnson Dimekratio party Ii
the various States wieh held elections
on the 9th Nv October last. There
wuz Seward, Wells, McCulloeh and
Randall present, but we missed Ray.
mond and Beeeher. they hevin, un-
derstand, played off onto us. -
The President wuz gloomy. He
hednt Anticipated the defeat. He
speoted that heyin showd hieself
through all tho Northern States Their
ought TO hey ben enthoosiasm enough
evolved 30 hev carried EN- without
trouble, The fault, he remarked,
eoodent be with his policy There
wuz suthing 80 grand, so sublimely
simple IN IL, that II wuz Incompetent
sibleto him why the people hedn't ut
once adopted IL. why look at il,
said he, II offer che people NV the
North peace, on the simple eondishn
NV sayin nothin more about the war,
or The mutual trouble wich they
found Yourselves into, and rnahin
into the arms of their Southern
brethren and takin NV err back jist
ez they went out How, OIL how
GOOD they be so blind ez 20 refooae
these olive branches2h
Randall replied that he ooodent un-
derstand il, but he had summoned a
Postmaster to attend, which no he'd
appinted on his solemn ashoorance
that he could carry enough Republi-
cans over 20 our new party 10 defeat
the Union member in that District,
which he notist by the papers wuz
elected by n larger majority then he
he'd ever reserved, and he wuz in
waitin. e.
" Bring in the wretch, shouted the
President, aud the guard brung him
IN. A mizable lookin objick he wn2
Ez soon ez he saw the stern eye NV the
President fixed onto him, he sunk 10
his knees and lifted his hands inn
plorinly without sayin word. l' {
Speak sed the President, why
the result in yoor Decstrick?' ~
My liege, replied the wretched
man, know not. Faithfully ! la
bored, but the people wood come into
the house holdin their noses and set
holdin NV EN- so long ez Iwuz speekin,
wich wuzn conducive to displays Of
oratory, The papers would publish
my own utterances six months before,
wich ooniuses me somewhat, and the
ablishnists would read at me yoor
speeches wich / coodn' akkount for.
i aeokoored for 700 suthin like a
dozen votesgbut they wuz them oz
stipulated for places under me, and
he'd hard work 20 git EN-, from the
Union party, and they were sich or
did US more harm than good And
besides"
him.
Aud the poor fellow wuz bundled
Secretary Welles knowd wat wuz
the matter IL come NV takin Grant
9n9 Harrygut along ON the excursion.
~ u's1rhcted the attention NV the peo-
PIE uea there bin nobody but the
lfeSluont aud the Cabinet there
woodent hey bin nobody to hnrrah
ioreaand the sublime trooths wieh the
l'resldeEt kin only jerk wood have
Impressed the people more than they
Seward wuz confident that the cleo.
ton wood hev bin all right Good 4
hey bin postponed ninety DAYS wb;le
MeCul,oeh attributed it 10 the lint
ed knowledge the masses he'd of Inie.
any bankin. .,....s
wuz reqested to give my views
wiph | did
my lords. sed /, "none of Won
hey got the ice. We wux beet be. |
cause wo left the landmarks that's
what allied us--wuz the ancient land.