Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-26
Nasty.

Nasty, who was Chaplain to the recent cleo
pioneering procession of Johnson, Seward & Co.,
thus explains his selection
Step by step | am assendin the ladder Nv
fame-step by step am climbin to proud
eminence. Three weeks ago | was summoned
to Washington by that eminenty CRATE and
good man, Androo Johnson, to attend con-
sultation to the proposed Western tour,
wich wuz to be undertaken for the purpose OF
arousin the masses Nv the Vest TO Nv
the danger wich wuz threatenin NV em IN case
they persisted in centralizin the power Nv the
government into the hands a Congress nstid
NV diffusin 1t throughout the hands NV one man,
wich is Johnson. got there too late to take
part in the first Nv the discussion. When l
arrove they had everything settled, ceptin the /
apartment Chaplain for the excursion. |
The President insisted on my film that posi-
ton, but Seward objected He wanted Beecher,
but Johnson inhexibly ag.n him. " am
determined SEE he, 3" to carry out my policy,
| but hev some bowels left. Beecher hez dun
enuff already, considern the pay he got. nc
no he shell be spared this trp-indeed re
shell
every good, said Seward, but at least
find some clergyman who endorses US without
hevin P. NJ. to his honored name. 1t wood
look BETTER
81 know it wood" replied Johnson, {" but
| where KIN we QDu SIGN d OUc ucN swung
around the intire circle and hewitt yit seen
him. Nasty it must be-"
Petroleum INDUCES in the following bit of
philosophy about removals from Office
There wuz then a lively discussion ez to the
propriety, before the procession started, of
remoyin all the Federal oftls- holders on the
proposed route, and appintln men who believed
in US, johnson, Beecher and me,) that we
might be shoor Nv a sootable recepshun ct each
pint at wch we wuz to stop. The Amounted
wuz in favor Nv it. See he, " them ez won't
support my polisy shan't eat my bread and
butter" Randall and Doolittle chimed in, for
it's got to be part of their religion to assent
to whatever the President SEE, but | mildly
protested. owe duty to the party and
am determined to do it,"
Most High" seq /, &" a settin hen wich is
lazy makes no fuss-cut lis head off and it
aops about for while lively. Lincoln's office
holders are settin hens. They don't like voc
nor yoor policy, but while they are on their
nests they will keep moderitly quiet. Cut of
their heads and they will squirt their blood in
your face. Ez to bein enshoord OF a recep
ton at each point, you need fear nothin. Cal
kerlatin moderately, there are at least twenty
five or thirty patriots who feel a call for ever,
offs in your disposal. Yoor Highnis, eff then
offiisis is held just where they ken see EN-, ant
t0ey con I KNOW @iCu Is " Sct cIus 1oO HE
} depend upon the entire enthoosiasm of each
individyooally and collectively. In short, e
there's ofisis in town and 700 made tn
appointments, you hev the hundred who e1
pect to get en-
At one stopping place, his philosophy wa
verified. He says:
, At the next pint we wux astounded at seein
hut one man at the st alton. II wuz dresses
with a sash over his shoulder, and wuz wayin
flag with wun hand, frin a saloot with re
: vover with the other, and playing " Hail
the Chief " on a mouth organ, all to wuns
Who are you, my gentle friend, sell. al
the newly appointed Postmaster, sir, SEE HI
) ~I'm q perce shun a waitin here to do homo
to our Chief Magistrate all alone sir. Their
a wus twenty Johnsonians in this hamlet, 81
. but wher the commishn came for me, the othe
: nineteen wux soured and sed they did mt car
d-u for him nor his policy, sir, Where
the President I" Andrew wu8 goin I
n swing around the cirkle for this one man an
,. leave the oonstooshan in his hams, but SewsI
checked him. t- r. raaa :