The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-12-26
WHOLE No. 532.

| This class of mechanics has always been
devilled by others-for what reason we
don't know. I've learned the trade Of Dave
Baker, Of Lebanon, Ohio, in one ueek and
quit-with man in Waynesville (same
county, in three days-with Dave Lloyd in
Ridgeville, Ohio, sir ,ceeks and quit-on ac-
count of the bad temper of Mrs. L., or the
excessive amiability of the writer-wc for
get which. Lebanon was Corwin's town,
and Ridgcville was the country seat of
Justice Mclean, one of the most excellent
of Gods creatures. These are not all the
trades our kind parent set us at and which
we ran away from, but one thing is true,
the tailoring business never did suit U.S.
Albeit we take an interest in the craft /:
like to be with them claim half-rcla-
tionship with the Turkish-sitting mechan-
les, and don't admire any one who ridi-
cules them. 1t is a fact that persons re-
quire. more skill in tailor, shoemaker,
or a milliner than they do in physician
any botch can doctor you but you require
qualification, experience, and taste, to make
your coats, pants, vests, dresses, boots,
shoes, &c., &c. Isn't this SO? And yet
you idoize the one and burlcsquc the 9th
ers
1t is known to you, rcadcr-of course it
is-that Andy johnson was tailor, and is
it further known to you, young man, that
he couldn't write his name till he was over
25 and he learned then to do so only by
the urgent solicitation of an intelligent
and beautiful wife? Such is the truth,
and when you hear people talk and read
the writings of newspaper riaicnlists re-
ferring to his ''humble origin''-''a tailor
just say to them that it was claimed by the
friends of Mr.. Clay, the Great Orator of
the Republic, that he was the "Mill-boy Of
the Slashes;' was often seen riding an
old horse from the mill, with the flour and
bran-bag under him, and-poor little fell
Iowa flagof truce futtering behind him |!
Once, in Congress, this orator being re-
preached because his mother was wash
erwoman, said he thanked God his mother
had health to raise boy able to meet the
aristocratic gentleman in debate in the
Congress Of the United States
But we are growing tedious. Some one
has been p,,nning our President because of
his former vocation, and we give it to our
readers:
We have had President Taylor, and
now VIC have tailor President. Little
did the present incumbent think, when
following the peaceful profession of his
yonth, that his goose would hang so high
that he, who once aided in dressing up
his Southern patrons, would one day be
called upon to assist in dressing down the
same individuals, and in giving particular
fits to many rebellious customers.
The war has come to it's close CLOTHES.
The ''re-possession" Of the Southern forts
has left enough dead men in the breeches-
let all breeches now be menaca. Our Pres
ident's previous life has been but se,c- se,c,
bnt if he pants for fame, he is rested with
sufficient authority to clothe the bleeding
and naked South with the garment of mer-
cy, so that our peace may not prove to be
a patched-up one, but blessing to all par
ties.
Although not Of character so benign
as his predecessor, may he conduct his ad-
ministration with such vigor as to make it
appear that there be nine men in the Presi-
Dental chair, instead of the ninth part Of
one