American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-08-08

Washington City, and chuck full of news
| called to see tho President and talked
to him like book, for me and him were
school boys. I've liking for Andy and
told him ! didn't want t.. see him lost in
the fog Says he, Major TIL hear you,
and so | put my thumbs In nv jacket.
drew myself back in nv chair and com
menced. Says I, Andy, for Gods sake
and mine, don't you make tho same blum.
der John Tyler did He got notion in
his head to get up a policy, and got quar-
reling with Congress, and then the Dem.
ocrats patted him on tho back and prom
ised to stand by him; and know, ses +
Andy, they dropped him at the end of
his torn, jest as monkey would hot
chestnut. Ses I, Andy. you know how
they used to get up meetings here, sich
fellows as Montgomery Blair would blow
horn, then some of the fellows under
him would beat ON tin pans and an old
drum that must Of stood out in the rain
that when you beat on it ii sounded like
kicking foot ball; then they would gath
or up to this very White House in great
crowd and old John Tyler would come
out, and with one thumb in his jacket
jes like me, and the fore finger of his
right hand leaning up against his long
nose, he would say: Fellow citizens.
this immense assemblage Of the yeoman-
ry of the country convinces me that My
Policy is right" Then aome feller
would holler out, "Give it to Ciay"-
Then old John would call Clay dictator
and other hare names, like you called
Forney. Ses l, Andy. that was not right
for you, President ofthese here United
States, reaching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, to talk about dead ducks"
Sich expressions from me and you amt
becoming no how, and | kept denying
you ever said it until Seward telegraph
ed it was an elegant speech, ''dead ducks"
and all. Now, ses l, Andy don't let them
fellows, Montgomery Blair, Tom F.,
an others jist like them, draw you out
to make fool of yourself again. You
keep shady, don't get mad, but try and
follow as closely as you can the track Of
Old Abe and you'll be all right. Ses he,
Major don't the Democrats approve my
course? Psha scs I Andy are you
green enough not to know what they are
afterI You know, ses !, Andy they new
er get up any measure themselves, but
always fight everything our party adopts.
Why, Andy, ses |, | verify believe if
Congress would pass bill to keep trich-
ined hogs and cholera from landing ON
our shore, and you would veto the bill,
the Democrats would pat you on the
back aud cry out, "Good for you, Andy;
stick to principle and wei stand by you"
Why, ses !, Andy they would take the
stump for you and would tell their Dem
ocratic friends as how there was no sech
thing as trichina in hogs; that i. was
Republican falsehood, intended to inter.
fere with the whole hog principles oe the
Democracy. Now, ses |, Andy you must
not be fooled BY these fellows in this way
There amt going to be any sich thing
as a new party formed, for the people all
say the Union party is good enough for
t hem, and they intend to stick to it.
Ses |, Andy look at Connecticut and
New Hampshire, how they stuck to the
Union party against the copperheads.--
Depend upon it, this is the feeling all
over the country, and you cant change
it. YoG helped to make it yourself when
you told them in the Senate you would
hang traitors. Ses |, Andy, if you caught
a servant going to burn your house down,
would you trust him any longer, even if
he would swear he would never do it
again? Breckinridge and Davis swore
they would support the Constitution of
the United States, and all the time they
were trying to upset the Union, and Of
course Andy scs |, you know, if they up
set the Union, the Copstitution would be
undermost. Now, would you, Andy,
ses l, take either .of these fellows into
your Cabinet, aud if you did, wouldn't
you be afeared they would turn our own
guns upon you, or steal all the money
from the Treasury, aud start another re-
bellion? Ifso, why do you quarrel with
Congress for not taking such vile rebels
like them into fellowship to make laws
for us? :? Wouldn't you say, SOS I, Andy,
that fellow that would trs to take the
life of your child, wouldn't be ft to be
its guardian? And now, Andy, don't
you think yourself-if you should come
into Court aud ask the Judge to appoint
such fellow guardian--that you would be
sent right away to the madhouse ,? Now,
ses /, Andy, that's jest what the people