The Van Buren press., 1866-02-17


ment. / felt that way sortcr. when MIR
Gibson appointed ME committee on
the State Of the Republik, felt that |
was obliged to renig. Risin majestikul.
ly to my feet, says |, Mr. President, /
beg to be respectfully exkused, sur, fyou
please. If thar is any Republik on this
side of Jordin, can't purseve it at this
time with these speks. Thar was place
in old Virginny, called Port Republic,
but Mr.. Rebel General Stonewall Jack
son wiped out its contents generally in
1868, and haven't since heard of it IN
Northern literature l have heard Of a
scrub cOnsarn over about Washington
they cal! Republik, but sur, it ar likely
to prove the biggest impOsture ever ex
istin on a continent of freedom. ] sup
pose sir, it ar to be removed to Boston
or the internal regions in a few days and
l want nuthin to do with it. EXkuse me,
sur, but l must insist on bein' respecta-
bly, discharged ! took my seat amid
the profomdest and tumultuous silence
ever seed, and Mr.. Gibson remarked that
he wOulden't impose the Republik on no
respectable man agin his wishes He then
transferred me to the finants committee,
and he sed he hoped we would take i'm
mediate action, for the State had no mon
ey, as well as himself and board was
high and ceteras frequent. This may not
have been his aktual lanwidge, but is an.
Cling toward it. bowed my head, and
said" Ditto, except don't eat seteras."
Forthwith / telegrafed varyous gentlemen
for temporary loan, but they wouldent
lend a dollar until Mr.. Jenkins were nor
garated, for they wanted his name to the
note. Thinks, says |, there's tap lost
about the wagin. If we are State, we
can borry money in Augusty. If we amt
State, it's none OF our bisness to bOrry
at all. If Andy wants to run the ma
chine his own way, let him pay his own
expenses What in the dickens is Pro
visional Government for, if it amt to get
up provisions, and provide for feller
generally. l made up my mind that per
haps we had been humoring Andy about
long enuf We had as much right to q
Governor as Alabama or South Carolina
He wants US back as bad as we want to
get back, and little bladder, perhaps; !;
and he needen't put on 80 many unneces-
sary airs about this Senator bisness. If
he fools with us much, we won't elect
nobody-I golly Well take the studs
and 60 backwards. l forthwith returned
to the Capitol, and stretchin forth one of
my arms, ses |, Mr. Gibson, sur--Im
your fricnd-Tm the friend Of your wife
and children; but eff Mr.. jenkins ain t
norgerated soon, the State will collapse !;
a bright and glorions star will be oblite-
rated from OFT the striped rag, and the
President will lose about nine supporters
in the Federal Congress. ] move sir, eff
we can't Git our Governor at once, like a
sine gua non, we break up in a row and de
part for Mexico. 1t took like the small
pox and were carryed tumultuously,-
These proceedins were telegrafed to
Washington before the ink was dry, and
we received orders forthwith to norger-
ate our Governor, and roll on our cars
Then the money came, and we voted our
selves q pocketful apiece, and took fur
10. My friends that were proud and
glorious day When that great and good
man was maxim his afiectin speech, we all
felt happy, and Captain Dodds, member
from Polk remarked that he would like
to die then, for he never expected to feel
as heavenly aUin The tears run down
his left eye like rain. His other eye were
beat out by Yankee soldier while the
Capen were in prison OF course the
villen wer TUX for it, and hung, though /
hain't seed no mention of it in the pa
pers Alas poor Wirz. .1' ..
Ny fellow peepe!, let me, in conclusion
congratulate you on havin Governor
as is Governor Oh! thers's life in the
old land yet, and by and by we'll all mix
up with our friends at the North, and we'll
transport them Black Republicans into
the Afrikan desert and put em teachin
Hotentots the rights of suffrage. Win
ter Davis could there find field Of labor
sufficient for the miserable remnant of
his declinin years. II it amt the Winter
of our discomfort mentioned by Mr..
Shakespeare, don't know who he sllu-
ded to, and l want to get rid Of him
He and his clan have done US much evil,
and I'm induced to exclaim in the lang
widge Of Paul about Alexander the Cop
persmith, May the Lord reward 'eln ac-
pOrdin fo THAR works .s ...