Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-30
QDQ1ol sStates:ularr,
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
RecOnstructiOn A Amendments-I'he
Comfy EditOr-A Roland for am
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WASHINGTON, May 26, 1866.

| Comfy Eu1tOr-A Roland Tor an
Oliver. -ja
-. 300 ha WASHINGTON, May 26, 1866.
| / called at the Senate document room,
yesterday morning, and requested its super
| intendent to furnish me with q copy of
each amendment submitted so far to the re-
construction resolutions of the Special com
mittee. As nearly as | could recollect,
l had right to expect about ten or twelve,
and thought they would be Immediately
handed to me. The accommodating gen
tleman to whom had applied Immediately
commenced the collection of the requested
documents. He got ten of them together
in less time than it takes to record the fact,
and as he was looking for the eleventh,
suggested that there was no more. He
looked at me in anaZement, and smilingly
remarked that he guessed ] "hadn't been
keeping track of this thing" Soon the
twentieth number was reached, and still 1t
appeared the work was not complete. |
thought my documentary friend had GER
tainly mistaken my request, and had con-
strued it into a modest demand for all the
bills of the session, from Civil Rights in
December to the pensoning of John Smith,
last Monday. and took the liberty of disa-
busing his mind by assuring him that |
only wanted the pending amendments to
House joint resolution l27
"rhat's what ! supposed" said he, in
creasing the pile to twenty-five as lie utter
ed the words. "Twenty- y-fve--thirty-
thirty -ive-forty-" II.
Hold on, now. Pm in earnestabOut this
matter NojOking." For really, | thought
was being made the victim of a joke, and
was beginning to lose my temper. He of
the document room, seeing this, began to
lose his temper too, and sharply retorted
that nobody was trying to fool me, and that
lie guessed didn't know what wanted. |
repeated, for the thru or fourth time, that
| wanted the reconstruction amendments,
and only those now pending in the Senate.
My eyes were damned in a good natured
sort of way, and was told to dry up
which did. By this time, | was hugging
No. fiity-five to my palpitating breast, and
the end seemed as far off as ever Fifty-five,
tifty-siX, tifty-seven, hfty-eght, tifty-nine,
sixty, and the cry was still they come.
Presently, there were signs that my mis-
sion had been accomplished. The pigeon
holes had all been ransacked. had reach
ed No. siXty-five.
"That's all for the present." innocently
remarked the superintendent to me; and
then turning to a messenger close by, said
he $50 down to the printing office and tell
them to send up all the amendments to the
House joint resolution 127, after No. sixty
five" ."..
/ | thought couldn't wait for the def
cheney, satisfied that my stock in hand was
already large enmgh to keep me supplied
with light literature and romance for the
summer months.
81. W. Comfy, EDITOR OHIO STATE JOUR-
NAL"
\ A dispatch having appeared recently in
the WdShindtOR Chronicle with the above
signature, purpOrting to inform the public
of the intense devotion to radicalism exist
ing in Ohio, felt constrained, lest some
unsuspecting persons be deceived into the
belief that there was such man as ~. w.
Comfy" or such paper as the "Ohto State
Journal" to apprise the public of the
mythical character of both the " COnlely edi-
tori and the "tState Journal" Since the
person writing the dispatch to Forney re-
ferred to was bent upon hoax, why didn't
he draw on Dickens, and say: ..
dearest Duck:
D., "We're all for Congress.
"Your love-sick PIcKwICK."
And if he wanted to sign himself an
editor, why didn't he borrow from Artemus
Ward and substitute "Bugle Horn Of Liber-
ty' or "BalawinSUiIle Gazette" These peo-
pie would have had laugh all the same as
at the -. w. Comfy" and "Ohio State
Journal" and the deception wouldn't have
been SO palpable as it is.
Since the paragraph | refer to appeared
In the Commercial, a friend has sent me a
copy of something printed in newspaper
form in Columbus, Franklin county, Ohio,
with J. w. Comfy printed in capitals in
one corner, and "News Syllabus" under
meath it. One Of the Syllabus relates to
the undersigned, and another syllabub goes
Off thus: "Mrs. Stowe lin the Atlantic
Monthly, under the heading of 'Ihe Cathe-
dral, pays an eloquent and sensible tribute
to the namelesS saints of New England
| private life, the eGdmpldrS of Self-dnRibild-
ton, etc" Now | submit whether it is not
q kindness to the writer of this, to say that
hedoesn't exist? Wouldn'ta Dutch butcher
in pursuit of veal, be apt to ''gO for him" if
he knew where to find him? And if, after
all, am mistaken in saying that there is no
such man--if, indeed, there can be such a
man as j. W.. Comfy, editor, etc.-can |
give him better advice than thath emulate
! th Ose New England saints, and devote a
few of his spare moments to self-annihila-
tion, especially ii few of his kind friends
will agree to furnish the strychnine? ?Iuur-
| ...t8s A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. ugItr
The confirmation of Lewis d. Campbell
i as Minister to Mexico, by vote VIII ich
|
nous inasmuch as Summers was the only
dsseatient voice, calls to mind an event
fresh in therreeollection of all, in which
Sumner and Campbell took a conspicuous
part. / alhide to the attack upon the Mas
sachusetts Senator by Preston Brooks, of
South Carolina, some years since. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Campbell was the
first to enter the Senate Chamber after the
outrage had been committed, and that he
devoted himself patiently and assiduously
to the dressing of Mr.. Summers wounds;
that he remained by his side whole days
and nights ministering, as he could, to his
wants and comforts This fact is stated by
MIR. Sumner himself in his testimony before
the committee appointed to investigate the
subject, where hesays that his ''tirst act Of
consciousness was to grasp the, friendly
hand of Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio" 1t will
not be forgotten, either that Mr., Campbell
introduced a resolution in the House for
Tie expulsion of Brooks, and that for some
, strictnres upon the assailant and his