The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-04-13
MAJER JACK DOWNING.
He issues a Grand Peace Proclamation
Hills Advice TO fhe Radicals.
WosHrNTUN, Feb. q, 1866.

Jul itiCH>4tisScd NGNOlJU vi litS i iCSdllISAI :
Buro. That great Stait paper is gone
from US abilin down the streen of time.
We rit it, and Wesent it out as far eX-
preston Of our feelings and vues on the
present circumstances.
As ags neral thing | and the President
cant stop to explain to inquisitive per-
sons what we are ADDING of, for the
country. We couldn't spar the time.
Yet / wish to give you and Jeemes
BucanRon the pints, occasionly, because
l know you can appreshate our difficult
ties.
When this Freedman's Buro lor came
to us for our approval, the President
cotch up the paper and red it through
from the beginning to the eending,
without stoppin, and then handed it to
me without sayin of a word. l red it
myself, the Presidentiookin first at me
and then at the fire. tell | got through.
When / had finished it the President
said -
Did you ever see the beeter Of that
in your born days; thereis more brakin
of the Constitution in that one lor, than
in all the acks of Congress, since | was
a baby. What shall / do with it?"
Ses l what does the Constitution say
we must do with it?
"Veto it, ses the President.
Then we veto, it, ses l and when we
vetoit less Ieeve the matters imbraced
in it cleer and distinck for all futur time.
Put it beyond dispute. Did you ever
know GIink WinkfeeI, ses I, Mr.. Presi-
dent?
''No, f." sed the President, II never had
the pleasure Of his acquaintance. What
of him ~
Ses I, Glink Winkfeel was the son of
old Boohoo Winkfeel, arelashun of Gen
eral Winkfeel Scot. Now, Glink was
cross ide and ner sited and yused to
war an old par of black iron spectickles
with round glasses nearly as big as a
saucer. Glink's har was white, all his
life, and when l knowed him particu-
lar, he was a great hand to play mar
wills, and we could always tell when he
was goin to take out the middle man
from tor. Glink would roach up his
back and draw a beed on the middle
man and turn his head sOrter sideways,
like a dog lookin at Il piece Of bred in
your hand, and then blaze away, and l
never knew Glink to miss the middle
man if he had time to roach his back
and draw his beed. Now, Mr.. Presi-
dent, want you to roach your back
when you come to veto this Ior. Take
the middle man out from tor, and set
tie Buro.
Ses the President, "I know ali about
taken,the middle man from tor, and
III show boys how they pass thar red
quilt patch work lors and expect me to
sine them. Maier, I'll rite the veto
and while I'm doing that you must rite
out that general proclamation we have
been torkin about, and when we get
through we will reed over and correct
them"
Very well, ses l, Mr.. President be
pinted in that veto; leev vaig genner-
alities to Mr.. Seward and Bonypart,
but we must rite so that every buddy
can understand us-it saves a site Of
trubble.
Thereupon the President took his
slait and pencil and rit off the first draft
of his Veto Message, while | rit the
general proclamashun. When we fin
ished, the President read first, and we
altered and amended it to suit our just
vues, which that is the same message
sent to the Sennit on the 18th instant,
and which has been published, and l
needn't send YOU copy of it. After
the Message was finished, | read the
proclamashun, as fOllers:
'In the name of-Amen. | Andy
Johnsing; President of the I. States
to the whole terrifrny of North Amer
lea, Greetin.
''Know you that since Generals Sher-
idan and Fitzpatrick, Melroy and But
Ter, Thomas and Hunter, Grant and
Sherman has gonethrough therebellion
with their armies, and gathered up all
the gold and silver watches, silver
spoons, breast pins, finger rings, nivea
and forks, silk dresses, carpets, and ev-
erything else they wanted, as spiles be-
longin to the victors, and destroyed ev-
erything they didn't want, and laid
waste the feelds, burnt the dwellins,
fences, barns, stables, and mills, cut
down the froot trees, trampled on and
proclaimed the GRAVES of the honnered
ded, imprisoned the winmen, old men
and boys; the armies of the Confeder'
acv so called has stacked thar arms
given thar payroll, taken my amnesty
oath, and gone home TO look at the
/ chimlys whar once stood thar houses
and gather together thar families tC
/ none over the desolashonS of thar cOun'
| try, in good yernest determined, to live
and die in the Union, and to accept
peece on the terms Of my proclamation
so that now the thunder of cannons anC
mortars, and muskits, and rifles anC
pistols, has died out, the tramp of thu
wor horse, the rumblin of baggidg'