The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-06-13
,rUDY1SG Po11TIcs UNDER DIFFIcrLrrEs.-

STUDYING PoLITICs UNDER DIFFICULTIES
An old farmer in the interior Of Ohio writes to
the Cincinnati C0mmercial, among other
readable matters, the following, which is too.
good TO be lost, and too true to be forgotten !:
One day, some time ago, John had been to
the station for me and brought home a paper
that was filled with great many speeches,
that had been made about bill that our Presl-
dent had seen fit to disapprove of. Well, l
took the paper to my corner, and although, 1t
was all in very small print and tried my eyes
very much, read it every bit. Ny good
wife got tired Of my forever sitting there
pouring over those long ''borations," as she
termed them, aud said that would do we'll
to be reading my Bible more, and such pro-
duclions less. ''Nife," said /, 'the kingdom
of heaven isn't in any particular danger just
now, but my country is" After that she
said nothing more about it to me.
But the more read in that paper the more
bothered became. Tread long speech by
Mr.. Henry Beecher, who seems to know SO
mt h about every thing but divinity, and
liked it because he su pported our President,
and our President, thought, must be in a
very trying position nowadays. 8.
Then was upset by Mr. Phillips, who
went into Mr.. B., like have seen little boys
attack hornets nests in the winter time. ''lt
such men differ" said |, "who will decide p
| had always before thought these two would
agree though the earth split.
Teen turned over the leaf wrong and COM
menced on the latter part of somebody else's
speech. I liked it so much that | read On and
on until finished it. Surely" said | to
myself, ''surcly we have got one good andtrue
man in the land" The tone Of the speech
reminded me Of the good old-fashioned
farewell address" Of General Washington, and
l thanked God and took courage. -
Then hunted up the beginning ofthe speech,
and could net believe my eyes when saw
Alex. II. Stevens name to it. I thought it
must be Thaddeus Stevens, as he was "tnion,'
though the composition was very much unlike
the style of the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
wife," said "look here my glasses are
a little lin is that Alex, H. ?"
"Alez H." said she.
'Not Thaddeus," said I. -
''Not Thaddeus," said she.
''Is the last name spelt with " or with a
'ph p" E:
"Ph," said she, sand what are you reading
rebel speeches for, I'd like to know. He's the
Slice President of the Confederacy, and ought
to be hanging to a sour apple tree instead <of
being loose and making borations."
My wife is little nebulous about names
and titles, but is thorough. going Union
woman, and hates rebels with perfect hatred.
She was chairman of an aid society during the
war, and many time I've walked up in the
night and found her still sitting bv the dying
fire, knitting socks for the poor soldiers who
were "a lying out on the cold ground with
nothing but their knapscats and pontoons
to cover them."]
Then found that the speech was addressed
to the Georgia Legislature, and l knew that
''Thad" would never take the trouble to tell
erring people how to go right, though he is
creation abusing them when they go wrong.