Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-28
MIR. Nasty with the Presidential party.

MIR. Nasty with the Presidential party.
At the BiddIe House,
(wich is in Detroit, Michigan,)
Sept. the 4th, 1866.
Step by step | am assendin the lad
der Nv fame-step by step am climb
in to proud eminence. Three weeks
ago | wuz summoned to Washinton,
10y that eminently CRATE and good
man, Androo Johnson, to attend a
consultation ez to the proposed west
ern tour. witch Wuz to be undertaken
for the purpose Nv arOusin the masses
Nv the west to a sence uy the danger
wi.h wuz threatened Nv them in case
they persisted in centralizin the pow
cr az the government into the hands
OF congress, instid uv difusin it
throughout the hands nv one man,
wnicl is johnson. | got there too
late to take part in the first nv the
discussion. When | aroye they had
everything settled, ceptin the appint-
ment NV a chaplin for the excursion.
The president insisted on my film
that position. but Seward objected
He wanted Beecher, but Johnson wuz
inhexibIy agin him. II am determin-
ed, sez he. Ito carry out my policy,
but hey sum bowles left Bcecher
hez dun enulf aIrcddy, cousiderin the
pay he got. No! no! he shell be
spared this trip-indeed he shel."
"Very good, sez Seward, ,but at
least find sum clergyman who indorses
us without hevin F. NJ, to his honor
ed name 1t wood look better,
Il know it wood, replied johnson.
"but where kin we find sich one ?
| hev swung around the entire circle,
and hevn't ez vet seen him. Aasby
it must be.
There wuz then a lively discussion
ez to the propricty before the pro
ccssion started, ny removin I'LL the led
eral otfis-holders onthe proposed route,
and appintin men who believed in us,
| (Johnson, Beecher, and me- that we
might be sh0Or nv 4 s00table recep-
shun at each pint at which we wuz to
stop. The Amounted wuz in favor
Nv it. Sez he "them ez won't support
my polisy shau't eat my bread and
butter Randall and DoolittIe chimed
in, lor it 5 got to be q part ov their re
ligion to assent to whatever the presi-
dent sez, but | mildly protested. ]
owe duty to the party and am de-
termined to do it.
"Most High" sez |, "a settin her
wich is lazy makes no fuss-cut its
head off and it fiops about lively fol
d while. Lincoln's oflis-holders are
settin hens. They don't like yoor
nor my polisy. but while they are OF
their nests they will keep moderitly
quiet Cut of. their heds and they
will squirt their blud in yoor face
Ez to bein inshoord uv a reception a
each pint, yoo need feer nothin. Cal
kerlatin moderitly there are at ieas
twenty-five or thirty patriots who fee
a call for every offs III yoor disposal
So long, Yoor Highnis, ez them oftisi
is held just where they kin see EN-
you may depend upon the entire en-
thoosiasm Nv each, individyooally ant
collectively. In short, eff there's Z
offisis in town and you make the ap
pintments, 700 hev sekoored 4 sup
porters-till yoo make the appint
ments yoo hev tie hundred who ex
pected to @iteu!.
He agreed with me that until afte
the trip the gullotine shood stop.
Secretary Seward sejested that ;
, clean shirt would improve my persona
| appearance, and akkordinly a cirku
| lar wez sent to the clurks IN the depart
, ments, assassin them fur that purpose
J. Sich NV EN- ez refOosed to c0ntribut
| their quota were instantly dismlsse
for disIoyalty.
At last we started, and | must sa
we wuz got up in highly conciliator
t stile, every wnn Nv the civilians Nv tn
! party wore buzzum pins, ct setter.
which wuz presented to EN- by th
. southern delegates to the Philadelph
u convenshun, which wuz made Nv th
t bones Nv federal soljers wich he'd fal
: ed at various battles. Sum Nv el
were partickerly valerble ez anteek
d hevin bin made from the boans Nv tt
e first soiers who fell at Bull Run.
d The Moo York recepshun was ga
It affair. | never saw His Imperi;
k Highnis in better sperits, and he d
n livered his speech to better adval
7, tage than [ ever heard him do
d afore, and bleeve I've heard it a hui
q dred times. We left Moo York sadl
II Even now ez write the remembrant
st NV that perceshun-the rekkoliecshu
E. NV that banquet fingers around M
lie and the taste Nv them wines is stlil
nv mouth. But we he'd to go. W
Of he'd a mishun to perform, ana we pl
,e ourselves on a steembote ana staf
ed.
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