The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-10-25
SHistrllanrous,
NASBY.
The October Eleot,ons--Mr. Mas
by's Opinion on the Cause Of the
Defeat of the President.
From the Toledo Blade.1
CoNFEpRIT X ROADS, J
(wieh is in the Stait nv Ky } :
October IA, 1866.

October II, 1866.
/ wuz called in haste to Wasa.
ington to be present az a Cabinet
meetin called to consider the eAus.
es NV the unparalleled loosenin
NV the Nashnel Union johnson
Dimekratic party in the varius
states wich held elections on the
9th nv October last. There wuz
Seward, Wells, McCulloch and
Randall present, they hcvin, | un.
derstand, played off INTO us.
The President wuz gloomy
He hedn't anticipated the defeat :
He spected that havin showd his.
self through all the Northern
States ther ought to hev ben. en-
thoosiasm enough envolved to lrev
carried ther. without trouble. The
fault he remarked COG dent be with
his policy. Their wuz suthing SO
grand, SO sublimely simple in it,
that it wuz incomprehensible to
him why the people hed'nt at once
adopted it. why look at it, sed
he. Il offer the people nv the
North peace, on the simple con
dishun Nv sayin nothin moro about
the war, or the mutual tronble wich
they found 1.-The erselves into, and
rushin into the arms nv their
Southern brethen, and takin nv
EN- back jist cz they went out
How, oh! how Good they be so
blind ez to refoose these olive
branches
Randall replied that lie coodent
understand it, but he he'd summon
ed Postmaster to attend, wich he
he'd appinted on his solemn as
shoorance that he Good carry
enough Republicans oyer to our
now party to defeat the Union
member in that District, wich he
notist by the papers wuz elected
by larger majority then he he'd
ever reserved, and he wuz in wait
in.
Bring in the wretch shouted
the President, and the guard brung
him in. A mizrable lookin objick
he wuz. Ez soon ez he saw the
stern eys NV the President fixed on
him, he sunk to his knees and lift
ed up his hands implorinly, with
out seYin a word.
Speak, sed the President, why
the result in yoor Destrict 2
'My liege, replied the wretcled
man, Il know not. Faithfully 1
labored, but the peop.e wocI come
into the house holdia their noses
and set a hoidin NV em so long ez
| WIZ speekin, wich wuz mt con
ducive to displays Of oratory. The
papers wood publish my own ut
terances of six months before, wich
confused me somewhat, and the
abishnists would read at me your
speeches which | coodn't akount
fur. seekoored for 700 suthin
like a dozen votes, but they wuz
them ez stipulated for places un'
der me ana l he'd hard work to eli
'em from the Unicn party. and
they were sich ez did us more harm
than good. And besides
'Enutf' sed johnson, remove
him.
And the poor fellow wuz bun
died out
Secretary Welles knowd wat wui
the matter. 1t cum nv takin Gran
and Farrygut along on the excur
sion. 1t distracted the attention
nv the people. He'd there bin NJ
body but the President an Cabine
along, there woodent hev bin no
body to hurrah for, and the sub
lime trooths wicll the Presiden
kin only jerk, woCd hey Impressed
| the people more than they did.
| Seward wuz confident that thu
ELECTION wood hev biz all righ
Good it hev been postponed ninet,
dogs, while McCulloeh atribootet
1T to the limited knowledge tn,
masses he'd nv Injeany badkens
| wuz rekested to give my vews
wich did.
1 MY lords, sed |, none of 20,
hev got the ice. We wuz bee
because we left the landmarks :
that's wat allied u.s. wuz the an