The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-21
AsDxEw TINE LAcHRrMOsn.

Wherenow are the melancholy Jaques" oil
l'my policY?' That was very affecting lit,
lie drama at the White House on Saturday.
Listen to our lugubrious Moses as he res
ponds to the address of the committee from
the copper Johnson convention.
81 have said had not language to convey
my present feelings and emotions. In listen.
ing to the address which your Chairman has
just delivered, the proceedings of the conven.
ton as they transpired occurred TO my mind.
Seemingly partook Of the inspiration that
prevailed in the convention when received
a dispatch from two of its members conveying
10 me the (which has been described, Of
South Carolina and Massachusetts, arm in
arm, coming walking into that assembly and
giving evidence that the extremes had come
together, and that for the future they were
united, as they had been in the past, for the
preservation of the Union. When the dis
patch informed me that in that body Of men,
distinguished for wisdom, every eye was suf-
fused with tears, could not finish reading
the dispatch to one with me in my Office, for
my feelings overcome me-"
Pathetic, very
Gan the birds Of the woods
Fell to signing and sobbinE
When they heard the bell toll
FOR poor Cock Robin.
Remember you not also that languishing
stag that brought grief unto the heart Of
Jsques2
--"And, indeed, my lord,
The uretched animal heard forth such groAbs
That their discharge did stretch his leathern eest
Almost to bursting; and the big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
Ip piteous chase"
In that body of men, distinguished for
wisdom, every eye was sufused with tears.n
ANDREW says so; and the thought of it choked
him specifies. IT'S enough to force any one
into the pathetics when you think Of it prop
erly. Short Gen. CoucH tucks his martial
fingers into the properly adjusted elbow of
tall Gov. Orr and they enter the wigwam.
Then there's scene; everybody goes into the
nncnntrollshles. DooLrrTLE weeps, RfY-
Moxp sobs aloud, RANDALL snifles; ALECK
STEPHENS buries his face in the New York
Times and gives full vent to his surcharged
feelings. TnuRLow WEEDS beniguant face
is an April landscape of smiles and tears; the
resigned DEAN, who is present, groans sane
Enormously as q "reminiscences of the time
when he was the very pious chaplain Of =
democratic Senate. CAerrr and Ton BEN
TON wipe their sufFused eyes with different
corners of the same bandanns handkerchief
IT'S very mellow time. No wonder AN.
DRrw's feelings choked him. There moth
ing like it!
Yesl Our lachrymose ANDREW, weeping
over the entry into the Philadelphia conven>
tion Of long Gov. ORR, of South Carolina, and
short Geu. CorcH, Of Massachusetts,, arm in
arm; is most admirable spectacle of, lowell
ness and mellowness. We never heard that
he was similarly affected over the creates,
sacrifice and suffering of loyal men down in
Dixie under the blessedness of ''my policy"
ButAkDREw rs Enthusiastically mellow and
lovely. Thus, Hon. W. B. SroKEs of Tenn,
made q speech recently at Nashville wherein
he described - apyesriace of AsDRsv at
the Inauguration Ball. Mr.. S. aid:
"You have heard what took place at the
great bail given on the night Of the second
inauguration OF Mr.. Lincoln. Tharc i .
man here, probably, who knows all about it.
An immense concourse of people filled the
Executive Mansion. The intelligence, beau>
y, statesmen ana soldiers Of the nation were
present 1t was glorious, august. impos;ne
assembly. The Vice President M TOO vea.
ry, 'or timid, or sick, or something else. TO
escort Mrs. Lincoln, It was custom sry for one
IN his position on such an occasion, so Mr..
summer had TO wait upon the lady. Johison
sat on sofa in the back Of tie SOON with q
colored man by his side, soliloquizinq a fol.
lows: Il m Wise President of these United
states I've taken the oath and been sworn
IN oy God Sumner says L N from the tsyr;
tory of Tenness.r There he eces nov WITH
the Queen l'sr taken the oath and I'm
Vice President uui he says, that I'm from
the territory of tennessee There he eoes
with the Queen, aud I'm here sitting with nv
coiored friend onn sofa I'm better friend
OF inc 9iack man than he is. His ID theoret-
,cai and mine is practical friendship. Just
look at me sitting by my colored frend. \,
God Such was the scene Il the Tnansrr.s,
tion Ball. -e AusaSuie
AsDnEv is very mellow.
but ASDRrw makes . further aston;.h;,.
s1hibitsn OF combined mslIovnee. "a -
IN his speech to he Philsdslphia Conysnlen
committee.
he sAys:
think We may conelade We are mov,r.
under proper inspiration, and We need -
be mistaken that An Overwhelming Prny.;;s
dencs u in this matter" W.
IlWslli that strikes us - beiss fashef q.
sfaordinary: e
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Says thsy Assv sous thines
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