The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-29

q COHlpdby lH VIC uTbO Dun nun uHHt,
and who threw up in disgust the next
day not likin the manner in witch the
war wuz bein conducted, but now The
1 Kernelcy wuz gone and Custar too,
and wat wuz worse, there wuz no sich
thing to be thot Nv ez dismissin him.
Tho entire company yoonited in ming.
lin their teers.
The next letter wuz read by Sew
ard ez it wuz addressed to him. 1t
wuz from Raymond He opened with
the remark that for the Presidential
Office, he he'd the highest respeck.-
Aside from the conslderasheD that it
he'd bin wunst okkepied by the good
Washinton, the great Adams, and the
sainted Linkin, the President mite be
considered the Father of his country,
hevin so large number of helpless
children to provide for, and besides he
he'd instinktive respeck for the dis
penser of anything. 1t wuz difficult
for him, bein open and simple mind.
ed man, mot to adhere to the President,
but
"Good Heavens" shreeked johnson,
"that little fox aint a goin to speak Nv
HIS reputashen ?"
"Dooty requires the roedin Nv the
entire dockeyment, painful to my feel
ins ez 1t may be, sed Seward. "He
concloods thusly:"
II am forced to'ask 700 ez one en-
joyin confidenshel relashens with Him
who occupies the Presidenshel chair,
to hev it given out that stand in op-
position to him. "A doc REGARD FOR
MY REpUTAsnEN impels me TO this
course" E" Ircmaln,
Yoors trooly.
There wuz or three more. Gen.
Carey, Nv Ohio, requested the Presi.
dent to remove him IRON his Collector
ship, cz the holdin Nv it wuz INJooRIN
HIS REpUTAsHEN; editor out west, who
wuz sedooced into takin Post Offs
begged to hev it Ia ken off bis hands,
that he might save his circulashen be.
tore it wuz everlastingly too late; and
finally we come to VIVA the seal of witch
waz a coat Nv arms, bull dog rampant,
bowie-knife couchant, supported by
trottin horses, on field Nv green cloth
Ii wuz from Hon. John Morrssey, who
he'd jest ben elected to Congress in
Moo York
Mr.. Morrissey remarked, that ez
one Nv the pillars NV the Democracy
he felt he he'd rite to speek. lie
wished it to be understood that he
washed his hands Nv any connection
with Johnson or his party, He he'd
seed q lite. In States where the De-
mocrasy, nv wich he wuz piller, he'd
tied themselves to Johnson, they he'd
gone down to prematoor grave
Respcck ior the high offs restrained
him from sayin that the Democracy
coodent carry sich cussid load, but
be wood say that the result NV the
election in Moo York, where they de-
pendid solely on muscle and niger
wich is the reel Democratic capital
and succeeded. while where the Dem
ocrasy wuz loaded down with John
sonianism they failed, satisfied him
that the President wuz inkubus.-
He sed this with all doc respcck fol
the offs. Mr.. Morrisscy further re.
marked that be he'd also personal rea
sons for making this request. HC
commenced in humble position, anC
he'd filed the public eye long enuff tc
satisfy his modist ambishun-he heC
walloped Sullivan and Heenan-h,
he'd owned the fastest horses and woI
more money at faro than any man il
America. His ambishen wuz satisfied
so fur ez he wuz concerned, but h
hoped to leave behind him for his in
fant son, (wich wuz only twelve year
NV age and wich he'd development "
inteIleck and muscle remarkable To-
ono so tender, hevin already wallOpet
: every boy in the skool to wich he WI
! goin,) he desired to leave that son
honorable name. 1t he'd bin givel
out that no wuz a supporter Nv tn
individooal who okkepied the Presi
denshel offs, and it wuz injoorin him
He wished that stigma removed
REGARD FOR HIS REPUTAsHEN force,
him to insist upon it.
z And this epistle wuz doOly signed
his
JoHN ID MoRRIssEY, NJ. 9.
mark.
There wuz silence in tho Cabine
2 This last stroke intensified the gloor
wich he'd settled onto the Govern
ment, and ez | turned my tear-b(
dewed eyes l saw the great drop
n coursin down the checks NV every on
t present Mr.. Seward retired with
out sayin anything about ninet
4 days, and one by one they all depar
ed.
@ 1t wuz solemn time. There WI
n othcr letters yet TO be read, but no on