The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-04-04

heaven without knockin at the door. That
docktrine Of elsktion is a powerful thing,
Tsmmauy, but as store as you are born
1t looks sorter unconstitutional TO us for
them felsrs to enter the celestial city.
They may pass amendments enuf to do
1t, and 1 reckon that's why they are a
tinksring at the old document 80 long
but somehow or other when hear one
OF em dyin, my thoughts NATURALLY
have downward tendency. cant hept
it, Tammany.
But maybe you'll get over ssch feelins.
My wife says we will ctterWhiLe. We
sss all right towards you, old Hall, and
! our Legislature have been tryin for about
two months to harmonizs things general,
Iy, and any reasonable man ought to be
satishde with the Efforts they have made.
But we can't satisfy them Radakals, !
don't care what we do. We eektei Mr..
Stevens and Hershel JohnCon TO the Sen.
ate, and they are mad about that. They
wanted josh Hill and Jeems Johnson ber
caus they were Union. Well now, Mr..
Iammany, its better always to take men
who have done ,umthiu than men who
have done nothin. Mr.. Hill delivered
his farewell address before hs was beat
and he said he would like to know why
we sing hosauna 10 Andy johnson, who
fout asn us, and yet we wont elekt him
who dden:-That's what's the matter
Joshua, if | may be allowed to apostroiz.
you, you dideut take no side at all. You
say you can take the test oath and git in.
Well don't see how exactly You rsn
for Governor in sixty three, and you writ
letter agin Reconstruction and com.
pared the old union to porcelain vase
that ,0as broke, and couldent never be
msndid agin-no never.
And don't you know if you'd been
eskted you would have had to take the
oath OF office, and swors TO support the
Constitution Of the Confederate State.
'o.aslsd, now deceased. But you are
smar. Joshua, and it Wa funny what you
said 10 the General that night when hs
axed you if you would have taken tn at
oath. You pausd Joshua tor nearly a
minst. 1t was a nifty tits question, con
sidsrin the porcelain vase that was broke.
| don't blame you for pausin, my srisod.
Finally says you, "Wsll-Gsnsral-I
-didsnt-much-expect-to-be-elek.
ted" Bully for you Joshua. But now
about lha: see saw business you spoke of,
you said in your spssch that you was
pla!;n see saw in poli,ix, and il your end
Of the plank went down in Gsorpy i,
would go up in Washinton, by viii ch I
suppose you msaM that you wa. ready
to swap ends jest to suit you, peculiar
sirkumstsncs; and that's what's the mat.
ter ssin Joshua. You have been sees,
awin too long and changing ends too
often. Twassnt no time to be swappin
horses my friend.
But sss here Joshua, Mr.. Marshall
may be clever reporter, but he treated
you badly. He's left out heap Of your
speech. lls aint had printed that see saw
flyer at all, and it was, I assure you, a
most beautiful mstafor Of speech. And
has left out them little sparks of Southern
patriotism which you emitted. How
someVsr, may be these things would have
been in the way OF the Washinton and
OF the sea saw. I'll tell you nv friend,
where you wasted time in your remarks.
You said that is We didsut eIekt you now
We might want you hereafter, and then
We coudsnt git you. Don't worry yours
self on our akkount. Don't cross the
bridge before you git 20 il. II will he
time snuf, Joshua, for you to refuse when
We Ak you. We haven't been runnin you
down to give you offs, and we amt goin
to. De. you sse.ssw away on your plank,
and take good care you don't fsll of.
Your speech was sortsr spiteful Joshua,
and II reduced to its gum would read
sboutihus: Boys I'm a whale, I am,
aad I'm prophet, aud il you don't elekt
me TO the Senate I'll GO to Washinton
and give you the devil"