Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-20
MR.. NASBY WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL
PARTY. .-.. -..s i
Ar THE BDDLE HOUSE,
(wich is in Detroit, Michigan,)
oHn


fame--step by step am climbin to proud
eminence. Three weeks ago wuz sum
moned to Washington by that eminently
CRATE and good man, Androo Johnson, to
. attend consultation ez to the proposed
Western tour, witch wuz to be undertaken
for the purpose NV arousin the masses Nv
the West to sence NV the danger witch
wuz threatin NV EN- in case they persisted
in centralizin the power NV the govern
ment into the hands NV Congress, instid
man, witch is Johnson. got there too late
to take part in the first Nv the discussion.
When arrove they he'd everything settled,
ceptin the appintmentuv Nv Chaplain for the
excursion. The President insisted upon my
fillin that position, but Seward objected
He wanted Beecher but johnson wuz in
fexibly agin him. 81 am determined" sez
he, " to carry out my policy, but hev bow
els left. Beecher hez done enuff already,
considerin the pay he got. No no he
shel be spared this trip-indeed he shell"
Very good" said Seward, "but at least
find some clergyman who endorses us with
out hevin P. NJ to his honored name 1t
wood look better"
know it wood" replied johnson, "but
where kin we find sch a one hev swung
around the entire circle, and heven't ez yet
seen him. Nasty it must be-"
There wuz then lively discussion ez to
the propriety before the procession started,
of removing all the Federal office-holders
on the proposed route, and appintin men
who believed in us, johnson Beecher, and
me, that we might be shoor Nv sootable
recepshun at each pint at which we wuz to
stop. The Amounted wuz in favor NV it,
See he, them ez won't support my polisY
shan't eat my bread and butter" Randall
and Doolittle chimed in, for it's got to be a
part of their religion to assent to whatever
the President sez, but | mildly protested.
l owe duty to the party and am deter
mined to do it.
Most High" sez l, " settn hen witch
| is lazy makes no fuzz-cut its head off and
it fops about for while lively Lincoln's
office-holders are settin-hens. They don't
like yoo nor yoor policy, bot while they are
on their nests they will keep moderately
quiet. Cut off their heads and they will
squirt their blood in your face. Ez to be-
in enshoord of reception at each point,
you need fear nothin. Calkerlatin moder-
ateiy, there are at least twenty-five or thir-
ty patriots who feel call for every offs in
your disposal. So long, Yoor Highnis, ez
them offisis is held just where they kin see
EN-, and they don't know wich is to git EN-,
700 may depend upon the entire enthoosi-
asm Nv each, indiVidyooally and collective
| ly. In short, eff there's offisis in town
and 700 make the appointments, yoo hev Sc
koored supporters-till yoo make the ap-
pointments 700 hev the hundred who ex-
pect to get en-"
The President agreed with me that until
after the trip the gullotine shood stop
Secretary Seward sejested that clean
shirt wood improved my personal appear
ance, and akkordingly a cirkular wuz sent
to the clerks in the Departments, assassin
EN- for that purpose. Sich Nv EN- ez re-
foosed to contribute their quota was in
stantIy dismissed for disloyalty.
At last we started, and | must say we
wuz got in highly conciliatory style. Ev-
bazzum pins, ct settry, which wuz present
ed to EN- by the Southern delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention, wich wuz made NV
the bones NV Federal soldiers which he'd
fallen at various battles Sum Nv EN- were
partickerly valuable ez anteeks, hevin bin
made from the bones Nv the fust soldiers
who fell at Bull Run.
The Moo York recepshun wuz gay af-
fair. never saw His Imperial Highness
in better spirits, and he delivered his speech
to better advantage than ever heard him
do it before, and | bleeve I've heard it a
hundred times. We left Moo York sadly.
Even now cz | write the remembrance NV
that banquet fingers around me, and the
taste Nv them wines is still in my mouth.
But we he'd to go. We had mishn to per-
form, and we put ourselves on a steamboat
and started.
ALBANY.-There wuz a immense crowd,
but the Gar Nv all the Amerikas didn't git
orff his speech here. The Governor well
coined him, but he welcomed him ez the
Cheef Magistrate Nv the nashen, and hap
pened to drop in Lincoln's name. That
struck chill over the party, and the Pres
ident got out NV it ez soon possible. Bein
reserved ez Cheef Magistrate, and not ez
the great Pacifcator, amt his Eggslency' s
best holt. 1t wuz unkind Nv Governor Fen.
ton to do it. If he takes the papers he
must know that his Mightiness amt got
but one speech, and he ought to hev made
sch reception ez wood hev enabled him
to hev got it off We shook the dust off
Nv our feet and left Albany in disgust
SKENAcTADY,--The people in this delight
full little village wuz awake when the i'm
} perial train arrived. The changes havn't
bin made in the Offices here, and consekent
: ly there wuz a splendid recepsun. | didn't
suppose there wuz so many patriots along
the Mohawk. wuz pinted out by sum one
ez the Presidents private adviser--a sort
NV private Secretary Nv State, and after
, the train started found jest 211 petitions
for the post offs in Skenaktedy i'll my side
: pocket, which the patriots who had hurrah
: ed so vocif1erously he'd dexterously deposi
ted there. The insident wuz movin one
"Thank God," thought |, $50 long ez WE
hev the post Offices to give we kin allus
r hev party p The Sultan swung arounC
: the circle wunst here, and leaving the con
: stooshun in their hands, the train moved
5 off
: RoME.--Here we he'd splendid recepshul
: and l never heard his majesty speek more
: felicitously. He menshuned to the audi
! ence that he he'd swung around the South
= ern side Nv the cirkle and wuz now swing
t in around the Northern side Nv it, and tha
: he wuz fghtin traitors on all sides. HI
J left the Constitooshun in their hands ant