Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-28
NASBY.
MIR, Nasty with the Presidential Party.
AT THE RIDDLE House,
which is in Detroit, Michigan,
Sept. 4th, 1866.


Sept 4th, 1866
Step by step am ascendin the ladder NV
tane-step by step | am elimbin to proud
iminence. Three weeks ago / wuz summon
eG to Washington by that iminently CRATE
and good man, Andro0 Johnson, to attend a
consultation ez to the proposed Western
tour, which was to be undertaken for the
purpose nv arousin the masses of the West
to a sense NV the danger which was threat
enin w EN- in case they persisted in cen
| tralizln the power Of the Government into
the hands NV a Congress, instid of diffusin
it throughout the hands of one man, which
IS johnson. l got there too late to take
part In the first NV the discussion. When
| arrove they had everything settled, ceptin
the appointment of chaplain for the ex-
cHrsion The President insisted upon my
film that position, but seward objected He
wanted Beecher, but johnson was infiexibly
against him. i am determined" F" sez he,
Ito carry cut my policy, but | hey some
bowels left, Beecher hes dun enuff already,
considerin the pay he got No. no! he
shell be spared this trip--indeed he shell "
cry good, said Seward, "but at least
find some clergyman who endorses US with
out hevin p Nj. to his honored name 1t
would look better.
II know it wood, replied johnson, "but
where kin we find such one hev swung
around the entire circle, and heYen't as yet
seen him. Nasty it must be- =
There wuz then lively discussion ez to
the propriety before the procession started,
of removin all the ofhis-holders on the pro-
posed route, and appointin men who behev-
ed in us, lJohnson, Beecher and me, that
we might be shoor Of sootable recepshun
at each pint at whichsswe wuz to stop The
Amounted wuz In favor Nv it. Sez he
them as won't support my policy shan t
eat my bread and butter Randall and
Doolittle chimed in, for its got to be a part
of their religion to assent to whatever the
President sez, but mildly protested. l
owe a duty to the party. and / am determin-
''Most High, sez /, "a settin hen wieE
is lazy makes no fuss-cut its head off and
it fops about for while lively. Lincoln s
Office holders are settin hens. They don t
like 700 nor yoor policy, but while they are
on their nests will keep moderately quiet.
Cut off their heads and they will spirit their
blood in yoor face Ez to bein enshoored of
a reception at each point, 700 need fear
nothin. Calkerlatin moderitly, there are at
least twenty-five or thirty patriots who feel
a call for every offs in yoor disposal So
long, Yoor Highness, ez them ofiisis is held
lust where they can see EN-, and they don
know which is to get EN-, yOo may depend
upon the entire enthoosiasm Nv each, indi-
vidually, and collectively. In short, ef
there's ofisls in town and 700 make the
appointments, 700 hev sekoored 4 support
ers-till yoo make the appointments yoo
heY the hundred who expect TO get them.
This President agreed with me that until
after the trip the guillotine shood stop.
Secretary Seward sejested that clean
shirt wood improve my personal appearance,
and accordingly a cirkular Wuz sent to the
clerks in the Departments, assassin EN-, for
that purpose. Such Nv EN- as refoOsed to
contribute their quota Wuz instantly dis
missed for disloyalty
At last we started aud | must say we Wuz
got up In a high conciliatory style. Every
one Of the civilians Nv the party wore buz-
zon pins, ct cettery, which wuz presented
TO US by the Southern delegates to the Phil
ads7phia Convention, Yich Wuz made of the
bones NV Federal soldiers which he'd fallen
at the various battles. Sum Nv EN- were
pertickerly valuable as anteeks, havin been
made from the bones nv the first soldiers
who fellat Bull Run.
The Moo York recepshun Wuz gay affair.
| never saw His imperial HighneSS In better
spirits, and he delivered hisspeeeh to better
advantage than | ever heard him do it be-
fore, and | believe I've heard it a hundred
times. We left Moo York sadly Even
now ez | write the remembrance NV that
perceshun-ther recollection Nv that banquet
fingers around me, and the taste ny them
wines is still in my mDuth. But we he'd to
20. We had a Inishun TO perform, and we
put ourselves on steamboat and start
ed.
ALBANY-There wuz such immense
crowd, but the Czar Nv all the Amerikas
didn't get off his speech here. The Gov
ernor welcomed him, but he welcomed him
ez the Cheef Magistrate NV the nashun, and
happened to drop in Lincoln name. That
struck chill over the party, and the Presi-
dent got out NV it ez soon eZ possible. Be
in received as Cheef Magistrate, and not ez
the great Pacifcator, amt his Egglency
best holt It wuz unkind NV Guv. Fenton
to do it. Ii he takes the papers he
must know that his Mightiness ain got but
one speech, and he ought to heY made such
a recepshun ez wood hev enabled him to got
it off We shook the dust off NV our feet,
and left Albany in disgust
SKENACTADY-Th people NV this de-
lightful little village wuz awake when the
fmperial train arrived. The changes hevent
bin made in the ofises here, and consekent-
" there wuz a splendid recepshun. [ didn t
suppose there wuz so many patriots along
the Mohawk. | wuz pinted out Ey some
one ez the Presidents private adYiser-a
sort Nv Private Secretory uv State-and af-
ter the train started | found 2ll petitions
for the post-1fis in Skenactedy in my side
coat pocket, which the patriots which he'd
hurrahcd SO yoeiferously had dextrOusly
deposited there The insident wuz moyin
one. Il thank God, thought l., $50 long
ez we hev the post Offices to give, we kin
aluz hev party. The Sultan swung
around the cirkle WuDst here, and leavin the
CONSTRUCTION in their hands the train moved
off.
RoME.-Here we had a splendid recep-
shun, and | never heard His Majesty speak
more felicitously He mentioned to the
audience that he he'd swung around the
Southern side of the cirkle and wuz now
swinging around the Northern side Nv it.,
and that he wuz fightin traitors on all sides.
He left the constitooshun in their hands
and bid EN- good bye. | received at this
pint only l30 petitions for the post offs,
which took ez a bad omen for the comm
election.
UTICA. The President spoke here with
greater warmth and jerked more originality
| than he'd before observed. He introdu-
ced here the remark that he didn't come to
make a speech-that he wuz goin to shed a
swinging around the ciriIle he he'd fought
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