The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-09-26

"Now, lads, there's the 'out lights, >
so we'll turn in quietly, and make
bulls eyes at every shot tomorrow.
NAsBY.
| The Amnesty PROCLAIM = tion-A Cabinet
Consultaton Over it-The Safety OF the
president from Impeachment.
Written for the Toledo BLADE.
Posr OYF1s, Cox11DR1r K ROADS.
(wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
September 10, 1867.
wuz brot to Washington by a des-
patch. His Eggslency he'd at last de-
termised to put his foot down-to as
sert his power, and to take measures
sich ez wood bring to the top, where
they properly belong, that largo class
Nv the citizens Nv the Republic who
wuz engaged in the little onpleasantnis
wich the Ablishnists took advantage Nv
to deprive EN- Nv ther rites and to keep
EN- from exercisin the inhooence in the
government they are, and alluz wua,
entitled to. In short, ez Congress wuz
adjourned, and coodent, by no means.
be got together till November, the Pres
ident wuz convinced that it was his
dooty to improve his time, and be reel
ly President.
The consultation over the proclama-
ton wuz long and painful. Binckley,
who is now running the government
mostly, he'd written the whereases,whieh
is the most Nv the document, Seward
he'd taild onto EN- the Proclamation
proper, wich wuz so small ez to give it
tadpole appearance, and it wuz to be
discussed. All nv en- wuz in favor Nv
it before me. Ez anxious ez wuz tor
the liberashen Nv our friends in the
Southern States ez anxious ez I wuz
to give that blessid saint, Deekin Po-
gram, chance to wallop a nigger agin
afore he died, without being interfered
with by a bloo-coated hirelin, I still he'd
dread. "Dare yoo," sed /, ego fur
ther in this biznis Isn't 1mpeach-
ment at the end Nv it, eff 700 stir up
this matter? And with Wade in the
presidenshel chair-my God Pollock
wood hev MY post p&s! My iege, I
he'd a dream last nite- Methawt-"
"Go on with the Dream" said his
Eggslency. $50 on, I will be your
Joseph to interpret it,"
"Kin 700 assoom the character nv
Joseph and carry it out" sed Randall,
"with Mrs. Cobb in Washington ?"
This interrupshun preventid me from
narratin my dreem, so I resoomed at
the pint at which I wuz interrupted.
And my opinion is the opinion Nv all
yoor appintees. The offs holder is
materially Conservative. Agitashun,
my liege, might shake US out of our
places. On 700 we hang-yoo are our
hope, our anker and our cheefest trust.
And my remarks wich 1 delivered
with tremblin voice and with teers a
rolin down my furrowed cheeks-I
felt the solemnity Nv the occasion, for
wat Good I do eff turned out iato the
cold world at my age?-wuz received
with peals Of lafture.
"My deer sir" sed A. j., "yoor in.
nosence surprises me. Impeach me f!
Never so long ez 6lial and family love
is distinguisiin Characteristic Nv the
leedin minds Nv America 50 long
ez senator hez a nephew to provide
for, OF brother who wants place.
All! That love of blood relations !
Wat beautiful thing it is! And how
strong is the marriage relation which
prompts man when he hez promised
to love, cherish and protect a wife, to
go cherishin and protectin all her broth
ers and her sisters children love
going frekently, like leprosy, to the
third generation. Thank the Lord for
it. Its my only holt! Set yoor mind
at eeze by peroozin these" end he tost
me bundle Nv letters neatly done up
and labelled "Letters from Radicle
Members Nv the House and Senit."
A lite dawned onto me ez I opened
the first. It was from a distinguished
Senator and read, ez near ez I kin re.
member now, thus:
SENT CHAMBER, March s, 1867.
To tie President: Notwithstandin
the site difference Nv opinion that NAV
egist between US on certin minor oppin-
ions nv public policy, and despite the
ungarded expressions I may hev in
dulged in in the heet Nv debate, 1 kin
trooly say that I hev ever cherished the
most endooriu faith in the rectitood Nv
yoor intensions, the honesty Nv yoor
purpose and the purity Nv yoor motives.
| hev nephew in my State who desires
the posishen Nv Assessor Nv Internal
Rcvenoo. He is capable and honest,
and while he hez allez voted the Repub-
ican ticket, hez dun it so mildly ez not
to be objeckshenable to those who differ
with him. Indeed, last fall he wuz &C.
coosea, end perhaps justly, Nv votin for
a candidate for Congress who wuz a
supporter Nv yoor poi:.cv Wich, tho I do
not in all respecks accept, he; I must
acknowledge, many pints in it to r. ,Scom-
mend it to discriminatin people.
shood esteem his nomina,hen persnal
favor.
With sentimence Nv the most
profound respect and esteem
remaen admirinly yours,