The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17
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From 0te Yoledo Blade.

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-..,,.s June 10, 1867.
accompanied the President tn Raw
ly. The President don't feel safe at
goin anywhere without me to arrange
the details and do the nice financeerin
which Is necessary.
The Rawly trip was the okkasion NV
a very serious trouble in the Cabinet,
wich amountid almost to a division.
The President wuz in favor uvit. Ez
he sed, he wuz essenshelly nv a fllial
persuasion. He he'd alluZ experienced
a most consoomin love for his parents,
pertikelery for them on his father's
side. He he'd swung.around the entire
circle nv ofhshel honor, and had found
traitors on all sides, but he Good lay his
hand on his heart and say that he had
never knowed a troo man, but who, at
some period NV his life he'd father.
Why, then, shood we not honor our fa-
thers7 How Good 1t be better dun than
by layin corner stuns? His father de-
ceest in 1872, and 1t wuz time that this
dooty wuz attended to. Besides, at this
crisis in the affairs NV the country, with
| Wilson and Kelly a snortin through the
South, he felt n wood be good thing
to show ourselves. .4
Seward felt that 1t wuz well to go.
Fillial love was charmin. Shakspeer,
who wuz ez justly celebrated ez dra-
matist ez one he Good menshun wuz
for diplomatic telegrafiin, remarkt,
"How sharper nor a serpent's tooth 1t
is to heY u thankless child" the truth
nv wich he he'd experienced, ez he he'd
bin styled the father Nv the Republic
can party, but that wuz not to the pint.
It Is the dooty of evry son to lay corner
stuns. In this case it wood perhaps,
hev bin more credltable he'd 1t been
done fifty years ago, but wat differ
ence Is itI 1t is natral that ez we are
about being gathered to our fathers
that we shood remember 'em. Besides,
he he'd little speech wich he felt he'd
like to deliver. He wantid to bear
testimony to the patriotism Nv the son
uv-wat's yoor fathers manner" -.
WAITS his namef" why, it's-that Is
-why-Jos-no, Jacob, believe
jacob"
Jacob Johnson-pertickerly to our
colored brethren in North Carliny, and
who hez bin listenin' to Kelley and
Wilson,"
Randall didn't bleeve in it at all. He
made bold to say that as the deceast
johnson he'd slept without a corner
stun for fifty-lve yeers, he'd manage to
get along while lonnger. 1t wuz rath-
| er late in the day. He bleeved in feelin
sorrowful over the decease Nv our rela-
tives, but he didn't go much on 1t fifty
five yeers after date. 1t wuz too much
like Dustin into teers over the suffrins
nv the last illness nv yer wife's great
grandmother. The speeches he didn't
,bleeve in at all. he he'd seen some NV
it-he he'd accompanied one toor Nv the
kind" He he'd bin on 1t. He wuz at
Cleveland, at Indianapolis and Spring
field, Illinoy. He begged to be ex-
coosed. He didn't keer about tailin
such a kite again. Eff the people Nv
the South shood receive US eZ corjelly
ez the people nv the North did, he pre-
ferred to consult his feelins and be alb
sent. He wuz sensitive plant and
disliked some things. Eff his memry
served him rite the demonstrashenS
coodn't be considered fiatterin. The
people didn't fling ded cats at us, but
they did wuss. Eff they wuZ cold they
wuz rather too cold. Eff they wuz in
volatile humor they wuZ rather too
lively,
He he'd about made up his mind that
It wuzn't NV any yoOse to fite it out on
that line ef it took all summer. Success
Is a dooty, but when success is ez i'm
possible ez water in the CRATE Sahara,
watts the yoose? Wherefore struggle7
Let US go slow, draw our salaries to the
end nv our 'spective terms and so live
| that when the summons comes to jine
the innoOmerable caravan that moves
out NV Washington to'ards ther spec
tive homes, we go not like the dusky
slave at mite, watts bet his all on two
pair, but soothed and sustained by wat
we've saved, go like one who's got the
wherwithal to live. 1t wuza source NV
comfort to him to know that the worst
nv men wuz soon forgotten. Whoever
speaks NV Tyler or Pierce or Bukanon
now? Benedict Arnold is only spoken
NV on Forth nv Julys, and Judis Is
kariot on Sunday. 1t will be so with
US in time, for wich, thank the Lord:
But 1t wuz determined to go, and l
wuz sent to Rawly to find out where
the grave NV the honored father NV our
honored President wuZ RELY located,
and to make sich other arrangements
ez the exigencies uvthe case demanded, ,
wich 1 did. he'd difficulty in locatin
the grave, and amt jest shoor that
found the rite one. The people OF Raw
ly wuz anxious to hewitt cum on, ez
trade wuz dull i'll the retail line, and
for fear that would report the grave
coodent be found and thus nip their
buddin hopes they gave me the choice
NV some twelve or fifteen. Selectin the
most eligible, made the other arrange
| mentS and returned. l.
| The excursion contrasted very favor
ably with the one we took last fall. The
people received US at every stashen
with the most affectin demonstrashens
NV love. "Johnsoni Johnsonl John
sou!" they yelled at each stoppin place,
wich sounded sweeter in his ears and
mine than the damna6le iterashen NV NV
"Granti Grant, Grant," wich greetid us
at every pint north. The President
wuz sorry he hedn't taken Grant with
him to show him that ef he wuz the
| most popular in some localities, We he'd
the heart, NV the people in others. But
ther wuz draw-bax to our enjoyment.
1 Randall seemed to hev a sekret under
standin with the condua;er nv the train,
for no sooner wood the President COM
meilce ow-citizensl''-then Ran
dali wood pull the bell rope and of the
ltrane wood start. He wuz determined
that the President shouldn't speek-
wich rut me to great deal NV trouble,
and telegraph to the papers the speeches
the President wood hev made. j..
At Rawly, Randall let the President
and Seward out, and permitted en- TO
speak ez much ez they pleased. Battles
welcomed the Presidenshel party and
the President responded. He remarked
that in Rawly he first opened his tender
ewes, penniless boy. Here is the
scenes NV his childhood; here is every
thing to bind man to his fellow, and tc
associate him with that with3wich he Is
associated; here is where the tenderness
nv heart hev taken holt upon every.
thing to wich it hez attached itself. But
Il he wuz wandrin from his subjick. His
mind went back to the day he left this
CITY a penniless boy. Where Is them
wich he left behind him? He begged &c
inquire, where is the friends Nv his
childhood? Where is the Haywoods?
"Killed at Antietamr' shouted a re-
turned Confedrit. 81 wuz by VIII
yum's side when he wuz shot" ~
-"Wher is the Hunters?" :,
"Runnin distillery at Waxhall
Court 'ouse" sed this same feller, who
thot the President RELY wantid 70
know. He wuz choked down and the
President perceded:
tWher Is the Registers, and the
} Smitheses, the Brownses and the
Joneses? wher is the long list uY men