The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-07-11
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The Boston Excursion.

fremont House, Boston, June 25th.
II opens by Say ing that tho Presi-
dents "corjel rccepshen In North
IKarliny give him a sort Nv appetite
for popler applause, and he determine
cd upon trying tin the North agin.''''
Randall opposed II, saying that il
the President, persisted in these ex-,
petitions he would die .,from tho ef-
fox Nv disease superindoost by
over effort in q great many attempts
to save poIitikcl, friends from being
strangled." Al last, however, Ram
dali Withdrew his opposition, saying:
."Yoo kin do Us no damage of tho re-
porters is properly trained,. an ef
yoo deliver only sucks speeches ez we
determine upon before hand. Yoo
70 thro Delaware which is ourn; n 90
Jersey won't hurt us very much, cor
yoo'vo bin ithro thore wnnst and they
know wat to expect; N. r: will givo
o enthusiastic reccpehen ef Morisy
and Ben Wood will take holt nv tho
matter together-by the way, Sew
ard tclegraff EN- to wunst--and in
Connecticut yoor, certain NV q corjel
|reccrshun, That State il full Of de.
moralized Yankee Dimocrats, who
hey bin out to Michigan and left
tbero al the puritan,em, and brot
back with them, in it's stead, all the
cussidness indigenous to that soil,
wsch cnssidnsss, grated onto ther
natral cateness, make en- rather en-
terpri>in in tber worthlisnis. In Bos-
ton itself, the prospect is good
Ther'll be an isamenso crowd prcscat
to dedicate the Masonik Temple,
which We she'll claim the honor Nv
bringin, ez wo did the throngs wich
come to sec us on the toor north, but
wich wo..d persist III holerin Grant,
The trooly decent men NV Boston are
Ablishnists, but there's some thou
sands wich want Offices, and them,
with the sprinklin Of democrats and
conservatives, ought to make 10 y
handsome reccpsLun.. There is yet
in Boston men who used to return.
fugitive slaves, and there is, besides,
tho cminontly respectable gentlemen,
who are 80 conservative that they
hold onto sin becoz ito old, and cs-.
Mblished BY precedent, and 80 ar:sta.
cratic that thoy won't do, riEht, jist
becoz doin rite il a quite common
thing in that scckshun; who hold on
to the cote tale Nv progress aud hol-
Ter 'stoI'r and who, ef they tie their
selves to q good cause, load II down
with their dignity. Like tho 81
Ilootcnents of '6l, their baggage is
worth MORN they are. But tho trip
won't hurt us. You cant make the
Ablishnist moro Ablishn, and them
ez toller us for the loayes and fishes
we dispense wood still folief us, eff
the road We took led 'cz startc thro'
perdishen ez pigeon wood fly
Well 20 Ef yoo will make this
toor and say nothin ideotik, the very
novelty nv il will direct attention
from what we've sided to do with
Sheridan, Sickles, Pope, et ai." 4
We quote the closing part 6f the
letter entire, which describes the ar-
rival in Boston; "a N .,. -
we wus rescved BY Guvner Bull
lock, whose speech wuz u nobel trib-
ute to The President. ~ welkum
yoo,", scd ne. ito Massachusetts -
Neny, Presidents hev. visited Moo
Ingland ard this visit, like there's. !.
excitce devoshcn to the Union and
respeck for them which, il thale Off
shul posishun, rospeck the govern
mcnt nv The hole kuntry. Our de
sire is TO manifest our. regard for
those who. in offishul capasity, re-
speck tho, Nashnnl Yoonyun, which
! is To say, we respeck the Nashunal
Yoonyun. / trust the President will
stay long enuf 10 enable us to mani
fest onr high regard there the Pres
ident's face frightened up)-for YoUR
oFFls!--(the President turned fright
fully red, wi.h Bullock, whose prin-
ciples was 4 raslin o back hold with
his politeness, notist, and he added, J
and TO you PERsoNALLY!" s.
Ez them. last words ishood slowly
and despritIv tho Presidents face
lighted up.s Hctcndcrad him thanks
for tho reception. He woolent un-
derlakc to conscle emoshuDs wich
sgitated him at this persnel welkum
upon tho soil Of Massachusetts. II
wuznt necessary for him to go into
the ,histry ny Massac hoosits as he
WIZ, in the habit NV doin further
South, OF those afore him wux prob
[abjy 60 familiar with il ~ he wuz,
but he wood ashoor them for thafc'
encouragement, that the history w
MASSACHUSETTS, in connekshun with
| the histry Nv these Statos hcs bckum
| q; part Of tho histry Nv the country
and therefore in viAitin Massachusetts,
under sich pekoolyer circumstances
It s pckoolysrly gratifying to roseve
such : welkum. IN regard to yoo,.
remarks tetchin the preservashun NV
these States, I trist I may say with
out cgotism-a vice wich ! hev never
bin accused of, and from wich I may
say no ono Is more sinxulcrly free
than. myself yield to no patriot
livin or dead in my devoshun TO that
purpose. Yoor otherremarks on the
Rooshen purshis and tho NOR econ-
omical collection Nv the internal rev.
enue ALSO also meets my coriel approba-
shen,, 's'.ss 81
Randall pulled at his coat tale, when
the President remarkt that he might
say without egotism that he didn't