Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-29
NASBY,
4 Faithful account Qfthe Trip to Raleigh,
Including the Discussion before the start.

Written for the Toledo Blade.
POsT Offs CoNFEDRIT X RoADs)
(wich is in the Stait NV Kentukyl :
June 10, 1861
| accompanied the President to Raw
| ly. The President doesn't feel safe at
going anywhere without me to arrange
the details and do the nice tinanceering
wich is necessary. -
The Rawly tri p wuz the occashcn NV
a serious strubble in the Cabinet. The
President wuz in favor Nv it. Ez he sed,
he wuz essenshelly of fillyal persuasion.
He he'd alluz experienced a consumin luv
for his parents, pertickelerly for them on
his fathers side. He he'd swung around
the entire cirkle of offishul honor, and
he'd found traitors on all sides, but he
Good lay his hand on his heart and say
that he he'd never knowd troo man, but
who, at sum period nv his life, he'd fa-
thcr Why, then, shood we not honor
our fathers !? How Good it be better dun
than layin corner stuns His father de-
cecst in 1911, and it wuz time that this
dooty wuz attended to. Besides, ut tlis
crisis in the affairs NV the country, with
Wilson and Kelley a snortin through the
South, he felt it wood be good thing to
show ourselves.
Seward felt that it wuz well to GO
Fillyal luv was charnin. Shakspeer-
who wuz cz justly celebrated as dra-
matist cz one he Good menshun wuz for
diplomatic telegraffin, remarkt, GLOW
sharper nor serpents tooth it is to hev
thlnkless child, y the. truth nv witch he
he'd experienced, cz he he'd been styled
the father Nv the Republican party, but
that wuz not to the pint. 1t is the duty
of every son to lay corner stuns. In this
case, it wood perhaps bin more creditable
he'd it been dun fifty years ago, but what
difference is it i? 1t is natral ez we are
about bein gathered to our fathers that
we shood remember 'em. Besides he he'd
little speech wich he felt he wood like
to deliver. He wantid to bear testimo-
ny to the patriotism to the son NV Jacob
Johnson particklerly to our colored
bretheren in North Carlina, who hev bin
listenin to Kelley and Wilson.
Randall didn't bleeve in it at all. He
made bold to say that ez the deceest j Ohm
son had slept without q corner stun for
fifty-fve years, bed manage to get along
while longer. 1t was rather late in the
day. He bleeved in feelin sorrowful over
the decces NV our relatives, but he didn't
go much on doin it ffty-fve yeers after
date. 1t was too much like Dustin into
teers.over the sufferins. NV the last illness
ov yer first wife's great grandmother
The speeches he didn't bleeve in at all.
He he'd seen sum NV it-he he'd accom-
MED one toor Nv the kind. He he'd been
on it. He was at Cleveland, at Injuna-
polls and Springfield, Illinoy. He beg
ged to be excoosed. He didn't keer bout
tailin sich kite agin. Eff the people NV
the South shood receive us as corgelly
ez the people Nv the North did, he pre-
ferred to consult Lis feelins and be absent.
He wuz sensitive plant and dislikd sum
things. Eff his memory served him rite
the demonstrashuns coodent be consider
ed fiatterin. The people didn't fling ded
cats at us, but they did wuss. Eff they
wuz cold they wuz ruther too cold. Ef
they wus in volatile yumor they wuz
ruther too lively. He he'd about made
up his mind that it wus'nt any yoose to
fte it out on that line eff it took all sum-
mer. Success is dooty, but when sue
cess is impossible ez water in the great
| Sahara, watts the yoose? Wheretor