Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-07-02
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-. The President doesn't feel safe at
soin anywhere without me to ar>
range the details and 10 the noe Il
nanceerin witch is necessary.
The Rawly trip was the ollkasion
uy . serious trouble III the cabinet
The President wuz ii favor oft. Ez
he said, he wuz essentially nv fillial
+ persuasion. lie he'd allus experienced
q most.consoomin love for his parents,
| pertiklerly for them on his fathers
silo. lie he'd swung round the entire
circlou Nv oliishal honor, and he'd found
traitors on all sides, but he Good law
his hand on his heart and say that he
he'd never knowed a troo man, but
who, at some period nv his life, he'd
father. Why, then, shood wonot hon
or our fathers? How Good it be bet
ter dun than by layin corners tuns?-
! His father was lecoest in 1912, and ii
wuz time that this dooty was attended
to. Besides, ut this crisis in the affairs
ny the country, with Wilson and Gel
/ ~ snortin throo the South, he felt il
would be u good ching to show ours
| selves
Sew ard fell that it wuz we'll to 90.
| Filial love was charmin. Shakspcor,
who wuz cz justly celebrated ez a dra-
matist 81 one lie Good menshnn wuz
for diplomatic teIegraflin, rcmarkt
GLOW sharper nor a serpent's tooth
it is to hcv q thanklcss child" the
trooth of which he he'd experienced,
cz he he'd bin styled tbs father uv the
Republican party, but that wuz not to
the pint. 1t is the dootv uv every son
to lay corner stuns. In this case it
wood, perhaps, hev bin more credita-
bic he'd il bin dun fifty years ago. but
wat difference is il? is natral cz we
are Abont BEN gathered to our fathers,
that we shOod remember en- Besides
o. he'd little speech wich he felt he'd
like to deliver lie wantid to bear
testimony to thcpatriotism NV the son
nv Jacob Johnson; perticlllerly to our
colored brctefcn in North Carolina.
who hcv bin listonin to Kelley and vii
son.
Randall didn't believe in atall lie
made bold to say that ez the deceest
he'd slept without a corner>stun for fif-
ty-five years, he'd manage to git
along u while longer. 1t wu2 rather
late IN the day. He believed in faelin
sorrowful over the dccease nv our rel
ativeS, but he didn't 80 much or doin
it fity-fv years after date. / WNz
too much like Dustin into tears over
the suffrins or last illness ny yer flst
wifo's great grandmother. The
speeches he didn't believe al all. He |
he'd seen some nv it-he he'd accom-
panied one toor NV the kind He he'd |
bin on it. he wuz at Cleveland, at |
indianapolis and Springfield lllinoy.
lie begged to be cXcoosod. lie didn't |
kecr about failing such kite agin.--
IF the people NV the South shood re-
ccivo Us 81 coriclly ez tho people Nv
The North, he preferred TO consult his
fceins and be absent. lie wuz a sen
sitivo plant and dislikod some things.
81 hiz mcmry served him rite the dem,
0nstrashcns coodn't oe considered fiat
torin The people didn't fling ded cats
lit us, but they did wuss. Ef they wnz
cold they wuz rather too cold IF
they wuz inn volatile humor they wuz
rather too lively. lie he'd about made
up his mind that it wuz nv no yoose
to litc it ont on that line cf it took all
summer. Success is a d0Oty, but wen
success is cz impossible az water in
the great Sahara, watts the yoosc?-
Why struggle? Let us go slow, draw
our salaries to the end ofour 'spectiye
terms, and 50 live that when the
summons comes to Iine the innoomcr~
able caravan that moves out OF Wash,
ington toards their 'spcctivc homes,
we 20 not like tho dusIly slave at mite
watts bet his all on two pair, but
soothcd and sustained by wat we've
saved, 90 like one who's rot the
whcrcWithal 10 live II Wuz Is source
of comfort to him to know that the
worst Of men is soon forgotten. Who's
over speaks of Tyler or Pecrco or old
Jimmy Buchanan now? Benedict Ar
mold is only spoken Nv on Forth ~
Julya, and Judas Ascarioto on Sundays
1t will be so with Us in time, for witch
thank tho Lord
But it wuz determined to 70, and
wuz sent 80 Rawly TO find where the
grave nv the bonorcd father Of our
honored President wuz reely LOCATED,
and to make SIGH other arrangements
ez the exigencics Nv the case demand.
ed WITCH did. / he'd difficulty in 10
catin the grave, and amt jest shoor
that found the right one. The peo-
pie NV RawIy wuz ankshus to hcv it
come off, ez trade wuz dull in tho re-
tail line, and for fear that | wood 70
port that the grave coodn't be found,
and thus nip their budding hopes,
they gave me the choice ny some ten
or fifteen Sclectin the most eligible,
! made the other arrangements and
returned
The excursion contrastol very IA
vorably with the one we took last
fall. The people received us at every
stashen with the most afteetin dem-
onstfashcns nv ovc. "Johnson!
Johnson Jchnsoni' they yelled at ov-
cry stoppin place, wich sounded SO
much swecter in his ears and mine
than the damnable rcitcrashen uy
"Grant Grant Grant" wich grretid
US at every point North. The Presi
dent wuz sorry he hcdn't taken Grant
with him to show him that &c lie WIZ
the most popular in some localities,
we he'd the hearts ny the people in 9th
ers. But ther wuz a drawback to our
enjoyment No sooner wood the
President commence "Fellow Cit
izensl"-than Randall wood pull the
bel-ropc and off the trano wood 90
He wuz determined that the Presi-
dent shoodn't speek, wich put me TO
much trouble, ~ after | arrived
| he'd to write ont and telegraph to
the papers the speeches the President
wood hcv made.
At Rawly General Battles WELDON
ed the Prosidenshel party and the
President resnonded. He remarked