The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-13
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WITCH = IA the SAT- Nv ASEfuGkT,y
August !, 1871.
Las; nits there WIZ oOnyoesshsn ~
the saints connectsd with the Instlioor
tuv EfeA Dsekiu POXEzpn - the chesf-
est and IOyelist among ten thousand. }
to take sweet counsel together onto
BsgEAl matters conn6+ed Hith the IL
stitoozheu Of Iearnin, the success Nv
wien = 90 dear 70 ali ~ US. The con-
Tsrssshsn haPp=niu 70 turn upon the
eoaferrin ~ honorary degrees, Dseskia
Pozrzu sd that be he'd suggestion 70
make. he he'd no;ist that all the lead
in colleges Nv the country he'd pEsc-
J rs Nv co1tsrTinl g!t!ss, sick - = MI,
"AH., :" LID" and E!cb, onto disI!n-
/ zuished men, though ne WIZ free 70 say
( that ne didn't know 6at N tnuncs!
D they meant, or wat they y " good icr'
but ne ned uoiIEt In noospaPsr ihAt
90 college hsd yst conferred any s1ch
onto Apdroo johnson. ConEtderln u
Z burniu shame, ne wood sejsst thai e.
Z rsbook 70 the hids-OOund institooshens
az the North, 70 this college do TO
3 vTuugt confer all nv en-, and eZ nsny
more - Their is, onto M. johnson.
! Bzscom rsnarkt that ne didn't kno
| whether the President wood feel com
olfmeptId. You kno, Deskip," SD
he, THAT this amt much Nv a college"
dTroo," sd the oIessid old psscs Nv
innocence, "troo troos HUT then, 10
Dd4EECS LLhAa SDlD5gL a-AA A-ASAA "a
PrssIdsntr you kpOo."
Ard 30 the honrzry degrees WIZ con
ferred and notisis thereof WIZ sent him
lDmejitly.
From this the question Nv the next
nominee Nv the party for President
came up. Bzscon, who isn't e fsr-seEtu
man, asserted that Il wood be necessary
to nominate Grant. The Dsekin re-
nErkt that he thought II wood be safe,
but hcPsitsT thought different. He
didn't b!ssvs in fine hTst place that II
become 3 Peace party, or al !sas.
party Wich, eff it dipped its hands IN
gore at sli, did il mostly in Northern
| gore, 70 take up = Northern General
/ 1ich had dun his best towards ssndin
many Thousands of Southuers to their
! long homes, and besides the General
wouldn't take it.
Razcorn wanted TO know what the
conference At Long Branch msantg Ell
General Grant WIZ in the control Nv
Weed, Raymond and the Moo York
Herald, witch wuZ ekal to the World,
the Flesh and the Devil, he felt that he
he'd trooly found the broad, macadam-
lied road 10 Dsmocrisy. He begun TO
hey hopes Nv him. Various opinions
wuz expressed by various persons,
when, without comm to any cOnc!u-
sion, we separated. / retired that mite
earlier than usual, and my dweliIn on
the chances Nv ny cOntinuin in of1is
! in case nv Grants accession, l fell into
7 a troubled sleep and dreamed dream.
MethAWt gathered in front Nv the
White House WIZ gallant array Nv
our friends. There Wuz franklin
Peerce, and Bookanan, and Vallandig-
um, and the Woods and MaRofhD, and
Monroe, and Brite, and BreckinIidge,
and the leaders nv the Dimocrisy, all
standin ther loOkin wiBhfully at the
White House, and wonderin how and
by what means they Good git in. John
son, blessins on his head, stood onto the
portico wsvin to 'em TO come, but alassi
guardin the passage stood mighty
host NV Ablishnists, armed and clad in
aHmor, and in such force ez to make the
stortnin nv it hopelis.
"How shall we get int" sighed Bel
mont.
Clay Dean.
"That's the great moral question
how7" ekoed Ben. Wood.
my frend," sed Thurlow Weed, "its
easy enuf. When you can't sore like
the eagle. crawl like the snake. Sorein
IL preferable, but crawlin will do at a
pinch. Is Their not the Lion nv the Re-
public? Can't you git him out and
mount hIm7 The Ablishnists hev a re-
gard for that same Lion. and will never
discharge their arrers at you when yoOr
on his back, for fear Nv KILN him. Be
sides yooE ridin him will in some de-
gree doc away with the preJoodis they
hev agin yoo."
"But how kin we mount him ~ said
they.
and him and Raymond trottsd of to-
gether.
They got the Lion out, but ez soon ez
he cast his eyes onto the crowd, he ut
tered roar witch struck terror into their
soles, and dashed the ground with his
tail, and cast up dust with his claws in
a manner fearful 10 behold.
Hen never stand it," said Weed ,
"onless he's blind-folded," and Thur
rag over his eyes, and that done, him
and Randall pared his nails and
blunted his teeth, SO that ef the band
age shood wriggle of he shood see
wher he wuZ be coodent hurt any body,
and shRyed his name, till he looked
like a very innocent Lion indeed, SO
that his appearance woodent startle
them not used to his fiercenis, and in
that condishen they led him very quiet
ly down to the crowd and give the word 4,
mount.
Lord what scramble Their wuz.
Tina piled on from the tip Nv his ears to
the end NV his tale, and them witch
cOodent git on for lack nv room, hung
to the feet nv them witch had got on un-
til II wuZ nothin less than a pirrymid
Of Democrats.
Finally, when all wuz loaded, the
word wuz given and the lion moved
off. Tina wuz delited. Hehed strength
enuf 10 carry EN-, and he wuz a carryin
em strate TO the White House, and at II
good pase, too.
Ez tina approached the portals, the
Ablishn defenders nv the place opened
onto em. ....
troy the Lion of the RepublicH"
"Stay yoor handsP shrSeked Ray
mond. THE savior NV the country is
under u.s."
But they lam them in skorn.
IT'S Brite :and Yellsndigum, the
shreekt they, singiu as they fought,
"The Battle Cry nv Freedom, /" John
Browns body lies mouldin in the
grave !" and SIGH other sRcriligious
odes. cts them we see, and Them
we'll kill"
And they belted away TIL the whole
mass wuz stretched dead and dyIn on
the plain.
Then they came up and began to turn
over the corpses, one by one, until at
at last they came to the body NV the
Lion, which, peerced thro and thro, wuz
ez dead ez any Nv EN-.
''My God !" sed they, 'H Is the Lion
after air"
"And we've Stayed himp said
another.
"weIli" remarkt third, 1--WE could
ent help II. He was so kivsred up with
this carrion that / coodent make out
what it wuz they wuZ a ridin. Let us
give him decent burial, for the good
he hez done, and forget, II we kin, the
company he died I'M
And at this kritikle juncture / awoke