The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17
WHEELING, WEST VA, MONDAY MORNING. JUNE II 1851.

- MIS- CODD alu'I Il penl1SSS DOys nOE l6
but this is wandrin from the subjick.
For the encouragement Nv the young
men afore me, I wood say that hey
enjoyed all care about. lam no as
pirant for nothin, and therefore the
way now open for EN-. All places Nv
honor is now before em. Il thank you
for this corial welcum. North CaEiiny
afford me sich advantages ez, consider
ing my merits, I ought to hev he'd, yet
I love her. Its better ez it, ,wuz.' Coin
out a peniless boy, and returnin after
holdin every offs from Alderman Nv
my adoptid village up to President,
vantage then ef / hedn't gone out a
pennifess boy. thank you for this
tribute to my many good qualities"
And he started to get down when
Randall whispered suthin in his left
ear.
Risin promptly and drawin out his
hankercher, the President assoomd a
look NV subdood greef and resoond:
81 hev come among yoo to partici-
pate in the dedicashen Nv monument
To a man witch 700 all loved, tho 1t hez
taken neer suthin like fifty yeers for
700 to diskiver it. He wuz poor and
humble, wich akkounts for my goin
from.among yoo a penniless boy but
NV him 1 am proud, for he'd it not been
for him wooden't have returned the
shinin example to your, young men
wich am" a the
The corner stun wuz laid an red red
monument set on 1t. 1t is NV a n
limestone, ten foot high. It's ez goo in
ten foot NV stun respeck ez ther ts uz
North Carliny. Ez the monumentw w g
elevatid there wuz the appropriat
speeches, and then my little arrange
ments cum in. A niger woman he'd
took with us from Washington rushed
for'ard and sed "Bress de Lord, Ize
bin n waitin' for dis day to see de Pres
ident---ours Presidentl" at which
squad NV niggers I'd picked up and
drilled hollered 'Ror!"
This little aHectin sceen over. two
quadroons, wich I'd also bro't with US
in a priyit car, cum tor'ard with ex-
preston Nv profound greef, at wich the
bokays nv the choicest flowers wee Good
buy in Washinton, upon the tomb.
It wuz RELY a techin taboo. The an
cieut nigger woman holdin the Presi-
dents hand, the young quadroons a
slingin the bokays, the President with
NV the days NV his boyhOod, me with
an expression of thankfulness that the
nigger he'd at last recognized their
Moses; Seward with sanity smile on
his face; Welles tryin to look ez near
like Seward ez possible, but failin mis-
SeEaDly 10 lOOk 1lhe auy LuluB pub LAe
eggrejis old ass he is, and Randall with
his Handkerchief to his eyes ez eff on
manned by the movin sceen, but keep
in one sye cooked over the hankercher
to see now 1t took among the niggers, 1t
wuz a sceen easier to be imagined than
described. -s.. .--.... -....a. .....-. -.
There wuz several incidents which
occurred witch did not appear in the tel
egraph. When His Eggsellency wuz
speakiu NV himself and remarkt that
his race wuz neerly run, unregener-
ate niger yelled out TANK de Lord"
and when the quadroons wuz a spread
in flowers on the grave nv His Eggsel-
lency's father, 1 observed rather more
titterin among the niggers than l ap-
proved NV on SO sollum an occasion.
askt Randall wot he thought Nv the
spekelashen, and his answer "It didn't
payl" struck me ez hevin a vane Nv
trooth runnin thro it.
On our return the President wuz al
lowed to speek more, for Randall got
tired NV watchin him. We returned in
good health and sum nv us In good
spirits. Seward feels we'll for he hez
abidin faith that the mere shown NV
himself alluZ heZ an effect for good
upon the people, and ez matter NV
coorse Seckretary Welles thinks SO
too. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster,) and Professor In
the Ham and Japheth Free Academy
for the development Nv the intellek
nv all races irrespective OF color.