The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-21

NC atuNiy ilp NdL tue 0kkHSi0H Nv r Sc
nous trouble in the cabinet. The President
wuz in favor of it,. Ez he said, he wuz es
senshelly Nv a hllial persuasion. He he'd al
luz; experienced most consoomin love 70,
his parents, pertikelerly for them on his faith
ers side. he he'd swung around the entire
circlenv offishsl honor, and he found traitors
on all sides, but he Good lay his hand on his
heart and say that he he'd never knowed q
troo man, but who, at some period of his life
he'd father Why, then, shood we not hon
or our fathers2 How Good it be better dur
than by layin corner stuns2 His father de-
ceest in 1912, and it wuz time that this doot,
wuz attended to. Besides, ut this crisis il
the affairs NV the country, with Wilson and
Kelly a snortin through the South, he felt i
wood be good thing 10 show ourselves.
Seward felt that it wuz well TO 90. Fila
love was charmin. Shakspeer, who wuz ei
Justly celebrated en- dramatist ez one be
Good mention wuz for diplomatic telegraffin
remarkt: f'How sharper nor serpent.
tooth il is TO hey thankless child, the truth
NV wich he he'd experienced, ez he he'd bin
styled the father NV the Republican party,
but that wuz not TO the pint 1t is the duty
Nv evry son to lay corner stuns. In this CO SC
1t wood. perhaps. hev bin more creditsble
he'd it bin done fifty years ago, but wat diff.
ference is it2 1t is natural ez we are about
being gathered to our fathers, that we shood
remember EN-. Besides he he'd q little
speech wich be felt he like to deliver. He
wantld to bear testimony to the patriotism OF
the son NV Jacob johnson; perticklerly to
our colored brethren in North Caroliuy who
hev bin listenin' to Kelley and Wilson.
Randall didn't bleeve in it at all. He made
bold to say that as the deceast johnson he'd
slept withouta corner stun for 6fty-6 years.
he'd manage to git along while longer. IL
rather late in the DAY. lie bleeyed in
feeiin sorrowtnl over the decease NV our re>
latives, but he didn't go much on dom il fifty
five years alter date. Ii was too much like
Dustin into teears over the suffrins or
the last illness Nv yer first wifes great
grandmother The speeches he didn't
bleeve IN at all He he'd seen some
NV the he'd accompanied one .oor Of the
kind. He he'd bin on it. He wuz at Cleve.
land, at indianapolis aud Springfield. IlIinoy.
He begged to be excoosed. He didn't keer
about tailin sich kite agln Eff the peonle
NV the South should receive us ez corielly o.
the people nv the North did; he preferred 10
consult his ieelns and be absent He wuz a
sensitive plant aud dsliked sum things. Ell
his memry served him rite the demonsfra,
shens coodnt be considered hatterin. The
people didn I fling dead cats at us, but they
a'A " aoc- lLt tucl HuS GOlu ineY WIZ rather
too cold. Ef they WIS in a volatile humer
they wuz ruiher too lively. He he'd about
made up his mind that it wasn't of any
yoose to fife it out on that line eff it took all
summer. Success Is a dooty, but when
success IS ez impossible ez water in the
great Sahara, watts the yoose Wherefore
struggle Let us 60 slow, draw our salaries
TO the end OF our 'speetive terms and so live
that when the summons comes to line the
lnnomeraole caravan that moves out nv
Washington TO ards their spectire homes.
we go not like the dnsky slave at mite, wat :
bet his all on two pair, but soothed and sus~
tanned by wot we've saved, go like ore
who's got the wherewithal TO live. 1t wuz a
source Nv cumfort to him to know that the
worst NV men wuz soon forgotten. Whoever
speeks Nv Tyler or Peeree or Bukanon now ?
Benedict Arnold is only spoken NV on Forth
Nv Julys, and Judas lscariot on Sundays. 1t
will be so with US in time, for which, thank
the Lord.
But 1t wuz determined to GO, and wuz
sent to Rawly 10 find out where the grave nv
the honored father Nv our honored President
WIZ RELY locatd, and to make SIGH other ar
engagements ez the exigencies NV the case de.
mauded, which did. he'd difficulty in 10.
catln the grave, and amt Jest shoor that
found the rite one. The people nv Rawly
wuz anxious to hev it come off ez trade wuz
dull IN the retail line, and for fear that |
would report that the grave coodent be found.
and thus nip their buddin hopes, they gave
me the choice NV some twelve or fifteen. Sc
lectln the most eligible, / made the other ar
engagements and returned.
The excursion contrasted very fayorably
with the one we took last fall. The people
received us at every stashen with the mos, af.
fectin demonstrators nv love. "Johnson
johnson johnson - they yelled at each
stoppin place, wieh sounded sweeter in hi:
ears and mine than the damnable iterashen
Nv "Granti Graft! Grant, wich greetid
us at every pint north. The President wuz
sorry he hedn't taken Grant with him to show
him that eff he wuz the most popular in some
localities, we he'd the hearts uy the people in
others. But Their wuz drawback to our enjoy.
ment. No sooner wood the President com
mence Fellow Citizens than Randall
would putt the bell-rope and off the trane
wood start. He WIZ determined that the
President shouldn't speek, witch put me to {
great deal Nv trouble, ez after we arrived /
he'd TO write ont aud telegraph to the papers
the speeches the President would hev made
At Rawy General Battles welcomed The
Presidential party and the President respond
ed tie remarked that in Rawly he frs
opened his tender eyes, penniess boy
Here is the scenes Nv his childhood /; here il
everything to bind man to his fellow, and Il
associate him with thai with wich he is asso-
ciated here is where the tenderness w hear
hev taken holt upon everything to witch it he.
attached itself But he wuz wandring from
his suhiick. His mind went back to the da,
when he left this city penniess boy. Wher,
IS them wieh he LETT behind him? He begged
20 inquire where IS the friends Nv his child
hood 2 Where is the HAYWOOD ST..
"klled at Antietam = SHOUTED a returned
Confedrt. II wuz BY Wllyum side wher
he wuz shot
-"where is the Hunters ?'-
"Runnin dislillery at Waxhall Court
'ouse. sed this same Teller, who thot tn,
President RELY wanhd to know. He WI;
choked down, and the President perceded:
"Wher is the Registers, and the Smithers
the Brownses, and the Jonses? Wher is tn
long list NV men who lived at that day; VIII
lived here when [ wuz penniless boy. an
who like me, command respek for constane
nv devoshen. feel proud Nv this demons,ra
shen-l feel proud Nv any demonstrasher
Ez alioosion hez' bin made to the DAYS whe
wuz penniess boy, | may say here, G
pertinent to that subeck, that hev adhere
to the fundamental principles Nv the gov men
aad to the flag aud constooshen. But to n
turn 10 my subJeCk men went out fr0i
among 700 penniless boy, | adopted tn
Constooshen as my guide, and by them he
alus bin guided. To the young / wood So
that they will be safe in takin me ez a mode
Leavin here penniless boy, it is not for m
TO say whether or not | hev succeeded. / al
no longer penniless boy, nor is them vic
is round me. Mrs. Cobb amt pennies
boy, nor is-but this is wanderin from th
Eubjiok. For the encouragement Of the youn
men afore me, | wood say that hev enjoye
all care about. | am no aspirant for notl
in, and therefore the way now open for zen
All places NV honor is now before iem.
thank you for this corjel welcum. North Ca
iiny sent me out penniless boy, and did n
afford me sch advantages es, considerin n
merits, ought to hev he'd, yet love he
Its better e. it wuz. Coin out pennile
boy and returnin after holdin every off
from Alderman Nv my adopted village up
President shows my qualities to much bett
advantage than eff hedn't gone ont pei
nless boy. | thank you for this tribute
my many good qualities n ~ IT
Aud he started to sit down when Rauds
whispered suthin In his left ear.
Risin promptly and DRAWN out his hanke
cher, the President assoomd look nv So
dued grief and resoomed:
81 hev come among 700 TO participate
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