The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-02-28

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hev jist returned from campaign wich hez
proved eminently successful and for my services
in wich, If he'd my just dooze, His Eggsency
the President, wood raise tile salary Nv tile offs
wch now hold. The circumstances Is suthins
like these;-- ...r.., ~. ..syiso, ,.tt.H,rs 81,
'Ther wuz in Washington young gentleman NV
the old skOol whose name his innate modesty for
bids me to monshun. 1t, wuz his modesty, his
retrin disposition wieh prOcoord fur me the
proud distinkshun NV assistin at the biznis,
Ez he remarked to me when arrived in WASH
ington In response to his invtashen, "Nasby, I've
id mean thing to do and I'm Virginian.
Imust heya Northern Democrat TO take tli5 heft
oh't orr my shoulders. They've allhs done II and
they'r used to it," This frend for slch am
proud Iii call him, wuz orginellya clerk In the
Paymasters Department under the Sninted Book
annon, and he held on for reasons NV his own, un-
der the goriller Linkln, Ondl the proper time ar
rived when he throwd of all disguise and flew to
Lee at Richmond and served the balance OF the
war ez a major onto his staff. My friend he'd q
farm near Washington, wich, OWN 10 the facil-
ties for money making under the rain NV Bookan-
an, he he'd saved outuy two years salary. iV
This property the Linln Government, with the
disgustn cOopldlty caraktpristic Nv elm. declared
Abandoned, becoZ uncOnstOoshnelly raised army
wuz between 1t and It's owner; and seezed 1t for
Government yoose; and to add insult to injury,
turned 1t over to parcel Nv wlmin, mostly the
wives Nv Senators NV the unconsopshnel Con-
gress, who had organized themselves into o AssO-
cashun to reverse the DEGREES Of nacher, and ed
dlkate the materially degraded children Nv the ac-
cussed sons NV Ham, wich is and must bG alluz
selyqnc9 unto their brethren. Senator Trumbull's
wife and the wife of that horyr skolIer at our
lnsttoosliuhs, Ben Wade, was the lcadin sperits
Nv this implous movement, and they had abso-
loOtly gathered together sutliin like 80 Orfans, ez
they cald EN-. NV niggers who died at ArntOn
Hites, and put EN- onto the farm Nv my friend and
employed teachers and sich, and wuz aetilly tryn
TO ram learnln Into EN-
Wuz ther ever sich nonsense? Learnin for mig
gers How many Democrats Is ther who hev
good appetites without q particle uvit Time
rolled on, (a'biznls Time hez lollered with distin-
gulshed success for a great many years, and the
war ended. The stars and bars went down, and
our coz wuz lost coz. NY friend surrendered
with Lee, and cum back TO Washington. He wnz
reconstructed, and WIZ In a angellk and lam.like
temper lie had failed, but he forgive them eE
he'd bin the coz NV his faiyoor. He cherished no
hard feeins agin anybody. He wuz In Washing
ton on the mite Nv the 22d nv FebrooarN 1866, and
wuz the l0udest applauder NV the Presidents
speech. The next mornln he went to the Presi-
dent ''Let us, sez he, rbury the hatchet. Let
the era Nv good feelin be ushered In, / wuz a
Confedrit | am ylt but we failed. / am willln
10 be pacincated. Let by-gones be hy-gones. l
forgive yoo, Give me back my position In the
Paymasters Department wich used to hold, aud
let things be normel agln." +". h''i
President johnson graspt his hands and bust
into teers lie could not give him back his po-
sshen becoZ and he wept becOz II wuz so, 1t wuz
okkepied by a Northern supporter Of his policy
wlch he'd just returned from aprOtraoted resi-
dence In Kanady. Washington =" sod JOhnsOn.
Is the troo golden mean. Here extremes meet
heY supporters who want oiiisls from the extreme
North and the extreme South. Wood oh Wood
Good git em from the middle. ls ther anything
else | kin do for VOC.
"Nothin, +" sed he ''nothln, " and he turned sad.
ly away, .ef ..i Ii.
Time contInyood to roll. Reconstruction BY
means nv cOnslIlashen wuz progrossln. President
johnson wuz pardnln the supporters NV the lost
coz aud wher that wOodent consulate he wuz
glvin back THEIR contlstikatid property, aud Ca
| sionalN, In extreme cases, sumbOddy else's NV
friend heard Nv this and come up from Richmond.
Sed he to Johnson;
PMy property, said this frend nv mine, who
wuz reconstructed, lis In the hands Nv Associa-
tlOn Nv wimmln, who permit Its sacred soil to be
contaminated by free nigger babies There "a so
or 100 Nv en, from the tender pckanlnuy who
hez Jest eptered the vale NV tees up " the girl Nv
| IL, who In TWO years more wood, ef thlnga wuz
normal, be old enuif for market, Good hev that
property agln, l-"dHUH '4W vtf 5MF
|
pardon, and here Is q order for the restorashen Nv
your property. Shell 80 or a hundred niggers
stan In the way nv consllatn q errin brother
Heaven forbid And my friend went out with
| lite hart. t. t..I..+.
But alas he wu. somewhat troubled to Git pos
session. so he sent Tor mt, 0ndd come. There
wuz difficulties IN our path The wlmmln had
| possession Nv the place aud would not 60, They
| wdz ohstinet They KEEP the doors locked, but |
was ehal 20 the emergency. Gittln In stable |
| hollcred "ilrelh My friend wuz at the door, aud
when the afhighted teachers, not comprehendiag
the strategy, rushed out, he slpt In and dared
en- to assault him; ! lmmejltly jlned him, and
possession was seckoored,
| still they refused to vacate, and my friend dis
PLAYED crate presence NV mind, .' rcfr.
Its cold l" says he,
"Dost think ef we shood take the wlnders out,
and the doors orf their hinges that these women
wood care about alayn' with the mercury In the
| thermometer c0kettln' with zero2"
''NLy dear sir i" sed I, struck with the boldnis
NV the consepshen, 'yoo he'd nasty Job on hand
but reely wat need he'd yoo for met t.si
"Gra,e need. The very presence Nv Northern
Dlnoctat inspires me, But to blsnis." liisi.
Aud he did 1t, and shoor enuff the wimen, af-
ter Atckln it out two Mites moved their traps and
the nlgger children TO quarters perylded for em
BY that man Nv Belief, Gen. Howard, and we he'd
| won, The property wuz Ourn, aud another stop
wuE taken In the crate work Nv consultation.
But my friend wnk not satisfied. He FeInem-
bered that for months his property he'd blndetled
BY tho presence Nv these nlggers that his house
! he'd sheltered EN-, aud from his land they he'd
Vabssted aud be felt that tfeparashun must be dun.
The stigma must DO washed orf and akkordlngly
he sood the managers Nv the Institution for yo0se
Nv bis place, layn the damages At $40, 900. Troo,
the winen he'd fixed up the properly, and II wuz
in better lhApe than when he len IT. but be wanted