The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-03-29

SuuSuen liiht bley neu HOJnln 10 uOpe
for from the Northern Democrats,
NV whom / wuz average specimen,
what kin my enemies say then2
do not deny that ! wuz ardent
supporter Nv President johnson from
the beginning NV his career. l wuz
filled with drafted mans magma
nimity toward conkered foe, and up
to the very day | reserved my com.
mishcn I favored constlitory meas.
ures. l accompanied him on his-l
will not say disgracctul, for he is my
soopcrior oilicer-tour through the
Noi thern States, and slung my hat
higher nor anybody elsc's at his--I
will not say drunken for reasons
above ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and
aboozcd the highly intelligent popu.
lacos at Cleveland, Indianapolis,
Springfield, and other pints in a man
ner wich, now that | think NV 1T, wuz
trooly shameful. Also / organized
the Postmasters NV various Northern
States into Johnson party, and Wig.
gerously supportid members NV Con
grcss pledged to the policy NV which
| wuz, at the time, a deceived cup.
porter. A bout this time | wuz APP
pinted Postmaster, and, iindin /
needed conlirmashen, my views un.
dcrgocd Radikle change. Time
and observashcn hcv taught me that
! instid Nv consilashen, cocrshen is our
best holt, and that now military
measures are necessary in the South,
ontil them rebellyus people complete
| ly acquicscc in the terms imposed by
Congris for rcstorashen. My pres
ent views on this intercstin topic ia
best defined 10y the recent speeches
sv Hon. Charles Sumner, the emf
nent and trooly great Senator from
the enlightened State NV Massachoo.
sits, and also by the recent uttcran-
ces Nv them lovable Representatives,
Hon. Thadeus Stevens, NV Pennsyl-
vany, Hon. IL Gen. Benz. +. Butler,
NV Massachusetts, and Hon Jas. NJ
Ashley, NV Ohio, in all NV whose sen.
timents, sich cz they hev now, and
also them cz they hev alluz he'd, ez
well cz them witch they may hereafter
hev, l most heartily and entirely con
cur.
With this eXplanashen, wich | hope
will prove entirely satisfactory, and
with the addishinel asshoorence that
am now very warm supporter NV
the Congressional policy, and that
when | look back and see wat | hey
bin dOin for the past two years, so
loath myself that / kin hardly he re
strained from sooisidin, may ask
700 to personally urge my conGrma
shen in the SehitI
Trooly and Respectfully 1oors,
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
| read this epistle to A. johnson.
who wuz pleased TO approve it, and
also to Randall, who wuz delighted
with it and to Welles, who, after
forcing me to read it twice over
wantid to know IL it had anything to
do with the Navy Department, and
then returned to the President will
my mind fully made up that / never
would send that document.
"Wat?' sed he, startin back as
tonishcd. Not send il p
"Never !" sed l, "Neyer Sicl
things may do for postmasters anC
Assessors wich yoo took from Re.
Ipublikin ranks, but not for me.
hey done many things wich perhaps
woodn't hold ont G0lbs to the bushcl
i voted for Pecrce, and likewise
for Bookannon, and supported EN- in
all their various doins, besides Other
mean things too tejus to menshun,
but my sensitive soul rccoils at this,
my proud slumick revolts | leave
it for your Clusters and WilcoXes and
sich, no Kentucky Dimolirat kin.
Let EN- reiOOse to confirm me at theil
piril. | am the only Dimelrat in ten
miles who kin write, and they dare
not, by turning me out, deprive Ken.
tucky, which never seeded, NV mail
facilities.
"Braye man T. exclaimed johnson,
in husky voice, and his eyes suf.
fused with tears, fallin onto my necl,
and weepin profusly down my back,
"let EN- hist 700. Ef they do, ]
pledge 700 my word, and will give
700 sekoority now if you desire it,
that you shcI hcv a partnership with
Mrs. Cobb, or Mrs. Perry, wich is
is worth score NV Post Offices"
hev alluz noticed that vIrchoo in
its own reward. BY bein troo, wat q
feeld is now open to me-. Let the
SENT 60 its worst.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster), and likewise
Professor NV Bibhkle Politicks in
the Southern Classiklc IL Military
Institoot.
The North furnished over a mil.
lion of men to defend the Constitu-
ton and the Union, when assailed
DV the SOuth hut what will n do