Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-03
lFrom the Toledo Blade ]

AshINGTOS, AprI =, 1901.
Its done Seward did it-him and me |!
The Amerikin Eagle hez coz nov to screen
with redoubled energy. Ef the Nashnel bird
wuz angel, shood remark TO il, :" Toon
yoor harp anoo !" but it ANT, and therefore
sich a rekest wood be ridiculous. This rap.
sody hez reference to the Rooshen purchis.
The idea originated in these massive intel
lex. When wuz here afore, the Blairs, all
Nv EN-, wuz . crowdiu the sainted Johnson
for mishun; Cowan wantid . mishun, aud
so did Doolit.le; and that day pretty much
all Nv the delegates to the Cleveland and
PhilsdelpLy Conversions he'd bin there
wantin SEINE kind NV q place; wat, they
wuzn't pertikeler. One gentleman, whose
nose (wich trooly blossomed ez the lobster)
betokened long service in the party. urged
that he he'd bin delegate 10 both conyen-
shens. "Thank God I" sed Johnson
"Wood that both them conversions he'd bid
maze up NV the same men. wood hey bin
bored for places only half ez much ez
am
wuz helpin him out in my weak way.
When the crowd wantin places bee me too
great for human endooranee, l would say,
in modrit tone, Let's 60 out and git suth.
in," and to wunst fully half wood exclaim,
Thank 700, don't keer ef do. 1t wuz
a great reliei to johnson, but wuz pizen on
me. With the most Nv em, the anguish,
anxiety, aud solicitude in the gittin Of offi-
ses and free drinks wuz about an ekal thing.
The ofiises they wantid wuz merely the means
to that pertikeler end, and so long as they
wux gii,in the latter without the trouble Of
the former, they wuz content A good con-
stooshen and q copper-lined stunick carried
me thro this tryin ordeel, until came across
a Boston applicant, who, in consequence NV
the perhibitory Law, he'd bin for some time
on short rashens. aud wuz keen set. Napo.
leon he'd then met his Wellington, and
succumd. That mans talent wuz wonderful
Sekretary Seward wuz in trouble about
the Blair family, pertikerly. He he'd did his
level b. st for em. He he'd appointed EN- to
Collekterships and fur1in mishuns, but the
crooel Seuit, which he'd no respeck for US,
took delite in fastening Nv EN- onto us by
perpetooslly rejectiu em. Jest after long
scejestsd the purchis Nv the Rooshen Terri
tory, to wich not only they Good be sent, but
. thousand Nv others wich we bed on our
hands, and the Sekretary wuz so pleased at
the idea that be wept like . child. With
vigger wonderful in one 90 old, he set about
gittin testimonials ex TO the valyoo Nv the
territory, 70 inAO0ence the SENT in ratifyin
the treaty be was agoin to make. And be
wrote to . naval ofiser about it, who an.
swered more promptly than ever knowd
naval ofdser to do, ez follows:
"Its trooly = splendid country. The
trade in the skins Nv white bears Kin be. ef
properly developed, made enormous. There
is seals there, and walruses so tame that they
come up Nv their own akkord 10 be ketch-
ed.
up. SIN case the puschis shood b
made, . naval stasheu will be necessary.
May hope that my long services on the
Floridy Coast would prove sufiishen, recon-
mendashen for the command Nv the depot
MayIe
hev the honor to be-" &c.
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