The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-12-25
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Mr.. Naaby Delivers the President,i
Message 10 his Friends from Mem
Ory.-The Impression that the DOe
ument Produced upon n Kentucky
ConVoeation. .
PosT oFPIs, coNPRDRIr X ROADS. !
(Wich Ia In the Stait nv Rentucky,)
tf December II, 1851.
The Corners wuz last nite In o mos
deliteful foyer nv excitement. / het
bin over to Secessionville, the neares
railroad stashen, and he'd accidentally
prokoored a copy nv q louisville paper
c0ntainin the anyooal message nv the
President, and he'd heerd Nv the fall
yoor Nv the impeachment project
Filled with Joy inex pfessible, Imount,
ed BAscom's mule, WIch he'd borrored
for the trip, and rode back ez fast el
that mule Good carry me, Ez I rode
thfo the Niger settlement, neal, Gar.
rettstown, on my way back, |, I Good not
help, In my exultati0n, shakin my fst
at the white.washed cottages. ''HaI
Haw thot ], "go on In your iancled se'
coority. Pore over yer spellin books,
/
wives and children, while yoo kin, fol
yoor time Is short. The cloud is gath.
erin over yoo-it will bust shortly. Hal
hal" And l struck the spurs into the
mule and dashed on my way, the ha
hal sounding demoniaCly In the dark
mis-. W}-ITf II
Hastily fiingin myself orr the anil.
NAL, strided Into Bascom's, where
atore his blazln hre, they were all as.
sembled.
"Thank Heyini" sed 1. fallln on my
knees In taboo.
"WatH" sed the assembled congrega-
shun.
"President johnson has ishood a
message, and he amt impeachtl !"
"ThGnk the Lord!" piously exclaim-
ed Deekkin Pogram, and "Thank the
Lord !" they all sed, with anlintensity
Nv piousnis wich totally unnamed me.
"Read as the blessld document" sed
they.
II WILL" sed I, but upon feelIn for 1t
found 1t had slipped out Nv my poCkit
on the road. NotheVin much yoose for
poclkits don't keep EN- very much In
repair. "But never mind, I kin tell It
to yoo ez WE'LL"
"Go on" sed they, with intense
"Go onl" sed Joe BIgler, "let's see
how the message looks after It's run
thro Postmaster. Go on"
1c0mmenst by stain that the Presl-
dent sot out with fervent lament that
the Yoonyun Wuz still In stage Nv
disorganlZation, and that the ten Sc
ceeded States wuz not agin under the
flag.
"How troo and how lamentable the
trooLh u sighed Capt. McPelter, late Of
the @. s. A.
II omit all references wich he elo-
kently makes Nv the necessity Nv
yoonyun, ct cetra, and pass to the only
pint wlch Is Nv Interest to US. Firstly,
he recommends to Congress that they
take the back track"
"Amenm shouted Deekin Pogram.
THAT the work wich they hev bin
doln In opposishen to his policy, be to-
wunBt epeeled-to-wunst and prompt
~. He dwells at length upon the fact
that the Conslltooshen guarantees 10
all the States Government Republi-
can In form; that 1t gives to every citi-
zen habis corpus. don't Jest re-
member the argument that follows,
but 1t may be inferred. Its us he's
pleadin ior-ior US his bowels yearn. .
How kin a Stale hev govement re-
publlkin In form, when one. half Nv its
citizens, wiGh the good NV the tother
half require 10 be KEEP In state OF
SkriptoOral servitood, are IA goin abOu I
free, and doin ez they chooseP From
this, by an easy transishen, he dips In
to the CRATE and TO us all.important
subjeck Nv nigger suffrage, and on this
he Is the moyinist writer who ever
teched pen to paper. He holds that
the niggers NV the Southern States are
so CONSTITUTED Jest now thnt they kin
elect President, and that there a
wrong Is committed. He bleeves they
aren't tit to exercise the franchise, that
only the naughty master race, whose
whose minds Is cultivated 10 the pro.
per degree, who possess the intelli.
gence; shood hev that blessid privilege.
he holds that the all.impoTtant ballot
shood only be welded by those who
are fitted morally-Bascom, set y pint
OF whisky on the stove, and gil 1t pipin
hot for me-and mentally, aud who
hev had that edjucashen that fits 'enl
80 that II kin be exercised safely, and
hence In the ten States only the white
race are justly entitled to IL and
"Hold minlti" ssd Joe Bigler.
Agreein with the President that tho
ballot shood only be given to them wIch
kin read-appreciatin the horrid danger
nv givin IL TO them who lack this qual .
ihcation, want all that he seq on that
he'd to be red In full for our enl itement,
hev q copy Nv the message In my
pocket, and there Is the passage. Deck.
In, will yoo read it 10 us?"
"Scuse me!"sed the Deekin; 81 don u
read.
"Issaker, will 700 read IT."
"W-a.tH" sed 1ssaker, astonisht.
"Joseph, "sed l, seein TO what this
wuz leadin, ~ kin tell It TO em Just ez
WE'LL"
"Not any, Parson. It must be read,
Elder Pennibacker will you read itH'
The Elder he'd left his specks to hum,
he sed, takin y long pull at his hot
whiskey 10 hide his confession.
Hal" sed Joseph, "it strikes me that
this Is ajovyel party, to which to In.
trust rites on akkount Nv their intellI.
gence. Jist one Nv 'em kin read plain
print, aud he's from Moo Gerseyl Shel
60 up to Garrettstown and bring
down n niger TO read 1t 10 yoo?" sed
he, latin lmmoderetly. "fhere's Il
hundred Nv EN- up therewho kin do II. i"
Frownin, l perceeded: Yesterday,
the President seq, four millions Nv nik.
gers wuE slaves, and II aint to be per.
soomed that their CondIshun NV servI.
TODD wood tit EN- for the active dooties
Nv citizenship,
"a pretty system to Defend" mur.
INJURED Bigler, "wich units men for
beln good citizens"
went on; not noticing the interrup.
shen. "Ths great difference between
the races In phislkle, mental and moral
carakteristlcs will pervent an amalga.
mashen or fusion NV em Ia one homo.
geneous mass. and
"a mint, sed Blgler. "Is the Pres.
ldent strickly rite hereH Has the DIS
tlnRulshln n characteristics Nv the races
prevented amalgamation In these parts2
Deekin PoRram anser. HeE the differ
ence atween yoo and yoor nlggers re.
PEELED yooH Hev yoo not bin amalga.
matin aud lnissegeuatin, ontil yoo he'd
got the two races Into one homogeneous
massS Deekln don't anser--I don't 70.
quire 1t. But | can't help remarkin
that kin select dozen, more or less,
young niggers In these parts, who re-
Hemble 700 moro than your own chill
dren do. Go on, only desired to cor
rect the President Whpre factH dOniL