Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-07-10
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DIscusSIOn-The start and
| the Progress OF the Begin
ming of the Masonic FestiV-
tiles.
Written for the Toledo Bladel
FREMONT HOUSE, Boston,
(wich is in the State Nv massachu-
setts,) June 25, 1867.
The Raleigh trip scarcely over, His
Serene Highness determined upon ac-
ceptin the Boston invitashen. His
corjel recepshen in North -Ksrliny,
gave him sort Nv appetite for pople=
applause, and he determined upon try
in it in the North agin. At the Cabi-
net meetin held to discuss the ques-
tion, Seward expressed desire to go /;
/ Welles follered Seward, but Randall,
/ who sence the decesse Nv Sir Isaac
I Newton, is considered the strongest
man connected with the Administra-
!. shen, and therefore assooms dictatorial
airs, opposed it.
But" sed johnson, 81 feel ez tho
l must make wun more effort to save
our erin Southern brethren"
'Mr. President" retorted Randall,
81 recently went to raise corner-stun
to the memry Nv yoor lamented faith
er, who deCeest in 1872, onto wich wuz
engraved these words
Jacob johnson; tchO died from the sJfsr
uv disease supsriadoossd By q Orsr effort TO
saUs his friends from drol0T1iR."
Now if you persist in yoor loonacy,
1 shell be compelled after time, in
my quiet Wisconsin home, where an
appreciative constituency will permit
me forever to stay, to indite an epitaf
for the corner-stun over yoor politikle
grave, shell do thus:
He Jacet, ANDREW JOHNSON.
who died from the effex Nv disease
sooperindoosed by over effort IN a
great many attempts to save his politi-
kle friends from being strangled.
PosKRIP-the friends wuzn't worth
the savin.
"But upon second thot I've no OBJ
jecshun to this tour. Yoo kin do US
no damage eff 700 only deliver sich
/ speeches ez we determine upon before
hand. Yoo go thro Delaware wich is
ourn; Moo Jersey yoo'Ve bin thro wunst
and they know what to expect; Moo
York will give enthusiastic recep-
shen, eff Morrissey and Wood will take
hold Nv it-SeWard telegraph en-
and in Connecticut yoor certain Nv
corel recepshen. That State is full NV
demoralized Yankee Democrats. who
heV bin out to Michigan and left there
all their Puritanism, bringin back
with EN- in its stead all the cussedness
Indigenous to that soil, Wich cussed-
ness grated onto their natral cutenis,
make EN- rather enterpriSin in their
worthlisniss. In Boston itself the pros
pect is good. There'Il be an immense
crowd present to dedicate the Masonic
Temple, Wich we shell claim the credit
Nv bringin, ez we did the throngs wich
come to see US on the toor north, but
wich wood persist in hollerin "Grant?"
The trooly good men Nv Boston are.
Abishnists, but there's some thous-
ands wich want offices, and them, with
a sprinlxlin uv Democrats Gnd conserv-
atIVes, ought to make US 3 handsome
recepshen. There are yet men in Bos-
ton who used to return fugitive slaves,
and there is besides, the eminently re-
spectacle gentlemen who are so con-
servative that that they hold onto sin
becoz its old and established by prece-
dent, and so aristocratic that they
won't do right, jist besoz doing rite is
quite a common thing, in that sec
shen, who hold onto the cote tale Nv
progress and holler ''stopp and who
eff they tie therselEes to good cause
load il down with their dignity. Like |
the I'd Lootenants Nv '6l, their bag /
gage is worth morn they they are. But
the trip wont hurt US Yoo can make |
the Ablishnist more Ablishin, and |
them ez foller US for the loaVes and
and fishes we dispense, wood still fol-
Ter Us, eff the road we took Jed ez strate
to perdishen ez pigeon wood fly. 1t
may be that it's the method by wich
we shell finally carry Moo England
Pope sez:
"Viee is a montser Of such hidjus mein,
That to be hated needs butto be seen."
Now eff we foilered the poet no fur
ther we should never 60, but each one
wood keep ez close to his respective
apartment ez possible. But, KNOWN
mankind, he.goes on: |
But seen too oft. familiar with its face
We first end0or. then pity, then embrace"
That's it. We must be seen too oft.
We must make EN- familiar with your
face. Eff we stay long enuff, don't
despair Nv seein Boston given 700 au
ovashen, and seein 700 locked in the
arms NV Wendell Phillips. Eff they
commence pityin you, the reackshen
will take em to the embracin, and it
seems ez though they ought to be at
that pint by this time. And then Of
yoo make this toor and say nothin
ideotik, the very novelty Nv it will di-
rect attention I.om wat we've desided
to do with Sheridan, Sickles, Pope, ct
al. twill bewilder the people. Il
And it wuz decided to go. Thro {
Delaware the recepshens Wuz all that
we desired, and in Maryland the peo-
pie came in crowds to greet US; tho the
cheers pa-took so much Nv the nacher
Nv the cheerful yells wich the Confed- (
rit soljers employed when they charg- '
ed, that Secretary Stewards nerves wuz
shockt. Ez Philadelphy didn't offer
US the hospitalities Nv the city, we
didn't stop ther at ALL The train run
aTOuDO II, tu6 EfSSlU6nG nose Deeu !
all the time ez tho he smelt &
suthin. When it he'd finally passed,
Mr.. Randall announst the fact, and the j
face assoomed its yoosual {
benine expression ez we. glided into {
the sacred soil Nv Moo Gersey.
In Moo York Morrissy he'd done his
part. Their wuz spectacle bodies Nv {
cheerers at the pints agreed upon and, I
ez they he'd bin paid ibrally, the spon- j
tanoous entosiasm Wuz ez goodin quail {
ty ez it wuz in quantity. Occasionally, j
/ cheer wich he'd taken too much Nv
MS wages in advance, wood yell for T
Jefferson Davis, but it wuzn't notist.- q
Il didn't mar the pleasant uniformity q
Nv the percedins, or strike anybody ez /
Dein singler- They tried terrible hard t
70 get a speech out Nv us, and the q
President wuz willin, but Randall, seen e
hat the Herald and TTi6o0n he'd repor- b
,ers present, suppressed him, and got o
lin of to bed comparatively sober, S
md very early.
Arrivin in Boston, wus surprized at {
he length, and depth Nv the enthoo- a
iasm Wich greeted US, Ez eff to show 81