Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-01
WASHINGTON. April 14th. 1867.

W AoltlNNAPN- y ifiit flii> It'i
It's done, Seward did it-him and me
The Amerikin Eagle hez coz now to scream
with redoubled energy. Ef the Nashnel
bird wuz angel. shood remark to it,
Toon yoor harp anoo, but it amt, there
fore. such rekest wood be ridiculous.
This rhapsody hez reference to the Rooshen
purchis.
The idea originated in this massive in
telleck. When | wuz here afore the Blairs,
all of en-. wuz crowdin the Sainted John
son for 4 mishun; Cowan wanted mish-
un, and 50 did Doolittle, and that day pretty
much all NV the delegates to the Cleveland
and Philadelphy Conversions he'd bin there
wantin some kind NV Il place; wat they
wuznt pertickler One gentleman whose
nose (wich trooly blossomed ez the lobster)
betokened long service in the party, urged
that he he'd bin a delegate to both Conven-
shens. Thank God, sed johnson.
Wood that them Conversions he'd been
made up wv the same men. | wood then
hey been bored for places only half ez much
ez | hev.'
wuz a helpin him out in my weak way
When the crowd wantin places become toe
! great IOI lilIildl tiItAbOidIiC NOuil NstN
in a modrit tone, = let's 90 out and git suth-
in" and to-wun~t fully half wood exclaim
:. Thank VOC, | don't keer cf | do" 1t wu2
great relief to johnson, but wuz pizen tC
me- With the most of EN-, the gittin OF
/ offiseS and free drinks wuz about an ekal
thing. The offises they wanted wuz merely
the means to that pertiklcr end, and so long
ez they wuz gettin the latter without the
/ trouble Nv the former, they wuz content
\ good constitooshen and copper lined
stumick carried me thro this tryin ordeel
until | came across Il Boston applicant
! who, in conscience NV the perhibitory law
/ he'd bin for some time ON short rashens
and wuz keen set. Napoleon he'd then met
his Wellington, and | succumbed. The
mans talent WIZ wonderful.
Seckretary Seward wuz in trouble about
the Blair family, pertickerly He he'd APP
pointed en- to Collekterships and furrir
mishuns, but the crooel Senit, which heC
no respeck for us, took delite in fastening
NV en- onto us by perpetooally rejectin EN-
Jest after long seige by Montgomery an6
the old man, [ seiested the purchis NV the
Rooshcn Territory, to wich not only they
Good be sent, but a thousand NV others wicf
we he'd on our hands. and the Sekertary
wuz so pleased at the idea that he wept like
child With a vigger wonderful in one
so old he set about gettin testimonials el
to the valyoo Nv the territory, to inhOoenct
the SENT i'll ratityin the treaty he WI,
agoin to make. And he wrote to a nava
offiser about it, who answered more prompt
ly than | ever knowd a naval offiser to do
ez follows
It's trooly a splendid country. The
trade in the skins NV white bears kin be, ei
developed, made enormous. There Is seals
there. and walruses so tame that they come
up NV their own akkord to be ketched
p. SIN case the purchis shood be
made a naval stashen will be necessary
May | hope that my long services on the
ommendashen for the command NV the de-
pot? May [?
4 hev the honor to be-" &c.
\ distinguished perfessor wrote:
The climate is about the style Nv that
they hev in Washinton. The Gulf Stream
sweeps up the coast, causin decided twist
in the isothermal line, wich hez the effect
NV maxim it ruther sultry than otherwise
Anywheres for six hundred miles back Nv
the coast, strawberrys grow in the open
air. | recommend strongly the purchis.
"P. SIN case the purchis is made, &
explorin expedishen will be necessary
May | hope that my scientiffik attainment
are suffishently well known to 700 to rec
ommend me as proper person to head the
expedishen May /?
Il hev the honor to be-" ct settry.
The President wuzn't favorablv inclined
He wuz full NV the old fogy idea that i
wuz rather chilly there than otherwise. HI