The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-08-20

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4 CONSULTATION AT rlIE CORNERS FOLLOW
I'D ~ DREAM, ~ WHICH GENERAL GRANT
AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS ARE MIXED, WITH
NO REGARD WHATEVER ron TIAE, PLACE, on
FITNESS.
PosT 0FfIs, CoNFRpHIT y RoAps,
Wich is in the Stait nv Kentucky
August, /, 1867.
Last mite ther wuz eOnvocashen NV
the saints connected with the mstitoot,
(uv wich Deekin Pogram is the cheeiesi
and loyeliest among ten thousand to
take sweet counsel together onto sevral
matters connected with the institooshen
NV learnin, the success nv wieh is SO
dear TO all nv us. The cpnyersashen
happenin to tnrn upon the conferrin NV
honrary degrees, Deekin Pogram sed that
he he'd a suggestion TO make. lie he'd
notist that all the leadin colleges NV the
country he'd practis nv conferrin titles
sich ez, M d., "A D., "a L. D., I,
and sich onto distinguished men, tho be
wuz free to say that he didn't know wat
in thunder they meant, or wat they wuz
good for. But he had notist in moose
paper that no college he'd yet conferred
any sich onto Androo Johnson. Con-
sidelin it burnin shame, he would Sc
Jest that ez a rebook to the hide-boand
lnstooshens nv the North, that this col
lege do to-wunst confer all uy EN-, and ez
many more ez there is, onto Mr. john
son. Bascom remakt that be didn {
know whether the President would feel
compimentid "Yoo know, Deekin, sed
he, "that this amt mneh NV college y
"Troo, sed the blessed old peece NV
innosence, "troo, troo, but then, to bal
ance that, johnson amt much NV Pres
ldent, yoo know
And so the honrary degrees wuz CON
ferred, and notls thereof wuz sent hira
lmmejltly
From this the question NV the next
nominee NV the party for President came
up. Bascom, who isn't far seein man,
asserted that ii wood be necessary to
nominate Grant. The Deekin remarlSt
that he tho't it wood be safe bat Nc
lsaelfo4 tho's different IIa didn't be-
lieye IN the first place that it become a
Peace party, or at least party wich, ef
it dipped its hands in gore at all did it
mostly III Northern gore, to take Rp a
Northern General wieh had dun his
best towards sendin many thousands Of
Southners to their long homes, and be-
sides the General Won d t Jake It.
Bascom wanted to know wat the con-
ferance at Long Branch meant Ef
General Grant waz in the control uv
Weed, Raymon and the Moo York Her
aid, wich was ekal TO the World, the
Flesh and the Devil, he felt that he had
trooly found the broad Macadamized
road to Dimocrisy. He begun to hey
hopes Nv him. Various opslaons wuz
expressed by various persons, when,
without comm to any conclusion, we
separated. Iretired that mite earlier
than usual, and my inind dwellin CA tbs
chances NV my continun in offs in case
NV Grant S accession, / fell into a troubl-
ed sleep and dreamed dream.
Methawt gathered In front nv the
White House wuz gallant array NV
our friends. There wuz Franklin Peerce
and Bookanon, and Vallandigum, aud
the Woods and Magotiin, and Monroe
and Brite, and Breckenridge and the
leaders of the Dimocrisy, all standin
there looking wishfally at the White
House, and wondering how and by wat
means they Good git in. johnson, bles-
ings on his head, stood onto the porti-
co wavin for them TO come, but alass !
guardin the passage st.od mighty
host nv Abllshtists. armed aud clad IN
armor, AID IN such ioree sZ 10 make the
stormin Nv it hopelis
How shel We git in Z" sighed Bel
mont.
"Ah, indeed, how ?" answered Henry
Clay Dean.
That's the great moral question
how" echoed Ben Wood.
my friends !" sed Thurlow Weed
its easy enuif. When yoo cant sore
hike the eagal, crawl like the snake.--
Sorein is preferable, bnt crawlin will do
in pinch. Is ther not the Lion of the
RepubiicY Can't 700 git him out and
mount him The Abllscnists hey /. re-
gard for that same Lion, and viii dis
charge ther arrers at yoo when yoor on
his back. for fear ay klliin him. Besides
yoor ridin him viii IN some degree do
away with the preloodis they hey agin
yoo.
'But how kin We mount him n sald
they.
''Trust us for that 2" Wood, and him.
They got the Lion ont, but ez soon
ez be cast his eyes onto the crowd be
uttered roar Rich struck terror into
ther soles, and dashed the ground with
his tial, and cast up dust with has claws
IN a manner fearful d behold
Hell never stasd il sed Weed,
'onless he's blind-f3jdrd. aad Thnrlo
wrapped Raymond hike vet dIsh-Eag
over his eyes, aad that done. bin, aud
Randall pared bis ns..ls aDd plunted his
teeth, ~ that Il tne b4udage shood
nriggle of and he should sse xher he
wnz be coodent huFf Anybody, aud
shaved his name, tlli hs looked like
very innocent Lion indeed, 80 that bis
appearance wo0dent startle them not
used 70 his hareenis, and this eondsshn
the led Mm very quietly down b the
crowd aud give the word 70 mount
Lord wat a scramble Their wuz