Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-09

load to carry, and in the balance the
Johnson men found the Dimocracy too
heavy load to carry. s-rs .,t-f
In Ohio, the first place I stopped at
wuz Oberlin, the place where the nigger
college is located at. / regret to say
that the postmaster at that pint is
rantin Ablishnist, and the two hours I
wuz there coodn't find Conservative
Republican who wood take it. | got
one nearly persuaded, but jist ez he wuz
about to consent, his wife fell weepin
onto his buzzum, and with tetchin pathos
wanted to know eff he wuz willin, for
sich small pay, to leave sich tarnisht
name to the four children now born to
EN- and to the wun witch wuz expected
He repented and refused. didn't in
vestigate ez full ez l might, for ther amt
a drop Nv Ticker sold .her, and cz my
flask give out, I felt doc consideration
for my helth woodnt permit my stayin
another hour recommend the aboli-
tion Nv the office, or the establishment
NV a grocery, with bar in the back
room, ez necleus around with the Di-
mocrisy kin rally. adf -.
The next place | cum to found the
| Postmaster suspishus character-very
suspishus. Whenever he is drunk he
speaks very highly Nv the Secretary Nv
State, but when he is sober he avoids po-
litikle matters. I sejest raise in the
salary Nv the offs, that he kin afford to
keep drunk all the time.
At the next pint | interdoost myself
ez a English nobleman in disguise, study
in Amerikin manners and customs, and
menshund carelessly that | he'd BIN to
Washinton, and he'd bin presentid to the
| President and Sekretary Nv State. The
Postmaster wi1z visibly effected Glanc-
in fartively around to see that no wun
wuz lookin, he remarked in low tone:
''My dear sir, don't don't | beg Nv yoo,
form yoor idea NV the public men NV
Ameriky from them specimens. Don't
| beg. The first sir, is a accident-slch
a man never wuz made on purpose. The.
second wuz suthin, in his earlier
years, but sir, now-he's degra-
ded old man." and he busted into tears.
''Ben determined to hold onto his place,
he tried at fust to bring the President,
by accident, up to his level, but that
bein impossible, he deliberately let his
self down to the level Nv the President,
and the distance, sir, wuz SO great, the
Secretary bein suthin, that the shock,
sir undoubtly knockt his INTEL C, oUt NV
him, for he amt displayed any since. He
literally fell among thieves. May the
Lord forgive WLLYUM I'll. SEWARD for
the shipreck he made NV his reputashen,
for"
At this pint the poor man stopt. /
happened to pull out my handkerchief
and in doin SO dropt upon the floor
piece Nv paper which he seed: 1t read:
"PETRoLEUN V NAsBY, Dr."
To G.. Bascomb.
E,To drinks doorin the month NV
January at 10 cents per drink. !. {. $4,000
He looked at my face snd seein that
bill reely b'longed to me, fell family
onto the floor, shreekin "I'm Nc Cracken
ed"
leave the case in the hands NV the
Cabinet. Its aggravatin. r
Another man openly defed me- He
wanted me to take the office off NV his
hands His children wuz made mouths
at and skoofed at, at skool becoz their
father, wich he'd bin Republican, held
Federal office, and his wife wuz defeat
ed for President NV the SEWN Society,
position she he'd allure held on the same
account. He he'd stood it long cnuff. Ef
he coodent Git it off his hands he'd COM
nit soicide, and thus putin hisself out
NV the way make his abused family the
only reparashen III his power I sejest
that he may be removed; sich talk may
be saftly set down ez incendiary.
Another he'd the highest possible opin-
ion nv the President, and worshipped
the Secretary. He considered his plan
NV reconstruction the best wich Good hev
bin devised by mortal wisdom. lie he'd
vainly strived to get nominashen for an
offs from the Republican parties for
years, but failed for lack. Nv confidence.
He wood hev jined the Dimocracy, but
ez they wuz hopeless in the minority, it
woodent hev helped him. He consider
ed Johnson's moshen fillin the officis with
Republican bully, thcr be SO few Nv that
persuasion who'd take EN- and he didn't
want any accessians to the party. There
wuz list enuff to hold the ofisis in the
| control NV the President, and them wuz
all the otfsis they Good git anyhow. |
sejest that he be continyood. He isn't
discreet, but we can't expect all the vir-
choos at SO small a price. None NV us
is perfeck-I spose hev my failins..
/ shell continyoo my investigashens,
tho it is dreadful tryin labor. Coin ez
l do, thro Abolition sections, | hey to
carry my own whisky, and ez sad ex-
pcrience hez demonstrated quart TASKS
won't do. Sometimes | hev to lay in
one of them towns for three hours. l
respectfully submit, that arrangements be
made for the transportashen NV keg NV
sustenance to. accompany me, otherwise,
I shell peremptoriIy resine. At my time
Nv life regeler supplies is necessary:
1''i ''1.1 PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY, z. III.
Cichis Postrnaster and likewise Professor Of Bblike
Politieks in the Southern Classkle and Military In
stitoot fl1.,' ia. ~ -.
= Men Of Genius.
Tasso's conversation was neither gay
nor brilliant. Dante was either taclturn