The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-27

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| it. He was at CIevea and, at Tndlauapoli
ut and Springfield. IIinoy. He begged to |
excoosed. He didn't keer about ta,lin sic
as kite agin Eff the people Nv the Soul
s. shood receive Us ez corjelIy ez the poop
at Nv the North did, he preferred to cousu
i his tee'ns aud be absent. He WIZ ser
n sitive plant and disliked sum things [
t. his nemry served him rite the demons str;
1t shens coolent be considered ,tL"rin Til
lie people didn't fling dead cats at us, but the
), did wuss Ef they wuz cold they wuz ratl
er too cold. Ef they wnz III volatile III
e NOR they wuz rather too lively. He he
II about made up his mind that it wusu
J, NV any yoose to lite it out on that line
IS it took all summer. Success is dooty
d but when success is ez impossible ez waite
y III the great Sahara, watts the yoose
c Wheietor struggle? Let us 60 slow, dra,
our salaries to the end of our spective terms
b and so live that when the summons come
, to jine the innoomerable caravan that move
e out of Washington to'ards their 'specti,
+ homes we go not like the dusky slave a
mite, watts bet his fill on two pair but sooth
ed and sustained by wat we've saved q
5 like one who's got the wherewithal to live
1t wuz source of comfort to him to know
that the worst NV men wuz soon forgotten
Whoever speaks NV Tyler or Pierce or Blu.
kanan now? Benedict Arnold is only 500
, ken Nv on Fourth Nv Julys and Judis Iska.
riot on Sundays. 1t will be so with us in
time, for witch, thank the Lord.
But 1t wuz determined to go and | wuz
sent to Rawly, to find out where the grav We
Nv the honored father of our houored Presi
!, dent wuz really located, and to make sich
arrangements cz the exigenc IS Nv the case
demanded, which did Ihed difficulty
III lokatin the grave and amt Jest sure that
touud the rite one The people of Rawly
wuz anxious to hev it come off ez trade
wuz dull in the retail line, and fur fear that
| would report that the grave coodent be
found and thus nip their budding hopes,
they gave Inc the choice of some twelve
or fifteen. Selecting the most eligible |
made tile other arrangements and returned
The Excursion contrasted very fdvorahy
with the one we took last fall The people
received us at every stashen with the most
attectln demonstrations Nv love "Johns6n /!
johnson. Johnson!'' thev yelled at each
stoppin place, witch sounded sweeter in his
ears and mine than the da,nuable terashun
Nv Grant! Grant Grant y witch greetd
us at every pint north. The president wuz
sorry he hedu't taken Grant with him to
show him that eff he wuz the most popular
IN some localities, we he'd the harts Nv the
people IN others. But there wuz drawbax
to our enjoyment. No sooner wood the
President commence "Fellow citizens!''-
than Randall wood pull the bell rope and
off the trane would start He wuz deter
mined that he shoodent speak, wich put
! me TO a great deal Nv trouble, ez after we
arrived | he'd to write out and telegraph to
the papers the speeches the President wood
hev made
At Rawly General Battles welcomed the
! Presidenshel party and the President resi-, m
ded He remarked that in RawIy he first
opened his tender eyes, pennless boy.
Here is the scenes Nv his childhood, here is
everything to bind man to his fellow, and
to associate him with that with which he
is associated here is where the tenderness
Nv his heart hez taken holt upon everything
to wich it hez attached itself. But he was
wanderin from his suhjick. His mind went
back to the day he left tuis city penniless
boy. Where is them wch he left behind
him? He begged to inquire, where is the
friends Of Ills childhood ? where is the Hay.
wood's?-
''Kiled at Antietam! ~ SHOUTED returned
Confedrit Il wuz by Wilyum's side wen
he wuz shot"
-''wher is the Hunters ?'--
'Runnin a distiIIery at Waxhal Court
'ouse,' sed this same Teller who thot the
President RELY wanted to know He wuz
choked down, and the President proceeded:
''Wher is the Registers and the Smithses,
the Brownses, aud the Joneses Wher is
the long list Nv men who lived at that day;
who lived here when | wuz penniess boy
and who, like me, command respeck for
coustancy Of oevoshen. l feel proud Nv this
demonstrashen- feel proud of any drnon
strashen. Ez alloosion hez bin made to my
boyhood days. when l wuz penuiless boy,
| may say here, ez pertinent to that subieck
that hev adhered to the Fundamental pru.
cipIes Nv the govment, and TO the flag am
Constooshen. But to return to my subjick
When | went out from among 700 pen
niless boy, | adopted the Coustooshen ez
my guide and 10y them | hev alIuz bin
guided. To the young would say they
WIIl be safe in taking me as a model. Leav
| ~ h'fO = lChhllLoS bOO, ~ ID tibJ lOl me 10
say whether or not hev succeeded / am
am no longer penniiess BOY, nor is them
wich is round me Mrs. Cobb ANT Il pen
niless boy, nor is, but this is wandcriu
from the subjlck, For the encouragement
Nv the young men afore me- [ wood say
that hev enjoyed all care about. | am
no aspiraut for nothin, and therefore the
way now open for 'em. All places NV
honor is now before EN- ! thank you for
this corjel welcum North Caroliny sent
me out penniless boy, and did not afford
me sicb advantages ~, cousiaeriu my mer
ITS, ought to hev he'd, yet love Ter, Its
better ez 1t wuz Com out II pennIess boy,
and returnln after hodin every Oils, from
Alderman Nv my adopted village up to
President, shows my qualities to much bel
| ter advantage than ef hedn't gone out "a
penniess boy. | thank you for tins tribut.
to my many good qualities
And be startid to git down wnen Randall
whispered suthin in his left ear.
Risin promptly. and DRAWN out bis han
kercher, the President assoomed look Nv
subdood grief and resoomed:
81 hev come among 700 to participate III
the dedicasheu Nv monument to man
witch 700 all loved, though it has taken
suthin like fifty years for 700 to dIskiver 1t.
j lie wuZ poor and humble, Wlch akkoUnts
for my goin from among yo0 pennIiess
boy, but Nv him am proud, for he'd 1t not
bin for him, wooden't hev returned the
shinin example to yoor young men WITCH
am"
The corner stun was laid, aud the monu-
meut set on it. 1t is NV red limestone, ten
, foot high. It's ez good ten foot Nv stun
respeck ez there is ia North CarIiny, IL
the monument wuz elevated there wuz the
appropriate speeches and then my Iit,Ie
arrangements cum in. A Niger woman bee
took with us from Washington cum fora
and sed: Dress de Lord, za bin walun
for dis day to see de President our Presl
dent p at which squad Of niggers
} picked up and drilled hoIlered 'Kor =
This little affectiu sceen over, two quad
rooms. witch I'G also b. / with Us III phi