Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-06-25
From the Toledo Blade !
MASSEY.
A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF TDz TRIP TO RAIeIdB,
INCLUDING THE DISCUSSION BFPoRE THE START

IEeuupINa THE DISCUSSION BFVoRE THE START.
Posi- OFFICE, CosElDPlr X RoAps
lWich IS in the st"it Nv Kentucky, I
June 10, 1867.
accompanied tue President to Rawly. The
President doesn't feel safe at goin anywhere
without mo to alfOnge the details and do the |
nice iinanceerin wich is necessary
Tho Rawly trip wrg the okkasion NV seiious
trouble in the Cabinet. The President WV in
favor of it, Ez he sed, he wuz essenshelly Nv
6llial persuasion He he'd a''uz experienced o
most consoomin love for his parents, perlkelerly
for them on his fathers side. He had swung
arorYd the entire circle w ofiishel honor, ana
he'd found traitors OH oil sides, but he Good lay
his hand on his heart and say that he he'd never
knoWd troo man but who, at some period Nv
bis life, he'd n father. Nny, then, shood We not
honor our fathers? How Good il be better dun
TIM. by lawn corner stuns His father deceest
in 1872, and it wuz time that this dooty was at
tended to. Besides, at this crisis in the analrs
nv the country, with Wilson and Kelly snortin
through the South, he felt it wood be goou
thing to show ourselves.
= Seward felt that it WIZ we'll to go. Filhal
love was charmin. Shakspeer, who wuz ez just
" celebrated ez a dramatst ez one he Good men
sbun Ncz for diplomatic telcgratiiu, remarkt
elbow shopper nor q serpents tooth it " to he'
a tbaukless child" the truth Nv wich he he'd ex'
perenced, ez he he'd bin styled the father Nv I'M
Republican party, but that WIZ not to the pint
II ia The dooty Nv every son 10 lay corner-stuns
e. In this case it wood perhaps, hev bin NOR
~ crcditable he'd il blu done fifty years ago, bu
N wat difference is itf Itis natral ez we arc abou
boin gathered to orr fathers that we shood re
membor en-. Besides, he he'd little speec
yicb he felt he'd like to deliver. lie wan'ld
I'M hear testimony TO the patriotism Nv the son
jacob johnson; pavticklerly to our coiofe
brethren in North Carl'ny, who hev bin listenii
to Kelley and Wilson.
Randall DIDN'T bleeve in it OF oil. lie mat
hold 10 soy that as the deceast johnson hed SIC
without corner-stuu for ffty-fve years. he
ns manage to git along a while longer. II WI
rather late in the day. lie bleeved IN leei
sorroWful over the decease NV our relatives
he didn't 90 much on doin it lifty-fve years af'
y, date. twuz too much like Dustin INTO 'e'
An, over the suiIrins NV tho last illness Nv yer u
ma wifes great grandmother. The speecheS
,,;,ln,t beeye in ut oil. lie he'd seen some Nv
be he'd accompanied one toor Nv the XII
lie he'd bin on it. He wuz at Cleveland AT
xpe dianapolis, and Springfield, IllinOy. He begl
IN be excoosed lie didn't keer about 'a
=, sieb kite apin. Ef the people NV the SO
-; shood receive us ea corjelly ez the people Nv
,ated Nortb did he preferred to consult his Zee
ip''S and bo absent. He wuz a sensitive plant
- disliked sum things. Eff his memry served
.;,o the demopstrashens cooden't be consid'
aa,terip. The people didn't fling dead cats
us, but they did wuss. IF they Wuz coiu
wuz rather too cold. IF they Wuz IN Vol
bumer they wuz ruther too lively lie hea
nodo nm his mind that ii wasn't Nv any yoos
,,a,., s,o II mt on that line ef IL took all sum
their Success is dooty, but when success Is e'
nossible ez water in the crate Sahara, w@tl
alree' voose? wherefor struggle? Let us go
trov our salaries to the end NV our spe
-, ,arD,s and so live that when the summons Q
10 line the inoOmerable caravan that move
- nv Washington to'ards ther 'spective home
m not like the dusky slave at mite, watts d
all on two pair, but sOOthed aud 'sustalne
wat we've saved, go like one who's got the v
,sithal to live. 1t wuz q source NV comt'
him to know that the worst Nv men VIZ
iT' forgotten. Whoever speeks NV Tyler or p
or BukanOn, now Benedict Arnold is
snOken Nv on Forth Nv Julys, and Judis
I'd. ia riot on Sundays. 1t will be so with us IN
for wich thank the Lord.
But wuz determined to go, and WI
! NsIt r.. n Rawley to find out where the grave
.smos honored father Nv our hOnored Presiden
= PRO, reeIy locatid, and to make sich other ar
ling part mspts as the exigencies Nv the case dem
rents for wcb did he'd difficulty in locatin the
street. and amt jest shOOr that found the ri
DAN ON The people of Rawley wus anxious to
., $1,000 come of, as trade was dull in the reta
'n'nE and for fear that l would report that th
,o2 cOodent be found, and thus nip their