The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-02
Established A 1S4s.
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i hcOy uHu ilkcWlSc inc OeUlL.
J Sed Randall: aThat cuss bore
mo for better nor year for the az
pointrlent, but the SENT won't cor
firm him. Oh, Wade, wat haven
yoo to undergo! Oh, johnson, fron
what hev 700 escaped"
A prominent Eastern Democra
wrote ez follows:
"Defy Congress, and let en- i'm
peech yoo. fthey shood hist yoo
all the better 1t will be an immens
help toward the eleckshun of McClel
Ian. Think how much yoo kin d,
for the coz in this way, and stant
firm. Visit Hartford on yoor wa,
to Tennessee"
A Western Democrat wrote as fol
lows:
We all applaud yoor courage ant
resolution. Let tho Rump impeecl
and remove yoo, and it makes Ger.
tain the triumph Nv Pendleton.--
Stand by yoor colors. Yoor impeach
ment is our hope. Shell we see yot
at Cincinnati on yoor way to Tenn
esssee ~
A Southern Democrat wrote as 70
lows:
Be firm be firml The impeech
ment NV yoorself will raise sich 8
stoom nv Indignation in the North
and sich sympathy fur Souther Dim
ocrats ez to make the nomination nv
even SIGH man ez Breckenridge Ger
tain. O! stand firm! Let EN- i'm
peech yoo. Yoo are now NV vas,
yoose to the coz! I will meet VOC
at Louisville, and accompany you tc
Tennessee"
Mcclellan Pendleton! Beecken
ridge!" shouted the President
"what NV me-? Am / to bleed solely
fur their good? l don't want to &c
to Tennessee, nor I won't. Am / tc
60 out impeeched fur their benefit I
Never r."
And Andrew who isn't quite SO
much of a philosopher as Sokratces
buted into teers, swearin that he'd
see ON blessed afore he'd see EN- sac
rifce a minut NV his term for any.
body's yoose but his own.
The next was an Assessor from in
Illinoy who went on to remark that
he wood be glad TO support him, but
a decent regard for the interests ol
his family indicated a different
course. He he'd espoused the coz Nv
the President agin Congriss for the
sake NV the position, and the Presi-
dent Good we'll understand that il
wuz no more difficult to change now
to keep offs than it wuz to change
two years ago to get one. He wua
at this time bizzily engaged in sup
portin Congriss. "Call it not ingrat
itoood,'. said he, ~ wuz in the. mar
ket then, and am now, precisely ez
wuz all them which yoo led captive
out ny tho Republican party. He is
a eggregish ass, whosworships the
settin sun, when by turnin around he
FL" .sing i.-...oiie4 :
AT CnlS pint, ~
afflicted President had
these blows, Giddy Wells nor, = s
who he'd bin out on scout, returned
with a report. Fust he he'd noticed
that every darned one Nv the cusses
who he'd bin besecgin the White
House for appointments for months
past wuz now dogging Senator Wade
around, that they waited in doors, al
the door Of the SENT Chamber, and
that they beseiged his hotel. Sec.
ondly, that the Constooosenel Yoon
yum Club wuZ then in session, and
wuz debatin the question whether to
change name Of the club to the 'Ekal
Rites Assosiashen," the Impartial
Suffrage League" or the " Radical
Brotherhood" Third that the con
servative clerks in the departments
wuz all organizing themselves in
Grant add Wade Clubs, and that al
ready one NV the Department Clubs
had ordered four thousan Grant med
ais, turnin in the old johnson med
ais they he'd bin wearin as part pay
"Good Heavens! said His Eggs.
lency.
"Wat else Good you expect?" re-
torted Randall, 1--WE bot EN- cheer
and they are cheep men. | may d.
the same thing afore mite. The ex
pertinent of buyin up party at 81
much he'd hez bin tried afore, ant
hez alluz failed afore, very much like
the ice Nv perpetooal moshen. Yot
can git considerable enthoosiasm e,
long ez your provender holds out
but then. The fact is 700 didn't ge
no Republicans worth hevin, ant
700 coodent carry enuff NV them Re
publikens over to do EN- any good
My dear sir, yoor in a tite place.
We're retired physicians whose sand
NV life hev neerly run opt. SCI
afore me long vista NV privit life
I sold myself ruther cheep, but don
complain. l hev about filled th,
measure of my ambishen-peopl
forget in few years, and ef the,
didn't the Amerikin people won't b
crooel enuff to hold my children re.
sponsible for wat / hev done. Som
nv em-I hev keerfally KEEP em ava,
from Washington for neerly thre
years-may yet redeem the name u
Randall, even ez worthy men by tn
name Nv Arnold hev managed to liv
and be respected-their virchoo
more than ballancin the unfortuni
name they was Gust with. But A
Johnson yoor time is short The re
publicans is furious, and the demot
risy he'd ruther see it than not.
too, will. visit 700 in yoor retiremen
in Tennessee"
More goyA. Johnsonin his eggsil
feels,
Then fore the Senit's got him b
the heels"
| BY the time he was done talkins
the balance nv em he'd all left th
room, and when he wuz done he wen
too, leavin no ono but me. Th
scene was affectin. Droppin bis no
onto my buzzum, tho scaldin teers
runnin down his cheeks, he exclail
ed in holler voice: "One by OF
they 60, Mrs Cobb first, and the bs
lance Immediately after. Oh, wat
world is this!''
l draw the curtain over his grie
! may have to fnancier somewh,
to hold my place, but alluz respec
manly emoshens.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY, p. II.
(Wich IN pnstm aatara