Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-08

siR- Nasty, IN HUMBLE IMITATION OF
OTHER PERSONS, HAS A CONVERSATION
WITH THE PRESIDENT.


ME- NAsBy, IN HUMBLE IMITATION OF
OTHER PERSONS, HAS A CONVERSATION
WITH THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, d. G., April 6, 1868.
went to Washinton for the perpose
Nv takin advice NV Attorney General
Binkley, ez to whether in the event NV
the impeachment NV the present Presi-
dent l Good be ousted out NV my Post
Offs before the 4th NV March, 1869, when
1T okkurred to me that | shood hev some
conversation with his Eggslency, for the
purpose Nv publishin the same in the pa
pers of Kentucky. Ez l wuz ushered
into the presence, and made known the
fact that / desired to talk with him, he
direktid his secretary to furnish me with
pens and paper, that I might take down
what he sed.
found him calm and hopeful. There
wuz in his eagle eyes suthn NV that de-
terminashen wich hez made him to wunst
the terror NV his friends and the comfort
NV his enemies his firm set lips betoken-
ed the will that wuz behind EN-, and his
nose, like becon lite, cleaned defiance
to the world.
Remark, casually" sed he, " that the
Radikle majority seem determined upon
impeachment.
| did so, when he replied in these
words:
/ "Yes they do And why, l cannot
understand. Never wuz there man
eggsisted in this or any other world who
wantid peace more than l hev l hev
sighed for it, and done everything in my
power for it, but they wood not hev peace.
In the beginnin they talked nv askin me
to resine, becoz Nv the trifiin eggsilera-
shen wuz laborin under on the occasion
NV my inaugerashen, forgettin that wuz
the man, not the vice-president, that wuz
drunk. Then agin, l wanted the resto-
rashen Nv the South accomplished accor-
din to my views Nv wat wuz proper, and
here agin there unreasonableness wuz
made painfully manifest, They Good hev
he'd peece-there wood hev bin no trou-
BILE whatever he'd they yielded to me, and
accepted the policy l had agreed upon.
But they wood not. The entire Congris
NV the Yoonited States, and the entire
people of the so-called loyal States, wick
edly set themselves in opposition to me,
after | he'd solemnly warned EN- Nv the
consekences that must inevitable foller.
They brought it on, and theirs is the
blame. 1t wood be well to ask me here
how about the Memphis and Moo Orleans
massacres, and the Ku klux Klan."
did this, and the President went on.
The unfortunit okkurrences in Mem
phis and Moo Orleans wuz the result NV
the same spirit developed in the people
Nv the South who opposed the confedera-
cy. They knew what / desired. For
the sake Nv peece, to wipe out all traces
Nv the late onpleasantnis, decided that
everything shood be restored ez it wuz
before, ez near ez mite be. My idea wuz
to kiver things up. l he'd promised the
friends NV the lost coz control NV their
own states, and he'd the misguided people
wich he'd stood in opposition to the con-
federacy, yielded this one pint for the
sake Nv harmony, all wood hev bin well.
The process wuz at once simple and SUBJ
lime. In Moo Orleans DIR. Dostic and
his adherents he'd only to turn over the
control NV the city to Mayor Monroe and
Judge Abell, and there wood .hev bin no
massacre. But they wood not They
persisted in infamin NV ther high-spirited
opponents to the pint Nv risin agin EN-,
and the massacre was the result. Wat
else Good they expect? l warned EN- in
time, but alas | wuz not needed.
"In Memphis, too, it wuz similar. The
niggers would persist in hevin skool-
houses and carryin spellin-books about
with EN-, KNOWN that every time they did
it they wuz infamin the Southern heart
and frin the Southern sole. / he'd them
warned, too, but to no purpose. Instid
Nv quietin things down by givin up their
obnoxious pursoots, they persevered and
the result is a part Nv history In the ir-
ritated condishen NV the Southern mind,
smartin ez it wuz under the conshusnis
NV defeat, it Good not be expected that
they shood look on quietly and see mig
ger children in nigger skool-houses, learn
in that wich wood onft EN- from fillin the
posishen NV niggers, ez they understood
it. To the infatooatid people NV the
North, who egged on the niggers NV Mem
phis and Moo Orleans to this attempt to