The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-03-12
NASBY.
The Impeachment Question at
the Corners.

the Corners.
From the Toledo Blade.
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFDRIT K ROADS,
| (Wich isin the State NV kentucky
February %, 1868. J
| Yesterday we received the Loois
vile paper, and I notist into it re
lports of mass mcetins in Chicago
and all over the country favorin i'm
peachment. l felt that the huntid
President denounst and persekooted
ez he is, shood at least hev sympathy
from one spot-shood at least know
that in one place lie he'd sound and
solid friends, who wood stand by him
in his tryin periood NV his eggsist.
ence.
| l therefore called q meetin NV the
Corners, witch wux held last mite.
okkepied the chair, and made the
speech NV the okkasion, wich / alluz
do. I remarkt that never, in the his.
try nv the democratic party, wus the
clouds lowrin so fritef6lly over it ez
now. I sposed it wux fixed fact
that the President would be impeach-
ed and removed, making that hory
headed Ben Wade, who is q profane
persekooter of the saints, President
IN his stead. Here wuz wat eggsit-
ed my alarm for the future Of the
Dimorcracy. It aint that johnson
is agoin out, 1t aint that I care so
very much for him, but the fact he
will certainly be impeached, shows
that there is pint beyond wich Of.
fishel patronage can't control. / see
afore me nothing but trouble. If
Wade is President the CRATE moral
question is, who will be Postmaster
nv the Corners? Will Deekin Po-
grams paper still continue to pass
thru the hands Of . sound ConstoOsh-
mel Democrat. or will that skor-
fer Pollock hand it out? VIII / be
forced tn leave this sylvan retreat,
this haven of rest, and again: in my
old. age, buffet the COLI, world? The
very ice makes me shudder, and that
same shudder will convulse the entire
South.
What ken we do? Shell the Cor
ners sit idly by and permit this crate
wrong to 60 unrebooked? Is Presl-
dent to be deposed and his Postmas-
tcrs endangered for nothin? / am too
full for further utterance.
Captain McP Pelter, late ofthe C. s.
A., said he had never felt go good
since the Fort Piller affair. Nv
course A. ]. wood resist, and then
his sword would again leap from its
scabbard. In the coz NV sich Yoon-
yum ez the President wantid, he felt
ez tho he Good go calmly to his death.
His sole wuz up and eager for the
fray. In sich a coz, he Good gather
about him agin all the brave men he
led doorin the whole NV the late war.
every one NV which wuz alive and in
good health ceptin one who he'd died
recently Of delirium tremens. He
longed for it to begin. He he'd
Ablishnists in his minds eye which
he would like to 60 thlo-he knowd
Nv saf places to cross into Ohio and
Ingiany, and nv farms r1chin horses.
0 for return Nv them days.
Deekin Pogram remarkt that so
far ez he wux persnelly concerned,
he he'd no interest in the matter
Androo johnson wuz nothin to him,
nor wuz he anything to Androo
johnson, but he wuz q bleever in
constooshnei liberty. He wantid his
niggers back agin, and wat hope wuz
there nv that with that pestifeous
Ben Wade in A Johnson's seat? He
shuddered at the ice. With q Con
gress in the hands NV the ablishnists,
with president deeply dyed with
radikalism, how long wood the little
remnant Nv rights wich Kentucky
enjoyed be left her ? How long
wood it be pefore we should be cons
PEELED to admit niggers to q ekal.
ity with us? How long wood we
hold even the site control NV EN- we
now hev. Why, under sich rool we
mite expect tosee, some day, the stars
and stripes faunt in the dir in the
Corners, and hear Yoonyun speeches
made in front NV Bascom's. What
chance, he asked, wood ther be NV
continyooin the struggle agin Con-
gress What earthly hope Good the
first families hev nv perpetooating
their rool? None. Let US arouse
Let us do suthin Let us, ez Ken
lucky alluz hez done, resolve. He
begged leave to submit the followin
| WHEREAS, Andrew johnson, the
President NV the Yoonited States,
tho not . Dimekrat, is considerably
neerer thereto than Ben Wade, and
| WHEREAS, He removed from offs
one Edwin M. Stanton, q bloody.
minded Ablishnist, q thing alluz CRATE.
full to the Dimekratic heart, and
WHEREAS, For this act of justis q
rump Congris is at this time engaged
in a attempt to dispose him.
| WHEREAS, We, the Dimocrisy NV
Confedrit x Roads, feelin . love fo1
the Yoonion barnin britely in our
buzzums, and feelin, also, that the
sed Yoonion is ia imminet danger ol
utter and entire destruckshen, onlese
the operashens Nv . nnholy Congris
| is checked, therefore. be it
Resolved, That we look with alarm
upon the ackshen Of Congris, aimed
| at our beloved President, and do here
by pertest agin such ackshin.
| Resolced, That we, the Dimocrisy
NV the Corners, feelin the need Nv
decision in this crisis, implore the
President to be decided.
Resolued, That we, Nv the Corners
respectfully recommend the immejit
arrest NV every member NV the rumr
Congris who votes for impeachment
on the ground Nv opposin the execu
shen NV the will nv the Executive
and also the removal Of Gen. Grant
from the otis he okkepies, and thu
appointment in his sted NV such :
c0nstooshnel Dimekrat ex Gen. R0sso
Resolved, That ex the Corners is il
astate NV continuooal feverish anxiety
to know the intenshuns nv his Eggs
lency, we recommend the holding u,
Conversations with the correspondent
nv the New York Herald regularly
At least once per day, till tho crisi'
hez passed.
RSs0lued, That if need be, to pre-
vent the power nv the Government
from parsin entirely into the hand
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