The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-03-20

The Impsaehmsni Question Meeting at tue
Corners. r ..... r....r
Posr OFYicE, CoNFEpRIr X ROADS,
witch is In the Stait NV Kentucky 7
{" February /, 1868.
Yesterday we received the Louisville pa.
per. and notist into II reports Nv mass
meetins ID Chicago and all over the coun
try favorin impeachment. felt that tho
huntid Presiden, dcnounst and persekootid
as he is, shood at least have sympathy from
one spot-shood at least know that in one
place he had sound and solid friends who
wood stand by him in this tryin periood Nv
his eggistence.
therefore called meetin NV the Cor.
ners, wich wuz held last mite. l okkepied
the chair, and made the speech Nv the Okla
sion, witch l alluz do. | remarkt that
never in the histry nv The Dilnekrutic party
was the clouds lowrin SO fntefully over It
ez now. lsposed it wuza fixed fact that
the President would be impcached and 70.
moved, maxim that hory headed Ben Wade
who is profane persekooter Nv the saints,
President in his stead. Here wuz wat egg.
cited my alarm for the future Nv the Dimoc.
racy. It ainN that Johnson Is agoin ont.
1t ain't that care so very much for him,
but the fact that he will certainly be i'm.
peeched, shows that there is pint beyond
witch offishel patronage cant control. see
afare me nulhin but trouble. II Wade Is
President the CRATE moral question is who
will l,e Postmaster at the Corncrs? will
Deckin Pogram's paper still continyoo tu
pass thru the hands Nv sound Constoosi.
mel Dinekmt or will that skoffsr Pollock
hand it out? Will I be forced tn leve these
sylvan retreat, this haven Of rest, aud agin,
in my old age buffet the cold world? Good
Iieavings! The very ice makes me shud-
der, and that same shlldder will convulse
the entire South.
Wat kun we do Shel the Corners sit
idly by and permit this grnte wrong to 90
unrcl,ooked? Isl Presinent to be desposed
aud his pos,rnRstcrs endangered for no,hin?
! am too full tor further utlerancc.
Cnpt. McPel,er, late Nv the c. s. A., sed
Ic had never felt SO good sence the Fort
Pillar nfiaif. Nv course A. j., wood resist.
and tlcn his sword wood ngin lecp from
his ~ahl'arl. IN the coz Nv SIGH Yoonyun
ez the President wantid, he felt ez tho he
cool 20 calmly to his death. Ills sole wuz
up aud eager for the fray. In SIGH coz,
he Good gather about him ugin all the brave
men he led during the whole Nv the late
war, every one Nv which WIZ alive and in
good health, ccptin ono who he'd died re-
Gently Nv delirum ,remens. lie longcd for
it to begin. He he'd Ablishnists in his
minds eye, which he wood like to go thro
-he knowed Nv safe places to cross into
Ohio and Ingiany, and Nv farms rich in
horses. o for return Nv them days.
Deekin Pogram rcmarkt that so far cz he
WIZ persncly concerned inc he'd no interest
in tho matter. Androo Johnson wuz moth.
in to him, nor WIZ he anything to Androo
johnson, but he wuZ blecyer in constoOsh.
mel liberty. lie wnniid his niggers back
agin. and what hope wuz there Nv that,
with that pcstiferous Ben Wade In A.
Johnson's seat? He shuddercd at tho ice.
With Congress in the hands Nv tho Alb
lisnenisls, with President deeply dyed
with Radicalism, how long wood the little
remnant Nv rites wich Kentucky enjoyed
bc left her? How long wood it be before
we shood be compelled to admit niggers to
ekulty with us? How long wood we hold
even the site control Nv EN- we now hev.
Why, under sich a rool We might expect to
see, some day, the stars and stripes faunt
in the air in the Corners, and hear Yoon-
yum speeches made in front NV Bascombe's.
What chance, he asked, wood ther be Nv
continyooin the struggle agin Congris
Wat earthly liopo Good the first families
hcv NV perpetooatin ther rool None.
Let us arouze! Let US do suthin Let us
cz Kentucky alluz hex done, resolve. He
begged leave to submit the followin:
WAREAs, Androo Johnson, the President
Nv thee Yoonited Stnits, tho not Dino.
krat, is considerably neater thereto tllan
Hen Wade, and
WAREAs. He removed from office, one
Edwin NJ. Stanton, a lloo,ly.mindcd Alb.
lisllnist. thing alluz grateful to the Dino.
krntic heart, and
WAREAs, For this act Of iusiis a Rump
Congris Is at this time engaged in a attempt
to leposo him.
WAsEAs, We. the Dimokrisy Nv Confed.
rit y Roa'ls, feelin \ love for the Yoonynn
burnin britely in our bliEzuins, and feelin.
ulsO, that the sed Yoonyun IL in imminent
danger nv utter and entire destruckshun.
onlcss the operations nv an unholy Congris
il checked, therefore be II
Resolved. Thui we look with alarm up
OIL the arshcn Nv Congris. aimed ut o'lr be.
loved President. AMI do hereby perest agin
sich nck,hen.
Resolved, That va, the Dimocrisy Nv the
corners, feelin the need Nv decision 10 this
crisis, implorc the President to I've decided.
Resolved, Tint we. NV the Corners. re-
spectiully recommend the iininejit arrest Nv
every meml'cr Nv the rump Congris who
votes impeachment, on the ground Nv OPP
posin the execushen Nv the Executive, and,
also, the removal Of Gen. Grant from the
offs he okkepies, and the appintment In his
stead NV SIGH Constooshnel Dimekrut es
Gen. Rosso. r.r...I r.
Resolved, That ez tho Corners 10 in a