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The Ifapeac hment 0uestf0n AZ the
Corners.
Written for the Toledsplade.]
posr opFls, CoyFEDERlTX ROADS,
{sich is in the Stait w Kentucky.
February y, 1863. J
Yesterday we received the Louisville paper
and notsst into il reports Of mass meetins IN
Chicago and all over the country favorln in,-
ueachrpnt. ! felt that the huhtid President
,enounst aud persek Dotted ez bic is, shood at
least hey sympathy from one spot-shood at
lra.t know that in one place he he'd sound
and solid friends, who wood stand by him in
his irwin perlaoa CIV his eggsistenee-
therefore called msetin ny the formers
wich @uz held last mite. okkepied the
chair and made the speech nv the okkasion,
wich aluz do ! remarki that never, IN
the history Nv the democratic party, wuz the
cloud loarin so fritefaliy over it ez now.
sposed il wn2 Fixed fact that the President
ouId le ,mpesched and removed, making
that hory headed Ben Wade, who Is pro-
fame l,erse kootsr OF The satGts. President IN
| his stead Here woz wat eggsslea my alarm
| for the future of the dinlocraey4 r. ANT naf
johnson is agoin out IL amt that care so
very much for him, but the fact he viii cen
tsiniy he ,mpeached, shows tia. there
oilt beyond wich olfishel p t. ohage cant q
troll soc afore me pothiH bHt trouble Il
Wade i President, the CRATE moral question
Is. vic gjll be Postmaster Nv the Cornersy
VIII iseea.n Pogram paper still continue 10
pass ihfa the hands w SOUND Constooshnel
Demacra, or will thai ssofer Pollock hand
il ont? vii I be forced tn leave tbs sslTsn
retreat, this haven Of rest, and again, IN ny
old rye. buffet the cold world The very
| ice makes me ahadder, and thai same shad
der will convuise the entire south.
| What ken we dor Shell the Corners SIT
idly By and permit this CRATE wrong 10 go I'M
| rebookedp Ii President TO be deposed and
| his PosinIasters endangered for nothin?
am too full for further usteranae.
Captain McPeiter, late of the G. S. 4
! said lie had never felt so good since the For:
pilier affair iIy course A. j. wood resist,
and then bis sword would sgain leap from its
| scabbard In the cog nv SIGH . foonynn e.
The President waatid. be felt ez tho b. paed
go calmly TO his death. Hia sole wuz up and
eager for the fray. In SIGH coz, he Good
gather about him agin all the brave men he
led doorin the whole Nv the late war. every
one uy vliAb wuz alive and in good health
ceptin one Who he'd died recently OF delirum
tremens lie louged for It 70 begin. lie he'd
6DtlEu0iS4s III DIS HIM Egg Sbf$S az "SitA
like 10 90 tbre-he knowd w s2f places 20
cross into Ohio and Ingiany, aud ~ fsrm.
rich IN i.orses O for return Nv them days
Deekin Pogram remarkt that so far ez
be uz persnelly concerned. he he'd no inter-
es, in the matter. Androo johnson wnz moth
in to him. nor wuz he anything to Androo
johnson. bnt he WIZ bleever III constoosh-
mel l,befty De wantid his niggers back agin,
and vat hope WIZ there nv that with that pes
tifetus Ben Wade in L johnson's seal? He
shuddered al the ice. With Congress IN
the hands ny the abliahnists, with a psfs,'
dent deeply dyed with radikalism how long
wood the little remnant nv rights wieh Ken
| tncl enjoyed be left her? How long wood II
| be pefofe re sbood be compelled to admit
| nigg. rs 10 II ekality with us? How long wood
we hold even the site control NV em we nov
| heyz u iy, under sieh reol We mite expect
| TO see. some day, the stars and stripes tann
| in the air in the Corners, and hear ioonyur
| spet rhes made in front NV Baseo MS. What
| chance. he asked, wood ther be w eontin
yooln the struggle agin Congress? What earth
| " hope Good the FIRST fsmilies hev Nv perpet
coating their rool? None. Let US arouse!
| Let lis do suthin. Let US, ez Kentucky ailu,
hez done. resolve. lie begged leave to sub
nit the fos.o~ia:
WHEREAS. Andrew johnson. the President
Nv The Yeouited States, tho not Uimekrat
is considerably nserer thereto than Der
| Wade: ard
WHteEAa, He Femosed from offs one Ed
win Ii Stanton. bloody minded Aoishnist
q thing ailaz grateful 10 the Dimekraiic heart
and
Whereas. For this act of jnstis a RUM
Coneiisis ct shis time engaged in q attemp
to dispose him
WHEREAS, We, the Dimocrisy uv Confedri
Y Roads, feeling a love for the Yoonion bur
min bfitely in our buzzums, and feeip, also
that the sed Yoonion is in imminent DANCE
w utter and entire destrucashen, onless III
opersshens Nv nnholy Congris is checked
therefore belt
Resoired, That we look with alarm npol
the aekshen of Congris, aimed at onr be
loved President. and do hereby pertest asll
such ackshen.
Resoirsd. That we, the Dimocrisy nv III,
Corners, feelin the need nv decision 10 thi
crisis, i,nplore the President 10 be decide
! Resosrf.f That we, Nv the Corners, respect
fully Recommend the ifnms jt arrest w ever
member w the rump cpngris who votes {
tmpe4 ehmeB., on the ground nv opposin III
. execution NV the viii Nv the Executive. an
, also the removal Nv General Grant from til
f oils he okkepies. and the appointment in hi
+ sted Nv such acpnstooshnel Dimekrit as Ger
: Rosso
! EeeoIfed. That, ez the Corners Is ia . sta,
) nv conlincoaI feverish anxiety TO know th
J inlenshuns nv bis Eggslency, We recommen
| the holding Nv conversashens with the corr,
| spondent Nv the New York Herald rsgularl
: a. least once per day till the crisis he
? PASSED.
. Resolre5. lhat il need be, to prevent III
e power nv the Government from parsin Ell
I tirely into the hands Nv ablishn Coneris, V
\ the Dimoerisy Nv the Corners pledge GU
y selves, our tos ahoons aud our sacred hon1r I
, maintain the Executive By all the means
our power.
! Bascom complained that them resolpsher
wasn't strong ennH; he tremb!ed when i
n thot Nv tue consekences that wood ensoo
o the President shood be removed. Nv cnors
e the Cbeerman Nv this meesin wood b. ons.s
4 from his postofiis, aad wat wood become !,
Z the Corners then? Wat wood become ~ Il
debt be THE postmaster) owed him (Ba
70 comfy Wat wood become nv the dehts
owed every citizen Nv the Corners who h,
anything wich Good be berrered OF bot |
"a credit? The Corners wood be rooined.
IL And rfali2in rJseif the awful consekenc
!. nv def. -oYir re hope they wnz lisin on
= bnsted into teers, al vich they suz al visiL
mi Affected.
oil Ios Bi Her rose. and sed Be perpesed d
q this mee ing never adjourn, bnt that il kee
in coLtiypol session, passin rcsnlushens. III
being shH rusire xfent ~ MD The Preside
d. wood 81 f.om keaincky. &c resolooshs
- sood do AsJ. emmy good. be rux III favor
~ ~ E.sia HI N 70 him BY the ysrd Nv cour,
'ns q there w'iz struggle Keatfcky vood ,
III main s'actrai- altpays beat. As 700 Kin n
Tn MS t,.th 49, ~