The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-05-15
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The preparations OF the martyr Iol
the Coming Event which is.Cast
ing.its Shadow Before.
WASHINGTON, May =, 1868
The President is NV the opinion
that he will be impeeched, wich opln
ion is shared by his confidenshe
lfriends. Indeed, Randall fell ont'
lhis neck when he told him that la
lhed come TO that conclooshun, AM
lremarkt that that wuz the first cor
Irect conclooshun he he'd come Il
sence he he'd bin President Eff any
thing will stop it, it will be the speech
as wich are delivered for the prose
cooshun. He hez some hope that the
= ,ople, when they see the avalanche
nv words that hez bin piled onto him
ILL hev their hatred turned into pity,
and that pity will in this, ez in Other
matters, melt into love. But that's 6
thin reliance, and he knows it, and is
therefore, preparin to leave Wash
inton. He hez alreddy bid adOo tc
Mrs. Cobb. they met for the las
time this mornIn. She wood hev ac
leompanied him to Greenville, but ht
sed; NAY. TO yoose the words
NV another
"My fate it is too cold for the. Mrs. Cobb.
,rwould chill thy deerest joy;
I'd rather weep to sea thee iroe, Mrs COBB
Than keep thee TO destroy
Here we part. ! hev no Longer
the pardnin power, or disposal Nv
offices. IF shood git to be Mayo
nv Greenyille, which is IN State nv
Tennessee, l mite, perchance, giv'
yoo the disposal NV the one polec'
NV that anteek town, bat alars! ht
Good not afford to pay yoo ennff t.
keep 700 in garters. No no! Fare
well I'm scooped. A. Johnson
okkepashun's gone.
Mrs. Cobb wuz led out, bathed il
teerS- / am informed, however, tha
she is in comfortable circumstances
hayin bin ruther savin doorin thai
halcyon period NV pardnin rebels
She bled elm handsome, and put suth
in by for rainy day. i told the Pres
ident this, and he was vIsibly releev.
ed. 1t wuz sejested by a council Nv
his friends, that he shOod return qui
etly and by the neerest route, to wict
he assented. He wood go, he seds sun
ostentashusly and without display
to Greenville, ,by way NV Baltimore
Philadelphia, Moo York, Moo Haven
(CoLn Savannah, Nobel, Moo Or
leens, Louisville, and Dubuke, Iowa.
Write to all my friends" sed he
"and beg NV EN- not to offer me any
ovashens or anythin NV the sort.
desire to glide into history ez mar
ter, with a halo round my head,
wich bowed meekly and uncomplain
inly TO the behests Nv the d-dest ty,
ranny on the globe Tell EN- that Tia,
most l desire in the larger cities
is professions, with appropriate mOos
ic, banners, and sich, to receive me a
at the cars and to escort me to my
hotel, and simple balcony from wicl
to address my fellow citizens, that
may set their hears at rest by ashOOr.
in NV them EN- that | am ez devoted
TO the eonstitOoshen now eZ ever
and to tell EN- how much hey suffer
ell in their behalf. ] want no wreath
no gaudy chaplets wOge for me; no
Iiiiuminashens, no nOthin. ] wood
merely sujest that at each place the
percession be headed by tOmb-a
mausoleum-Oniwheels, drawed by ten
black horses, all clothed in muornin,
the tomb to bear the inscription, "Im.
peachment. In this is buried Androo
johnson, and with him the consti-
tooshen, the flag, and the liberties ny
his country, wich he wood hev saw
ed" 1t mite be well to hev another
follerin behind it with q wax figger
NV COlumby Dustin the mausOleum,
and histin a wax figger NV me out NV
it, chuckin the constitOoshen at me
ez she does it, 'exclaimin the while,
sRise second'W ashington-rise, step
father NV yer country" These little
allegories wood inculcate a great
moral lesson, and wood inspire the
people with awe"
Randall objected. "Wats's the
yoOse ?" he sed. "Ef 1 am in the car
riage with 700, and L spose / shel
have to see this thing out, the Alb
lishnlsts will jeer and flout me and
say, go up baldhead The inscrip-
shens they will laff at, and they won't
do our people eny good, for not one
in ten kin read en-"
WeIles wuz i'm favor Nv the mauso-
leam, only he wood hey site change.
He wood hey Columbia supported by
him, .ez Neptoon, the God NV the bri-
ny deep, putin wax sceptre labell-
ed "veto," in the hands NV the wax
President, with the inscripshen, "with
this he wood hev saved the Consti-
stoOshn." Randall wuz overpower-
ed, but he did not give up his pint.
''Ef yOo will go into the wax figger
bizness," sed he, 81 perpose that wax
figgers be made Nv a family NV mig
gers, with another wax figger NV the
President regardin NV EN- with 2 sOr-
rowful look, with this inscripshen,
"How often wood l hev gathered
them ez hen hawk gathereth chick
ems, but they wood nOt;" but this Sc
jestion wuz foOied ont to wunst.
Il hev decided On this sed the
President. Il shel not peryeSt the
people from testifyin their devoshen
to me and bearin witness to my many
virchOOs. 1 hey already received
tenders of percessions ez terrible ez
armies with banners. The Blood
Tubs nv Baltimore, the Killers NV
Philadelfy and the Ded Rabbits Nv
Moo York hev all expressed a desire
to do me this honor. In Moo Haven
the Moo Workers kin 60 ther to make
the pereession, jist ez easy ez they
went up ther to vote our ticket in the
spring, ez 1 shel not he in two places
the same day. In the South, eff the
l hev pardOned will all
turn out the percessiOns will be miles
In length, and ef they do not, the
Ku Kluk will be on hand
Randall cautioned him not to count
double. 'Yoo are probably aware,
sed he, that the Ku Klux is made up
almost entirely nv the patriots yooI
pardoned. But that don't matter,
700 will still be ovatid to yoor hearts
desire. l hey correspondence. Here
is q letter from a prominent Moo
York DImOcrat: 'Hev him come
his way The ni1oar orfan ae,,Jun,