The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-03-20
Dantotk Stfftrsoniaa.

IN ASb
The Impeachment Matter-Meetins
of the Cabinet andI Mr.. Nasby-
How the Democracy take it.
WASHINGTON, d. C-,l
March 8, 1868.
The most affectin time ever eggs
perienced in this vale of teers, wui
IN Washinton last mite. His Eggs
lency telegraph me to come to Wash
Iinton, and 1 obeyed. ] hevn't tie,
much TO him recently, but 1 cooden
forgit that he first gave me the Off
L live on, that his honored name is a
the bottom of the commission hold
and ] felt that 1 ought at leas
to be with him, while he wuz disso
lutin. / determined that he shoult
dror his last ofiishel breath onto my
buZZum.
arrived late, and at wunst per
ceeded to the Executive Manshen
1t wuz fsmilyer sceen. Their wuz
Seward, Randall, Secretary Wellei
and the President, and all NV en-
graver than the essshtly raven NV the
stately days NV yore. The President
wuz tryin to keep a stiff upper lip
but / Good see teers q follering each
other adown his holler cheeks in rap.
id succession. "He's a gonerp thot
/, "no man kin stand that drain on
his floods. No matter how much he
may take in, that pace will kill any
one"
The President wuz a readin tele
grams and letters, and they wuZ moi
NV a carikter to pleeze him. The
first wuz from August Belmont, and
red thus:
81 hev, ez 700 know, the highest
possible regard for yoor Eggslency,
and shell regret exceedingly to see
700 deprived NV yoor high offs; but,
RELY you kin scacely eggspect the
Dimocracy to embarrass themselves
by espousin your coz. The fact is,
no party hevin a fucher before it kin
tie itself to a ded past. The teens
ter draws a sigh over a ded mule,
but es a ded mule cant draw his cart,
he naturally turns his eyes onto
them still possest Nv vitality. hope
700 see the pint without my explainin
it. Excuse me for comparin yoo to
a ded mule, but the simile wuz the
first that segested itself to me.
With profound respect, j am, &c.
P. S. Should biznis call me to Ten.
nessee, 1 shel do myself the honor to
call on yoo in yoor dignified retire
ment."
The President wiped an avalanche
Nv teers wich follered the reedin NV
this unfeelin letter, and the next wuz
opened.
MAYsvILLE, KY, Feb. 80, '6S.
Wood a regiment Nv Irish raised
in this place be wv any servis? An
ser j. A.
"Hell :" sed Randall, "the whole
county only polls 800 votes, and that
cuss hez bin borin me for place in
the department for over a year
Drive on"
The next letter wuz from Vallan-
dygum:
"Since the disgraceful exhibishen
yoor friends made NV themselves al
the Philadelphia Conyenshen, l didn't
consider myself bound to yoo. 1, ez
VOC know, never took any stock in
half and half mixters. My defect by
Thurman hezn't increaed my love fol
yoo and yoors. 1 hev no objecshen
to yoor holdin yoor sect to the end Nv
yoor term, but RELY its a matter Nv
but little conscience to me. Sbood
you pass thro Dayton on yoor way
to Tennessee, 1 shood be glad to ex-
tend the hospitalities Nv my humble
house to yoo."
The mex. one wuz from Franklin
Peerse, and dated at Concord, N. H.:
81 feel for yoo; that is, l feel fol
yoo on general principles. (Thad.
Stevens, permit me to say, in pa-en-
thasis, hez been feelin for 700, and
hez at last, / am satisfied, found yoo. J
1 feel for 700 ez / do for every man
who hez offs and is obliged to leev
it. Nevertheless, l can't help you.
l wood, but yoo see we hev all we
kin do to help ourselves. Wv course
yoo don't expect the Dimocracy to
take any part in the struggle between
VOC and Congriss. Elected ez a Re.
publikin, with Republicans in yoor
Cabinet, the Dimocrisy, while they
applaud wat 700 hev done. can't NV
course make yoor quarrel theirs
When 700 leave Washington for Ten
nessee can't 700 take Concord In
in yoor way? hev no objecshen to
minglin tears with yoo."
The next wuz from a Western poll
tishen lately appinted Postmaster:
s.SIR:-I return the appintment
VOC gave me last month with loathln
and skorn. / survived the Moo Or
leans and Memphis massacres, yoor
opposition to the will of Congris, and
all the other damnin iniquities Nv
yoor most damnable administration,
but this last attempt to hist Stanton
1 can't endorse. Therefore / bolt.
Yoor successor will, 1 hope, do me
justis, and likewise the SENT"
Lord" sed Randall, "that cuss
bored me for better nor q yeer for
the appointment, but the SENT won't
confirm him. Oh, Wade, what hev
ent 700 to undergo! Oh, Johnson
from what hev yoo escaped |"
A prominent Eastern Democrat
wrote ez follows:
"Defy Congriss and let EN- impeect
700. Dare EN- to do their dirty
d-dest. Eff they shood hist yoo, al
the better. 1t will be an immense
help toward the election NV McClel
Ian. Think how much 700 kin dt
fer the coz in this way, and stand
firm. Visit Hartford on yoor way te
Tennessee"
A Western Democrat wrote:
"Be firm-be firm. The impeech
ment NV yoorself will raise sich
storm NV indignashun in the North
and sich sympathy for Southern Dim
okrats ez to make the nominashun ~
even sich men ez Breckinridge Ger
tin. Yoo are, now, NV vast yoose t.
the coz! will meet yoo at Loois
vile and accompany yoo to Tennes
see"
"McClellan Pendleton. Breckin
ridge ~ shouted the President; "wa
NV me? Am / to bleed solely TO
their good? 1 don't want to 60 t.
Tennessee, nor / won't. Am to g
ont imneached for their benefit