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


decent regard for the interests ny
his family indicated a diffrent course
He he'd espoused the coz NY the Pres
ident agin Congris for the sake uy
the position, and the President Good
well understand that it wuz no moro
diffikilt to change now, to keep a'of
ifs, than it wuz to change two years
ago TO git one. He wuz at this time
bizzily engaged in supportin Congris
"Call it not ingratitoood," sed he, "l
wuz in the market then, and am ROW,
percisely ez wuz all them wich yoo
led captive out Nv the Republican par
ty. He is a eggregis ass who wor-
ships the settin sun, when by turnin
around he KIN let the golden rays NV
the risin orb beam onto him."
At this pint, and long afore the af-
flicted President he'd recovered from
these blows, Giddy ,Welles' nephew
who he'd bin out on scout, returned
with a report. Fust, he he'd notist
that every burned one NV the cusses
who he'd bin beseegin the White
House for appointments, for months
past wuz now. doggin Senator Wade
around; that they waited in doors,
at the door NV the SENT Chamber,
and that they beseeged his hotel. Sec
ondly, that the Constooshnel Yeon-
yum Club wuz then in session and
wuz jest debatin the question wheth-
er to change the name NV the Club,
to the "Ekai Rites Assosiashen," the
'"Imparshel Suffrage League" or the
"Radikle Brotherhood !" Third that
the conservative clerks in the De
partments wuz all organizin their
selves in Grant and Wade clubs, and
that already one NV the Department
clubs he'd ordered 1000 Grant med
ais, turnin in the old Johnson medals
they he'd bin wearin as part pay.
"Good Heavensp' sed His Eggs
lency."
swat else Good yoo expect ?" re-
tortid Randall, "we bot EN- cheap
and they are cheap men. l may do
the same thing afore mite. The ex-
pertinent NV buyin up aparty at so
much head hez bin tried afore, and
hez alluz failed afore, very much like
the ice NV perpetual moshen. Ioo
ken git considerable enthoosiasm ez
long ez yoor .provender holds ont,
but then. The fact is 700 dident
get no Republiins worth hevin, and
yoo aint NV no yoose to the Democ-
risy, becoz 700 coodent = carry enuff
NV them Republicans over to NO EN-
any good. My deer sir yoor in a
tite place. We're retired physicians
whose sand Nv life hev neerly run
out. l see afore me long vista NV
private life. / sold myself rather
cheep, but 1 don't complain. / hev
about filed the measure NV my am
bishen-people forgit in few years,
and eff they didn't, the Ainerikin peo-
ple won't be crooel enuff TO hold my
children responsible for wat / hev
done. Some Nv em-I hev keerfully
KEEP EN- away from Washington for
neerly three years-may yet redeem
the name Nv Randall, even ez worthy
men by the name NV Arnold hev man.
aged to live and be respected--their
virchoos more than balancin the un-
fortinit name they wuz Gust with.
But, A. johnson, yoor time is short.
The Republicans is furious, and the
Dimocrisy he'd ruther see it than not.
1, too, will visit yoo in yoor retire
ment in Tennessee"
"More COY A. johnson in his eggsile feels,
Than 'afore the SENT laid him by the heels"
By the time he wuZ done talkin,
the balance nv EN- he'd all left the
room, and when he wuz done he went
too, leavin no one but me. The sceen
wuz afectin. Droppin his he'd onto
my buzzum, the scalding teers run
min down his checks, he exclaimed in
a holler voice, "One by one they 60.
Mrs. Cobb first and the balance i'm
mejitly after. Oh, wat a world is
this ~
Idraw the curtain over his greet.
I may hev to financeer somewhat to
hold my place, but 1 alluz respeck
manly emoshE-
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ,
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