Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-01
The New Hampshire ElectlOn-..The
Preparations for Procession which
did NET take place.

WASHINGTON, d. C., March 10, 1868
Probably the happiest party witch ever
assembled in this vale of teers, wuz in the
White House on the night NV the eleclzshun
| in Moo Hampsheer It wuz gay and
festive sceen. Hilarity rained. The Pres
| ident, with a unwonted smile onto his face,
his nose shinin with preternateral bril-
| liancy, his eyes sparklin with lite that
Good only come from q sole surcharged
with Joy and skin tolerably full NV whis-
key, walked up and down the room, rub
bin his hands with glee that Good not be
repressed.
Is all prepared2'' asked Randall, Nv
humble looking cuss that does q share Nv
his managin, Che wuz originally paid by
Mrs Cobb, but sence her ontimely tailyoor
in biznis he is allowed the earnins NV one
day in each month NV whiskey inspector
in Moo York " is everything arranged p
at is, yoor Eggslency." Go these fell
lcrs all the high officers are Bggslen-
Clos
Is tho powder prokured for one hundr
cd guns? 2"
1T is, yoor Eggslenoy.'
/ Is the rockets drawed from the Navy
Department to be fired from the different
parts NV the city TO show spontaneous en-
! thOosiasm 2?
They is yoor Eggslency.'
Hev the Department clerks bin notified
that it wood be we'll for en- to gladly fall
into percession when His Eggslency the
President is TO be serenaded, eff they desire
to keep ther places p
They hev.'
"Hev the transparenoies bin painted with
the proper inscriptions2 Did you sec one
inscribed Sinclair's majority $1,000 Moo
HRmpsheer's protest agin impeachment ! p
They hev, and l did
Then said Randall, all is iii readi-
ness. The brass bands / know are in wait
in, Stanbery writ the Presidents speech
, this mornin, and he hez it tolerably well by
heart, and the iollificashen must go orr
smooth and pleasant
cd AT tins moment the president approach
: " Ha sed he, in one moro short hour
, Washinton viii be alive with Joy, and the
country will breathe free Moo Hampsheer
hez spoken. In q hour We shell hev the
glad intelligence that she hez been troo to
the constooshen e. l expound it-that she
hez rebooked Sumner, and Stevens, and
Wade, and SIGH, and sed in thunder tones
10 the impious wretcbeg, who wood, in me,
pull down the pliers Nv the government,
stay yer fianticidle hands" The thot
overpowers me. Lets take suthin.'
A half hour wuz spent in innocent hilari-
ty The President showed the thoroughnis
NV his reconvorsion TO Dimocrisy by takin
hizzen strate, with nothin in il, while Sew
ard BETRAYED his oriiin, and his oonsekent
onrelisbilitv. by drinkin some kind Nv a
lite wine with no more body into il than
wood be in watered cider.
"Confushun to Wadel" exclaimed the
President, holdin up his galss and watchin
the beads rise to the surface with q pleased
eye 80
' Moo Bampsheer e sed SeBaad, may
Connecticut carry forward the work she hez
so glorionsly begun
"0ur ofiiscs, said /, allus troo tho all
other States may desert Dimocrisy. Ken
lucky viii be faithful among the faithlis
found Her distilleries attest her steadfast-
ness TO her party obligashens"
And in such toasts The 80 minutes wore
away.
A private SECRETARY entered.
4" A dispatch from Moo Hampsheer r
4" Ha r said Randall seem it, NOW
tremble Ablishnism quake Stevens, for
your time is GOMEZ Exalt your horn, Di-
mocrisy, for the reackshun is here +
The gentle and trustful Seketary opened
il, read moment, turned pale and fell a
faintin on the aoor. Seward glanced at it
and gaspin. This is the end Nv life"
witch he intended for his last words,) fell
likewise PROSTATE. The President snatehed
It from Stewards hands and tainted across
the rest nv en-, and Welles seein the Prcsi-
dent faint, did it becoz Che President did,
, without rsadin it. Welles takes physic
every time the President does.
/ snatehed the dispatch, read il myself,
ez follows
To the President Its all up. I'm a
ded duck. Hartman is elected by about
1000 The reackshen got stuck in a notch
NV the White Mountains. Pray for as.
SINCLAIR
Uttorin stingin cVss at Dean and Burr,
and them fellows who he'd deceived rs into
a belecf that Moo Hampshire wuz safe, |
sot about bringin nv EN- TO. The President
wuz the longest comm ont Nv the faint
Sadly they ariz, one after another, their