Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-02
WAsHINGToN, D. c..

April, ., 1868.
l went to Washington for the pcrpose
NV takin advice NV Attorney General
Binkley, cz TO whether, in the event Nv
the impeachment Nv the presnt President
Good be outsed out NV my Post Offs
before the 4th nv March, 1869, when it
okkured to ME that l ought to hev some
conversation with his Eggslelcy, for the
purpose NV publshin the same i'll the pa
pers NV Kentucky. Ez | was ushered
into the presence, and made known the
fact that l desired to talk with hin,
he directid his sekretary to furnish me
with pens and paper, that | mite take
down what he sed.
found him calm and hopeful There
wuz in his eagl eyes suthin Nv that de,
terminashen wich hez made him tu-wunst
the terror NV his friends and the COM
fort nv his enemies his firm set lips be-
tokened the will that WIZ behind en-,
and his nose like a beaeonlite, cleaned
defiance at the world.
"Remark, casually" sed he, shat the
Radikle majority seem determined up
on impeachment"
/ did so, when he replied in these
words:
"Yes they do. And why cannot un-
derstand. Never wuz there a man eg-
gsisted in this or any other world, who
waGtid peace more then hev. | hev
seigLed for it, but they wood not hev
peace In TIE beginnin they talked NV
askin me TO resine, bC cause Nv the triflin
egsilerashen | WIZ laborin under on the
occasion NV my inaugerashen, forgettin
that it WIZ tie man, not the Vice Presi-
dent that WIZ drunk Then, agin, wan
It'd the rcstorashen NV the South accom-
plished akkordin to my views NV what
WIZ proper, and here again their unrea-
sonablenis wuz made painfully manifest.
They Good hev he'd peace-there wood
hey BIN no trouble watevcr, he'd they
yeelded to me, and accepted the policy
| he'd agreed upon. But they wood not.
TIE entire Congris NV the Y ooEited
States, and the entire people Nv the So
called loyal States, wickedly set them
selves in opposition to me, after he'd
solemnly warnd EN- nv the consekenses
that must inevitable fclier. They brought
it on, and theirs is the blame. 1t wood
be we'll to ask me here, how about the
Memphis and Moo Orleans massacres,
and the Ku Klux Klan.''
l did this, and the President went OIL
'The unfortulite okkurrence in Mem
phis and n Orleans wuz the result nv
the same spirit developed in the people
wv the South who opposed the Contede
racy. They knew wat l desired. For
the sake NV peace TO wile out all traces
NV the late onpleasantnis, decided that
everything shood be res ored ez it wuz
before, ez near CT mite be My idea wuz
to kiver things up. l he'd promised the
friends NV the late lost cCz control NV
their own states, and he'd the misguided
people wich he'd stood in opposition to
the confederacy, yeclded this one pint
for the sake Nv harmony, all would NV
been well. The process wuz at once
simple and sublime. In Moo Orleans DIR.
DoStie and his adherents he'd only to
turn over the control Nv the city to May
or Monroe and Judge Abel, and there
wood hev bin 10 massacre. But they
wood not. They presisted in inhamin
Nv their high-spirited opponents TO the
pint nv risin agin EN-, and the massacre
wuz the result. Wat else Good they ex-
pect l warned EN- in time, but alass l
wuz not needed. In Memphis, too, it
was similar The niggers wood presist
in hevin skool-houses and carryin spellin-
books about with EN-, KNOWN that every
time they did it they wuz infamin the
Southern heart and frin the Southern
sole. he'd them warned, too, but to
no purpose Instead NV quietin things
down by givin up their obnxiOus pur-
scots, they persevercd, and the result is
part NV history In the irritated con-
dishen Nv the Southern mind, snartln ez
it was under the conshusnis NV defeat,
it Good not be expected that they shOod
look on quitely and see niger children
in nigger school houses, learnin that
wich wood onft them from film the
position NV niggers, cz they understood
it. To the infatooatid people Nv the
North, who egged on the niggers Nv
Memphis and Moo Orleans to this at
tempt, to raise themselves out nv the
normal speer into wich they wuz LETT by
the Constitushen, must all the blame
for this lamentable okkurrence now and
forever attach. The Ku Klux Klan is
another development Nv the same spirit
prodoosed by similar couses and even
tooatin in the same results. The nig.'
gers instead Nv lumbly parsooin the
even tencr NV their former ways, and
bowin mckly to the sooperior power uv
tbep, Nj, u ,ruz fIrnrcIy their masters,