Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-06
Massey.
THE IMPEACHMENT QUESTION MEETING
AT THE CORNERS.

FEBRUARY ~, 1865. }
Yesterday we received the Louisville
paper, and l notist into it reports NV mass
meetings in Chicago and all over the coun-
try favorin impeachment. I felt that the
huntid President denounced and perse-
Rooted ez he is shood at least have SYM
pathy from one spot-shood at least know
that in one place, he he'd sound and
solid friends, who wood stand by
ence.
| therefore called a meetin Nv the Cor
ners, witch was held last mite. L okkepied
the chair, and made the speech Nv the Okla
| sion, witch alluz do. I remarkt that never
| in the histry Nv the Dimekratic party wuz
| the cluods lowrin so fritefully over it eZ
| now. sposed it wuz fixed fact that the
| President would be impeeched and re-
moved, maxim that hory headed Ben Wade,
who is profane persekooter NV the saints,
| President in his stead Here Wuz wat
eggcited my alarm for the future Nv the
| democracy. 1t amt that Johnson is agoin
out. 1t amt that l care so very much for
him, but the fact that he will certainly
| be impeeched, shows that there is pint
| beyond witch offishel patronage can't con-
troll. see afore me nothing but trouble
| If Wade is President, the CRATE moral
| question is who will be Postmaster at the
Corners? VIII Deekin Pogram's paper
still continyoo tn pass thru the hands Nv
a sound Constooshnel Dimekrat? Will |
be forced tn leve these sylvan retreat, this
haven Of rest, and agin, in my old age,
buffet the cold world? Good Heavens
The very ice makes me shudder, and
that same shudder will convulse the entire
South.
Wat ken we do? Shell the Corners SIT
| idly by and permit this CRATE wrong to go
unrebooked? Is a President to be deposed
and the Postmasters endangered for moth
in? [ am too full for further utterance
Capt. McPelter, late NV the G. S. a, sed
he he'd never felt so good sence the Fort
| Piller affair. Wv course A. j. wood resist,
and then his sword wood again leep from
its scabbard. In the coz Nv SIGH Yoonyun
ez the President wantid, he felt ez tho he
Good go calmly to his death. His sole wuz
up and eager for the fray. In SIGH a COZ,
he Good gather about him agin all the
brav men he led doorin the whole Nv the
late war, every one Nv wich wuz alive and
in good health, ceptin one who he'd died
recently Nv delirium tremens. He longed
for it to begin. He he'd Ablishinists in his
minds eye, witch he wood like to 60 thro
he knowd Nv safe places to cross into
Ohio and Injiany, and Nv farms rich in
horses. 0 for a return Nv them days.
Deekin Pogram remarked that so far ez
he wuz persnelly concerned, he he'd no in
terest in the matter. Androo johnson
wuz nothin to him, nor wuz he any thin to
| Androo Johnson, but he wuz believer
in constooshnel liberty. He wantid his
niggers back agin, and what hope wuz
| thert Nv that, with that pestiferous Ben
| NVo6a IN, a Tnt,nsnptu a c1n,,H
dered at the iiee With Congris in the
hands NV the Ablishnists, with President
deeply dyed with Radikalism, how long
wood the little remnant Nv rites witch Ken
lucky enjoyed be left her? How long
wood it be before we should be compelled
to admit niggers to ekality with us?
| How long wood we even hold the Site con-
troll NV EN- we now hey? Why, under SIGH
a rool we might expect to see, some day,
the stars and stripes haunt in the air in
the Corners, and heer Yoonyun speeches
made in front NV Bascom's. What chance,
he asked, wood ther be Nv continyooin the
struggle agin Congris? Wat earthly hope
Good the first families hev Nv pepetooatin
ther rool? None. Let us arouse! Let
US doc sumthin Let us, ez Kentucky hez
alluz done, resolve. He begged leave to
submit the followin:
WAREAs, Androo Johnson the President nv the
Yoonited States, tho not Dimekrat, is consldably
nearer thereto than Ben Wade, and
WAREAs, He removed from offs one Edwin nj.
Stanton, bloody -minded Ablishnst, a thing alluz
| grateful to the Dimekratic heart, and
! WAREAs, For this act of justis, a Rump Con-
girls is at this time engaged in attempt to depose
| him.
WAREAs We, the Dimocrisy NV Confedrit K
Roads, feelin love for the Yoonion burnin briefly
in our buzzums, and feein. also, that the sed
Yoonion is in imminent danger Nv utter and entire
| destrucshen, onless the operashens Nv an unholy
Congris is checked therefore be il
| Resotged, That we look with alarm upon the
| acshen Nv Congris, aimed at our beloved Presl-
dent, and do hereby pertest agin SIGH ackshen.
| ReSot0ed, That we, the Dimocrisy nv the Cor
ners feelin the need Nv decision in this crisis, i'm
| plore the President to be decided.
| Res0tged, That we, Nv the Corners. respectfully
| recommend the immejit arrest NV every member
! Nv the rump Congris who votes for impeachment,
| on the ground Nv opposln the execushen NV tne
will NV the Executive. and, also, the removal OF
Gen. Grant from the offs he okkepies, and the APP
pointmen t in his sted NV SIGH Constooshnel DIM
ekrat eZ Gen. Rosso.
| ResolUed, That ez the Corners is in a state nv
continyooal feverish anxiety to know the lnten-
| nv conversashens with the correspondent Nv tne
Moo York Herald regerly, at least once per day I'LL
1 this crisis heZ passed.
ResoIged That if need be, to prevent the power
ov the government from parsin entirely into the
hands NV a ablishn Congris we, the Democrsy Nv
| the Corners, pledge ourselves, our forchoons and
our sacred honor, to maintain the Executive by all
4 the means in our power.
Bagcom complained that them resoioo-
shens wasn't strong enuf Good Lord, he
trembled when he thot Nv the consekences
that wood ensoo eff the President shOod
be removed. Wv coorse the cheerman Nv
tbie m aetiu wood he nifstad from his most