Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-24
Nasty.
MR.. MASSEY, IN HUMBLE IMITATION OF
OTHER PERSONS, HAS n Conversation
WITH THE PRESIDENT.
WAsHINToN, D. c., April 8, 1868

ez to whether, in the event Nv the i'm
parchment w the present President, l
Good be ousted out Nv my Post Oils be-
fore the 4th Nv March, 1868, when it ok
kurred to me that ought to have some
conyersashun with his Eggslency, for
the purpose Nv publishin the same in the
papers Nv Kentucky. Ez / wuz ushered
into the presence, and made known the
fact that [ desired to talk with him, he di-
rektid his SECRETARY to furnish me with
pens and paper, that l might take down
what he sed.
found him calm and hopeful. There
wuz in his eagle eyes suthin Nv that de-
terminashen witch hez made him to-wunst
the terror Nv his friends and the comfort
Nv his enemies; his firm set lips betokend
the will that wuz behind EN-, and his nose,
like beacon lite, gleamd defiance at the
world. e7
"Remark, casually" sed he, that the
Radikle majority seem determined upon
Impeachment"
ibid SO, when he replied in these words:
"Yes, they do. And why cannot I'M
derstand. Never wuz there man eggsist-
ed IN this or any other world, who wantid
peece more than l hev. / hev sighed for
it, and done everythin in my power for it
but they wood not hev peece. In the be-
ginnin they talked NV askin me to resine,
becoz Nv the triflin egsilerasben wuz la
BORN under on the occashun Nv my inau-
gerashen, forgettin that it wuz the man,
not the Vice President, that wuz drunk.
Then, agin, / wantid the restorashen Nv
the South accomplished akkordin to my
views Nv wat wuz proper, and here agin
their onreasonableniss wuZ made painfully
manifest. They Good hev he'd peece-there
wood hev bin no trouble watever, he'd they
yielded to me, and accepted the policy
he'd agreed upon. But they wood not.
The entire Congris Nv the Yoonited States,
and the entire people Nv the so-called
loyal States, wickedly set themselves
in Opposishen to me, after / he'd solemnly
warned EN- Nv the consciousness that must
inevitably foller. They brought it on, and
theirs is the blame. 1t wood be well to
ask me here how about the Memphis and
Moo Orleans massacres, and the Ku Klux
Khan"
/ did this, and the President went on.
"The unfortunit Occurrences in Mem.
phis and Moo Orleens wuz the result NV
the same spirit developed in the people Nv
the South who opposed the confederacy.
They knew wat desired. For the sake Nv
pOCCe, W wipe Oub SSil tidCcS Nv VIC 1atS
onpleasantnis, I decided that everything
shood be restored ez it wuz before, eZ near
ez mite be. MY idea wuz to kiver things
up. / he'd promised the friends Nv thelate
lost COZ control Nv their own States, and
he'd the misguided people witch he'd stood
in oppOsishun to the confederacy, yielded
this one pint for the sake Nv harmony all
wood hev bin we'll The process wuz at
once simple and sublime In Moo Orleens
DR.. Dostie and his adherents he'd only to
turn over the control Nv the city to Mayor
Monroe and Judge Abel, and there wood
hev bin no massacre. But they wood not.
They persisted in infamin Nv ther high
spirited opponents to the pint Nv risin
agin EN-, and the massacre wuZ the result.
Wat else Good they expect? l warned EN-
in time, but alars | wuz not needed. In
Memphis, too, it wuz similar. The niggers
wood persist in heyin skOol-houses and
carryin spelln-b books about with EN-, know
in that every time they did it they wuz in
fiamin the Southern heart and firm the
Soutas2h sole l he'd them warned, too,
but to no purpose. Insted NV quietin
things down by givin up their obnoxious
pursoots, they persevered and the result
is part Nv history. In the irritated con-
dishen NV the Southern mind, smartin ez it
wuz under the conshusnis nv defeat, it
Good not be expected that they shood look
on quietly and see niger children in mig
ger skool houses, learnin that wich wood
OMIT EN- from fillen the posishen w nig
gers, ez they understood it. To the lnfat-
coated people w the North, who epged on
the niggers Nv Memphis and Moo Orleens
to this attempt to raise themselves out Nv
the normal speer into witch they wuz left
IN-, 10 c4oIan 30 I'll kI1
for this lanentable okkurencc now and
forever attach. The Ku Klux Khan is an
other development Nv the same spirit pro-
doosed by similar causes and eventooa-
tin in the same results. The niggers
instid Nv hu nbly pursooin the even tener
Nv Their former ways and bowin meekly to
the sooperior power Nv them witch wuz
formerly their masters, is inflated to the
pint Nv takin wat sed to EN- four yeers
ago in dead earnest, and beleevin their
selves to be men. They persist in votin
and in holdin meetins and SIGH, and Nv
course the Caucashens Nv the South can't
tolerate it. The murder Nv these innocent
niggers by the men NV the South is anoth-
er manifestation Nv Radical hate ard
malignity. Had they counseled them to
continyoo in that meeknis, the hoomility
and humblenis NV witch is so lovely in the
niger, there wood hev bin no Ku Klux,
and the hair, or TO speek more eggsact, the
wool Nv the head NV no one Nv EN- wood
ev bin harmed, eXceptin when the high
spirited sons Nv the South after an I'M
wonted indulgence in the flown bole mite
in playful, sportive mood, occasionally
shoot or stab dozen or SIGH matter Nv
en- They hev brot it upon themselves.
Ask me now, about Grant, Sherman and
them" ... f.-
l did so, and the President answered
promptly, enforcin his remarks with ap-
proprit testers.
al alluz repoeed great confidence in
Grant. For long time he wuz wonder
fully reticent, NV WITCH l didn't take no
| motifs, fer ez it wuz incomprehensIble to
me how any one Good differ with me,
| sposed he wuz troo to me and the constoo-
shen. I never lost faith in his patertism
till he insanely and blindly commenst op-
posin me, and then l resigned him reluc-
| family. But he finally went over. Wat
| an awful thing it is that one who he'd won
| SIGH laurels ez he hed-who he'd made SIGH
| name shood throw it to the earth by one
| false step. But so it wuZ with Grant. He
| he'd rendered me valyooable assistance in
putin down the rebellyun, and he'd suf
| fered almost e. much for the Constooshen
ez he'd, but he rooined hisself after ALL
Sheridan opposed me from the beginin,
| thus layin hisself out for all time. How
ard, ez eff bit with the same snake, wuz in
| advance Nv him; Sherman, Sickles, and the
! great majority nv tho crannraIc TX hO corvnd