New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty in Humble Imitation OF Other
Persons has IA Conversation with the
PresIdent

Mr. Nasty in Humble Imitation OF Other
Persons has IA Conversation with the
PresIdent
WASHINGTON, D. c., April s, 1868.
/ went to Washington for the purpose Nv
takin advice nv Attorney General Binkley,
ez to whether in the event Nv the impeach-
ment nv the President Good be ousted out
NV my Post Offs before the 4th of March,
1868, when it occurred to me that ought TO
hev some conversashun with His Eggslency,
for the purpose of publishin the same in the
papers NV Kentucky. EZ l wuZ ushered
Into the presence and made known the fact
that desired to talk with him, he direktid
his sekretary to furnish me with pens and
paper that might take down what he sed.
found him calm and hopeful. There wuz
in his eagle eyes suthin Nv that determine.
shen witch heZ made him to wunst the terror
Nv his friends and the comfort Nv his enc
mics; his firm set lips betokened the will
that wuZ behind EN-, and his nose, like a
beacon-lite, CLEANED defiance at the world.
Remark, casually" sed he, that the
Radike majority seem determined upon
impeachment
did so when he replied in these words:
eyes, they do. And why Team not I'M
derstand. Never wuz there man egg
sisted in this or any other world wantid
peece more than heV. l heV sighed for it,
and done everything in my power for it, but
they wood not hev peece. In che beginin
they talked NV askin me to resine, because
Nv the trifing egsilerashen l wuz labOring
under on the Ocoashun nv my inaugerashen,
forgettin that it wuz the man, not the Vice.
President, that WIZ drunk, Then, agin,
Wantid the restorashen Nv the South &C
eOmplished akkordin to my views of what
wuz proper, and here agin their onreason-
ablenis wuz painfully manifest. They Good
hev had peece-there wood have been no
trouble whatever, he'd they YIELDED to me,
and accepted my 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 opposition to me after he'd
solemnly warned em nv the consciousness
that must inevitably foller. They brought
it on, and theirs is the blame. II wood be
well to ask me here how about the Memphis
and Moo Orleans massacres and the Ku.Klux
Klan.n
I did this, and the President went on
The unfortunit Occurrences in Memphis
and Moo Oreens 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 peece Co
wipe out all traces nv the late onpleasantnis,
I decided that everything shood be restored
eZ it Wuz before, ez nearer mite be. Ny idea
Wuz to kiyer things up. / had promised the
friends NV the late lost coz control Nv their
own States, and he'd the misguided people
Wieh he'd stood in opposishun to the confed-
eracy, yielded this one pint for the sake Of
harmony, ell would hev bin we'll. The pro.
cess Wuz at once simple and sublime. In Moo
OrIeens DR.. Dostie and his adherents he'd
only to turn over the control NV the city to
Mayor Mohroe and judge Abel, and there
wood hev bin no massacre. But they wood
not. They. persisted in infiamin NV Their
high-spifited opponents to the pint Nv risin
agin EN-, and the massacre was the result.
Wat else Good they expectl l warned
en In tine, bus alaFs Wuz not needed. In
Memphis, too, it WIZ simiiyr. The niggers
WoEid persist in hevin skoolhouBee and ear.
fyin spellin-books about with EN-, KNOWN
that every time they did II they Muz in
famin the Southern heart and firm the
HOuthern sole. he'd them warned, too.
but 70 no purpose. Insted nv quletin things
Gown By glgtn up their Obnoxious pursO0ts,
they peEsevered IND the result Is q part Nv
history. In the'frfitated eondishen nv the
Eouthern mind, snariin ez IL Wuz under the
conshuslis Nv defeat itcaod not BE expect.
ed that they shood lock On quietly and see
aig6ez chliareu In nsages skoelhouses
IeaEnin that Whicl wood 0lilt en- frem ELLEN
theposishen nv nigeefz, e. they understood
r.. 70 Ems tnfat I'D people Nv the North.
via egg 60 On tho niggeEE Nv Memphis and
MOO Jrletns 20 this sttempt 70 raise tfslf-
selves ont nv the normal speef ing5 wich
they gaz LET! b the Constitoaahen
Enst 81 the blame for thia lamenSahIs
oakErfence now ana forever attach.
The Ka Klur KAN b anather aauolop-
ment az the same spirit prcdooaed ~ SINH.
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