The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-09
NO. 2.
A Southern Dimokrat wrote /:

"Be 6rm-be firm. The impeachment
Nv yoorself will raise sich storm NV in
diguashun in the North, and sich sym
pathy for Southern Dimokrats ez to make
the nominashun Nv even sich man ez
iBreckinridge eertin. O stand firm -
Let 'em impeech 700. Yoo are, now, Nv
vast yoose to the coz | will meet 700
at Louisville and accompany VOC to Ten
nessee"
! "McClellan Pendleton Breci n
ridge % shouted the President "what Nv
me /? Am to bleed solely for their
good L don't want to go to Tennessee.
nor | won't. Am | to go out impeached
for their benefit Never !" Aud An
droo, who isn't quite ez much Nv phi
losopher as Sokratees, busted in to teers,
swearin that hid see 'em blest afore he'd
sakrifs mint of his term for anybody's
yoose, but his own.
The next was from Assessor 10 lii
linoy, who went on to remark that he
wood be glad to support him, but de-
cent regard for the interests Nv his fami-
ly indikated different course. He he'd
espoused the coz Nv the President again,
Congriss for the sake NV the posishuu,
and the President Good we'll understand
that it wuz no more difficult to change
now, to keep offs, than it wuz to change
two years ago to get one. He wuz at
this time bizzily engaged in supportin
Congriss. "Call it not ingratitood," se1
he, II wuz in the market then, and am
now, precisely ez wuz all them wich VOC
led captive out Nv the Repubikin party.
He is eggregis ass who worships the
settin sun, when by turin around he kin
let the golden rays Nv the risin orb beam
onto him.
At this pint, and long afore the afict.
ed President he'd recovered from these.
blows, Giddy Wells nephew, who he'd
bin out on scout, returned with re-
port. Fust, he he'd notist that every durn-
ed one nv the cusses who he'd bin be-
seegin the White House for appointments
for months past wuz now doggin Senator
Wade around: that they waited in doors.
at the door Nv the SENT Chamber, and
that they beseege his hotel Secondly.
that the Constitooshnel Yoonyon Club
wuz then in session and wuz just debatin
the question whether to change the name
Nv the club to the ''Ekal Rites Associa-
shen," the '.Imparshel Suffrage Leegue,"
or the "Radikle Brotherhood =" Third,
that the conservative clerks in the De-
partments wuz all organizin themselves
in Grant clubs, and that already one Nv
the Department clubs he'd ordered 4 900
Grant medals, turnin in the old johnson
medals they he'd bin wearin as part Foy-
"Good heavens p sed his Eggslency.
wat else Good you expect p retortcd
Randall, ave bot them cheep, and they
are cheep men. l may do the same thing
afore mite. The experiment Nv buyin up
party at so much he'd hez bin tried
afore, and hez alluz failed afore, very
much like the lice Nv perpetooal moshen.
Yoo ken git considerable enthoosiasm ez
long ez poor provender holds out, but
then-the fact is 700 didn't git no Re-
publikens worth hevin, and 700 amt Nv
no yoose to the Dimocricy, becoz yoo
coodnt carry enutf Nv them Republicans
over to do em good. My deer sir, yoor
in q lite place. We're retired physicians
whose sands Nv life hev neerly run ous.
| see afore me long vista Nv privit life.
L sold myself ruthcr cheep, but L don's
complane. | hev about filed the mea-
sure of my ambshen-peoplc forget in a
few years, and eff they didn't, the Ameri-
kin people wont be croocl enuff to hold
my children responsible for wat [ hev
done. Some Nv 'em-I hev keeIfally
KEEP, 'cm away from Washington for near
ly three yeers-may yet redeem the name
Nv Randall, and even ez worthy men by
the name of Arnold hev managed to live
and be respectid-their virchues more
than balancin the unfortinit names they
wuz Gust with. But A. johnson, yoor
time is short. The Republikius is fur
ious, and the Dimocrisy he'd rather see it
than not. l, too, will visit 700 in yoor
retirement in Tennessee.
"More joy AJohnson in his eggsile feels,
Than tore the SENT laid him by the heels"
BY the time he wuz done talkic the
balance nv 'em had all left the room, and
wen he wuz done he went too, leaving no
one but me. The sceen was affectin.-
Dropping his head onto my buzzum, the:
scaldin teers a runnin down his checks,
he exclaimed in holler voice zone
by one they go. Mrs Cobb, first, and
the balance immcjitly after. Oh, wat
world is this % ~
draw the curtain over his greet. 1
may hev to fnanceer somewhat to hold,
my place, but alluz respeck manly
emoshun
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