Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
ANECDOTES. A



task very onerous by reason of the extreme
jealousy of Mr.. Buchanan as to what should
be printed of him. lie possessed no literary
| attainments of the prompt, readable news
paper sort, and once when he had read some
| of the manuscript the old man rubbed his
hands and laughed in his fat cold way.
ella ha ha Oh Mr.. Skunk; if my life
were to begin again would not be o law
| yer. This Journalism is going to be the big
profession in this country. The law is very
jealous, and it over disciplines the mind,
making the lawyer unfit for this closet com.
bat of the newspaper. When one gets
competence by the law he is fit only for a
| lawyers politics Keep to the newspaper,
! sir Keep to the newspaper! 7
ANECDoTE OF BUCHANAN.
"a soiourner at Wheatlalfd, in the latter
years of Mr.. Buchanan's life, related to me,
the other day, this quaint and recognizable
incident of the cx President:
Enter, with much crude modesty, hat in
hand, the son of a farmer near by. To him
old Buck, looking his most Arctic countc-
nance. Great anguish aud pedal prevarca-
ton of the boy.
Boy: Mister Bewcanin, sir if You please,
, why there's a gentlemen staying at my
daddy's, and, all ah sir, being as he knew
tDat we knew you, why
"'And where is this gentleman, sir ?
asked Buchanan, with an ice cream freezer
of a voice, trembling on the edge of the ter
rible.
Hes right here in the hail. SIR
90 Go bring him in, sir.rrp
"As the boy disappeared Buchanan turn
ed to my informant and said:
Another damned Yankee" "
"The stranger came in, an officer of some
sort, evidently resolved to sympathize with
buchanan and take his inventory. II he
expected a feeble old presentment Of q VOL
sey in sooQuy he must have been petrtied
with the old mans heigh., fire and ice to.
gether. The scene was too much for the
third party. He felt Cor the intruder and
vanished to spare him the scene.
"In half an honr S. heard the old laugh,
cold and low and measured, of the Presi-
dent. He peeped in and found that the
man had completely conquered Buchanan,
so that they were getting on even humor.
! ously together.
Well said old Buck, afterward he
| wasn't so bad man, after all y
STEVENS, BUCHANAN AND TIE DOCTORS.
! "Stevcns and Buchanan were attended in
| life and to the end by DR.. Carpenter, d
| democrat, whom some rabid people once
| advised Stevens to put away because of the
value Of his life to the country, and the
danger of a c0pperhesd pill. The old man
! opened his door:
! Go out y he said, DR.. Carpenter is my
| friend If you begin to interfere in m.
household economy God knows where yor
will stop
Stevens sent Buchanan books and favor!
from Washington down to the last Ole
Buck said, in reply to the bystanders:
"'Thaddeus and ought to be friends
but it's his fault. 1t pleased Providence, il
his iuscrutahle will 20 create Thaddeu'
with good head and good heart, but h
left the moral part out of him.
CDR. Carpenter relates that Stevens tooh
all his medicine with grim readiness, say
ing: We'll just fix up anything, and II
swallow it,
"Mr. Buchanan hated medicine, and triet
to avoid it, lie died of gout, and was
obliged to shorten his rye whiskey ration
at the last punch TO his chagrin; but Ste
vens never drank from middle life to th'
close thereof without the doctors orders
He had been kept alive during the whole .
the last Congress by stimulants"
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial writes
STEVENS AND LIQUOR.
"When he came to Lancaster, he made
up his mind never to drink again, and thi
he kept till his physicians forced upon hin
Franks beer and Mishler's bitters, and othe
Lancaster beverages. He left his estate 81
that his nephew, who is fond of the bowl
shall only get it upon long and successful
temperance probation. Stevens has Otter
said of liquor:
~ have no hate Of it, but an abidin!
fear Of it. 1t is responsible for death, sla
very, prejudice, and all the other democrs
tic monuments
"At the same time, Mr.. Stevens was in
consistent enough to use beer and whiske
literally in electoneering. have talked t
two or three Of his constituents to whom HI
would cay:
James, you must go to Franks some
limesi 1t is coming on election time.
you see some of my friends up there, jus
treat them, and send me the bill"
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Edward Mcpherson told ME of the in
huence Stevens had upon the emancipation
proclamation, Many months before it ap
peared he made speech urging absolut
and immediate enfranchisement, aud this b
sent to the President Some days after
| ""'N' Nv hObNiSi uP W VIZ w hitS iioboS
where he found Lincoln perusing this docu
ment. The President drew. long breath
directly, saying:
! "'Ahl Thad, guess wen have to com
down to this yet
"'You ought to have come up to it Ion
ago ! said Stevens, bluntly.
HOW BUCHANAN "CUT" STEVENS.
"He was an uncompromising hater {
masses of men and of the ideas they held
but hated few individuals, Said Buchar
an, his constituent
"Thaddeus and ought to have bee
friends, but it's not my fault. He not onl
sends to me from Washington the publ
documents, but he buys books and send
them to me-"
sand then Buchanan relapsed into b
soliloquy upon the moral part of Thadder
so inscrutably omitted, whereas in fact,
was he who took offence at Stevens, and d.
liberatsly cut him at a company"
THE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.
'He frequently invented aud related wit
felicity anecdotes and excuses, some I
which got to the newspapers, aud then !
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