Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-23

Mr. NAsBY, IN HUMBLE IMITATION OF
OTHER PERSONS, HAS a CONvERsATIoN
WITH THE PBEsIDEFT.
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+ wssHrSrox, D. O. Aprifs, 1853. :
IL wsatszlGnna1nnmfnnfnGpuuuu
takin advice nv Attorney Genral Binkley,
ez to whether, in the event Nv the i'm
.peachmept W. the present. President. /
Good be ousted out Nv my Post Offs be-
fore the 4th Nv March, 1868, when it ok
kurred to me that | ought to have some
conversashun 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 I desired to talk with him, be di-
rektid his sekretary to furnish me with
pens and paper, that | might take down
what he sed IUfEnTCA
y i found him cain 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
Remark, casually" sed he, that the
Radikle, majority seem determined upon
Impeachment" EIsHs e a
" did so. when he replied In these words ::
Yes, they do. And why I cannot I'M
derstand. Never wuZ there man eggsist-
: cd In this or any other world, who wantid
peece more than / hev. l hev sighed for
1t, and done everythin in my power for 1t
but they wood not hey peece. In the be-
ginnin they talked Nv askin me to resine,
becoz Nv the trif1in egsilerashen l wuz la
BORN under on the occashun Nv my iRau-
gerashen, forgettin that it wuz the man,
not the Vice President, that wuZ drunk.
49, o
the South accomplished skkordin to my
views NV wat WIZ 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 rue, and accepted the policy 1
I he'd agreed upon. But they wood not.
: The entire Congris Nv the Yoonited States,
and the entire people Nv the 30 called
( loyal States, wickedly set themselves
in oppOsshen to me, after | he'd s0lemnly
warned en- 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 nassacres, and the Ku kiux
Klan." M.f nls,0 .....,I H., ....
= l did this, and the President went on.
: "The uniortunit okkurrences in Mem
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the same spirit developed in the people Nv
the South who opposed the confederacy.
They knew wat desired. For the sake Nv
peece, TO wipe out all traces Nv the late
/ .oDplesssninis, decided that everything
shOod be restored ez1t wuz before, ez near
ez mite be- My idea wuz to kiyer things
up. / he'd promised the friends Nv thelate
! lost coz control nv their own States, and
he'd the misguided people wich he'd stood
in oppcsishun to the confederacy, yielded
this one pint for the sake NV harmony all
wood hev bin we'll The process WIZ at
4 once simple and sublime. In Moo Orleen,
DR.. Dostic and his adherents he'd only to
turn over the control Nv the city TO Mayor
Monroe and Judge Abel, and there wood
hey bin no massacre. But they wood not
They persisted in inhamin Nv Their high.
spirited opponents to the punt uvsrisin
! agin EN-, and the massacre wuz the result
Wat else Good they expect. 1warncd en-
in time, but alars | wuZ not needed. In
Memphis, too, it wuz similar. The niggers
wood persist in hevin skool houses and
carryin spellin- books about with EN-, know
in that every time they did it they wuz in
flamin the Southern heart and firm The
Southern SOLE l he'd them warned, too
\ but to no purpose. Insted Nv quietir
things Gown by givin up their obnoxioul
pursoots, they perseyered. and, the Iesul
Is part Nv history. In the irritated con
dishen Nv the Southern mind, smartin ez j
4 wuZ under the constituents Nv defeat,
I Good not be expected that they shood loci
on quietly and see nigge- children in mig
ger skool houses, learnin that wich woot
OMIT EN- from tillen the posishen Nv mig
gers, tz they understood it. To the infat
coated people Nv the North, who eeged OF
the niggers Nv Memphis and Moo Orleen
to this attempt to raise themselves out "
/ the normal speer into witch they wuZ lei
by the Constitooshen must al the blame
for this lamentable okkurence now an(
forever attach The Ku Klux Khan is an
other development Nv the same spirit pro
GcOsed by similar causes and eventOoa
tin in the same results. The Niger
instid Cv hu nbly pursooin she even tene
Nv Their former ways and bowin meekly t
the ssoopeiior power Nv them witch WI
formerly their masters, is inflated to tn
pint Nv takin wat sed TO en- four yeer
ago in dead earnest, and beleevin their
selves 10 be men. They persist in yotil
and in holdin meetins and SIGH, and u
course the Caucashens nv the South can
tolerate it. The murder Nv these innocen
J n ggers by the men Nv the South is anoth
y er Manifestation NV Radical hate az,
nalignity. Had they cOunseled them t.
cortinyoo in that meeknis, the hoomiiit,
and bumblenis w wich is SO lovely in tn
q niger, there wood hev bin no Ku Klux
and the hair, or TO sreek more eggsact, tn
wool w the head Nv no one NV EN- WOO
ey.bin harmed, eXceptin when the higl
spirited sons Nv the South after an un
i wonted indulgence in the fowin bole NIT
in o playful, sportive mood, Occasionally
shoot or stab dozen or SIGH q matter a.
en-. They hev brot it upon themselves
Askme. NOW, about Grant, Sherman ant
them" 49,. +, $3.50 = - -. .,.--.l
Ibid so, and the President answered
promptly, enforcin his remarks with sp
proprit testers.
II alluz reposed great confidence il
Grant. For long time he WIZ wonder
fully Ieticent, Nv witch l didn't take NJ
motifs, fer ez it wGz incompreheBslble Il
me how any one Good differ with me,
sposed he wuZ troo to me and the constoo
A shen. | never lost faith in his patertisn
ill he insaDely and blindly commeEst op
posin me, and then | resigned him reluc
family. But he finally went over. Wa
an awful thing it is thst one who he'd woI
sch laurels ez he hed-who he'd made sicl
a name, shood throw il to the earth by on,
false step. But so il WIZ with Grant. Ill
he'd rendered me valy ooable assistance il
putin down the rebeily un, and he'd sui
fered almost ez much for the Constooshel
ez I he'd, but he rooined hisself after all
Sheridan opposed me from the beginin
thus layin hisself out for all time How
4 ard, ez ef bit with the same snake, wuz il
advance nv hirn; 6her man, Sickles. and th
great majority Nv the generals who served
did likewise. Rosso and Steedman re
/ named troo, and Hancock wuz finally per
suaded TO stand by the ship nv state, bu
the resi-, NV, en- persisted 10 .plungin tn
country into dissension and trouble b,
opposin me. When think nv how the,
Ll ro0ined fheireelves-nv wat q redicIa ion