Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-04-01

friends made NV themselves at the Phila-
delphia Convenshn, [ didn't consider my
self bound to yoo. [, ez 700 know, never
took anv stock in halt-and-half mixters.
My defect by Thurman heznt increased
my love for 700 and yoors. L hev no OBJ
kjecshn to yoor holdin yoor sect to the end
Nv yoor term, but really it's a matter Nv
but little conscience to me. Shood you
pass thro Dayton on yoor way to Tennessee,
[ shood be glad to extend the hospitalitles
Nv my humble house to yoo.'
The next wuz from Franklin Pierce, and
wus dated at Conkord, \. H:
81 feel for VOC that is, | feel for you
on general principles. (Thad. Stevens,
permit me to say in parenthasis, hez ben
feeln for yoo, and hez at last am satisfied
found yoo.) [ feel for 700 ez [ do for every
man who hez a offs and is obleeged to leave it.
Nevertheless, | can't help 700. [ wood,
but yoo see we hev all we kin do to help
ourselves. Nv coorse yoo don't expect the
Dimocracy to take any part in the struggle
between VOC and Congriss. Elected a
Republican, with Republikins in your
Cabinet, the Dimocrisy, while they ap-
plaud wat yoo hev done, can't Nv coorse
make yoor quarrel theirs. When you leave
W y
Concord in your way? [ hev no objecshen
to minglin teers with you"
The next wuz from Western politishen
lately appointed Postmaster
Il return the appointment 700
gave me last month with loathin and skorn.
[ survived the Moo Orleans and Memphis
massacres, yoor opposition to the will Nv
Congriss, and all the other damnin iniqui-
ties Nv yoor most damnable administration,
but this last attempt to hist Stanton L can't
endorse Therefore | bolt. Yoor successor
will, [ hope, do me justis, and likewise the
: Senit.'
Lord. ;" sed Randall, - that cuss bored
me for better nor a yeer for the appointment
but the SENT won't confirm him. Oh,
Wade, what hevent you to undergo. Oh,
: johnson, from what hev 700 escaped"
\ prominent Eastern Democrat wrote
: ez follows:
Defy Congriss and let EN- impeech yoo
Dare EN- to do ther dirty d-dest. Eff
they shood hist yoo, all the better. 1t
: will be an immense help toward the eleck-
, shun Nv Mcclellan Think how much yoo
kin do for the coz in this way. and stand
firm. Visit Hartford on yoor way to Ten
nessee."
\ Western Dnmokrat wrote:
. We all applaud yoor courage and reso-
looshun Let the Rump impeech and re-
move yoo, and it makes certain the triumph
Nv Pendleton Stand by yoor colors. Yoor
impeachment is our hope. Shell we see
700 at Cincinnati on yoor way to Tennes-
see ?
\ Southern Dimokrat wrote
Be frm-be firm The Impeachment
q Nv yoorsef will raise sich STONE Nv in
dignashur in the North, and sich sympathy
for Southern Dimokrars ez TO make the
nominashun Nv even such a man ez Breck
| enridge certain O, stand firm! Let en-
: impeech VOC Yoo are, now, Nv vast yoost
to the COZ. [ will meet 700 at louisville
and accompany 700 to Tennessee"
"McClellan, Pendleton, Breckenridge.
shouted the President what NV me
Am | to bleed solely for their good
l. don't want to 90 to Tennessee, nor l won t
Never !" And Androo, who isn't quite
ez much NV a philosopher as Sokratees
i busted into teers, swearing that he'd see en-
: blest afore he'd sakrifs a mint Nv his
Z term for anybody's yoose but his own.
!, The next wuz from an assessor in lllinoy
u who went to remark that he woud be glad
: to support him, but decent regard for the
{ interests NV his family indikated different
course He he'd espoused the coz Nv the
n d President agin Congris for the sake uy
u the position, and the President Good vel
" understand that it wuz no more difikult tC
{ change now, to keep offs, than 1t wuz t
. change two yeers ago to get one. He wul
at this time bizzly engaged in supportir
5 Congris-' Call it not ingrattiude, sed he
d & [ wuz in the market then, and am now
precisely ez wuz all them wich 700 led cap
tive out NV the Republican party. He i
a eggresis ass who worships the settin sun
when by turnin around he kin let the COLDER
le rays Nv the risin orb onto him"
e At this pint and long afore the afflicted
President had recovered from these blows
Giddy Welles nephew, he'd bin out on
scout, returned with a report. Fust, h
." he'd nOtist that every burned one of tn
= cusses who he'd bin beseegin the Whit
IL House For appointments for months, WI
now doggin Senator Wade around tha
- they waited indoors at the door NV tn
H. Senit Chamber, that they beseeged his he
III II tel Secondly, that the Constitooshne
Yoonun Club wuz then in session and wa
Y Y jest debatin the question whether to chang
u u the name of the Club to the q E>al Rite
III Assosiashen the :" Imparshel Suffrag
League" or the " Radikle Brotherhood.
y 70 Third, that the Conservative clerks in tn
= Departments wuz all organizin theirselve
4; in Grant and Wade clubs he'd ordere
- 1000 Grant medals, turnin In the oil
- johnson medals they he'd bin wearin a
u u part pay:
~ :. Good Heavens " sed His Eggslency.
10 What else Good 700 expect? retorte
Randall, we bot EN- cheep and they ar
III cheep men, | may do the same thing ator
", w mite The experiment Nv buyin up part
III at so much he'd hez bin tried afore, an
hez alluz failed afore very much like tn
us ice Nv perpetooal moshen. You ken q
q considerable enthoosiasm ez long ez yoo
81 provender holds out, but then. The fac
. is VOC didn't get no Republicans wort
II u, hevin, and 700 aint NV no yoose to the De
q mocricv, becoz yoo coodent cary enuff u
~ them Republicans over to do EN- any gooc
y My deer sir, yoor in a tite place. Weir
II II retired physicians whose sands NV life he
- neerly run out. | see afore me a long visit
ie of private life. [ sold myself rather chear
;" but I don't complain | hev about file
~ the measure NV my ambishen--pedple forgt
''1 : in a few yeers, and eff they didn't, th
i American people won't .be~crooel enuff 4
~ ! hold my children responsible for wat / he
9u done. Some NY. enl--,I hey keerfully Ike
Z EN- away from Washington for .neerly tthrt
years-maY yet redeem the name NV, RAJ
dali even ez worthy men bv the name I