The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-03-18

|HutuUouhl l0uGrea3 70 veto
"No-pockitin Nv EN- ansers the purpose"
"is there anybody ioparlon p
"No one but stay. Now that think Nv
u Two couDferfeiteFs, one whisky Spectator,
a Confedrit officer Ur two, and watts left nv
tbs assassination party still linger in Bas.
tee or in exile"
Il must finish my work. Hand me them
blank pardOns."
lie wrote with firm band, a fllin nv en-
out wich only took a second On he hez blanks
printed for all the various offences man kin
be guilty Nv.
"Now then, my dooties is accomplished
and cheerily resine the power wich wood
hev laid down long ngo but for the sake nv
my bleedn country ! wood hey saved my
native laud---Enough. Admit our friends
Mayor Munro Nv New Orleeus, Mrs Cobb.
a score or more NV Confedrit officers and a
flood Nv uniorchenet men who he'd bin ac-
cOosed Nv tamperin with an unconstooshnel
currency, and hundred, more or less, Nv
Federal ofis-holders fled in and shook the
President corjelly by the hand, dropin a ST.
lent elokent teer ez they passed. There
wuz, in nddishen TO these severrl hundred
poor wretches who bin layin about Wash.
ington for months waltin for posishens, bat
who hedn't got en- They he'd no money
to get home with, and they insistid that the
President must and shood furnish EN-
mems. One NV en- demanded Nv Randall
$500 bat that great man finally got rid NV
him by loann him a clean shirt and box
Nv paper collars.
The man wuz dcprest though still hope
iul. "This, sed he'd, wayin the shirt In air,
"this is all I hev to start on agiu-when /
embarkt into JOliusouism my friends fell
of. In remorse took to lkkor and step by
step went down til became the loathsomc
o6jck yoo behold. But shel now reform
aud try to be somebody. Disguised in this
shirt may inspire confidence and find n
helpin hand. But doat none NV yoo speck
to me on the street,
Ez saw him the next evenin in n state NV
hilarity hangin TO lamp post repeatn por-
shens Nv the late Presidents farewell ad-
dress to passers by without any clean 81 i-t
on, | judged remorse he'd overcome him
again and tha, the clean shirt he'd bin pawn.
cd, Poor fellowl
Then come the most saddest scene nv all
The President he'd to bid adoo TO bis Cabinet.
'"My tried and trustid friends" he com
menced, when Randall broke in with the
onieeln remark that he'd better say ''truS.
lid friendst without the "iried.r
"My liege Tour tried friends" wuz in
that gang nv countcrleitcrs which jist left
the presence. They wuG not only tried bat
convicted"
Secretary SEWARD wuz vlzably effected
That afternoon he had heetd NV an Is
land for sale, the principal volcano on
wich he'd mostly stopped gushin, and he
wept to think he hed'nt time to COM
plete negoclalhens for it. Il wuz offered
for $40, 100000 and he considered the
price a mere bagaiello.
Seketary WELLEs wuz the only cheerful
one in the party. He he'd no idel that
he wuz to stop bcin Seketary NV the Ma
vy--ahe expcctid to go along ez tho nCthin
he'd heppeued. SEWARD and RANDALL he'd
bin tryin for an hour to make him COM
prchend the sitooashen--that ther wuz to
be change-but to no purpose. He Good
ent gt it thro him. | undertook TO i'm.
press It onto his intelleck but my efforts
wuz futile. Iluggin to his buzzum n model
NV Eric canal boat which he had deter
mined to remodel into q reveuoo cutter,
ho kept on nsaYin--"Why-why shood 20
out2 | wuz under LINKlS aud then JnHN-
son. There aint no more difference between
Linkin and John son than there is between
johnson and Grant, Is there? | agreed
with Lnkin and with Johnson, and shel
agree with Grant. doubtless WHY sbood
| differ with Grant,"
Randall smiled sardonic'e smile at the
aged infant, and remarkia that he IRAN
dall) he'd he'd good time NV 1t anyhow,
the recolleCkshen whereof the id Abo-
lishnists coodent rob him NV shook hands
with A. j. Rddin that lac didn't bear him
any ILL will.
"rm a rooined M ln,n coutinyood Randall
"but I'm cz much TO blame oz 700 are.
! shel 60 into his,ry coupled with yoo-my
bloomin boys when they arrive at mans
estate will apply to the Legesachers ny
their respective States TO hey their names
changed to suthin else. I'm young and
can't die In q few yeers ez Wcles kin
and must therefore drag out longer eg-
gistance but / don't blame 700. I went
into it toklu the chances, and | stand the
hAs=ud NY the die. shel serge the aui-
oishus youth Nv this country c. NT Awful
Bggsample."
But little remained to be done. Randall
and johnson arranged to hey Wells absent
from Washington for the week folowrn the
inaugurashen, KNOWN that oterwiso he'd
hev to be carried out NV the Depart,
ment by force. They appintid com,
mittee NV Connecticut men to keep
him busy till after his successor wuz
installed, and shakin hands all around
each sheddin manly tear, tho last
Cabinet meeting Nv A. Johuson's ad-
mlnistratiou passed into hist:y.
Wv the Inauguration NV Grant the
next day, hey not tho heart to
write. Suffice it to say that niggers
participated in i'll Niggers wus on
the sidewalks, not ca in the oldcn
time, humble aud meek, but in
chairs, waitin to SOC the procession
pass amoosin theirselves the while
readin noospapers.
Deekin Pogram, who wuz with me.
called my attenshen to this, askiu ei
it wuz possible Cor Kentuckian
whose eyes beheld sioh site to h9v
any further faith in republikin in
stooshens? The old saint shudder-
ed yisibly ez a niggor in a dress
coat, plug-hat and shiny boots pass
ed us, nearly knookm us into tie
gutter in their haste, his wife onto
his arm, dressed in the heighth NV
fashion, with q panyer. He smiled
teebly and in bewildered way, but
sed nothim Tho site NV niger
regiment marehin in tho preceshun
finished the Deekin. He grew so
faint that he'd to take him to his
lodgius. lie lot the same eyeuin
for the Corners.
The members uv the late Admin,
istTashon how not decided wat to do
Browning will probably go into a
claim agency in Moo York. Ran
dali remarkt that of Sammy Cox aod
Jack Rogers Good succeed in Moo
York, he shot he Good. Mrs, Cobb
will go to Moo York and probably
the pardon brokers, lobbyists, aud
sleh will do likewise, A dozen or
two Faro banks packed up to.nite,