The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-09
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STANTON. ANDREW AND Gem. /.

TIE story runs. that soon after his
Accf1ency went into the White House.
; be was taken, or pretended.to be taken,
with 4 panic, He feared assassination,
and pFepared n request to the Secretary
of Ver TO furnish the White House
WsitltA guard. TO prevent some Demo.
erat from Numbering him.. The rough but
| WHY eeeIetary. whose knowledge of
/ human nature enabled him to look
| through Andrew Immediately complied.
That ihIniiiar Baker was called up,
and Instructed to put guard of detec-
tlves about the Executive Mansion, so
that no eyilrminded Democrat or other
seeesf5onist could go in and knock the
Radical President in the head. ''And."
-adeteo the Secretary. s'slet the detectives
be shFewd men, and note ali who may
go III and come out, and make the same
in writing, and report every twenty
four hours TO the Department.. y ss
These orders. were carried out, and
soon some curious Developments were
made, All sorts ofcharaciers. male aud
fem ale. were found on visiting terms
with hi ecidelicy, atalf sorts ofhours ;
and among fltese came up the name OF
CObb-MFs. Cobb. s'sIzet me know w no
this Cobb is" demanded the Secretary,
and In eight hours answer rame back,
pardon broker" So, under instrnc-
tions, the familiar set trap for Mrs
Cobb and the Presidential Casualty call
| ed Andrew johnson. A detective,
/ dressed in rebel gray, called on Mrs. e.,
and offered her three hundred dollars
| for the Presidents signature to par
| dom The nextday the pardon was pro-
duced, duly signed, and, almost before
the ink was dry. the document was un-
der the nose of the President.
NY hat docs this meant" cried An
drew. eassss5. .s5 sfsa.. s.a ff
Don't know, responded the Carnot
who organized victory Is it your sig
| att is" reared Andrew, sand l want
ii investigated" a
That was what the Carnot who organ
lied victory wanted, and that night Mr..
and Mrs. Cobb were seized in their fi'u-
| gal couch. and all their papers. and the
three hundred dollars aforesaid captur-
ed and recaptured, and an active prose-
cution began.g 49,. az .z.-f, .sss..
The developments were too heavy for
| Andrew He came TO the aid of Mrs
Cobb. He procured her release, aud
the indignant dame thus backed attack
| ed Baker. The Chief detective went to
! prison, while the Cobb. went at large.
| He did not employ an attorney. He
sent for pen, ink aud paper, and, employ
ing QeAIefOuS Scfatch-pen, DSSan a
/ history of sixty days, as detective, in
the Executive Mansion. Andrew, hear
| ing this, took another panic, and order
ed Baker to be released: s 3ss r
Al nd all OF this The world has heard,
and all of this went to make the Cobb
famous am assured that if the grim
and taciturn Stanton, lafe the Carnot
who organized victory. saw fit, he could
tgive to the world yet more entertaining
matter than that of the Cobb, which
was brought to light and put to record,
during the sixty days when the detec-
| tive held watch on the White House.
night and day. that the inebfiated An
drew mi ght be spared to his suffering
country. 1t is said that these facts kept
Andrew in COW, when in the course OF
events his Accidency Joined in issue
with the Secretary. and the first-named
dared not to hurl the ugly customer
from the place he made SO disagreeable.
/ might believe this was it not that
know that the result can be traced TO a
| more reasonable cause. The weak ma
tuEa of Andrew Went down before the
| iron will of the War Secretary, who had
made himself the master of stronger
men than the ex-alderman of Tennes-
SEED. y. an the Cincinnati CONNER
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