The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-17

more account than L am-nOr eZ much,
for L am still a postmaster.
EZ wuz in at the birth Nv the john
son party, so it wuZ my painful duty to
be in at the death. wuZ present at
the first and last NV its Cabinet meet
ms, The first wuZ n eggsileratin scene
the last the most mournful I ever
witnist.
At the first we started out with high
hOpes-fresh in our ott1sis, with Treas
urY to draw on, witch seemed to us to
heV no bottom, and with SIGH men ez
Raymond, Weed, ct. a., to give us char
acter, and the voices NV the thousands
nv patriots witch wanted offs biddin us
God speed-at the last there was left
only those who he'd become SO fixed
that they couldn't get away, and every
one of EN- cOnshus that the next day at
II NJ. they wuz forever lost. The har-
let cOmmencin her career with youth,
beauty, strength and store clothes is
one thing-the same beln holler-eyed,
sunken cheeks, dirty and drabbled,
turned out to die on dung. hill, amt
80 pleasant to look at.
The meetin wuZ held in the same
old room in witch l hev seen more weep
in than ever fell to the lot NV one man.
The administrator of a. Johnson will
be known in history eZ the moist ADJ
ministrashen. 1t wuZ in this room
that we decided to veto the Freedmen's
other acts Of the 39th IL 10th Congresses
it wuz in this room that we received
the news of the eleCkshenS Nv 1866, '67
and :6S; il wuZ in this room that the
Phlladel phia Conversion wuZ deter
mined upon, and the tetchin march of
Couch and Orr, arm up the
aisle, wuz arranged; the President writ
in at the same time his little speech in
wich he menshund the fact that, eZ he
read the account thereof, he couldn't re-
strane his emoshun, but busted into
flood " teers; it wuz in this room that
the spontaneous trlboots Nv respeck to-
ward His Eggslency at various times
and places wuZ arranged, and the de-
tails thereof fixed up; in short, it wuZ
in this room that all the acts witch Slld
the memory nv the late administrashen
wus decided upon, and evenchoally
wept over.
IL I entered it-for the last time
probably-I bust into teers on the
threshold and jined the other weepers
who he'd bin distillin briny greet for
some hours. Indeed so long bed they
bin Weepin that one friend of the Presi-
dint, who he'd a kentucky countenance,
howled piteously for some liquid to re-
Mace that wich he he'd lost. A bottle
wuZ handed him and he wept no more.
l tried it to strengthen me agin the
waste that l knoWd must ensoo. In
gratitood is not my failure. Till A.
johnson gifts back to Tennessee, my
eyes shell not be dry.
The President wuz terribly calm and
composed.
Weep! my friends!" sed he, "weep.
1 can't blame 900, for you are about to
be dcpTiUed of me! But in this trying
hour 1 will be calm. L hev swung
around the entire circle NV otfishel hon.
or. l hev bin
AT this pint his voice trem5led and his
ewes wuZ SUPPOSED.
but no! will be myself Secretary
Seward, is there any more acts Nv un-
constitooshnel Congress 10 vetG?'
'No-pockitin NV EN- nuaers the pur-
pose.'
rs there anybody 10 pardon2'
NO one-but stay. Now that think
Nv it. two counterfeiters, one whisky
speculatOr, 81 Confederit officer or two,
and watts lett Nv the assassinashen par
ty, still languishing either in basteeIs
'Or in exile
Il must finish my work. Hand me
them blank pardons.'
He wrote with a firm hand, film nv
EN- out, WITCH only took second, ez he
hez blanks printed for all the various
offences men kin be guilty Nv.
'Now, then, my dooties is accomplish
ed, and cheerfly resIne the power wich
| wood hev laid down long ago but for
the sake NV my bleedin country.
wood hev saved my native land, but
Enuff. Admit our friends.'
Mayor Munro, Nv Moo Orleans, Mrs.
Cobb, q score or more Nv Confedrlt of
ticers and flood Nv unforchenct men
who had bin accoosed nv tamperin with
an unconstooshnelc urrency,nnd hum
bred, more or less, NV Fedral oils
holders filed in and shook the Presl-
dent corjelly by the hand, dropln ST.
lent, tho elokent teer eZ they passed.
There was, in addishen to these, sever
- HurnfahpH who had hin
LAWN about Washington for months
waitin for posishens. but who dedn't
get EN-. They he'd no money to get home
with, and they insisted that the Presi-
dent must and shoOd furnish EN- means:
One Nv EN- demanded NV, Randall
$500, ut.that great man finally got r1d
nv him by loaning him clean shirt
and box Nv paper collars.
The man was deprest, though still
hopeful. This said he, wavin the
shirt in the air, this is all hey to
start;on aSin-when embark into
morse took to likker, and step by
step went down till 1 became the loath-
some objick 700 behold. But shell
now reform, and try to be somebody.
Disguised in this shirt, may inspire
confidence, and lind he'll pin hand
But don't none of 700 speak to me on
| the street,
EZ saw him the next evenin in
state of hilarity hangin TO lamp-post,
repeater porshens NV the late Presi-
dents address to passers by, without
any clean shirt on, L judged remOrse
had overcome him agin, and that the
clean shirt had bin pawned. Poor
| fellow!
Then come the most saddest scene NV
all, The President had to bid adoo to
my tried and trustid friends he
commenced, when Randall broke In
with the onfeeling remark that he'd
better say 'trustid Friends without the
tried.
'My liege, your tried friends, wuz in
that gang of counterfeiters witch list
left the presence. They wuz not only
tried, but convicted
Secretary Seward wuz visibly affect
| i'd. That afternoon he had heard NV an
| island for sale, the principle volcano
on wich was mostly stopped gushln,
and he wept to think he hadn't time to
complete negociashens for 1t. 1t WIZ
offered for $40, OOO, 900, and he consid-
cred the price a mere bagatelle.
Secretary Welles wuz the only cheer.
full one in the party. He he'd no idea
that he wuz to- stop bein Secretary nv
the Maybe expected to go along ez
tho nothin he'd happened. Seward and
Randall he'd bin tryin for an hour to
make him comprehend the sitooashen
that Their wuZ to be a change-but to
no purpose. He coodent git 1t thro
him. / undertook to impress it onto
his intellek, but my efforts wuz futile.
Huggin to his buZzum model Nv a
Erie canal boat which he he'd determin-
ed to remodel into revenoo cutter. he
lyont m cavir GWhu-whv RhO0d II 90