Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-19
NAsBY.
THE LAST CABINET MEET1NG-THB END |
OF THE JOHNSON REIGN As DESCRIBED |
ny MR.. Nasty.

| spurned by an ungratetul people, which
| didn't deserve so sweet boon, is wunst
| more privit citizen, and Nv no more ac-
count than am nor ez much, for am
still Postmaster
| Eel wuz in at the birth nv the johnson
party, SO II wuz my painful dooty to be in
at the death. | wuz present at the first
andrthe last Nv its Cabinet meetins. The
| first wuz eggsieratin scene 1.-The last the
most mournful I ever witnist At the first
| we started out with high hopes fresh in
| our ofiisls, with Treasury 10 draw on
wich seemed to us 10 hev no bottom, and
with sich men ez Raymond, Weed, ct a.,
| TO give us character and the voices NV the
Thousands NV patriots wich wantid offs
biddin us God speed-at the last there wuz
left only those who he'd become 30 fixed
that they couldn't get away, and every
one Nv EN- conshus that the next day at
10 nj. they wuz forever lost. The hsrlot
commenoin her career with youth, beauty,
strength and store clothes, Is one thing
the same bein holler-eyed, sunken-cheeks
dirty and drabbled, turned out TO die on
dung. hill, aint 80 pleasant TO look at
The meetin wuz held In the same old
room, In which hev seen more weepi
than ever fell TO the lot of one man. (The
! administrator Nv A. johnson will be
known in histry ez the moist Administra.
shen) II wuz In this room that we de-
clded TO veto the Freedman's Buro and
Civil Rites Bills, and all the other acts
NV the 30th and 40th Congresses-it wuz
in this room that we received the news Nv
the eleCkshens Nv 1866, 81 and SO; II
wuz In this room that the Philadelphia
COnvenshen wuz determined upon, and
the tetchn march NV Couch and Orr, arm
in arm up the aisle wuz arranged, the
.ge l.. % Nl Ia Ia
| little speech In witch he menshuned
the fact that ez he read the account
thereof he couldn't restrane his emOshun,
but bustid into food Nv teers; II wuz In
this room that the spontaneous triboots
NV respeck toward His Eggslency at va
rious times and places wuz arranged, and
| the details thereof fixed up; in short, II
| wuz in this room that oil the acts wich
| gild the memry NV the late eadmlnistrashen
wuz decided upon and evenchoally wept
over.
Ez | entered it-for the last time, prob.
ably-l bust into teers on the threshold,
and jined the other we, pers who he'd bin
distlllin briny greet for some hours. In
deed, 30 long he'd they blu weepin that
one friend NV the President, who he'd a
kentucky countenance, howled piteously
for some liquid TO replace that wich he
he'd lost. A bottle wuz handed him, and
he wept no more. tried IL TO strengthen
me agin the waste that knowd must en-
500. Ingratitood Is not my failure. Till
| A. johnson gifts back to Tennessee, my
| eyes shel not be dry.
The President wuz terribly calm and
composed.
"Weep, my friendsl" sed he, "weep
l can't blame yoo, FOR 700 ARE ABOUT TO
DE DEPRIVED OF MEl Bat in this tryin
hour will be calm. hev swung around
the entire circle NV ofilshel honor. / hev
bin"
At this pint his voice trembled and his
eyes wuz suiioosed.
"But MOI | win be myself. Sekretary
Seward, is there any more acts NV un-
constitooshnel Congress to vetoS"
"No-pockitin Nv em ansers the pur-
pose"
els there anybody to pardonY"
"No one-but stay, Now that think
NV It. two counterfeiters, one whisky
speculator, a Confederit officer or two
and watts left NV the assasslnashen party
: still langulsh either In Basteels or in ex
ile."
: "Imust finish my work, Hand me them
blank pardons,
He wrote with firm hand, a flllin Nv
en- out, wich only took a second ez he he2
blanks printed for all the various offences
men kin be guilty NV
"Now then, my duties is accomplished
and l cheertly rCsine the power wich
wood hev laid down long ago but for thu
Il sake NV my bleedin country. wood hel
: saved my native land but Enufl
Mayor Munro NV Moo Orleans, Mrs
Cobb, q SCORE or more Nv Confedrit oth
! GERS and Q food NV unforchenet men VIII
he'd bin accoosed Nv tamperin with an un
constooshnel curreacy, and hundred
e more or less, nv Fedral ofiisholders iilel
y In and shook the President corielly by tn
: hand, droppin silent tho elokent teer q
. = they passed. There wuz, In addishen 1
= these sevral hundred poor wretches VIII
y he'd BIN layin about Washington 70
. months waltin for posishens, but VIII
, hedn't got EN-. They he'd no money To &c
:, home with, and they insisted that III
y President must and shood furnish en-
y means One NV EN- demanded NV Ran
y dull $500, but that great man finally go
y rid NV him by lOanin him clean shir
~ !, and box nv paper collars
~ The man wuz deprest though still hope
. iul. "This," sed he, wSvin the shirt i
air, "this is all hev to start on agin-
s when ] embakt into Johnsonism m
- friends fell Off In Temorse | took to lib
ker and step by step went down till
became tho lOathsome objick 700 beholC
But shel now reform and try 20 be some
body Disguised in this shirt may ir
al spire confidence and find helpin han(
al But don't none nv yoo speek 10 me O
,,g the street"
',inl Ea saw him the next ovenin In stat
OF NV hilarity hangin to n lamp post repeatl
u, porshens Nv the late Presidents farewe
NJ address TO psssers by without any clea
ii shirt on, Judged remorse he'd ovgrcou
D. him agin and that the clean shirt he'd bi
pawned. Poor fellow
ly Then come the most saddest scene L
or all The President he'd to bid adoo to h
%, Cabinet
b. "My tried and rustid friends" he cor
u menoed, when Randall broke in with q
II onteelin n mark that he'd better 81
BY Z" trustid friends" without the "tried."
es My liege your tried friends wuG
er that gang nv counieTfeiters wich jist Il
IN the presence. They wuH not only trit
ne but convictid.n
H. Secretary Seward wuz vizably Aifeote
%, That afternoon he he'd heerd Nv an IslaI
W for sale, the principal volcano ON whi'
es he'd mostly stopped gushin, and he We
TO 10 think he hed'nt time TO complete neg
CT ciAshens for H. IL wuz offered for So
* 100000, and he considered the price
~ mere bagatelle.
al Secretary Wslles wuE the only oheerf
"a one In the party. tie he'd no idea that
ht wuz TO stop bein Secretary nv the Na'
as --he expeolid 10 60 along ez tho moth
n he'd happened. Seward and Randall h
n bin tTyin for an hour to make him col
he prehend the sitooashen-that ther wuZ
&c be a change-but to no purpose.
OF coodent git It thro him. tried TO II
he press Il onto his intelleck but my etiOT
d. wuz futile. Huggin TO his buEzum mod
4. Nv Erie canal boat wieh he he'd dete
OF mined to re e-model into Tevenoo cutie
be he kept on sayin-" Why-why shood
p 20 outY | wuK under Linkin and the
TO johnson. There Amt no more ditteren
ia kak,vaaD Tfnl,fn and Tahnaou than the