Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-19

didn't deserve 80 sweet boon, is wunst
more a privit citizen, and Nv no more &C.
count than am-nor eZ much, for I am
still Postmaster.
Ez Il wuz in at the birth NV the Johnson
party, so it wuz my painful dooty to be in
at the death. I wuz present at the first
and the last Nv its Cabinet meetins. The
first wuz eggsileratin scene-the last the
most mournful ever witnist At the first
we started out with high hopes-fresh in
our offisis, with Treasury to draw on
wich seemed to us to hev no bottom. and
with SIGH men ez Raymond, Weed, ct a.,
TO give us character and the voices Nv the
thousands Nv patriots witch wantid offs
biddin us God speed-at the last there wuZ
left only those who he'd become so fixed
that they couldn't get away, and every
one Nv EN- conshus that the next day at
10 M. they wuZ forever lost. The harlot
commencin her career with youth, beauty,
strength and store clothes, is one thing
the same bein boiler eyed, sunken.cheeks,
dirty and drabbled, turned out to die on a
dung chill, amt so pleasant to look at.
The meetin wuz held in the same old
room, in which | hev seen more weepln
than ever fell to the lot of one man. (The
administrator Nv A. johnson will be
known in histry ez the moist Administra-
shen) 1t wuZ in this room that we de-
cided to veto the Freedman's Buro and
Civil Rites Bills, and all the other acts
Nv the 39th and 10th Congresses-it wu2
in this room that we received the news Nv
the eleckshens Nv 1866, '67 and 49, it
wuz in this room that the Philadelphia
Convenshen wuz determined upon, and
the tetchin march Nv Couch and Orr, arm
in arm up the aisle wuz arranged, the
President writin at the same time his
little speech in witch he menshuned
the fact that ez he read the account
thereof he couldn't restrane his emoshun,
but bustid into flood Nv teers it 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, it
Wuz in this room that all the acts wien
gid the memry Nv the late administration
wuz decided upon and evenchoally wept
over.
Ez / entered it-for the last time, prob
ably-I bust into teers on the threshold,
and lined the other weepers who he'd bin
distillin briny greet for some hours. In
deed, so long he'd they bin weepin that
one friend NV the President, who he'd a
Kentucky countenance, howled piteously
for some liquid to replace that witch he
he'd lost. A. bottle wuz handed him, and
he wept no more. tried it 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 shell not be dry.
The President wuz terribly calm and
composed. -.-,........-s.
Weep, my friends!" sed he, sweep.
can't blame 700, FOR 700 ARE ABOUT TO
BE DEPRIVED OF MEL But in this tryin
hour will be calm. hev swung around
the entire circle Nv of1shel honor. l hev
bin" s.=e
At this pint his voice trembled and his
eyes wuz suffoosed.
"But no will be myself. Secretary
Seward, is there any more acts NV I'M
constitooshnel Congress to veto?"
"NO-pockitin Nv EN- ansers the pur-
pose." .-
"Is there anybody to pardon?"
"No one-but stay. Now that think
speculator, Confederit officer or two,
and watts left Nv the assassinashen party,
still anguish either in Basteels or in ex-
ile." ........
81 must finish my work. Hand me them
blank pardons.
He wrote with 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.
snow then, my duties is accomplished,
and | cheerfly rosine the power witch I
wood hev laid down long ago but for the
sake Nv my bleedin country. Iwood hev
saved my native land but -. Enuff.
Admit our friends"
Mayor Munro Nv Moo Orleans, Mrs
Cobb, a score or more Nv Confedrit Off
GERS and flood Nv unforchenet men who
he'd bin accoosed Nv tamperin with an un-
constooshnel currency, and hundred,
more or less, nv Fedral offis-holders filed
in and shook the President corjelly by the
hand, droppin a silent tho elokent teer ez
they passed. There wuz, in addishen to
these sevral hundred poor wretches who
he'd bin layin about Washington for
months waitin for posishens, but who
hedn't got EN-. They he'd no money to get
home with, and they insisted that the
President must aud shood furnish EN-
means One nv EN- demanded Nv Ran
dull $500, but that great man finally got
rid Nv him by loanin him clean shirt
and box Nv paper collars. ..,.
The man wuz deprest though still hope
tul. This" sed he, wavin the shirt in
air, "this is all I hev to start on agin-
when l embarkt into Johnsonism nv
friends fell off. In remorse took to lik-
ker and step by step went down till
became the loathsome objick 700 behold.
But | shell now reform and try to be some
body. Disguised in this shirt NAV in
splre confidence and find helpin hand.
But don't none Nv 700 speek to me on
the street."
Ez saw him the next evenin in state
Nv hilarity hangin to a lamp post repeatin
porshens Nv the late Presidents farewell
ADDRESS to passers by without any clean
SHIRT on, judged remorse he'd overcome
him agln and that the clean shirt he'd hin
pawned. Poor fellow! N
Then come the most saddest scene Nv
all: The President he'd to bid adoo to his
Cabinet.
" My tried and trustid friends" he com.
menced, when Randall broke in with the
onfeelin remark that he'd better saw
trustid friends without the tried"
My Hege your tried friends wlz in
that gang Nv counSerfeiters witch list left
the presence. They wuz not only tried
but convicted"
Secretary Seward wuz vizably affected.
That afternoon he he'd heerd Nv an Island
for sale, the principal volcano on which
he'd mostly stopped gushin, and he wept
to think he hed'nt time to complete nego-
ciashens for it. 1t wuz offered for $780,
100000, and he considered the price a
mere bagatelle.
Secretary Welles wuz the only cheerful
one in the party. He he'd no idea that he
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