The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-04
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Stanton johnson. and Mrs. Cobb.
There is a little story which Don Plat

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tells in his last letter to the Commercial:
The story runs, that soon after his
Accidency wen: into the White House,
he was taken, or was pretended to be
taken, with panic. He feared assas-
sination, and prepared request to the
Secretary of War to furnish the White
House with a guard, to prevent some
Democrat from numbering him. The
rough but willy Secretary, whose
knowledge of human nature enabled
him to look through Andrew, imme-
was called up, and instructed to put a
guard of detectives about the Execu-
tive mansion, so that no evil-minded
Democrat or other secessionist could 60
in and knock our Radical President in
the head. And, added the Secretary,
let the detectives be shrewd men, and
note all who go in and come out, and
make the same In writing, and report
every tWenty-four hours to the Depart
These orders were carried out, and
soon some curious developments were
made. All sorts of characters, male
and female, we found on visiting terms
with his Accidency, at all sorts OF hours;
and among these came up the name of
Cobb-Mrs. Cobb. Let me know who
this Cobb is,' demanded the Secretary,
and in eight hours answer came back,
'Pardon-broker.' So, under instruc-
tiOns, the familiar set trap for Mrs.
Cobb and the Presidential Casualty
called Andrew Johnson. A detective.
dressed in rebel gray, called on Mrs. c.,
and offered her three hundred dollars
for the Presidents signature to par
don. The next day the pardon was
produced, duly signed, and, almost be-
fore the ink was dry, the document was
under the nose of the President.
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Don't know responded the Carnot
who organized victory. is 1t your sig
nature?
1T is,' roared Andrew, 'and want it
investigated
That was what the Carnot who organ
lied victory wanted, and that night
Mrs, and Mr.. Cobb were seized in their
frugal couch, and all their papers, and
the three hundred dollars aforesaid cap
tured and recaptured, and an active
prosecution began.
The developments were too heavy for
Andrew. He came to the aid of Mrs.
Cobb. He procured her release, and
the indignant dame thus backed attack
ed Baker. The Chief Detective went to
prison, while the Cobb went Mt large.
He did not employ an attorney. He
sent for pen, ink and paper, and, en-
ploying dexterous scratch-pen, began
history of sixty days, as detective,
IN the Executive hduSlOu' AuuAe"I
hearing this, took another panic, and
ordered Baker to be released.
And all OF this the world has heard,
and all of this went to make the Cobb
famous. l am assured that il the grim
and taciturn Stanton, late the Cnrnot
who organized victory, saw fit, be could
give 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 inebriated An
drew might be spared to his suffering
country. It is said that these facts
kept Andrew in COW, when in the
course OF events his Accidency Joined
issue with the Secretary, and the first
named dared not to hurl the ugly Gus.
toner from the place he made SO disa-
greeable. I might believe this, was it
not that know that the result can be
traced to a more reasonable cause. The
weak nature of Andrew went down be-
tore the iron will of the War Secretary,
who had made himself the master of
stronger men than the ex-Alderman of
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