Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-04
TERENCE MIGRANT.
He has a Thanksgiving Time.
The Forthcoming Message
Putting Carl Schurz OFF.

Ruttlng Carl SchurZ Oh.
Correspondence of the New York Democrat.
WASHINGTON, THANKSGIVING, Is siventy
Me Dairling-This is the day on finch
the paple of this country viii offer up
thanks that things are not cny worse.
Who in all this broad land but that can
thank their stars we have such noble
President, in me cousin Ulisses2 Dipil
the Won, unless it's the Dimmecrats of the
country and about half the Republicans.
Av coorse We mustn't expect there will be
some that don't like him, but we should
be thankful there are so many that love,
honor, and uphowld him in livery act of
which he is guilty. lndade this should
be day of gineral thanksgi ging, and l
may be afther saying major-gineIal and
brigadier-gineral thanksgiving, and in no
place will more thanks be given to the
acre than here in the Finite House, where
Everything goes on SO smoothly. In the
racent elections we give thanks that the
siveral Sha,es SO emphatically Endorsed
me cousins administration, more espe-
cially Moo Jersey. Me cousin says no
mather how the other Shtates may go,
Moo Jersey spakes the sintiment Of the
country at large. The other Shtates
name well enough towards us, but they
haven't that felicitous manner of express
ing thimsilves through the medium of the
ballot-box that Jersey has. Long live Moo
Jersey, says me cousin Ulisses.
We have the Givil's own lot of
INVITATIONS TO ATE
turkey wild the paple here TO day, but for
the firsht time in the hishtory of the pres
ent administration, we have been COM
PEELED to refuse invitations to dine. The
rason Of it is plain. We have so many
relatives here wild US that 1t would be i'm
possible to take them out to places where
we are invited; and more are coming by
every tnrain. The Baltimore and Ohio
railroad is running
SPECIAL TRAINS
hourly, and livery passenger is rilative Of
me cousin, or bis wife, or me aud Bridget.
Fhere the divil the poultry is coming
from to fade the crowd is the batting of
meself, as only about forty turkeys have
been STINT us by express, and the markets
have shut down thrusing for mate. How
ever, Providence will provide, no doubt,
if we ask in a spirit of makeness, and
shtate the case Just as il is. The House is
full of relatives, and we have been COM
PEELED to make up a lot of beds in he barn
for them to shleep, but they bother the
dogs and horses, so me cousin ssavs he
wishes Thanksgiving was over, so they
would go home.
The worsht failure of this President
business is the nonsensical cushion of de
livering the
ANNUAL MESSAGE.
Ne cousin has been worrying over it for q
month, and divil the know do l but he
might have been worrying about it till
& christmas, only for suggestion | made
till him. toWld him if was Prisidint l
would be aftaer writing to s)me rromi-
nent min foy heir opinions On different
subjects, and then put them all in hat
and shake it up, then let girl previously
blindfolded put her hand i'll the hat and
take out enough manuscript to make
fair message, and then me cousin could
copy 1t as his own. 1t bates al how quick
me cousin is to catch an idea. l hadn't
more than got the words out of me mouth
before he shaped me on the shoulder
and said | was worth more till him than
the whole Cabinet puttogether, finch was
saying little enough, TO be sure. He acted
on me suggestion, and wrote to Butler for
his opinion of the Alabama claims; to
Horace Grayley and William Cullen Bry
ant for advice on the tariff to Tilton for
her opinion of famail suffrage, and to
Bacher for his
OPINION OF HE'LL,
and we have got them all doVetailed tC-
gether nicely, and will have one of the
mosht Elegant messages yez liver expari-
enced. Grayley and Bryant didn't seem
to agree on the tariff, so me cousin will be
afther putting the opinions Of both of
them in the missage, and the paple can
take their choice. Bacher's opinion of
the prospects of he'll hereafter is a sound
and will suit the majority of
the Republicans better than onything me
cousin could have written. Bacher says
the idea of there being hell hereafter is
simply absubd. Could there be onything
more acceptable to the average Republi-
can, / dunno? Me cousin says that
relaves him from
GREAT EMBARRASSMENT,
and indade it does al of us. Butler says
the Alabama claims have got TO be set
tied, and Goldfish made legal tender in
or England has got to
walk over his dead body. He says if Eng
land refuses to satisfactorily settle those
claims, he can raise men enough in Mas
sachusetts to 1ll up the Atlantic ocean
wild dirt, and drive the British feet from
the say. He proposes to send full and
accurate report OF the capture of New
Orleans, and his subsequent acts there to
Duane Victoria and the Governor Gineral
Of Canada, and he thinks after reading it
they will hand over the amount we ask
without delay. Indade they would.
Yez mustn't be after reading that mes
sage fhen it comes out, IS in many re-
spects it will be a most remarkable docu-
men. Me corsin says its the most re-
maTkableist thing he ever wrote. (He
copied it off, We mind.)
1t was afther making another of me
REGULAR MISTAKES
the other day. Me cousin towld me he
EXPECTED a call from Missouri Dutchman,
named Carl Schurz, and he didn't want to
see HIM, as he had disobeyed me cousins
orders about the election there. Ne cou-
sin towld me Whin Schurz called l should
put him off some way. l thought the
asyeat way was the bosht, so wbin he
called, l tuck him be the nick and put
him off the shteps- He was mad, and
said be would have me impeached Fiat
the divil is impeached, l dunno2 Me
cousin says did wrong, as all he wanted
was for me to give him an evasive answer
whin he sxed for me cousin. l am al
ways doing something to injure me cOu-
sin.
Bridget is so busy shutting turkeys and
rilstives that she can't write ony in this
lether, but says she feels aisy in her mind,
wild the EXCEPTION of to0th-ache, and
hopes yez are enjoying the same blessing.
Thanksgivingfully yers,
TERENCE MIGRANT.
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