Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-16

The following incident is published in Pc
leg w. Chandlers recently published memoir
Of John A. Andrew, the illustrious war gov
ernor of Massachusetts,:
Among the governors friends was a young
merchant Of Boston, and will let him tell
the story IN his own way: ut was in the
summer of 1862, when emancipation was be-
ing talked great deal. We had not had any
great success and everybody had notion
that emancipation ought to come. One day
the governor sent for me to come up TO the
State House. / went up to his room, and
never shall forget how l met him. He was
signing some kind of bonds, standing at a
tall desk in the council chamber, in his shirt
sleeves, his fingers all covered with INK. He
snid How do you do? want you to go to
Washington. why, governor said l, L
can't go to Washington on any such notice as
this. l am busy, aud it is impossible for me
to 60 All my folks are serving their coun-
try said he and he mentioned the various
services the members of his staff were engag
ed in, and said with emphasis Somebody
must go to Washington Wei, governor,
don't see how l cam Said he, L command
you to 60. Well, said |, governor, put it
in that way and shall go, of course There
is something going ON, he remarked. This
is n momentous time He turned suddenly
toward me and said You believe in prayer,
don't youY l said, why, of course. Then
let us pray and he knelt right down at the
chair that was placed there; we both knelt
down, and never heard such Il prayer in my
life. never WIS 30 near the throne OF God,
except when my mother died, as | was then.
| said to the Governor, / am profoundly i'm
pressed and will start this afternoon for
Washington / soon found out that the
.ptunci,atip,a vros il, avarvhnIV'v nd
when l got to Washington and called upon
Sumner, he began to talk emancipation. He
asked me TO go and see the President, and
tell him how the people of Boston aud New
England regarded it. l went to the White
House that evening and met the President.
We first talked about every thing but emanci-
patton, and finally be asked me what
thought about emancipation. l told him
what thought about it, and said that Gov.
Andrew was so far interested in it that l had
no doubt he had sent me on there to post the
President in regard to what the class Of peo-
pie | met in Boston and New York thought
Of it, and then I repeated to him, as ! had
previously to Sumner, this prayer of the
Governors, as well as / could remember it.
The President said: When we have the
Governor of Massachusetts to send us troops
in the way he has, and when we have him to
utter such prayers for u.s. have no doubt
that we shall succeed In September the
Governor sent for me. He had dispatch
that emancipation would be proclaimed, and
it was done the next day. You remember
the Pre- sident made proclamation in Septem-
to take effect in January. Well, he and
were together alone again in the Council
Chamber. Said he You remember when /
wanted you to go on to Washington ? said,
Yes. remember it very WE'LL Well said
he, 4 didn't know exactly what wanted you
TO go for then. Now will tell what let's do ;
you sing Coronation, and I'll join with you
So we sang together the old tune, and also
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Then sang Old John Brownie marching
around the room and joining in the chorus
after each verse"