The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-11
OBJ GrtaldQe1fer,
AASBT.
Mr.. Sa.by Has Final Interview With
General HAnooek-An Affecting Parting
His Future.
CoNTEDRrr \ ROADS, !
(wich Ia in the State Nv Kentucky,
NovemheF o.. 1880.

November ~ 4ooV.
I am here on this classic island, for the
last time, I suppose. l come over from
Moo York to git the last Nv my salary, and
TO bid my late chief farewell forever.
found the General respondent, and
employin the hett uv his time dammin
most everybody. These was about the
substance Nv his remarks:
~ cood have pulled thro eli 1t had not
bin for conplicAshun Nv troubles which
wuz loadid with. There was Barnum OF
the he'd Nv the Committee. How Good
any man be electid with Barnum ct the
he'd NV anything? Barnum wuZ enough
to sink any body. He hadn't any sense
nor any sand. He didn't know how to
raise any money, and what he did raise he
squandered on skeems that didn't amour!
to nothiD, instid OF goin into Injeany and
buyin up votes, ex the party alters. hez.
Barnum alone wuz enuf to room me.
"rhen there wuz all Nv them Skeems.
1920 wuz settler, for them ez Good read
wuz indignant, and the Dimocrisy that
coodent read didn't know what 1t ment.
There wux thousands Nv dollars Nv chalk
wasted in that.
"And then the Morey letter. Wat use
wuz It to forge letter jtss on the eve OF
eIeckshun, when everybody had made up
their minds how they wuz agoin to vote
anyhow Wat good wuz ther in forgin
q Morey, letter ontil you he'd Morey TO
father it, and he'd the thing put up so't
twood stand? Wat yoose wuz Their in be.
in guilty Of forgery, when 1t only killed
US? Wat good Is muskit, the kick Nv
which is more powerful than the dis
charge? These two skeems was Barnum's.
~ hav nothin to reproach myself with"
continued the General. II talked tariff
to Pennsy lvanians, and free trade TO Inje-
auians. I sent every Confedrit wat cum
TO me way perfectly satisfied that he wuz
sgoin to Rit jist wat he wanted, and the
Massychoosits Dimecrat likewise. l kerr
ried out Barnum's instructions to the let
ter and wuz all things to all men. l was
fur and sgin internal improvements, fur
and agin every question in American
politix. I Endorsed TO various parties
every kind Nv 6nanshel polisy which hez
been propounded-and BY the way the
number NV fnanshel polisies there is
astoundin-iist ez he told me.
at wuzn'L my fault that Barnum al.
lowed these differint people TO come 10.
gether after they left me, and compare
notes. He shood hev he'd better arrange
ments made. he shood hev let EN- out by
different doors, and he'd EN- cross the ferry
by different boats, and all go to different
hotels in the city. These arrangements
wuz his to make, not mine. To do the
talkin wuz euuff for me.
"And then l he'd Wade HAMPTON on
my back. That speech he made in Vir.
ginny wuz sweet thing to pile onto q
federal soljier, and then his challengin
Sherman. he killed me when he invent.
ed the solid south.
"Theae wuzn't all he'd to kerry but
they wuz enuf. l mite hevgot thro ell
the Lord he'd killed the crops for four
years, but with SIGH prosperity ez the ken.
try wuz hevin, 1t wuz OF no yoos. No
man kin 6te nacher and the stoopidity
Of the Dimocripy. l don't want to be
President anyhow.
Goodbye. / may see 700 agin, but
hope not. forgive yoo yoor blunders-
they wuzn't any wuss than Barnum's-and
the committy will pay 700 yoor gallery.
Goodbye"
Wriuging his hands and hastily Dor.
rowin ten dollars NV him, bid the CRATE
man farewell forever.
My frcher is mixed, but l shell probably
settle IN Moo York. It is better here.
There is wider range NV paster for Dor.
rowin than In the Corners and credit is
more easily established. Bascom has
positively reioosed credit, and all the
money there Is in the Corners is in the
hands Nv the niggers and Republicans.
Before left went three days wunst on
less than five drinks day, and them got
by passing myself off on Louisville drum
mers ez a merchant in naborin village.
Hero, am shoor, kin git in with John
Kelly, for he wants recro0ts mighty bad
jist now, and possibly in year kin git
10 be a Skool Commissioner, or suth.
in OF that sort. Kelly il liberal and says
the Irish shant hev more than 90 per cent
OF the places; and eithe wust comes to the
wust kin make my name 0'Nssby, and
apologize for not hevin the brogue by say.
in that was brot from Ireland when !
wuz quite young. There ought TO be
college In Moo York to teech Amerikins
the Irish brogue that an Amerikin may
hev some chance for an offs.
But bein no Irishman kin pick up
suthin that Is comfortable, and bleeve
l will stay. Shirts is harder to get at here
than In Kentuek, for, while there are
more Nv EN-, they are hung out TO dry on
the top Nv the houses, insted Nv bein on
lines convenient IN the back yard. And
besides wher l shsl board Their amt so
many shirts ez to make washfn and hangin
out possible. However, a shirt is lux
ury that kin be dispenst with, and don't
mind 1t.
l borrowed S. Nv lnebriatId Kentuck.
ion after l come over from the Island,
wich will keep me week Nv itself
There is milyun Nv people here, to say
nothin nv strangers, and Of can't make
a Twin out Nv EN-, it will be sinRler. Here
is my field. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
lUndismayed.)