Year: 1866

AT grand Republican rally in Lam
caster, Pa, on Thursday, the Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens delivered an address.
BE alluded to President johnson and
Secretary Seward in the following
terms, amid great cheers and laughter: /:


A very remarkable circus travelled
through the country from Washington
to Chicago, and st. Louis and Louis
vile back to Washington. read that
with great interest, expecting to see in
so celebrated an establishment-one
which, from its heralding, was to beat
Dan Rice and all the old circuses that
ever went forth. 1 Iexpected great wit
from the celebrated character of its
clowns. They were well provided with
clowns; instead of one there were two,
as the circus was to have large circu-
latlon One OF these clowns was high
in Office and somewhat advanced in
age; the other was little less advanced
in Office, but older in years. They
started out with very respectable stock
company.


In order to attract attention they took
with them, for instance, celebrated
general; they took with them an emil
nent naval officer, and they chained
him to the rigging so that he could not
get away, though he tried to do SO once
or twice. They announced the most
respectable stock company that ever
went forth with manager or circus,
though they had no very good man for
the spring board, but they took with
them for short distance a very good
man accustomed to ground and lofty
tumbling, called Montgomery Blair.
And as they wanted to get up side
shows, as is always precedent where
anything is to be 1Nade out of those
concerns, they switched him off in va
rious directions with hand organ and
monkey. In the East they called his
monkey Senator Doolittle, because he
looked SO much one. Up through the
mountain region where encountered
them Montgomery Blair was there, and
his monkey and organ was called Judge
Kinnel.


But the circus went on all the time,
giving performances at different points,
sometimes one clown performing and
able to judge, the younger clown was
the most vigorous, and had the most
energy and malignity. The elder
clown, owning to the wear and tear of
age and sutfering-;yOW EnOW lie had his
arm broken, and his jG'O broken, and his
neck broken aLmost-[luughterl -induc-
ing a necessity for certain opiates,
which had very much worn down his
vigor--I looked upon his performance
as rather silly; for instance, the young
or clown told them in the language Of
the ancient heroes who trod the stage,
that he had it i'll his power, if he chose,
to be Dictator. The elder clown point
ed to the other one, and said to the
people, "Will you have him for Presi-
dent, or will you take him for king ?"
He left you but one alternative. You
are obliged to take him for one
or the other, either for President or
king, if "My Policy" prevails. 1 am
not following them all around. shall
not describe to you how sometimes
they cut outside the circle and entered
into street broils with common black
guards; how they fought at Cleveland
and indianapolis and other points. 1
shall not tell you for is it not all writ
ten down in Colonel Forney's ChrOnicLe9
But coming round, they told you, or
one OF them did, that he had been
everything but one. He had been II
traitor, think he did not say drunken
tailor; no, he had been tailor; he had
been constable; he had been city al
derman: he had been in the Legislature
God help that Legislature! He had
been in Congress, and now he was
President. He had been everything
butone-he had never been hnngman,
and he asked the leave to hang Thad.
Stevens.