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 SPECIAL MESSAGE 
 
 OF THE OUGHT-TO-BE 
 
 GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN, 
 
 MLIVEEED TO A LARGE AND APPKECIATED AUDIENCE OF SoLONS AND SOVflBBIGNg, EM THH 
 SfiNAXB CHAMBER, FEBRUARY 3d, ANN 0. DOMINO, 1862. 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 1,00 P K R "h U N D R E O 
 
 26,000 copies ordered printed for the Legislature and the People. 
 
 POETIOAI. PRBLUDH. 
 
 When folly, frequent harbinger ef crime. 
 Bedecks her cap with be Is from every clime ; 
 When knatfes and fooU o'er all prevail, 
 Aud wiib'h their justice in a got 1 en scale ; 
 E'en then thi wisest shrink from public Bneera — 
 Afraid of ehame^unknown to Mther f ars — 
 More darkly, sin, by satire kf pt in awe. 
 They shrink from ridicule, though not from Liw. 
 
 [Btbon. 
 
 Fellow Citizens of the two Ilousea, and the other 
 House: — The constitutional provisions of my 
 nature have made it both my duty and my 
 pleasure to agaia address you with my annual 
 budget of wisdom, sophistry and soothesay- 
 inga. 
 
 GRAND EXOEDIOM. 
 
 The past year has been one of uncommon 
 dearth and profundity — of unheard of happiness 
 and misery — of unparalleled prosperity and 
 adversity. Mother E irth has yielded up her 
 requiting blessings on the sons of toil. Peace 
 and war — virtue and rascility — want and plenty 
 — parsimony and prodigality — promisory notes 
 and protests— personal sicrifices and personal 
 plundering on a most unmitigated scale — wr, 
 want and wretchedness have filled the world 
 with hunger, horror and howling humanity. 
 
 Riches have taken most prodigious wings and 
 the flight of the spread eagle cin't hold a can- 
 dle to the rapidity of their exodus while pov- 
 erty, pusillanimous, puhlic and private plun- 
 dering, are asserting iheir didactic divine dic- 
 tatorial dominion. Seed time and harvest we 
 have had. For the first we have had plenty to 
 do, and the last, though full in quantity, yet 
 most almighty deficient in price. The cereals 
 and the esculents have done remarkably well, 
 and 80 far as I am concerned, have honored 
 heavy drafts on ioatn banks and san 1 exchanges. 
 but the deuce of it is. the whole pile is worth 
 just nichit, only to eat. and what's the use of 
 eating when one's stomach is turned topsy turvy 
 aad the whole world seenut to be trading on 
 
 tick, to/rescent and transoendant treason? 
 The crop of small potatoes has been moat 
 abundant and abominable, and has taken the 
 starch out of the redundant rivalry of more re- 
 percussive loots. 
 
 Nature seems to have done her share towards 
 making mankind merry and mindful of those 
 big, bouncing blessings that always flow from 
 the faithful fraternity of veracious, virtuous 
 and venerationg sons of Adam, but the vil- 
 lainous vices of virulent madmen, have so 
 fir delayed, done for, and destroyed the high 
 hopes, honor and happiness of the poor , plagued, 
 poverty stricken people, that I feel called upon 
 to make many moral matters the module of my 
 molifying message. 
 
 PIETY AND OLD SLEDOB. 
 
 While the temporal wants of the people have 
 been running zig zag, and lashing like a tem- 
 pest, the sea of commerce and enterprise into 
 a spray of white suds and lather, I have not 
 been unmindful of the spiritual nccessites of 
 the youth, especiil y the Sundny school A, B, 
 C, Darians, whom 1 have endeavored to teach 
 the value of the atonement, which, when ^t 
 into practice, may be, by the wicked, termed lit- 
 erally the art of atoning for the loss of the 
 queen by catching the knave This is as near 
 as I can illustrate the "point" in my sledge- 
 hammer way, though perhaps it were best to 
 remain whist, lest we get etichred by some bet- 
 ter hand. 
 
 QOd'S great SOUTHKBN THBSSHIIIO TIOOIL 
 
 Since I last addressed you a war has broken 
 out between the North and the South, and much 
 blood has been shed somewhere in the vicinity 
 of God's great, big southern thr.ishing floor, 
 which some disloyal rebels have located on their 
 maps, as the bridge across Bull's Bun. 
 
 COMTBABANDS, BTC. 
 
 On the subject of "oontr»bao'^s/' perhaps I 
 had ought to say nichtt, and retire on the Ihtt* 
 
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 6th. How many officers for the regular and 
 volunteer forces, of any given grade, can you 
 supply from your State ? 
 
 Please answer immediately. 0. H. A. 
 
 MT REPLY. 
 Offiob Executive Headquarters, > 
 
 Madison, the l8t monih, 1862. > 
 
 His Most Loyal Excellency. Old Honest Abe : 
 
 Sir : — Yours written previous to this answer, 
 ers. Contrabands and the almighty dollar are 1 reached me in a double envelope, entwined 
 twins. Cotton bears the same relation to con- | with red tape, about two hours and eight min- 
 utes since, and I hasten to reply. You have 
 honored yourself highly by thus asking my 
 advice, and I will proceed to answer your ques- 
 tions — Sarah Aitim. 
 
 Ist. I would let them go in any direction ex- 
 cepting North, unless they give leg bail to stop 
 nothing short of Canada, as the " illustrated " 
 case you sent me seems to indicate. 
 
 2d I would'nt advise any such thing, unless 
 you also desire to abolish the par value of this 
 Union. If so, " let 'em elide," but don't en- 
 tail on our folks the consequences. 
 
 3d. Tell Congress for me, that if they 
 ain't cussed fools they will lay that sub- 
 ject under the table, forever. 
 
 4th. Let the question alone, and it will take 
 care of itself. Shove on the army with all pos- 
 siiile dispatch, and if all the contrabands melt 
 before them, nobody this side of Muddy Creek 
 or Bull Run will complain. 
 
 5lh. I think it the cutest trick you overdone. 
 You acted heroically, and as soon as I heard of 
 it, I came very near breaking the pledge for 
 joy. I think you had Cameron just where 
 Moses had the measles, and your sending him 
 to St. Petersburg is just as good as though yotx 
 had sent him to Ft. Warren — it you only keep 
 him there. 
 
 6t.h I can furnish from this State all the offi- 
 cers the whole Union will need for the next 50 
 years. If they are not to pass a bureau of in- 
 spection, I will take the cont^^kct at the same 
 price I took the state printing — l-iOOOdth per 
 cent; provided the "basis'" is drawn by the 
 same power that acted here. 
 
 Please intimate how you would have them 
 sent on — by rail or otherwise — if by rail, I 
 think I could make a speck by selling the priv- 
 ilege of tickets, to say nothing about selling 
 my country. Yours, most religiously. 
 By the ough' to bo 
 
 QOVEENOB. 
 
 p. S. — What's the chance on contracts ? Are 
 the "fat takes" all selected 1 
 
 On receipt of the above. Old Honest Abe 
 seemed to be bent down with joy from the sole 
 of his head to the crown of hi» heel He imme- 
 diately sent me the following telegraphic dis- 
 patch, postage paid : 
 
 rels and other evergreens of some of my offi- 
 cious predecessors, but as that has formed the 
 principal staple of our political merchandize, 
 and nomenclature for many years, I hope to be 
 forgiven, hereafter, if not in this world, for a 
 few suggestions, for the benefit of " all con- 
 cerned." " Contrabands" are supposed to be 
 those bands of Africans banded together for the 
 purpose of hoeinp: cotton and chawing tobacco 
 for the benefit of Abolition spinners and deal 
 
 trabands, as honey and beeswax do to the honey 
 bee. The latter stings and sweetens, and 
 sweetens and stings, and the malcontent wants 
 nothing to do with him, but sends Sir Dollar af- 
 ter his honey. So with the spindle and shuttle 
 lords of Old and New England — they can't tol- 
 erate contrabands, but post off Sir Dollar for 
 the substance of their sweat, which they can 
 procure in no other way. Still contrabands are 
 all wrong — that is, it is wrong to be contra- 
 bands. But the great question, what to do 
 with them, has puzzled statesmen nearly or 
 quite as profound as myself. Old Honest Abe 
 has written me a letter, asking my opinion as 
 to the best course to pursue in the matter. — 
 Now, I don't like to give my opinions without 
 some valuable consideration, but as it was Old 
 Honest Abe, and he was in trouble about it, I 
 have done so, and herewith transmit the 
 
 HIQHIiT ABLE CORRESPONDENCE : 
 
 'W'WiTE House, Up Stairs, > 
 
 Washinqton, Jan- 15th, 1862. i 
 
 His Most Excellency, the ought to be Governor of 
 Wisconstn : 
 
 Sear Sir : — I write you on a most embar- 
 rassing subject, and trust, that if not inconsis- 
 tent with jour onerous public duties, you will 
 immediately return an answer to the following 
 questions. Old Honest Abe, 
 
 P. S. — Congress will appropriate the neces- 
 sary postage, 80 you need not give yourself any 
 trouble on that score. 
 
 1st. What would you do with the " Contra- 
 bands " that come within our lines, with packs 
 on their backs like this fellow? 
 
 2d. Would you advise me to issue a proclama- 
 tion abolishing the dollar value to that species 
 of goods? 
 
 3d. Do you think it policy for Congress to do 
 that same ? 
 
 4th. What, in your opinion, ought io be done 
 to settle the question ? 
 
 5th. What do you think of my policy in send- 
 ing Cameron adrift ? 
 
 OLD HONEST ABB's ANSWER. 
 
 White Hoosb. in the Kitohix, ) 
 Washington, D. (J., Ic62. ) 
 
 To His Ought to be Excellency of H'j*con»jn ; 
 
 Mt Dear Sir: — Yours of the Ist month was 
 duly received, and entered at large upon my 
 
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 Cabinet Journal. I am delighted with your 
 plan, and shall be most happy to avail myaelf 
 of your suggestions. 
 
 Believe me, sir, ybur should be Excellency's 
 most obsequious, devoted and humble servant. 
 Honest Old Abe. 
 
 P. S. — Send me a copy of the Patriot. I be- 
 lieve it he soundest paper in the Union, and I 
 may induce Congress to order a large number 
 for the soldiers. 
 
 Availing myself of the good feelingr thus ap- 
 pearing to exist between the President and 
 myself, I thought it my duty to still further 
 give him the benefit of my sagacity, and al- 
 though not directly asked to do so, I dispatched 
 him the following additional budget of advice 
 by the last one-horse train : 
 
 A FRIENDLY C0ERE3P0NDBNCB. 
 
 Should bb Exbcutite IlBADQtJARTERs, 7 
 Madison, this first Month, '62. > 
 
 His most Loyal Excellency, Honest Old Abe : 
 
 My Dear Sir: — Pardon me, if I venture to 
 offer a few suggestions on your annual messnge 
 relative to the support of the war — taxes, &c. 
 Now, this is the cream of the joke. War can't 
 be prosecuted without the means, and no mat- 
 ter how mean the means, I mean we must have 
 means. You spoke about some of the states 
 paying thejr portion of the national tax in con- 
 trabands. A capital idea, and one that does 
 you great credit, for if the ^^cau.'ie of this war" 
 can be turned in to paying its expenses, it will 
 exhibit a stroke of policy not in'erior to the 
 most approved of the first Napoleon. In the 
 same connection you spoke of a Government 
 railroad somewhere between Kentucky and 
 North Carolina. Here's a most capital plan, 
 which strikes mo right on the top ot my head. 
 It is this : Suppose you commission Jim Lane 
 to steal contrabands and collect them at the de- 
 pots along the line of said railroad, and at a 
 proper time they may be put on to the Under 
 Ground railroad and diffused throughout the 
 Northern States, especially m New England, 
 whre thty may be "taken up" and exchanged 
 for cotton, or turned over to the General Gov- 
 ernment for taxes. This plan, you see, would 
 werk equal, and equality is the corner-stone of 
 this Government. If the Southern States are 
 allowed to pay their taxes in contrabands, it 
 ■would be unfair to deny theNbrthern States the 
 Bame privilege, and the mode I have suggested 
 would remove every cause of complaint, and if 
 the North can't hoid its own in producing con- 
 trabands, we can beat the South in stealing, 
 and that will, by the aid of the railroad you 
 
 mentioned, and our Under Ground railroad^ 
 render us their equals — pay all our taxes, and^ 
 put the contrabands to a good purpose. I trusji 
 you will lose no time in urging on Congress the 
 passage of a law making contrabands a legal 
 lender, at par, for all transactions, and that no. 
 one shall refuse to receive them at par, exceptr* 
 on peril of having his loyalty suspected, and 
 himself punished for treason* I think this.; 
 vfoaM settle things, generally, and be more ser- 
 viceable than Treasury notes, for contrabands 
 will "circulate," whether at par or not — not 
 exactly so with Treasury notes. The contra- 
 bands, as circulating mediums, would always 
 be on a belter fooling than any other spe'nes of 
 currency. 
 
 THE MASON AND PLIDELL AFFAIR, 
 
 As England, since the delivery of Mason and 
 Slidell, has been half disposed to pacific rela- 
 tions, can you not manage to have Capt. Wilkes 
 board another English Male vessel — seize some 
 more contraband embassadors, and then give 
 them up. with a view to make England wholly 
 oar friend, for if seizing and delivering up four 
 rebels will make her half ■way friends, seizing 
 and delivering four more ought to do the job for 
 her, and bring her to a standard of friendshipi o 
 This is on the principle that if one stove will'* 
 save half the wood, two stoves will save it all. 
 Yours, with magnificent respect. 
 
 By the ought to be. 
 
 Governor. 
 
 the roman mission. 
 
 P. S. Wriftt has become of the Roman mis- 
 sion? I am pressed on all sides to receive it 
 myself, but I could not think of such a thing, 
 until I know how many outfits are entailed up- 
 on the lucky fellow. If there are any more 
 outfits, I would take it, and then hand it over 
 to the next friend, who might want a $7,500 
 outfit, and like myself, has no relish for sea- 
 sickness. Please inform me on this point. 
 
 A HORSE ASYLUM. 
 
 P Small s, I wish you would, urge upon Con- 
 gress the propriety of establishing a horse As- 
 sylum, for spavined, ringboned, wind-broKen, 
 full-priced horses, incompetent officers, and 
 other Asses that are disabled from one and an- 
 other cause from serving their country as able 
 bodied horses, some kind of officers and other 
 Asses should do. Humanity and horsemanity 
 alike dictate that something should be done, 
 and I would urge also that a life annuity be 
 voted to those potriotio agents who purchased 
 the horses, mules, asses, &c. Shoddy contrac- 
 tors should also be added to the list. 
 Tours, &c., 
 
 As abore. 
 
 A PUBLIC PLUNDKR FUND. 
 
 I recommend the Legislature to memorialise 
 Congress to appropriate and set apart a fund off 
 ten thousand millions, to be called the public 
 plunder fund, which should at all times be ac- ° 
 cessible to army thieves and first hand contrac- 
 
tors. This would save annually a vast amount, 
 which is now being expended to pay investi^a- 
 ting committees, &c , &o. True, the system is 
 somewhat assuaged froia the fact that the Gov- 
 ernment incurs no expense in trying, con- 
 victing and punishing the vast army of vil- 
 lains, but under the system here recommended 
 there would be no seeming need of such expense, 
 and then much unpleasant gossip would be em- 
 bargoed. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS TO THE SOLDIERS 
 
 I haved begged a few Democratic papers, and 
 ordered a large number of the State Journal's 
 to be sent to the soldiers — the latter at the 
 state's expense. This I consider sound policy, 
 for if the soldiers don't know any more than to 
 be Democrats, they ought to pay for their own 
 papers, or the publishers should furnish them 
 free gra is, for nothing; hut Republican papers 
 ought to be sent as plenty as flees to every camp 
 at the expense of the people. I think no one 
 will doubt this, and the only thing I regret is, 
 that I had not the entire treasury to draw from 
 — for I was bound the Journal should have a 
 respectable circulation, as the party has shame- 
 fully neglected its duty in that regard, and as 
 the boy said, when lightning shivered the tree 
 over his kead. he could not pray, but by thun- 
 der, Bomething must be done. 
 
 MORH CONTINQKNT FUNDS NBCKS3ABT. 
 
 The last session of the Legislature only pro- 
 vided for two contingeni funds, of $10,00Ueach. 
 This was a sad oversight, for five times that 
 amount could have been expended, like amice, 
 if the legislature had only done ita*15uty. We 
 must remedy the future by the faults and 
 omissions of the past. I therefore recommend 
 five contingent funds, as follows: 
 
 Ist — $50 000 to spend just as I please, with- 
 out question. 
 
 2d — f 25,000 to pay for labor and wet nurses. 
 If this should not be sufficient, 1 could bring in 
 a bill for the balance. 
 
 3d — $40,000 to pay the traveling expenses of 
 such of my friends who may desire to travel 
 East, or otherways, for the benefit of their 
 health, and to catch the measles, "&o " 
 
 4th — $10,000 for a washing and mending 
 fund. 
 
 This sum may look large, but then you must 
 know that a great deal of washing will be ne- 
 cessary — not only dirty linen, and such like, 
 but dirty contracts and soiled characters must 
 be washed and mended, and then a higher grade 
 of laundresses has been employed than hereto 
 fore. On the whole, I could not consent to have 
 this Bum reduced — it will all be needed. 
 
 5th — $15,0U0 as a newspaper contingent fund. 
 
 It is wholly unnecessary for me to lepeatthe 
 objects. 
 
 8FEECIIB8 or MY PKKDECE8S0B SHOULD BE PUB- 
 LISHED. 
 
 I reeomoK^nd a suitabla appropriation to eha- 
 Ve the 8 a'e Historian to collect, compile, and 
 publish tie .-speeches of my predecessor, politi- 
 Oil, moral and spiritual. The whole should be 
 
 neatly printed at the Patriot office ob a "basis" 
 of 1-1,000 percent, and appropriately bound 
 in calf. 
 
 INCBEASE OF ARMY CHAPLAISS, 
 
 As a vast number of shoes without goles have 
 been famished our army, 1 recommend a large, 
 increase of army chaplains, with double rations 
 and pay, whose duty it should be to go to the 
 knee plus ultra of devotional supplication for the 
 benefit of contractors, to say nothing of the 
 poor solediers. 
 
 BETRENCHMENT AND BEFOBM. 
 
 On the subject of retrenchment, I beg you not 
 to make any blunders. Every one of your 
 predecessors have made their "mark" in this 
 respect, and in many cases the old scars are 
 not healed over yet. A few thousand phials of 
 Spaulding's prepared glue, and a quantity of 
 poor man's sticking plaster might be ordered at 
 the "expense of the state,'' for the mobt chronic 
 cases — always taking care that the successors 
 shall apply the cataplasms to the sores of their 
 predecessors. 
 
 I am happy to see that my last recommenda- 
 tion on this subject has been scrupulously re- 
 garded, as a most wise and prudent course — 
 that is, to begin retrenchment on little matters, 
 and let the big leaks stop themselves. Of course, 
 if you weie going to swallow an elephant, 
 you would commence at his trunk or tail, 
 and take in the smallest protuberances first, 
 before you put his large body through the pro- 
 cess of deglutition. If you once got his trunk 
 down, his body would follow as naturally as 
 whisky does a poor stomach. Ten dollars re- 
 trenched on some poor devil of a printer, for 
 the benefit of delinquent non residents, should 
 be attended to before soma §50,000 swamped 
 on a swamp lai'd survey, after the law for its 
 authority had been repealed. Your predecess- 
 ors followed my recommendations ii this re- 
 gard with remarkable docility. 
 
 HOW TO SWALLOW A SNAKE. 
 
 I repeat my former recommendation — though 
 perhaps It may be too late — to spend twice the 
 cost in discussing the postage stamps and news- 
 paper questions, and thus exhaust the time so 
 thatyi'u cannot investigate the matter of giving 
 from S20,000 to$40,0tJ0 more for feeding soldiers 
 than responsible parties ofiFered to do the same 
 service for. Now, if I were going to swallow a 
 snake I would commence at his tail, so as to 
 give his head the longest posBinle chance to de- 
 fend and assail. This is no more than fair, and 
 to carry out the illustration, you should bear in 
 mind the true policy of beginning at the little 
 end of nothings, and then if you have time you 
 may in time, possibly reach the bead. I could 
 offer many more cases in point, but I think the 
 above will do to put you on your guard against 
 the policy of firing first at tne biggest game. 
 For It were better to spend most of the session 
 on small leaks of a few hundred dollars, thin 
 to plunge into the 30d the 403 the 50s or the 
 hundred thousand dollar pile", for in these you 
 might encounter some "respectable" wights. 
 
5 
 
 IKVBSTIGATION A HUMBUG. 
 
 On the subject of invesfigatioHs, permit m% 
 to again repeat my former declaration, that it's 
 alia humbug, since Democrats have retired 
 from power. Republicans, like Csesai'a frau, 
 are above suspicion, and do not need inresti- 
 gating. but if you must investigate, permit me 
 to suggest that your new committee is not 
 composed of the right material. I fear they 
 will be '^too technical," and may give offense. 
 I would suggest that they be provided with the 
 proper stationery — such as a pail of slacked 
 lime and a dozen white wash brushes. I have 
 no objections to said committee's asking a few 
 simple questions, and reporting the answers of 
 the officers interrogated, but to enquire, offi- 
 ciously, info the why and wherefore of disburs- 
 ing the Si 200.000, and the half million besides 
 "engaged," would be the taost intolerable im- 
 pudence. 
 
 THB DANGER OF INVESTIGATING. 
 
 A large class of contractors and payees of 
 the state are clamorous for a long session. 
 This, of course, would give an opportunity to 
 look into the green book, and to rake up all 
 shoddy transactions with the fine tooth comb of 
 investigation, which would so incense the 'dear 
 people'' that I recommend a short session — the 
 shorter the better — so as to keep that snooping 
 committee's nosea out of well filled dishes. My 
 predece.ssor was made Governor by investiga 
 tion, and among other things I am opposed to 
 investigating his acts, for it will make Govern- 
 or's of the whole nine on that committee, and 1 
 don't see what we shall do with so many Ex- 
 cellencies. 
 
 THB PUBLIC PEINTINU A aiCK THING, 
 
 The public printing is being done so nicely, 
 and on such good materia!, and so perfectly in 
 accordance with the contract, that I congratu- 
 late the people on the inauguration of that pol- 
 icy which has cut off steals from one end of the 
 ring and soldered them on the other. It is said 
 to be a poor rule that won't work both ways. 
 This having worked oneway, is now reversed, 
 and is running the olk(r way like a charm. 
 If a man can obtain as much for a pound of 
 soap as for a pound of silk, why shall he not be 
 voted a hero in strategy rather than a thief. 
 
 THB POWER OF APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 A cannot urge too strongly upon the legisla- 
 ture the passage of a Uw empowering me to 
 appoint as many officers, agents, &c., as I 
 please, leaving with me, of course, the duty of 
 fixing the salaries. This would be so conven- 
 ient in making friends. Out of hundreds of 
 Colonels, Lt. Colonels, Captains, Corporals, 
 traveling agents, special messengers, &c., &o., 
 I could gettle most of my enemies and provide 
 for a large number of friends, who, when I got 
 into a tight pinch would be very handy as aux- 
 iliaries. I recommend the passage of this kind 
 of ''enabling act" — that is, to enable me to act, 
 as in my wisdom may seem proper. 
 
 This enabling act should also enable me, 
 
 just before an important election, to employ for 
 a few days as many men as might be necessary 
 to place the local election beyond danger. My 
 predecessor was often obliged to "assume the 
 responsibility," but I would prefer to act strict- 
 ly according to law— if I can get the law to 
 suit me — if not, I shan't care a continental, 
 but will do as I please. 
 
 THE FORCE OF SUBPOENAS. 
 
 I leave it for you to determine, in case the 
 Investigating committee should want the oral 
 testimony of my predecessor, whether a sub- 
 poena could reach him at Washiugton, or "any 
 other place." 
 
 THE LOBBY BEMEMBEKED. 
 
 I recommend an increase of the lobby. I 
 don't mean the lobby members, but t^e space 
 they occupy. It is a shame to crowd that large 
 and patriotic class like a flock of goats, into the 
 narrow vestibules of the Senate and Assembly 
 Chambers. An appropriation should be imme- 
 diately made for ample room in the two Halls, 
 with sofas, cushioned chairs, cigars, and the 
 "best brands," for no class of citiz-ns work 
 harder than they do, and every comfort should 
 be furnished, so as to render them as happy as 
 clams and other mud suckers. I recommend al- 
 so, that they be allowed the privilege of voting on 
 all questions in whicb they are interested, es- 
 pecially if the vote is likely to be close, on the 
 inside of the bar. 
 
 INCREASl OF LABORERS, ETO. 
 
 I recommend an increase of laborers and 
 night watch about the Capitol. Every one 
 knows in "sitting up" with the sick, the more 
 company the more agreeable the task. Labor 
 and night watch for the past year has only 
 amounted to something like §9 000, which would 
 only employ some (kirfT/ able-bodied men the 
 year round. I recommend the number be in- 
 creased to 160. This vfill give employment to 
 a greater number, and leave less money in the 
 vault to be watched, which is the ne plus ultra 
 of economy. 
 
 POSTAOH STAMPS A LEGAL TENDER. 
 
 I recommend the passage of a law to make 
 postage Stamps a legal tender for apples and 
 small drinks. Change is getting so scarce as 
 to require no further argument on this head. 
 I will state, however, that postage stamps can 
 be printed at the Patriot ofl5ce much cheaper 
 than the Post Master sells them, and as I am 
 down on monopolies, I recommend the striking 
 off a few million one and three cent stamps for 
 the benefit of the people, and especially the 
 lobby. 
 
 CENTRALIZATION OF PAP. 
 
 I shall be most happy to co operate with the 
 Legislature in the passage of a law to either 
 let the public advertising to the lowest bidder, 
 or to give one pet organ a monopoly, not only 
 of the public advertising, but all local adver- 
 tising, by merchants and others. This would 
 be what 1 call the centralization of pap, or the 
 cream of an official joke, well cracked. 
 
V 
 
 VALtTB OF BOLDIEHS. 
 
 I have been frequently asked why it is that 
 each man mustered into the war serrice from 
 this State has cost over $40 more than each 
 man from any ather State 1 I can only say in 
 answer, that in all probability our men are 
 worth each $40 more than men from any other 
 State — on the ground tkat everything is worth 
 what it costs. 
 
 G00» PICKING. 
 
 1 recommend an appropriation of $250 000 
 for the survey of the cranberry swamps) of this 
 State, so that a large number of worthy friends 
 might find good "picliing," 
 
 BANK SUSPENSION. 
 
 The banks want to siwpend. Let them do it, 
 Then nobody will know when they break. The 
 people would prefer to be shot, if at all, while 
 asleep, so as not to dread it. 
 
 GEK. UTLET. 
 
 Ex-A'.'jufcant General Utley has applied to 
 ■le for re-appoiatmeat, but I ha\e refused his 
 importunities and shall continue to resist them 
 until he he gives me satisfactory evidence that 
 he was not dismissed ''for cause. -'' He won't 
 tell me the reasons, but I suspect it is because 
 he had so big a head and heart that it made him 
 "top-heavy," and disqualified himfrom riding on 
 horseback. If this ia so, the objection is incura- 
 ble. 
 
 CHANGE IN ELECTION LAWS. 
 t 
 
 I recommend a slight change in our election 
 law, wuich should be so moiified, that in case 
 of a tie or close vote in either House, the person 
 receiving the smallest number of votes shall be 
 allowed to help organize and draw his regular 
 stationery. 
 
 BLACK MAILING, 
 
 Considerable smoke arose last summer on the 
 subject of blackmailing contracts, but I hushed 
 up the matter by directing the oftender to be 
 discharged, and thus the matter ended in smoke, 
 as it had begun. Thus, you see, I have estab- 
 lished a reputation for honesty, in smoking out 
 all rotten things. I think, in all such cases, 
 the offender should be discharged, re-employed 
 and paid better wages. 
 
 LIBEL BONDS fOR BANKING. 
 
 I recommend libel bonds as a basis of bank- 
 ing, which would not be a greater libel on cur- 
 rency, than banking on the debts which the rebel j 
 states have made it felony to pay, and which 
 they could not pay if they would. 
 
 There are plenty of editors In the state who 
 would like to take a clatter in that kind of se- 
 curity, for the benefit of their consciences, to 
 say nothing of their shrunken purses. I could 
 furnish a bank of no small capital myself — 
 These species of bonds are better than any 
 other, for they contain the "personal liability" 
 clause, which is not ofteu found in other kinds 
 cf securities. 
 
 TO ABOLISH COLLECTION LAWS. 
 
 In view of this crashing crisis, I recommend 
 the abolishing of all laws for the collection of 
 debts, and abolishing all distinctions between 
 
 common honesty and uncommon stenlings 
 
 Then repeal the dog law, and we shall have 
 entered upon the millenium of profound politi- 
 cal prosperity. 
 
 A RETIRED LIST. 
 
 I recommend legislative provision for a 
 "retired list" — the main object of which should 
 be as soon as one thief has stolen all he wants, 
 to force him to retire and make room for another. 
 This, It strikes me is no more than fair, and no 
 honest thief should object to it. 
 
 ALARMING DECREASE OF CRIME. 
 
 The rapid decrease of crime has created the 
 most alarming apprehensions, especially as ex- 
 hibited by the report of Superintendent of the 
 Reform School. The Superintendent sets forth 
 the terrible consequences of the decrease in 
 crime, in the following pungent language. [See 
 pape 14 of said report.] 
 
 "It is a matter of deep regret that the (de- 
 crease in the number of inmates, renders it 
 necessary to dispense with the services of my 
 assistant, Mr. E. V. H. Danner. He has been 
 employed since the first of April, and I cheer- 
 fully record my testimony of his fidelity and 
 devotion to the interests of the school. We 
 part with him with the hope that a more pros- 
 perous condition of the school may demand and 
 secure his services!" 
 
 In view of this extraordinary laxity of crime, 
 by which a good, wise and able officer has been 
 thrown out of employnient, I suggest that the 
 Legislature, in their wisdom, pass some bill to 
 encourage the commission of juvenile crimes; 
 with a view to putting the Reform School on a 
 more "prosperous" footing, so as to secure the 
 services of Mr. E. V. H. Danner. What these 
 three initials stand for I cannot divine, unles 
 it be iFnough Fanity for a //oosier. 
 
 THE " ACCIDENT OF BIRTH.'' 
 
 Much h.is been said about the "accident of 
 birth." Now, "accidents" have occurred in 
 such matters, but as a general principle there 
 is no "accident" about it — but that a yi\sq design 
 is manifest to every thinking mind I there- 
 fore hope that few blunders will be committed 
 on this subject hereafter. I cannot consent to 
 endorse the doctrine that the sublime Execu- 
 tive of this people, and the people themselves 
 are a tissue of ' accidents." 'Taint possible. 
 
 " THIS GBOLOaiCAL BUSINESS." 
 
 Your predecessors, under afilse plea of econ- 
 omy attempted to repeal "this geological busi- 
 ness," and my predecessor acting upon the au- 
 thority in him vested, "took the responsibility," 
 smothered the illegitimate brat in his breeches 
 pocket, and killed it as dead as a smelt, though 
 it smelt like a pole cat for six months after- 
 wards. In this he acted perfectly right, for if 
 he bad signed the bill, I see no way for Prof. 
 
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 Daniels to have got a living among the rocks. 
 As the contract was not originally designed for 
 the benefitof the state, but for the exclusive bene- 
 fit of the Professor, it wouM have been unconsti- 
 tutional to have repealed it This shows the 
 benefit of having good friends. In considera- 
 tion of goodly fiivors thus rendered, the Profes- 
 sor agreed to act as a drummer-up of recruits 
 for the seniitorial caucus, and I herewith present 
 a full length portrait of that sanguinary man 
 of rocks, in the act of performing his duties, 
 under the geological act: 
 
 I regret to say, however, that the services of 
 the drummer were greatly disproportionate to 
 the services of my predecessor who continued 
 the Professor in the strata of his former lead.to 
 the tune of $2000 a year. 
 
 CONUNDBU149. 
 
 The following conundrums have been for- 
 warded to me by the President of the Mutual 
 Admiration and Sensation Society, asking me 
 to answer the same, which I have done for the 
 benefit of science : 
 
 Why is the present Legislature a paragon of 
 ititelligence ? 
 
 Because it noes most every question voted on 
 
 Why is the Legislature like a poor outfitting 
 establishment 1 
 
 Because it has only one Taylor. 
 
 Why is the Senate a very tardy body in the 
 transaction of business 1 
 
 Because it has Sat. on only one committee. 
 
 Why did the Assembly conclude not to place 
 a railing across their Hall? 
 
 Because they thought a Eeed Banister would 
 be better. 
 
 Why is the Assembly not so white as itmigkt 
 be? 
 
 Because its Gage is two Brown. 
 
 How is it the members manage to keep their 
 heads so clear? 
 
 Because they have Combs. 
 
 Why is the Assembly impertinent? 
 Because they have a Finger in every question. 
 
 Why is a carpet unnecessary on the Assem- 
 bly floor? 
 
 Because Mads is better. 
 
 Why is the Assembly like a good beef bone? 
 
 Because it contains excellent Morrow. 
 
 Why are the members all Catholics? 
 
 Because they respect the Pope. 
 
 Why is the Assembly prepared for grinding? 
 
 Because they have a Miller to run th^'ir Mills. 
 
 Why is the Assembly like a dutiful hen? 
 
 Because tihey have a good Hatcher, that often 
 makes a Tripp to their Barnes. 
 
 Why is the Assembly like a pork packer? 
 
 Because thev have a Salter. 
 
 Why is the Senate a hard body? 
 
 Because it is composed in part of Flint. 
 
 Why need not the members fear a hard win- 
 ter? 
 
 Because they have a Joiner to build their 
 barracks, and Hay and Bean-s enough to fill 
 them. 
 
 Why is the Senate like a tow path pedestrian 
 with plenty of money? 
 
 Because, though Rich, they are too Cnnnin^ 
 to pay fare, when they can Foote it. 
 
 AVhy is the Assembly like a well regulated 
 English Religious Society? 
 
 Because it has chosen a Young Dean. 
 
 Why is the Assembly considered extremely 
 precocious? 
 
 Because 99 out of the 100 members are not 
 Greene. 
 
 Why is the name of a popular Insurance Co. 
 like a lawyer with a poor German client? 
 
 Because with him its fee nichts (Phoenix). 
 
 Why is the Senate a better judge of good 
 money than the Assembly ? 
 
 Because they receive Sovereigns after being 
 thrown out by the Assembly. 
 
 FARM MOKTOAGES. 
 
 Much has been said about Farm Mortgages, 
 and the question how to get these mortgages off 
 the large number of farms in the state, has ag- 
 itated the public mind for some time, and in 
 following in the footsteps of my illustrious pre- 
 decessor, I have made such promises as will 
 secure me the greatest number of votes. I know 
 of but one feasible way to get these mortgages 
 off the farms on which they are located, and 
 that is, on the plan accidentally and providen- 
 tially discovered by the fellow in Albany a few 
 years since. The river rose so high one night 
 that it took off a mortgage on his lot of $2,000. 
 Now, if this vast snow pile can be melted off 
 by a vigorous warmth of debate on the subject, 
 it is quite probable that a flood may be raised to 
 do the job* I think it quite probable the Su- 
 preme Court would hardly decide this uncon- 
 stitutional, especially since the Assembly baa 
 expunged the Booth resolutions of 1859. 
 
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 MILITABT OBDBE. 
 
 I have sent out a general order of command 
 to all our Generals id the field, that as soon as 
 one General is likely to get the enemy in a 
 tight place, and win some fame, he shall haul 
 off, and give some other one a chance to make 
 his mark. This, of course, will be a slow pro- 
 cess, but then we must do something for our 
 Generals, and not permit one to win all the 
 glory. I think it hardly fair, and hence I or- 
 dered Gen. Sherman to hold up at Beaufort.and 
 give some other General the glory of cutting off 
 Charleston from the South I am happy to say 
 the late Secretary of War approved my course, 
 in this and other similar cases. 
 
 THE GOOSE QUESTION. 
 
 I recommend the sinking of feather beds in 
 the bed of the Mississippi River at the Great 
 Horse Shoe Bend, to prevent the Hollina Ram 
 from battering our officers out of Cairo. How 
 to obtain the necessary amount of feathers will 
 naturally raise the goose question, yet 1 fear if 
 something of the kind is not speedily done, the 
 rebels will find good picking among our Quar- 
 masters. 
 
 "pump" caepenter illdsteatbd. 
 
 Below I present a portraiture of the statuary 
 of "Pump" Carpenter, in the attitude of mak- 
 ing an asault upon his enemies. I recommend 
 a small appropriation for a full length leather 
 statue, to be placed in a niche among other 
 •urious things in the Historical Society — pro- 
 viding the original will stop "stealing" from 
 the state: 
 
 AID-DE-CAMPS. 
 
 I have appointed all (the Aid-de-Camps of 
 my predecessor, and besides the entire corps of 
 the Kansas Aid Society, and have referred them 
 
 to the "army regulations" for their pay. They 
 are a most worthy and patriotic class — have re- 
 solved to stand by me as long as 1 remain in the 
 state, and no force attacks me, and they are 
 anxiously waiting for something to turn up. I 
 recommend them most cordially to the Pay- 
 master General. 
 
 A SLANDEB BEFITTED. 
 
 There is a villainous story afloat that I slept 
 one night last autumn, with my head and feet 
 out 0' doors, but I assure you it is a most scan- 
 dalous unmitigated — mistake, got up by mis- 
 chievous, disappointed office-seekers, to injure 
 one, who like old Gov. Yates of New York, is 
 "de mosd bobular Gubberner dis state eber had, 
 because he cum in unanimously and he go oat 
 unanimously." 
 
 THE OFFICE OF G. B. J. A. 
 
 I have been tendered the highly honorable 
 and lucrative nppintment of Q. R. J. A. in the 
 much slandered, yet benevolent order of the 
 Sons of Malta, yet the constitution forbir/s my 
 officiating, unless by permission of the people. 
 It is for you to say whether I shall accept this 
 position, so ably filled by my predecessor, who 
 left no stones unturned, in the proper discharge 
 of his duties. During the four fiscal years of 
 his term in this office, he never permitted a 
 brother or sister of the order to want for any- 
 thing, and whenever he found one too proud to 
 work, or too lazy to steal, he split the differ- 
 ence — gave them an office, and invited them "to 
 
 COMB IN OUT OF THE WET. 
 
 SPIRIIUALISM. 
 
 A short time since I was appointed agent to 
 investigate the subject of spiritualism. I went 
 to Milwaukee (taking sufficient change from 
 the war contingent fund to bear my expenses) 
 and was soon literally caged with the "spirits." 
 They professed every kindness, and showed me 
 much attention, and I was half inclined to give 
 some of them an office, and should have done 
 so, had they produced the requisite papers of 
 good character, which 1 require in all cases, j 
 investigated the spiritual phenomena tomysat- 
 faction, and soon made the important discovery 
 that — 1 knew nrthing about it. and I herewith 
 present the above for the benefit of Science. 
 
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 MY FLAN TO SNT> THE WAR. 
 
 I have made a propo^itioo to the Secretary of 
 War to enter into a contract to "clean out" the 
 the rebels in sixty days, after all things are 
 '"ready." My plan is, to locate batteries of 
 Rotary Pumps along the coast, from the Rio 
 Grande to Cape Hatteras, every two miles — to 
 operate said batteries by contrabands, and Wide 
 Awakes, and give the rebels what they most 
 dread — a terrible shower bath of cold water. 
 This might be termed a cold-water "insurrec- 
 tion," and would make the rebels curl up like 
 young Bramins under the car of Juggernaut. 
 
 THE ICE CEEAM QUESTION. 
 
 I recommend a small appropriation from the 
 war fund — say $3,000 — to be expended in the 
 purchase of ice cream, I know the proposition 
 is rather "cool," but it is justified by prece- 
 dent, and sanctioned by high authority. [See 
 Public Vouchers.] 
 
 PENCE VIEWBKS, ETC. 
 
 I recommend a revision of the Revised Stat- 
 utes, relative to the duties of Fence Viewers 
 The number should be doubled, and their du- 
 ties clearly defined, to watch such niggers as 
 may get inte the fence. I most emphatically 
 recommend that the Legislature order for its 
 use, copies of this message, as follows: 
 
 200 Copies in %he Engliah language 
 
 at 2 cents per copy 
 
 50000 Copies in the German language, 19 " " 
 
 30000 " " " Norwegian " 30 " " 
 
 16000 " " «• Welch " 43 " " 
 
 10000 ' '' " Holland " 69 " " 
 
 6000 " " «• Chippewa «' 63 •« •* 
 
 3000 " " " Hottentot " 106 «' « 
 
 1000 " " " Chinese ^' 450 " '« 
 
 600 " " ' Confttderate " 600 " « 
 
 That will do, unless more copies are needed. 
 
 BATCH OF APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 I herewith transmit the following batch of 
 appointments, and challenge the World for bet- 
 ter material , 
 
 Sherman M. Booth as traveling lecturer on 
 morality and virtue, and general colporteur 
 of the State Rights party. 
 
 Alex. Campbell as agent to procure station- 
 ery. 
 
 Qen. S, W. Smith, general agent to procure 
 tinware, stationery, and other "^neoessaries." 
 
 J. A. Smith, editor of Fond du Lac Common' 
 wealth, general appraiser of "book" and "print" 
 paper, with permission to learn the "trade." 
 
 Alex. Piety as state barber. 
 
 Moses Modesty Davis, as state whitewasher 
 with privilege to carry the blacking brush for 
 particular cases, according to f incy. 
 
 John Y. Smith, Bank Comptroller, and gen- 
 eral expounder of the Dred Scott decision. 
 
 Horace Rublee, as State Weather-cock. 
 
 H. K. Lawrence, General State Agent for 
 letting contracts, 
 
 I. E, Messmore, as judge of the first U9w 
 circuit created, with permission to draw the 
 first quarter's salary "on demand." 
 
 Sile Matteson, as inspector of stale codfish 
 and canine sausages. 
 
 Ed, Daniels, as General 5u/)erintendent of the 
 
 purchase of saH petre, brimstone and patty, 
 with salary of Colonel and State Geologist. 
 
 The difficulty of finding men m the state ca- 
 pable for all these positions, is my only excuse 
 for bestowing them all on one person. 
 
 In addition, I have appointed every physician 
 in the state as Assistant Surgeons in the army, 
 and would be glad to appoint more if we had 
 them. 
 
 GRANDILOQUENT CONCLUSION, 
 
 In conclusion, allow me to congratulate the 
 country and the rest of mankind on the wisdom 
 of my administration, for at no period of our 
 history, since the days when Josephus overran 
 Constantinople with the force pump of destruc- 
 tion, or when Don Quixote rode Roz}nante,like 
 a hero on a rainbow, or like 
 
 A CONTRABAND SMUGGLING POHK INTO CANADA 
 
 and Sancho Pansa with cabrellos among the tall 
 cedars of Lebanon — I repeet, at no time since 
 the above incidents, and the shelling of the 
 Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, have the people 
 been so abundantly governed — never since 
 Jonak swallowed the whale, or since the im- 
 mortal Confucius conceived the puhlime idea of 
 the Oriental Evanic Order — have the people 
 had such cause for a grateful i*emembranoe of 
 bouncing taxes, non-requited confidence — and 
 E riuribuB Unum, magnates who so gentlemanly 
 and quietly pluck their fleece, without the loss 
 of a single glory, and I look forward, with eyes 
 sparkling and mouth watering, to that day of 
 
 official millenium 
 
 When all good fellows shall be able to "hold 
 their oats," regardless of the amount of "wa- 
 ter in the tank"— wl m awberries and cream 
 shall be hid for the af .ing, — when milk and 
 honey, molasses and flapjacks — fat offices, ne 
 duties and high salaries — shall be the rule and 
 not the exception — when investigating commit- 
 tees shall be numbered among the things that 
 wat, and the troubled politician shall retire up- 
 on his laurels, and seek that repose which comes 
 only from full bellies, and no questions asked — 
 when the great American eagle shall once more 
 flap his defiant wings, and perch unmolested on 
 every tree top in the Union, and when salt pe- 
 tre, brimstone and well tempered steel (be care- 
 ful of the orthography) shall bring every trai- 
 tor to his knees, and give this glorions Union, 
 Univ,ed, a free pass to the haven of unadulter- 
 ated peace, to a thrice multiplied eternity. 
 
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 CODICIL TO THE MESSAGE. 
 
 The Governor of all the Sovereigns desires ! 
 it to be read of all men that the follow iug Flag 
 is his style^ both now, hereafter, and forever, 
 without any discount — Amen ! 
 
 ■WboeTer dares that Flag displace. 
 Must meet "The Governor" face to face •, 
 Whoever dares insult that Flag, 
 I'll strip his back of every rag. 
 
 ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 Andrew Enough Elmore, as Consul to the 
 Kingdom of Mukwanago. 
 
 Charley Holt, bearer of dispatches to the 
 Confederate Congress, with full power to negO' 
 ciate for arming the contrabands with revolving 
 tooth picks, pikes and other blunderbusses. 
 
 Monsieur Tonson, as Commissionor of School 
 Land Patents. 
 
 Sally Ann Comfort, and the Widow Bedotte, 
 as Vivandiers to the 25th Regiment of Wet 
 Nurses. 
 
 Billuel Welch, as Minister Penipotentiary to 
 Utah, providing he can oveicome his scruples 
 against the Twin Relics, though I think a little 
 experience will settle the matter. 
 
 PRIZE CONNUODRUM. 
 
 Why is this Legislature like the Saviour of 
 of mankind? 
 
 Because some Jewish sinners are endeavor- 
 ing to crucify it between two stts of forty thieves. 
 
 The Committee on Smelling and Tasting— Practising at the Bar— or,? Con- 
 suls at Shanghai. 
 
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 A Hungry Outsider. Government Steamboat Contractor, or 
 
 Good Enough Morgan till the Treasury 
 gives out. 
 
 THE BALL IS ROLLING. 
 
 The above illustrates a Regiment of Ring.Boned Horse Speculators and 
 Shoddy Contractors, rolling on the Ball of Plunder. 
 
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 A BABBBR-OUS PEIZB TIGHT— BETWEEN A CONTRABAND AND ARMY BARBHR. 
 
 Both Bides fight desperately over a lather box, containing $1,200,000. 
 Scyeral barber-ously wounded, but as yet nobody seriously killed. 
 
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 I've ?ot my pile — who 
 dare fay I'm not p«t- 
 
 riotio ? 
 
 y. 
 
 The Way the Money G oes, or, Exodus of a Shoddy Contractor. 
 
 BiOTH SCADIRO TRB 80TBKBI IX 8 MESSAaS. 
 AKD OLOBTIRO OTS» HIS APPOIHTHBiiT. 
 
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 UPB AJSXt DOWVS Of A POLITIOIABr 
 
 Tl^B Bid* op— '(other aid« down. 
 
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 AN AE-GOOSE, 
 
 Meditating an attack on the Currency Ques- 
 tion, and other Political Botherations. 
 
 AMINIDAB SLEEE 
 
 Esnmine3 his Ledger, and finds that hia pat* 
 riot ism in Shoddy Contracts has proved a 
 'Big Thing." 
 
 Settles the Qaestion of Domest.o Dutief. 
 
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 TALUABLB PUECHA8ES. 
 
 Last summer I selected the most expert finan 
 ciers (whom 1 employed, under the war making 
 power, as wet nurses) to purchase shoes for the 
 •'poor soldiers." I acted in this as I did in the 
 pu'^lic printing — that is, I selected persons who 
 knew nothine of the business, and hence nobody 
 can say they meant to cheat, or could if they 
 would. As to their getting cheated, what's 
 that to anybody, so long as /A^?/ lost nothing. A 
 firstrate quality of shoes was purchased, which 
 contained more glue, brown paper and pine 
 shavings than any other lot furnished to the 
 army, and notwithstanding all this, the Patriot 
 and other "secession" sheets are findijr fault, 
 for which I have directed the "State Paper No. 
 2" to place them on the rebel black list, for I am 
 Bare no loy^il person would ridicule even a poor 
 soldier's shoe, or a soldier's poor shoe. 
 
 I have commi*sioned Jo. Mills as Poet Laure- 
 ate, with the rank nnd pay of corporal, but I fear 
 there may be some trouble about his confirma- 
 tion, on the ground that he is most illiterally 
 deficient, since he spelis "steel" with an a in 
 place of the latter e. This muy be an objection 
 at first, as it has been with most of my appoint- 
 ees, but a few weeks in the harness invariably 
 cures that defect. I therefore urge his confir- 
 mation. 
 
 SMALL BUSINESS. 
 
 I confefls that shoddy shoes hava been pur- 
 chased and other suspicious things done, but I 
 consider it "small business" for the Legislature 
 to spend the dear people's money in investi- 
 gating such matters. 
 
 My appointees 
 
 Never feel the>halter draw, 
 With (tooil opinion of the law, 
 
 Or the law makers either; therefore, Messrs. 
 Solons, dry up and let us alone. 
 
 A HIDNIQHT POLITICIAN — BEFOKB SLBCTION. 
 
 AROTBKB — ATTtB BLBCTION — TWO A. M. 
 
 MADISON PATRIOT OFMCB PRINT. 
 
 A LIFE-LIKE PORTRAIT OF AN ARMT SUTLER, 
 
 " On to Glory or the Grave ! " 
 " Freemen, to the Rescue ! " 
 
 Grand P. S.— Those who feel themselves ag- 
 grieved, will introduce " The Gov." to the St. 
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