Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-08-15
ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM OLD ABE,
LIBEKrr, Aug. 0, 1881.

mitted by his father 70 Congress- Shortly aer the bat
tie at Manassas Bob got hold oft while the old man va
on spree. send Ii to you for publication.
Gents Of the Senate and the House:
| suppose you think It about time had sent yo'
running.
The fact Of the business Is, there has been swfu
smash up of the internal concern. little while ago,
started running and faster than ever hearn Of be
fore. It pretty smashed up and every way snt
every where In general and the whole face Of the eartl
seemed to be solldy alive with the pieces, and every
piece running is hook. believe In o. ssoul 4
couldn't have run thro' gate wide all creation
without striking both sides once Il ha Mt stopped yet
nor never WILL ill the end Of the world that know Of
| You have hesrn Of my Grand Army. Well, thsy
gathered up every thing for the grandest sort Of fo
specially 6ddlss, dolls, brandy sugar. ladies dresses
hoops and handouts and started on to Richmond Bu
they hadn't got any further than Manassas, when the
rebels tried to stop them and they fell into nigh upon
the biggest fgh. ever hearn Of Ny Grand Army be-
gan to shoot they started, but the rebels Al
art didn't shoot at all, but lay down fat upon the
ground, and kept advancing backwards till they got my
men into patch Of masked batteries, and then, my
stars ave the internal regions seemed to be sruptng
from ten thousand crater and vomiting fire. smoke and
balls right into my men, masked battery after masked
battery burst upon them.
Still my men marched on. But tell you 1t put me 10
mind OF what I've hearn Of skunk ohasethe foremost
dog gets the Of it. They tell me they whipped the
rebels about forty times and that they certainly would
have stad whipt, but somehow or other, my men made
an awful mistake and ran the wrong way. A soon a.
hsy the rebels pitching right at them they began to
practice our newashion crswfsh-drl which took them
back to Washington, which Is the most serviceabe con-
venient and necessary sort Of drill I've ever hesrn Of
They say Fuss and Feathers hem before they START
ed that there was the uRest sort Of military necessity
that they never should stand In the way Of shsrpponed
steel. So my whole grand army began at once to drill
backwards with uncommon haste. Pretty soon the
rebels mounted on horses full tilt right at them,
shouting, shooting cutting and sashng on every aide,
Just like all creation bad broke % In roy. Ny msa
weren, scared bs they tried TO set out OF the way Just
as if they had lost their presence Of mind Srch run.
mig as they did was never done before since the begin
ming Of the world Some ran Oh ;hsif isgs-soms on
their hesds-some their hands and knees-some for.
| xrrds-some sidevsys-sone bscswsrds-and soms o..
ely way once. Fuss and Testhera and heap Of Con.
gress and at Centreslls and when they
come Fuss aud Feathers bareheaded and hollow.
cd to them with all his might that they we're going the
wrong way to Richmond-(he was sure they were run.
ming after the rebels) that he nigh upon born at
Richmond himself and had been there several times
since and before ana upon honor, he believed g nigh
a. he could tell, they were running right away from
Richmond But they run, and haven't stopped yet,
that l have hesrn Of.
When they got TO- Washington, not one in hundred
had anything on-leas way nothing could be seen on
them but the skin their mothers gave them, and that
vas not in good condition as 1t was when they
we're born. it was so ragged, bloody and dirty.
can't help bu. laugh when thiak OF It. It puts me
so much in mind OF what see long time ago out in
Illinois, when the big prairie got FIRE. You see As
soon the FIRE got pretty we'll under way the criminals
that had life began 10 scamper and bye and bye they
come ont in such that it looked like all the
wild vsrmsus that had been made and more too,
were running jumping pitching, rolling and tumbling
in every direction, and knocking over everything that
came in their way.
When they called the roll after they got back, the
names Of ali my there Just it was before thp
Oa.tt, pot the mcu tneuseiNte III tue Hnc. IL
makes me think Of the brisk servant you have hearn Of
His MASTER one day. sent him with note and covered
basket to a nobleman, but didn't tell him what was in
the basket Well after lie started he anxious to
know what in the basket, that he opened it. but,
he opened it, out Asw dozen parirdges sand
We gone, bibies" says he, "~el, stop when 20 git
thar So on he went aud handed the note to the noble
men, who, when he read it, observed "wel paddy I
see your master has sent dcz psrridges here in
he note" an Oh dear honey" says paddy, "snd sure
enough arc they in the note; I'm id glad Of il, for
they're out of the basket"
There are some Of the most curious things about this
battle ever have hearp Of Ny Grand Army started to
Richmond-bu, who stssted iss Nobody will acinowl
edge the corn. Cameron says be didn't; Seward says
he didn't; Mcdowell says he didn't Fuss and Feathers
sWears by all that is good and bad that he didn't. Iss
the strangss. thing. have studied it. but can make
nothing OF IT, 1t seems 1t must have whistled ITSELF
May be- you have hearn Of what happened in Old
Virginia Well, puts me 10 mind Of that. school,
master had fallen in love with mighty nice gal in the
n.ighborhood, and one Saturday he though. he would
20 sparkling. He thought 1t would no, do to 60 on
foo so he put bis best bib and tucker and borrowed
horse, which was lean he nothing more than
fame, any way you could fI H. an old saddle with rope
strrup leather and rope bride, and of he started But
he was ashamed of hi, cavalry so he tied him In the
pines and walked up the house and took his seat by
the gal Some of the niger chaps playing in the pines
found the horse, and, thinking i. some outlsndsh
animal, brought him to the house. Pretty soon the
whole family black and white, were gathered around 10
see the .ighta wondering what it was, whose 1t was
LOO al tipu
about it. At las mschievous little niger said he
spec Young massa what In the house wd MIS- Sally
mont know something about IL. So, young masss was
brought out and asked to say upon honor and the lame
a. under OATH what he knew about the animal But be
declared that II Il was the last word he bad TO say,
never saw the thing bsfors-nsvsr hesrn Of it-ard
didn't know what 1t was.
Well, there 10 another thing can't understand, and
". studied night and day. Ny Grand Army had mols
men than the Rebesit lost 20 900 and the Rebels lost
only 500; We lost all our cannon, and my men run
blck to washingtoon without onoe looking behind 10
20, who was coming after them but, after all Seward
says gained the greatest victory that heard
Of Now, Seward knows this Is lie, and know il ID
lie but We both fully believe It to be true that
hav, both sworn to H. cousciendously, ct least dozen
times. But suppose Ii waI natural should lose the
most men as had the mos!; and, to the running
business, Seward says our men got in such weaving
way in practising our orsw.f,h drill, that they couldn't
stop cutting the pigeon wing till they got back to WASH
iugon and wouldn't have been any To look back
told you, Fuss and Feathers and good many Coz
gre,smen and women had gone to Csn.reve to the
fight. Well, the rebels came upon them with such a
sudden and awful fire from the rear that they had not
tins to take hasty plate Of SOUP but every ran
Tx, wild buff,lo 10 hail storm. One most imporan.
thing was ascerained It was found out that Senator