The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-03-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGroN CITY, March ii, e

or metal, snouiu leel more competent
to do justice to the undertaking, because
my mind has not, of late years, been &C.
customed to this kind of invention, but ]
remember play in use when | was young
in which the following lines occurred,
But since you We married you must obey,
You must be true to what y.u say
and therefore having promised will try
to perform as well as | can.
The inventive genius of man is wonder
full, and yet that same genius is not ap-
precated as it should be- When l was
thirteen years old, l was on the road from
near this place to Seneca county, Ohio,
twenty days. On the day l was forty one
years old--the 4th inst.--I left home for
this city, via Niagara Falls, Albany, New
York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del,
and Baltimore; was delayed on the way
two days and nights, travelled nearly
| twelve hundred miles, and was here in
just four days So much for the men of
ingenuity They deserve more than they
receive.
Since my last trip before this, over the
western portion Of this route, some
changes have taken place, and the most
important, probably, may be seen by OBJ
serving the kind of freight now carried by
the different railroads. AT Cleveland
this now important branch of business
was first to be seen, while the farther east
[ came, including New York, it seemed
to increase in teniolJ ratio. | feel safe
in saying that saw more than one hum
dred thousand barrels of this new article
of merchandise before | reached New
York. l could not help but think of the
remark of the girl in Pennsylvania, who
refused the audacious sno6 who desired to
accompany her home from party, under
those changed circumstances, by saying
to him No. dads Struck ile!' This in
telliyent virgin knew then that she could
have her lamps trimmed and burning,
and need no longer be compelled to accept
the offers of every verdant youth who
might approach her. The moral of this
is, that money, even by the most ignor-
ant, is known to give position !! This
gill's father struck "He,'' and she felt ii
in her bones at once--she felt rich May
we, too, Bro. Brunner, yet some day
strike "a ae," SO that upon its greasy sur
face we may be able to slide up hill, and
| taste some of the sweetest fruits of Posi-
ton!
From Niagara to Albany the Workers
have been blessed with fine sleighing all
winter, until about the lst of March, when
the snow became too deep, averaging
about three feet on the level, while all
roads running north ard south are en-
tirely impossible. In many places not a
fence could be seen, all being covered
with snow. At Albany we crossed the
Hudson on the ice, not less than thirty
persons being in the long railroad sleighs
at once. Such things seem strange when
contrasted with our Ohio winter, and
stranger when contrasted with this city,
for here all is dusty, and the weather
like our month of May. For one thou
sand miles of this trip l beheld no evil
dences of desolating war, which conveys
some slight idea of the immense resources
yet at our disposal to punish the rebels.
Baltimore first revealed to the eye the
evidences of national strife, and as we
proceeded on toward Washington, the
many armed soldiers guarding the rail-
road, very plainly showed that we were
approaching a point where the clash of
arms has been, and may again soon be
heard AS looked beyond the roaring
floods of Niagara, upon the historic field
of Lundy's Lane, my heart rejoiced to
know that the brave spirit who there led
our army on to victory against foreign
foe, now, although Virginian, stands by
the old flag against traitors, and lived to
command the armies of the Union for the
Union. May he live to see the end of
this wicked rebellion.
West Point, also, with old Fort Put
nam above and behind it, and with its
snow capped mountain peaks all around it,
recalled to memory the wintry days of the
American Revolution, when hope had al
most bid our arms adieu-when clouds ol
despair hung darkly around those noun
tain peaks-when the hearts of thousands
were raised in supplication and prayer for
the cause of freedom-when the Ameri-
| can army was weak and almost destitute
of raiment and food, and Congress was
compelled to refuse part Of what vain
and aspiring General demanded, it was
then that Benedict Arnold declared thai
he would "make the pillars of their liberty
temple ring about their ears - and his
treacherous heart was opened to sell oul
brave army. The work was well planned
and nearly executed, when, thanks to Var
Vert, Paulding and Williams, whose
names Ohio has perpetuated, men whom
gold could not buy, the daring scheme Of
a daring traitor was exposed, the country
saved, and he, the traitor, became an out
cast and by-word. Even the sisters o
the misguided Andre, in London spurnec
an interview with such a traitor. But the
dark pages of history containing his
treachery now stand forth in dimmeo
colors, when compared with those of The
present, where is written the darker deed:
of more wicked rebels. Now, even so
called ladies of America embrace with ex
ultant Joy the hand of the cruel destroyer
of our country's happiness and prosperity
whilst thousands of Northern men stane
forth as apologists for crime ten thou
sand times worse than that of Arnold's
Trenton and Bordentewn, N. j., also re
call to mind the suferings of Revolution
ary days, while the old church, once usee
as hospital, on the bloody field of Bran
dywine Cor Chadd's Ford) yet stands a
T a lasting memorial of the golden fruits o
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