The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-11-25
MARrINsBuRG, VAST VIA.
Nov ID 1864 !

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Nov ID 1864
MEssRs BRuNNER Il PowELL:
Dear Sirs: Il am
allowed to make the following extract from
letter of young man belonging to the 9Th N.
Y Heavy Artillery writing home to his friends
at cago, The extract is Burltsque upon
the Young Napoleon Oft day" No doubt it
will prove interesting to the readers Of the "li-
onter."
What do you think of the election? wa
never so surprised in my life as was the day
after the Presidential Election" read in the
papers that Gen. Mcclellan, the Swamp H,ro
of the Chickohonliny was candidate for the
Presidency What! Little Mae lresi dent well!
wel!l have been try ing to ascertain all sum
mer who was hr. Lincoln's Opponent, and fail
ed until after the election. when l found out
that George Brnton Napoleon--Little Mac
Chckahominy Swamp-Cheago Platform
Vallanding gham--S, ymorc-Wood & Co &c
Cicllan WAS actually candidate for the Presi
dency(?) Poor Mac Little Mac. Oh! that could
style him Gredt Mae, without insulting the
dignity Of the American People. 1t sutfici-
entity insulted when ha ST. ppcd upon the Chi
cago Patfarm, even told so ty his friends: and
the work Of the eth day Of November 1864,
shows how they can and did resent such an in
suit
Away up the Saline River in its barren roeky
shpp. th,ra ia n l,ur Ian,, that thn
Revlle of Gabriel will hardly wake up lis occu.
pant on the morning of the Resurrection. While
you look at and survey the rude sepu|chre, You
can hear away in the distance the dull sound
and steady stroke of Steamer you look little
closer and find it to be U. S Gunboat, if you
have patience to watch its slow progress as it
approaches you, like huge Leviathan. you
will notice an assemblage of people uron' its
deck who are neither Soldiers or Sailors, they
W, ar grave and Sole Mn look and all are clad
in sable hahliments, aud on their hats and up
on their sleeve is to be seen the badge ofmourA
ing A Clergyman is among them also, little
near>r and YOU will see coffin in their midst,
painted black Another look and YOU will dis
cover in the foremost OF the group his Exetllen
cy Horatio S, ,ymour, for few weeks longer
Governor of the Empire State. Next to him is
the .actmo nious countenance of Don Ftrnan-
do Wood behind and around him Jim Brooks
and Ben ("Brothsr Benz Wood, and the one
with foreign mein and aspect is Shent--per
shcnt August Belmont, Long, Sunset Cox, Val
landingham and Others of that ilk complete the
group. The Clergyman, by the way, is the re-
douttable Right Rev. Chauucy Bun, who will
read the lesson. They near the shore, process
and Wood-Ben and Brooks-Vallandinghs
anl Sunset Cox are the Pail Bearers The Cor
tege is proceed d by Chauncy Bun, and as they
approach the grave, he reads.
How are the mighty fallen. Oh Mac! and
how are the valiant of the thckahominy put to
nought," A Ii ymn is sung.
"Hark, from the South doleful sound,
Mine ears attend the cry,
Ye Copperhesis, come view the ground,
Where must shortly he
have not yet told you what the inscription
on the Coffin tells us, here it is:
Ma General George Mcclellan, killed by
ridingupon the Platform, against the earnest
entr,ati,s of Conductor Belmont He was an
able Engineer, as his works before Manassas
Will testify. A great Military Chieftain, as his
Campaign in Virginia bears witness, and some
what inclined to naval affairs, avery brave man
he exposed his life once by going on board of a
/ Gun Boat. the boiler might have exploded"
The preceding is full 4 wit, and above all is
true, such has been the career of the mighty
tailen." You win conf,r favor upon me if you
will let it appear in your columns.
lam very Respectfully
Y Your 0bd't Servt
! JOSIAH p Day