The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-09-09
Letter from New Orleans.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIoNs AND REFLECTIONS.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 8, 1864.


NEW ORLEANS, Aug. g, 1864.
FRIEND CALEDONIAN The interesting let
,er Of H. r." in your issue Of the 22d ult,
a.uding to your earlier history, brings me
lack many pleasant Renaissance. One,
,owever,-that of my first introduction to
you--is more iudicrous than pleasant, but,
4, it is not entirely irrevelant to the topic
nave in hand, will briefly relate it:
During the Harrison campaign, every boy
in my native town, who, like myself, had at
t.,,ned tn tremendous experience OF decade
~ ,ae atr.irs Of the planet, was politician.
Zach TOOK his fathers side. believed in
zane; he, in the North Star; the Star IN
lie Boston Post the Post in somebody
-. and so on to General Jackson. who be-
'lded the Democratic Presidential candi-
late and it vas all the same 10 believe IN
I'm, Democracy or Jackson. They were
Zach indispensable synonymes for the others
c-tn.tion.
coming from the post-office one day, fell
in with senior neighbor boy,-let's call him
In whose paternal creed began with The
IA.LpoSlAN Never had | then seen you,
ol, .:aeec all about you. Hadn' been
formed by the Star and the Democrats
universally that you was the retailer of all
iae awful lies of that miserable little Albany
c4npaigner of Horace Greeeys? ? Didn't
AHow,-havng seen his portrait in another
campaigner-that Hornce Greeley was sor
o: modern ancient Nicholas, revisiting th'
s.npses of the moon in white surtout an(
..ouched hat? did not observe what pape
lin had unfolded, when he pointed to som.
arge numerals and the repeated word "MA
.oRIgy," enquiring if they were not pretty,
gase an aGmlring assent. Next pyramid
o: State names,-wasn't it han'some !?
And concurred. He then pointed toward
the top of the second page at vignette rep
.seentiug small temple on steep hill, a
whose base stood a group of men wavin,
heir hats and apparently cheering at tn
glory overhead.
Isn't that fine picture, Ben, and nobl
,ooking men ?"
Certanly.--out what does it all near
limp 2'
On, guess they are singing the vers
y4st bel l1w; here We read it..
here shall the Press the Peoples rights maintain
.awcd by Influence and unbrbed by Gam;
liere Patu OF Truth her glorious precepts draw
ficdged to Religion, Liberty and Law
Inns e!ocution was good, and probab
he Knew the motto by heart. was congra
ula'1"s MIN on his good reading, and a
pIaudlng the verse Us being most magni
Gently sublime, an epi,het flched fe
4 days before from an elec,oneering pettifoj
ser,-when a second young whiy. whom we
call Nat, overlook US. quick exchange
sances between them sent through me
q r4.qful thrill of suspicion that had som
q snere loosened screw. For only seco,
II l,-.d they suppress their laughter, and ho
n 8 Nat exclaimed,
Why, Ben, them's Wings"
H nay add here, that whiggery was to
a ts2 invariably allied to meanness a
4 .lity,-ar excusab'e prejudice arisi
"A ,'r FAC, that its leading partisans
49, had long been unenviaby consE
pan the DOCK, ts-both civil and cri
u of "Danvie court" Few of yt
u 'Fs will need the additional exp planat
that institution was nothing like "Han
court, neither was i, one of ,hose He;
'' ''4''s that the hyma book treats
Wings? Nst.?"