The mountain Democrat., 1864-03-05
mr.. LlaeS1n's TAaAksgiving's Table
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It Il gotten up utterly regardless Of ex-
pense-like an army contractors wiie,
gorgeous o. . full blown peOny, Q scarlet
tulip ,ser macaw-evidently intended to
be elaborately ornate, yet withal some
what baxarre, not to say outre. Mr.. Lin.
coins Thanksgiving TabIe-clOth Is thing
once seen not to be forgotten.
The material was the finest shoddy,
dyed as nearly the hue Of fresh ooEing
blood as practicable. The artisan studied
the tint on the battlefield of Fredericks-
burg. The figures were peculiar, and Of
q nature t0 remind the behOlder Of pass
ing events.
First in order, the border. Upon this
were depicted negro soldiers, who, com.
manded by white officers, marched aud
counteFmArched, deplOyed, 6led. wheeled
and went through the manual and all the
various evolutions Of the drill. They were
in divisions, in brigades. in regiments, in
! companies and in platoons. There were
delineated on this border other negroes, of
all ages and sexes, in oil attitudes which
betoken jollity and animal enjoyment
Here the broken hoe and spade, the plow
left standing in the furrow-types of their
abandonment Of the labors Of peace; there
the banjo and the dance, and the unearn-
ed meal provided ut Uncle Sans expense,
and eaten with true Ethiopian gusto.-
This border was intended to represent
the apOtheosis Of the negro in its incep-
tion.
Next in the border was q space filled
with delineations Of death and agony up.
on the battlef1eld-piles Of discovered
limbs some crushed and mangled, some
dropping gore, heads disjOinted from the
body, some with staring eyeballs. others
in various stages of mutiIation-some
mashed into an almost unrecognizable
melange of flesh, bones, brains and hair,
headless trunks, spoUtiOg blood /; wound
ed soldiers slowly dying, the life. blood
oozing drop by drop, while upon all came
the pitiless, peting, numbing rain, that
froze as it fell.
Next came a space filled with hospital
scenes, busy nurses and surgeons, pallid
patients, bandaged heads and limbs, lint,
saws, knives, lgatures, and all the ap-
plances necessitated bv the casualties Of
war which, in its turn, is necessitated by
the contemplated apotheosiS of the negro.
Between this and the center piece, on
one side, was a representation Of Mr..
Seward exhibiting to group Of admiring
Russian officers, pictures representing the
sackiDg of Athens Georgia-the banging
Of Missourians by Gen Mcneil and the
ruins of Sumter, surmounted by the le-
gend eek uno, disco omnia," foreshadow-
ing the condition to which the seeded
States are to be reduced in accomplishing
the final apotheosls of the negro. Oppo-
site, and on the other side Of the center
piece, was picture representing q square
or market place in Warsaw, with Genera
Berg on the foreground, experimenting
tho whipping of s0tne Polish ladies sus
pected Of sympathy With treason. Under
it, the words, 1--WE too have q rebellion
TO put down."
The center piece represented the int.
rior of a Northern laborer's cottage
There was mean bed with scanty appa.
rel on it lay a conscript, wounded and
dying; around stood the aged parents,
the wife and group Of small children. -
He whose labor had hitherto supported
them, is passing away before their eyes
to that land where the wicked ceasC
from troubling and the weary are at rest.
They are to remain and face the worlt
and is hardsbips as best they may
Such is the sacrifice required to rendeI
possible the apothcosis of the negro.
1t is worthy of note that when the
banquet was spread, this center-piecc was
entirely covered by an immense venison
pie, with the picture of q negress upon
the crust, life size, In alto relievo.-[N.
Y. News.