The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-03
LEADER.
The Nasty Papers.
nr. sashy "Dreems a Dreem.,,
SAINTS REST, which is in the Stat
nv Moo Garsvl Inlv q I966

SAINTS REST, which Is in the Staff
Nv Moo Gersyl, July q, 1866.
Dreems is beeomin the most commonest
recreation l heY. l don't whether these
dreems is the sperit of prophecy, sugar
coated with sleep, or whether they are zoo
perindoost by the reglar three-quarters Nv
a pound NV tripe l eat about II P. NJ, but
dreems l bev.
List mite 1 dreemed that 1 had brigd
time, and wuz set ahead about nine months.
Methot the south he'd bin consillystid
and RECONSTRUCTED, and he'd cum back into
the sisterhoOd Nv states ez sisters ginralIy
cum back sitter a quarrel. South Carliny
wuz representa- in the house by Ginrsl
Swasher, and all the Rhetts, ct setry, and
Aissippy by g dozen or 2 Kernels and
Ginrals, for that staff sent none to Kon-
gress cepting its heroes. Geffson Davis
wuz q csndidsit, but heVin sed, in his zeel
for repudiashen, that he wuz fer repudis-
tin all diets, his constituency wuz afrade
that he mite mcleod the Konfedrit wal
Diet, 80 they detected him, and electid Gin
raj McGoujurn, who held that the Fedrsl
war det uneonstooshnel, and must be
repudistid, while the Konfedraci's ought
to be paid ez 3 consilstory mesure. The
genOoine Dimockricy nv the North he'd
iOectid enuff members to Civ the South con-
trle Nv KOngris.
In my dream l wuz seated in the Gallery
nv the House. A member from Moo York
WIZ %introdoosin 3 bill %Appropristin a sum
nv money fer the purpose Nv erectin q mon.
ument to the memry Nv the Union soiiars
who fell at Gettysburg. No sooner had
The fanatic rsd the title Nv the bill, than
General McGoujum and Swssher and Ker-
mel Pelter, Nv Georgy, walked over TO his
sect and with their Gaines beet him over
the he'd twenty or fifteen times. He wuz
carried out fer ded.
Ginral McGoujum claimed the floor.
"Mr. Speaker" sed he, HTm bilinl In.
dignsshen is a heevin and tossin my shivel-
rus soul in q most Tremendously stile. 1 am
MIR. Speaker, q citizen of this gellorus Re-
1 stand here 2 day, RECONSTRUCTED
and c%onsilly ated-s loyal man. l bev
took the oath and since bev VIOLATED no
rOol or custom Nv this House. 1 hey drswd1
pay prOmptly-I hev v vented a
in the sperit of forgivenIs and christian
ez 10 take that psy in green BAY.
Lnstid of demandin gold, nOtwithhstsndin
,very one NV them bears the portrait NV
hat hndish ape, that thirster after gole
destroyer Nv hsbis cOrpusis and con-.
tltootlonal rites, our late lamentid Presi-
lent. Alter maxim these sacrifices shell
it here calmly and allow a niger steelin
Yankee to insult the South with alloosins 20
Gettysburg and sichP Never j
Shell q Moo York missegeunvashun. I
!, in this ere hall, perpose 2 appropriate :
be treasure Nv our common country to
ommemorste 8 fad, on witch NV cor
sitcoeney wuz Walloped, without rebuke
He hes bin rebuked-let him
.eed the Wsrnin."
Sevrsl Ablishn members riz. Int tba
)imOcrisy wuz firm and woodent let EN- :,
psek. The southern members wuz
DIN to withdraw in q body, wen Fernando
GOD rose and PerPosed a compromise, ez
That harmony and good feelin rhood
revale, hentz4th and forever.
The word "War7 shall never be yoosed c
these halls, that whenever referred 70 il
lel be termed MISUNDERSTANDING" al
That the flags, cannon and SIGH like n
'ophles, found by the Fedrsl army in P
arious parts Nv the Southern stats, be TO.
ust destroyed. v
That pershuns be psde TO the misunder. P
andinlsts from both sekshuns, for seryises y
,ndered the Government.
That the various fields on2 wich these st
isunderstsndins occurred, be ploWed over
the expense Nv the Government.
That no book be publish givin any
Iount Nv prison life or SIGH. -
That bunkum orators in this House,
raw their ~bAlloosiODs to our military /
me solely from the Mexikin war. .
Tho compromise wuz Nv coarse sdoptid. a,
2 the vote wuz %snnounst Ginril McGOu. "
m snd Fernandy wood rush in2 eech
hers arms, and wept down eech utheTs O
x, while Kernel Potter waved q Gag over NJ
n, forming a picter trooly ietehin. q
"Thank bevin," L exclaimed, ez 1 swoke y
ON this refreshin sleep, "Brooks is ded, u
1t his spirit still lives-his sole is a p
on. So long ez we hev q south !,
dimOcrisy TO demand, and q Northern
mocrat TO give all will be well. Bless 4
q LoTdP'
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