St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-12-28
Nasty.
61r' Nasby Converscs with Gen., Mac
sStingcr, of South Caroline.

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Written for the Cincinnati Commercial. 81
rt,& adi W4sHiSGros, D. C :, Nov. 2S..5'
Senco the November elections hev bin
spendinithe heft av my time in Washington
l find a. melancholy pleasure in ling'rin
around,the scene NV SO many Demokratic
triumphs. Here it wuz that Brooks the
heroic, bludgeoned Sumner here it wuz
that Caltoon & Yaucey and Breckinrilge
| achieved their. glory and renown.. Besides
its the easiest place to- dodge q board bill
in the yoonited States. There's 20 many
Oongressmcn, here who resemble ME, that
l hev no difficulty in passin' for one, two
lthirds Of the time.
Yesterday I met in the ;readin room Nv
Willards, Genral Macstinger, NV South
Karliny. = The Ginral is here on the same
bizness most Nv the Southern men hev in
this classic city, that Nv prokoorin q par
don, which he he'd prokoored, and wuz git
lin ready to 60 home and accept the ,noiui-
nashen for Congress, in his deestrick.l i
The Glnral wuz gloomy. Things didn't
SCOT him, he observed: and he was afeerd
that the coantry was on the high road to
rooin. He had been absent from the yoo-
nited States suthin over four years, wich
time he he'd spent in the southern conf..der-
aoy. When he went out the Constooshnei
Dimocrisy he'd some rites wich wuz re-
spected: On his return wat did he see ?
The power in the hands NV Radikals.
Ablishnisln in the majority everywhere, q
ex-tailor Presidsnt-a state NV affairs dis
gustin in the extreme to the highly sensi-
tive Southern mind. lie had accepted a
pardon only becoz he felt hisself c,nstrain-
ed to put hisself in 2 position to 20 to Con-
gress, that the country might. be rcskood
from its impendin peril. He chood 20 to
Congress, and then he shood ask the des-
pots who now hev control whether ~ ID +
l.. They spozed the South wood submit
to hoomiliatin condishns -
| 2. What Androo johnson me ms by die
| tatin to the Convenshuns NV sovereign
States ?~-~-e--7-----. -..-...~--..-- ..
t'Why," seq he, ''but a few days ago this
boor he'd the ashoorence to write to the
Georgy Convenshun that it s'must not. 8.
| mark the term-sshUsT. NOT" assoom the
| confedrit war debt" Is q tailor to saw
must not to shivelrus Georqy? Good
| God = where are we .driftin?S For one.
| never will be consolidated on them terms
neverl I never was used to that stvle Nv
talk III Dimekratic convenshuns. sasrs..:
'"Ez socn ez take my sect in Cougris, -
resoomed he, 81 shall deliver speech,
| wich writ the day after Lee surrendered
so ez to hev it ready, in which shell take
tho follerin ground to-wit: >''''= ~ ~. ~.
''That the South hev buried the l,atchit.
and hev aiskivered that they love the old
Yoonion above anything on earth. But
"Ihe North must meet us halfway, or
we wont be answerable for the conseken-
ces. Ez q basis Tor settlement, shell
insist on the follerin condishens: .s-.g
The Federal debt must be repoodiated,
principal and interest,". or eff paid. the
Southern war debt must be paid likewise
! ez 'peece offerin. The doctrine ov State
rites must be made the soopreme law Nv the
land, that the South may withdraw when
ever they feel themselves satisfied with
Massachusetts. Oy coarse this is oliye
branch. u % ms; ts.&s .&ssft 5ss@t'1s>. !.
Jefferson Davis must be to wunst set at
liberty and Sumner hung ez proof that the
North is coDsilliatory. On this pint am
inflexihle, and on tho others immovable.
An old man who he'd been listnin to our
talk, murmurcd that there was parallel
to this last proposishen. sE.,z >;
"Where, !" demanded the General
''The Jews, remember" replied he,
demanded that Barrabas be released unto
them, who ,Wuz thief, believe, and the
Savior be crucifcd, but I forgit jist how it
wuz." - y .,-.. ,...2 .... ,<., .
The Genral withered him with litenin
glance and resoomed. IT,. + .5 s. .. s..
81 shel, NV course, offer the North suthin
in the way NV compensation, for the troo
theory uv a " Republican Government is
compermise.. On our part We pledge our
selves to KUN hack. aud give the North the
bencfit<uv our kumin back, SO long ez Mas
sachusetts condux herself akkordin to our
ijes Nv what is rite. But eff this ekitablc
adjustment isrejected, all I hey to say then
is, | shell resign, and the Government may
sink without wun effort from me to save
it." = - ,s:.,..T @ 5s.
I wus about to give in my experience
when the Did man who wuz sitting near US
broke in agin:3 e,.'.'@ ..s.. :. isSs &.
"My name.''' sec he,. is. .Maginnis, and
live in Alabama. Iwant to say . word to
the gentleman from Karliny, and to the
wun from Moo Gersey.' ,.4--.s 7il,s5s2 81 n
allow retortcd I, lido you know Tn
from Noo; aersey, not heven spoken : word
"By I instinkI hev. Whenever see 1
Scntherner lawn it down heavy to indi-
vDoull whose phisynogamy Is nv sich o
cast that upon beholden it 700 instinktively
feel to see that yoor pocket, Handkerchief Is
safe; q, face thatwood be dangerors IL it
had courage into il, Ialln1 know the latter
to bo . Northern copperhead. The Moo