Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-12-07

MAsBY.4 -. ~, :,
zr. Kasby Cerverses with Gem
eraI Macstinger, OF South
Carolina

| Ctef "HCbthHbcFt VI SVtAh
Carolina.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Nov f8, 1865.
| Sence the November elections hev bin
spendin' the hsft NV my time in Washing.
ton. / find melankoly pleasure in ling
rim round the scene Nv so many Demokrztic
triumphs. Here it wuz that Brooks, the
that Calhoon & Yancey and Breckinridge
achieved their glory asd renown. Besides,
its the easiest place to dodge a board bill in
the yoouited States There's 50 many Con.
gressmen here wbe resemble me, that hev
no difficulty in passin' for one, two thirds
nv the time.
Yesterday l met in the readin-roem Nv
| Willard's Ginral MacStinger, of South Kar-
/ liny. The Ginral is here on the same bisness
most Nv the Southern msn hev in this
classic city, that nv prokoorin parden,
which he he'd prokoored, and wuz gittin
ready to go home and accept the nomiIa-
shen for Congress in his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy. Things didn't
soot him, he observed, and be wuz afeerd
that the country wug on the high road to
room. he he'd bin ssbsent from the yoo-
nited States suthin over four yeers, which
time he he'd spent in the southern Confeder.
acy. When he went out the Constooshnel
Dimocrisy he'd tome rites which wuz respect
ed On his return wat did he see2 The
power in the hands Of Radikals, Ablishn-
ism in the majority every where, an ex.taior
President state Nv affairs disgustin in the
extreme TO the highly sensitive Southern
mind He bad accepted a pardon only be-
coz he felt hisself constrained to put hissef
| in position to 60 to Congress, that the
country might be reskood from its impendin
peril He shood go to Congress, and then
| he should ask the despets who now hev con
| troll, whether
l. They spozed the Soath would submit
to hoomiliatin cdndishions?
| q What Androo johnson means by die
tatin to the Convenshuus Nv sovereign
States?
"Why," says he, "but few days ago this
boor he'd the ashoarence to write to the
Georgy Convention that it must not-mark
the term-'MUsT NOT as-vuu, a. :, !.
war debt Isa tailor to say must not 10
shiverrus Georgy? Goqd easar Goa .wMnebe vi Re
consolidated on them term,-never never
was used to that style Nv talk in Dimekratic
Convenshuns.
Ez soon as take my sect in Congris,
resumed he, II shel deliver speech, which
l writ the day after Lee surrendered, SO or
| to hev it ready, in which | shel take the
| follerin ground, to-wit:
That the South hev buried the hatchit,
and hev diskivered that they love the old
Yoonion above anything on earth. But,
"The north must meet US half way, or we
wont be answerable for the consekenses Ez
a basis for settlement, | shall insist on the
follerin condishens:
''The Federal debt must be repoodiated,
principal and interest, or ef paid, the South
ern war debt must be paid likewise--ez a
peace offerin. The doctrine Nv State Rites
must be made the soopreme law Nv the land,
that the South may withdraw whenever
they feel themselves dissatisfied with Mas
sachusetts. Nv coarse this is an olive
branch.
Jefferson Davis must be to-wuast set at
liberty and Sumner hung, ez proof that the
North is really consiliatory. On this pint
am infexible, and on the others immev.
able"
! An old man who had bin listnin to our
| talk, murmured that there wuz par
allel to this last proposishen.
; "Where ?" demanded the Ginral.
! 'The Jews, | remember" replied he,
demanded that Barrahas be released unto
, them, who wuz thief, | believe, and the
, Savior be crucfed, but forgit jst how il
! wuz"
r The General whithered him with lite
t nine glance and resoomed:
5 IT shel. nv coorse. offer the North suthir
r in the way of compensation. for the troc
theory of a Republican Government is com
Q nromise. "a our mari we pledge eurselve,
{ to cum hack. and give the North the benefi
J. nv onr kmmin hack. 80 long ex Massachu
; se,ts condux herself akkording to our lice
a nv what ia rite. But eff this ekitable ad
h iustment is rejected, all l hev to say the
1t Is. I shell resign, and the Government ma
e sink without wun effort from me to save it.
wuz about to give in my experienc