The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-01-12
Mr.. Ndsby and Gen. Mac-Stinger
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. IS, 1865.


ton. find melankoly pleasure i'll lin
GERM around the scene wv SO many Dem
okratic triumphs Here it wuz that
Brooks, the heroic, bludgeoned Sumner :;
here it wuz that Calhoun & I;ncey and
breckenridge achieved their glory and re-
nown. Besides. it is the easiest place to
dodge Il board bill. in the yoonited States.
There's SO many Congressmen here who
resemble me- that hev no difficulty in
paSsin for one two-thirds of the time
Yesterday, | met, in the readin room NV
Wilards, Ginral Mac-Stinger of South
karliny. The Ginral is here on the same
blzneSs most NV the southern men hev in
this classic city, that NV prokoorin a par
don, wich he he'd prokoored, and wuz get
tin ready TO 90 home and accept the NOM
inashen for Congress, in his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy Things did
mt SCOT him. he observed, and he wuz
ateerd that the country wuz on the high
road to room. He he'd bin absent from
the yoonited States suthin over four years.
wich time he he'd spent in the southern
contedcracy. When he went out, the
Con>tooshnel Dimocrisy he'd some rites
wich WIZ respected. On his return wat
did he see ! The power in the hands Nv
RadikalS, Ablishnism in the majority ev-
erywhcre. a ex-tailor, Presidcnt-a state
NV affairs diSgustin i'll the extreme to the
highly sensitive southern mind. He had
accepted a pardon only becoz he felt his
self constrained to put hisselfin 2 position
TO 90 to Congress, that the country mi ght
be rescood from lis impendin peril. He
shocd 90 to Congress, and then he should
ask the dcspot> who now hev control,
whether,
|. They spozed the south wood submit
to hoomiliatin condi>lIns
, What Androo johnson means by
lictatin to the COnvenshunS OF SOyerign
states
''Why," SCI he, ''but Il few DAYS ago
this boor he'd the ashoorance to write TO
the Georgv ConvcnShun that it must not
mark the lerm-'MI->r NOT :iSSoOm the
yontadrit war debt l. Il tailor to >ly
must not to chivelru> Gcorgv Good
tod where are we lrittin For one.
never will bc constituted on them terms
Hover, | never WIZ used 10 that style
,y talk i'll Dimccratic conyenShun-
] ~ 4
rc-oomcd he. Il shell deliver speech, wicI
writ the day after Lee surrendered, 50 cz
70 hcv it ready, in which | >hcl take til,
e. ioiIcrin ground. to vii
''Ihat the south hev buried the hatchct
and llcv di>kivercd that they love the o,
Yoonion above cnvthin" on earth. But
The noit!. must meet Us half Vay. oi
we won't be anSwcrablc for the coii>chc.i
COS l,z Il basis for settlement. | >hcl in
>i~t on the to!!erin condishcnS
The federal debt must be rcpooliatc,i
principal and interest, or ct paid, III,
southern war debt must be paid likewise
cz a peace oiicrin The doctrine Nv stat,
rights must he made the >oopremc law ny
the land, that the south may withdraw
whenever they feel themselves DISSATISFIED
with Massachusetts. Uv coarse this is ;
olive branch.
''.IctfcrSon Davis must be to-wlln>t Sc
at liberty and Sumner hung. cz proof tina
the north is really consiliatory. On thu
- D!nt aln intirXibic and on the others i'm
movable"
An old man who he'd bin li>tnin to on
talk murmured that there was a parable
to this last propo>ishen.
Nv here !' demanded the Gineral.
The Jews. remcmlnr," replied he
"demandcd that i5aIraboS be released unte
them, who WIZ thief. believe. and th,
Savior be crucicd, but | torgit iist how
it WIZ"
The Ginral withcred him with litenil
Glance aud resoomed:
p IL shcl, NV course offer the north suth
in in the way Nv compensation, for The
f troo theory NV a Rcpublikin Government
is compermisr. On our part We plcdg
ourselves TO kun back, and give the nortl
the benefit NV our kumin back, 50 long c.
Massachusetts conLux herself akkordin t,
our ices NV what IS rite But cf this ck
liable adjustment is rejected, all hev t,
I say then l.. shell resign, and thy govern
ment may sink without wun effort from
:, me to save ii"
| wuz about to give in my expericnc
4 when the old man, who wuz sittn ne;.