The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-08
A RECONSTRUCTION LETTER.

DEAR 1H-RLw;- ,
Thus far airs as smooth as your Oihest sentence,
Nol a word has been said that can bring us repent
We've had clear road and sunshiny sky, "Tg-~sP
And eyerything's lovely and the goose may hang
hiRhl
Nv team, well in hand is 30 trained TO its PAGES,
That our radical friends haven't dared show their
With H.pY and G DEN for leaders, You know,
The one rough and restive the other TOO slow
And with GR-RT and the ADM-R-L mated behind,
Both GOOD steady pullers !tohen drove icih bLindh
have saf on the box with the rlDbons in hand,
And pushed them thus far on the journey we
Years ago, my old tutor, when things weren't so
And you gave me first rules in political driving,
You hardly expected-and how could dreamr-l
That ] ever should happen to guide such team!
OF our FORK three.miie heat and our ALBANY dash,
How at Auburn laid on a braid rather thick
Put my thumb to my nose, and cried, like Saint
''NOw XDx-R-Il now GR-NTi now G-DE-N and
On R-ss-U on! ST-EM-N, onl C-sT-R my dandyl
We're of to Chicago; keep pace large and small:
Now dash away, dash away, dash away ali"
AS for A-DY niph-leader, wouldn't, for double
HIS worth, to train him again take the trouble.
Betwixt you and me, he's of rather low breed
"a cross OF Poor White with Tennessee steed),
And so stubborn and tricky so dogged and wlitul,
The grSom who wou guide him indeed must be
hes proud to the servant but stOops to the masters
,Just bid him 20 slower he's sure to 20 faster;
He'll kick his own feeders bolt shy OF the course
A regular chuck-headed, plebelan horse
But lve broke him to saddle and ride him each day,
And teach him his steps when the rest are away;
And in harness. as sure as there's virtue leather,
Wen 90 to good luck or the devil together.
Dear me- times have changed since went on this
With cart full of principles heaped for a load,
And on our white streamers our followers
'Irrepresnble Conflict" or read "Higher Law"
To handle new ribbons or take new hold: Wv u"
"My Policy" now 10 the motto to win.
Make friends with all Rebels and let the South in;
To recant, there is always way, where the will is
Quote TemporG mutdatur, ct S'w-RD in ILLS.
As to A-DY, 1 say, it's we'll for our game
just TO put himpn training, and enter his name
For the National sweepstakes A. ID. '6S,
And TO tickle mis- pasterns' and Keep his head
He's the favorie, now with the outsiders ring
The gamesters, and trimmers, and that sort OF
But once we have made up our own little books,
And The jockeys grow tired OF his manners and
And the season draws near for the Washington
Race,
En-, TH-RL-w, old boy, the great Reconstruction,
May one of these days learn to know his conductor
When certain new methods and plans come to pass,
And this big stalking horse finds he's turned out to
grass;
But to drop tropes and figures, and come to plain
Let's see what's been doing, and what's to do next.
OF our progress thus lar you know the whole story,
The speeches, the dinners, professions, and glory
Ere we left the White H-se (hearlng A-DY rehearse
For the last time his lessons. page, chapter, and
And explaining in full every point that we'd planned
Should make at each placel "Sir," said l. to A.DY,
each man to his post; 'twere as well, I've been
That YOU do the talking and do the drinking
Pm safer in that line than you"-just then uR-NT
Came IN with puff, and his eye half askant,
And said, CHATS all right; and II you'll do the
And hand, shaking business, why Il-do the smok-
So ali Was arranged; but thus far on the route,
II must be confessed, the people turn out
Quite as much to see GR-NT ana the ADM-R-L as we
And cont cheer very loud Ior the old Tennessee.
Now, speaking of GR-NT, 1 am sometimes uncertain
As 10 all he's concealing behind thai thick curtain
OF smoke and IN DOUBT, as we speak flOm the car,
What he'll say when at last he puts OUT his cigar;
Al Delmomco's, once, made sure he'd have spoke,
But his widest mouth opening ended in smoke;
Now they say that love, a Havana Indeed
Old cOmrade, you know how cling TO my Weed)
But Tor GR-NT-thOugn he seems 10 have joined our
With his smoke-begrmed beard and his strange
In the end, my dear friend, we should sing rather
If the warrior.chief were oufanking us all!
Well the rest have just crossed to the Canada side,
To SEQ where the kenians raided and died
U'm AFRAID that we missed 1T in stepping between
Tne bIue.nosed proVlncials and bold Boys IN Green
Somehow, IN the cheering that's just now IN vOg que,
w don't hear much OF that sweet Irish rogue)-
While sit in my chamoer, lnditing this letter
To my trusty companion and ancient abe'tor.
Good-natured of Douglas, to ole as he did
And to leave us of one OF our rivals we'll rid
With handsome excuse for q heightened Grafton
From The East to the West at the cost of tue nation
Wen 20 down to st, Louis, and come around home
BY tine Grand Southern route since all roads lead to
Rome.
Things are turned; what change from the future
That I IS should l be cheered South of Mason and
Have they come to our side or we shifted to themG
A delicate epoint-howsoever, ahem!- =
We 20 IN good company, since Brother B-CH-R
Bids fair to be Davis's favorite preacher;
'TWasla master maneuVre-to make him speak ont (;
Since his letter to Cleveland ne CAM lace about
Who said "A these people at last have Their price;
After this we may learn Lhat they've bought Ply
And set 1T up south for an auctioneer's block,
From which, in the old Charleston mart, we shal
Ofyaeabond freedman sold out by the year!
But while we are stumping It all through the land
YOu fellows at home have got plenty IN hand;
Not inst now at New York; Tor Pm not much afrait
The tradesmen will njure their dear Southern trade
But wonder what sort OF Executive ditty
Little R-YMND will sing TO his Union Committee.
And ook to the Senatel Oh yes, not 10 mention
The LOyalists' meeting IN this weeks conSennon,
You've got your hands full, and must deal out ono
The cards that we never so shufIied before.
Have your eye on the placemeu, a close watch o.
But need not tell you how TO handle the scvthe,
Not you, VINO have cropped multiudInous heads,
And rolled men in and out of the National beds
Keep sharp eye on R-ym-nd; you know all hi
How he's hopping around like the Devil on sticks
And his horse in the Park, and his friends on 18th
Poor felIowi | fear that he want to shy off, he
Has all the settings, and none OF the coffee,
Meets the hand or one party, the boot Of the other,
Ind still turns around Ike a man and brother.