Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-30
NASIsY.
Triumphal Progress Of j. Davis
from Fortress Monroe to
Richmond.

From the Toledo Blade.
THE" SPoTTswooD RicHNoyD' VA
May 10, 1867.
In castin a retrospective glanc
backward over the pathway of til
past, | kin see many mistakes vic
! l hev made. / hevnt alluz mad
the most Nv opportoonities-I he
: doubtid when dOubtin wuz a crime
and | hey stood shiyrin Oh the brin
and feared to launch away, when OF
the tOther side NV Jordon wuz pei
and profit. Our foresite isn't allu
ez good ez our hind-site. The grea
error NV my life wuz in not plungir
headlong into the war en- a Confed
rit Major General, distinguishin my
self for crooelty to Federal primers
and bein at the close nv the fratri
sidle struggle reserved and embrac
ed ez a long-lost brother by tn
Northern people (lettin EN- kill fat
It'd calves for me) and NV coorsr
bein the obieck NV sympathy ez ;
martyr by the Southern people. Il
this sitooashen a man hez two
strings to his bow. He brings II
his support the two extremes. He
fetches together Horris Greely from
one side and General Boregard from
the tother--they embrace, and stand
in onto both their shoulders, he hea
wat may be called a soft thing uy
it.
| wuz led into these train NV re.
fections by the experience / hev
lied with our sainted Cheef, Jeffer,
son Davis. l wuz sent hither by
the President to see that everything
wuz done for the comfort Of the il
lustrious man that Good be done,
on the occasion NV his contemplated
trip to Richmond. Partikelerly l
wuz charged to see that everything
calkelated to jar onto his sensitive
feelins be removed - everything
wich Good wound his sense NY hear
in, seein or smellin.
The CRATE man had consented to
go. He he'd bin, he felt, illegally
deprived NV INSTRUMENTATION
shenelly in fact-and if he shood
consult his own feelins he wood re-
name, but to forgive wuz divine.
Fewin these perceedins in the lite NV.
an apology he wood 90.
The day he'd arrived. The steam
er wuz at the Fortress carefully pre-
pared to receive its illustrious bur
den thed been thoroughly clean
ed and fumigated, the cabins he'd
bin nooly furnisht, and speshl alter
ashens made for the President and
party. There wuz Yoonited States
officers and soldiers aboard, but out
NV respect for the feelings NV their
illustrious "prizner," ez he is tech
nically called, they KEEP themselves
carefully out of his site, that the
color NV their uniforms might not
awaken unpleasant reheckshens. SO
perfck wuE the arrangements that
the ralen Nv the boat wich was
originally bloc, wuz kivered with
gray cloth, and the eagle fggerEead
NV the craft wuz sawed of. This
wuz sejested by a eminent Conserv-
tive nv Moo York, who hcz a large
Southern trade wich he didn't pref |
Oodis by his course doorin the war.
The ladies cabin wuz originally as
signed to the party, but female
he'd no more regard for
the comfort nv the martyr than to
die on the passage, an they were de-
lrived NV it. The Conservative !
merchant insisted that the corpse
DC chucked overheard, but Mr. Da-
ris, with a magnanimity wich wuz
llluz Characteristic NV him, refoosed.
No" said he, "let her rest there. |
kin .endoor the inconvenience, Sc
ere as it is. 1t is but one more at
empt to break my sperit."
All the way up there WIZ the most
etchin reverence shown him. At
very landin the people were assem-
lied to greet him, wich he acknowl-
dyed it with a condesenshu l new
r saw off the stage. He conversed
mt little on the passage up. Ez the
oat wuz a sweepin majestically past
ints made historiele by the events
" the great struggle, his eye wood
righten, eff they wuz sich pints ez
Confedrit Good take pride in, and
i'm with tears eff they wuz pints at
7ioh ther he'd bin reverses.
The most considrit prcparashens
led bin made for his resepshun. !
There wuz no irons onto him; the
My guards in site wuz them which
-uz detailed to keep the crowd from
nnoyin him, and a carriage wuz in
eadiness, into witch we seated our
elves, and wuz driven off at a dig
ifed pace to that resort NV the ar
tocracy of Virginia, the Spots
ood. Here more considerashen
uz shown. Mr.. Davis being
verse to walkin up stairs, a suituv
ooms he'd bin prepared for him on !
le fust floor, and the presence NV
EN-. Burton, NV the Federal army,
elm obnoxshus, he was assigned by
le Ex President a room at the fur
Ter end of the corridor. His nerves
Elm very sensitive, heavy mattiD !
w laid down in all the halls, and :
le servants NV the house wuz dl- =
scted to wear list slippers and to /
n IL ~, fl,oi,. fit, f1nG O.