Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-22

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ress Monroe 10 Richmond.
THE sSPoTTswooD." RICHMOND, Va.
May Is, 1867.
In castin q retrospective glace bsckerC
over the pathway Nv the past, I kin SCI
many mistakes wieh l hev made. / hevn'i
alluZ made the most Nv oportoonities-l
hev doubtid when doubtin wuz a crime
and 1 heV stood shivrin on the brink AND
feared to lanch away on Jordons on th'
tother side nv wich wuz pelf and profit
Our foresite isn't alluz ez good ez oul
hind-site. I am satisfied that the greatest
mistake I ever made in all my life wuz il
not blu3gin head long into tie war, ez q
Confedrit Major General, distinguishir
myself for. crooelty toward Fedral priZ-
ners, and bein at the close Nv the fratrisi-
die struggle reserved and embraced ez a
long-lost though somewhat froward
brother by the Northern people, and Nv
cOorse bein the objeck NV sympathy ez a
marter by the Southern people. In this
sitooashen a man hez two strings to his
bow. He brings TO his support the two ex-
tremes. He fetches together Horris Gree
~ from the one side and Genral Boregard
from the tother-they embrace, and stand
in onto both their sholders he hez wat
may be called q soft thing Nv It.
wnz led into these train Nv reflections
by the experience 1 hev he'd with our
sainted cheef Jefferson Davis. l came to
this city on q secret mishun, the prinlcipa
objick Nv witch WIZ 10 see that everything
Wuz done for the comfort Nv the illustri-
Gus man that Good be done, on the COCA
shen Nv his contemplated trip to Rich
mond, and that the arrangements shood
be ez perfect ez possible. Partikelerly
Wuz I charged to see that everything cal
kelatid to jar onto his sensitive feelins be
removd-everythin witch Good wound his
sense NV hearin, seein or smellin.
The CRATE man he'd consentid TO go He
he'd bin, he felt illegally deprived nv lib
erty-unconstooshnelly in fact-snd eff he
shOod consult his own feelins he wood re-
name, but to forgive wuz divine. Vewin
these proceedins in the lite Nv an apology
he wood 60.
The day he'd arrived. The steamer wuz
at the Fortress carefully prepared to re-
eeive its illustrious. burden. 1t he'd been
thoroughly cleaned and fumigated. the
cabins he'd bin nooly furnisht and speshl
alterssbens made for the President and
party. Their wuz Yoonited States officers
and %soljers aboard, but out Nv respeck for
the feelins Nv their illustrio is ~"prizner,"
he is technically called, they KEEP their
selves away out of his site, that the color
nv their uniforms might not awaken On
pleasant refeckshens. So perfeck, indeed,
wuz the arrangements that the railia Nv
the boat which wuz originally bloc, wuz
kiTered with gray cloth, and the eagle
figgerhead nv the craft wuz sawed off,
This wuz sejested by a eminent Conserva-
tive NV Moo York, who hez g large South
ern trade witch he didn't ~prejoodis by hist
course doorin the war. The ladies cabin
Wuz originally assigned to the party, but a
passenger he'd no more regard for
the comfort NV the marter than to die on
the passage, and they were deprived nv it.
The Conservative merchant insisted that
the corpse be thrown overheard, but Mr..
Davis, with a magnanimity witch wuz alluz
characteristic Nv him, refoozed. mo"
said he, 'slet her rest there. Fkin enndoOr
The inconvenience, severe as it is. 1t is
but one more attempt to break my spirit"
All the way up Their wuz the most fetch
difference shown him. At every land
the people were assembled to greet
him, and ez they salooted him, he
acknowledged it with a show Nv eonde-
I never saw off the stage. He
eonversed but little on the passage up. Ez
the boat wuz a sweepin .majestically past
pints made historicle by the events Nv the
great struggle, his eye wood brighten, eff
they wuZ sch pints ez a Confedrit Good
take pride in, or dim with teers eff they
wuz pints at witch Their he'd bin reverses.
We arrived at Richmond at last. TIE
most considrit preparashens he'd bin made
for his resepshen. Their wuz no irons
INTO him-the only guards in site wuz
them witch he'd bin detailed to keep the
from ~annoyin him. and a carriage
Huz in readiness, into witch we seated our
selves. and wuz driven off at a dignihed
70 that resort Nv the a~ristocracy NV
Virgipny-the Spootswood. Here more
eonsiderashen WIZ shown. Mr.. Davis
bein aYerse to Waikin up stairs, a suite Nv
looms he'd bin prepared for him on the
lust floor, and the presence Nv General
Burton, Nv the Fedrsl army, bein obnox-
shus, he wuz assigned by the Ex-President
room at the further end Nv the corridor.
nerves bein very sensitive. heavy mat
in wuz laid down in all the halls, and
he servants Nv the house wuz especially
ERECTED to wear list slippers and to walk
IN their tip toes.
L wuz invited to his roo and wuz IA
with a few minutes conversation
With the first of Amerikens, and, when he
lies, the last. Glancin out Nv the winder
ais fine, soft grey eye restid on the roof
" Libby. 'sLies lies!" sed he angrily.
"Wat speshl lies hev 700 reference tor"
.skt I.
Then witch wuz publishtin the scurri-
Gus reports NV the Committee Nv a uneon-
gtooshnel Congris regardin the treatment
Nv primers in Libby. They asserted that
he officers died becoz they he'd but ten
,eet BY two. for sleepin, washin, cookin
md eatin. They he'd that space, and wat
more wuz necessary? Why give EN- room
o cook when they hedn't anythin to cook?
Wherefore room to eat eff they hedn't
to eat? No, Its false. 1t wuzn't
he crowdin that perdoost the mortality"
Only wunst .wuz his buzzum wrung.
he wuz q standIn at the winder, gain
mt upon Richmond, his mind revertin to
he time when it wuz the Capital Nv his
when a procession passed with