Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-17
From the Toledo Blade.
PcsToFFIs, CoNFEpRIT \ ROADS,
(Which is in the Stait NV Kcntucky,)
Septcmber 80. 1867.

September 80, 1861.
From Ohio to Washington! Thcr is nary
peece for me. The sole nv my foot know,
no rest. Wher Democresy is in danger the
am |. | wuz called to Washington to con
suit with the friends NV the President in re
gard to the Anteeiam Dcdcashun. The
part his Eggslency wuz to take in that allail
wat he wuz TO say-wat others wuz to say
ez well as who wuz to say it, wuz a matter
but the most careful consderashun. Hence
| wuz called
found assembled the entire cabinet, will
the addishen of Bincklcy gentleman re.
Gently arrived from foreign mission, named
McCrackcn Gov Swami, NV Maryland
ex-Gov. Bradford the poet nv the day
Gen. McPounder, late NY Lees staff, now
nv the Maryland NIclishy Kernel Screw,
ditto, and twelve or twenty more who he'd
held posishens nv trust and profit under the
Confedracy, and who WIZ now holdin cor
rcspondin posishens under the Guvncr NV
Maryland, all NV wich wuz discussin the
various pints involved in this matter.
The President he'd prepared speech wicll
klvcred thirty-cight pages NV legle cap pa
per, and it wuz segested that he reed it. In
the impressive maner for wich he is celebra-
ted he began:
"Fellow contiymen-"
81 object to that phrase" said General
McPoundcr sits liable to misconstrucshun.
Sposn that upon that stand should be them
wich, doorin the fratrisidle struggle wich lost
me my niggers, wuz in the Fedral armyi
object to bcin considerd the fellows of SIGH =
The objeckshun wuz finally got over by
the Presidents agreein to turn, as he uttered
the words, to the Maryland delegashun, ,wich
| sntigfi1n NJ tbp t1ltro f,1f IL tt-,,y
enutfif if the President shood address himself
exclusively to Maryland Dimekrats ez his
cuuntrymcn. He perseeded:
| "Gathered together onto field witch the
valor nv loyal arms made forever memora-
| Bile
Gov. Swami objected. He was fur consil-
iashun. How Good our Southren brethren
who had taken the oath be consilatcd of the
fact that they wuz waluped wus bein con-
tinooally flung at en-? Besides the word
''loyal" wuz oiiensiv to the hett NV the De-
mocracy., Mr.. Seward thought ef references
wuz made to the late onpleasantnis they
ought to be diluted. sustaind the objcck-
shnn and it wus stricken out. The Presi-
| dent resoomcd:
| " Feelln this day an uncommon sOlemni-
| ty standin ez we do over the mortal remains
| NV the thousands which died in the sacred
cause of liberty and in defence NV the flag
| nv our common coun-"
Hold y sed the impetuous Maryland
General, g protest, in the name Of Mary
land protest. Shel the Conservatives nv
that glorious State be insulted by alloosions
| to liberty, NV which they are deprived, and
to the flag which is the symbol nv oppres-
sion, and under which we didn't fight! !"
l sustained the objcckshun, and that wuz
struck out He went on,
sWhen ! cast my eye over this field and
let it rest for an instant on this spot where
the impetuous focman wuz driven south
ward by our brave troops"
Gov. Swami remarked that on sich an oc-
casioa it wood be perhaps better not TO men
shun the partikeler direckshun in which
anybody was driven. Let it read, wood
say thus con this spot where the impet-
troops Left thus il woodent be especially
offensive to anybody. 1t wood read as well
South as North, for in thet encounter both
sides wuz, at times driven. | sustained the
amendment and the President went on
8. In fucher years the pilgrim to the shrine
NV liberty will paws moment on this spot,
| to drop tear over the graves of them who
here checked the advance NV the hosts NV
rebellion, and"
| Gov. Swami wuz averse to this. 1t wuzn't
soothing to the party wich wuz checked. 1t
wood be better to read, ''drop teer over
the spot onto wich fratemal blud wuz she'd"
Seen no obekshun TO the amendment he'd
it done. He went on.
"The widder in her Northern home may
weep, but she may console herself that her
husband died for her country. She may
Coy. Swami broke in. ''Sposn, sed he,
"you should say: The widder in her North
crn, or Southern home, ez the case may be,
may weep, &c. Woodnt it be better y
.,,11s 1s..1
President pcrceeded:
/" Here upon this spot, the armed hosts
of rebellion were met and hurled back by
Gov. Swami sejcsted that that be omitted.
The word " Rebellion, when applied to q
brave people, who wuz srugglin for wot
| they deemed their rites wuz to say the least,
too harsh. II wuz struck out, and The Pres
ident went on
"Upon this spot, amid the roar ny cam
non, the rattle NV musketry, and the clash
NV contcndin arms, thousands NV the brave
sons NV patriotic sircs gave up their lives :"
There wuz nothin in this obj ctionable.
II Good apply to either side or to both, but
ez everything before it he'd been stricken
out, and ez there wuz alloosions follcrin it
that wood hev to be- it WIZ advisable to
bust it, and accordinly | drew my pencil
over it,
The President then wanted to know wat
in thunder he shood say. Felin that he
must say suthin, prepared for him the fol
lerin remarks,
''My fellow countrymen: | appear afore
you, not for the purpose NV maxim any
lengthy remarks. simply desire to express
my approbashun nv the ceremonies wich hev
taken place. My appearance is the speech
wich will make Good made speech
wich wood tech yoor feelins, but my thots
is in communion with the dead-uv both
Sides whose deeds we are here to commence
rate. shel not attemptto give utterance to
the feelins and emoshuns inspired by the
ceremonies nv the day. Not any. shcl
no such thing. am here TO give countc-
nance to the proceedins-to oilishally beam
upon em-but must be permitted to hope
that we may foler the example set us by the
illustrious dead--uv both sides-and think
ny the brave men-uv both sides-who fell
sleep silent in their graves, yes-who sleep
in silence and peace after the conflict hez
ceased. Would to God. that we NV the livin
Good emulate their example ez they lay
sleepin in the tombs. Wood that we Good
live, ez do the silent dead, in peace and
friendship. Yes, in peace and friendship,
ez Go the silent dead-uv both sides. You,
my fellow countrymen, hov my earnest
wishes ez you hev he'd my efforts in times
gone ny, III Inc most tfyln pefllS, 10 restore
peace and harmony 10 our distracted and di-
vided country, and yco shcl hcv my last eff
forts in vindicatin NV the flag NV The Rcpub-
lie, and the Constitooshn NV our Fathers"
l endeavored in this to preserve, cz nearly
ez possible, the singularly beautiful and loocid
style Nv the President, that the assembled
thousands who shood hear it mite recognize
il to wunsi ez hizzen. The last sentence
wuz objected to. The Marylanders didn't
know whether they Good sit in silence and
hear sich talk about the flag nv the rcpub.
lie and the ''Constitooshun nv our Fathers.
But they wuz overruled. 1t was held and
properly, think, that the Constitooshun nv
our Fathers shood be understood ez meanr
that instrooment afore the Ablishnists hat
J knocked out NV 1t all that made it lovely in
!, the eyes of Maryland-the nigger-and tn,
} flag ez it wuz at that period They wui
, finally satisfied with it, and Binckley techet
} up the speech in some miner pints for delive
7 ry.
| didn't stay to the celebrashun, for het
) biznis elsewhere. | writ the President.
: speech, so l knew that was rite. I heard
Bradford's orashen read, and was pleased
/ with it. 1t wuz q powerful apology for thu