The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-05-24
NASBY.
Triunp,ini Progress Sf J. Eba-
Wis from Fortress .iaOnrnc tG
Rfcttmnnd.
Ink' k''sFOTfswoUD, KIgnMoNp, Va
Nav I3, 1867.

d ~ Nsf7Alh itNNci''f'iNt y Ni"A q
ioverthe pathway uy the past, kir
see many mistakes which hcv made
I I hewitt aIluz made the most NV OPP
; ;ortoonities--I hcv doubtd when
! ldoub,i1 WIZ crime, and hov stood
shiyrin on tive brink and feared to
lanch away, when on the tother sidc
tuv the Jordou wuz pelf and prof.
Our forosids isn't alluz ez good e.
our hind.sight. The great error Nv
my lie wuI ia not plunglr heedloag
into the war ez Confcdrit Major
General. distiuguishin myseli ior
crooclty to Fcdrol primers, and hcin
At The close ,ly the iratrisllle strug-
lie tesruvd and emhrad ez q long
lost brother hy the northern poodle,
/ (iett!n rln MI ia,tii calves Tor mo
aud Nv cuoiyr hvin tho eljscl nv
sympathy ez martrr by the South-
ern people. IN this sitooashen u
man hC2 two extremes He fetches
together iloris Gtecly from 'Nc oal
side and Gcnrol Boyegard ItQm tie
itothor--thcy embrace, end staudin
onto their sholders he hoz wa, may
he called soft thing nv 1t. | wuz
led into these train uy reflections by
the experience I he'd with our sain-
ted cheoi, jefferson Davis. WIZ
sent hither by the President to see
that everythin wuz done for the com.
fort nv the illustrious man that Good
be done on the occashen NV his con
tcmplatid trip to Richmond. Per
tikelcrly | wuZ charged 10 SEQ thst
everything caIkelatid 10 Jar onto his
sensitive feelins DO removd--evcry-
thin wich Good wound his sense nv
ic5rin, secin or smellin.
The CRATE man he'd consentid TO
90. He he'd hin, lie felt, illegally
deprived nv libcrty-unconstoosh.
uly Ia flct--anl ef he shood consult
his own leciins 40 wood rename, but
to forgive WIZ divine. Vewin these
pciceedins in The lite Nv an opolo. Is
he wood 90
Tue dag he'd arrived The steam.
cr WIZ at the Fortress csrciull pre-.
pared to receive it, ilnstrious bur.
din. II he'd been thoroughly cleaned
and fumigatid, tie cahins he'd bin
nooly furnisht' anl spcshl altorna.
shcns maid for tie President and
p.rty. There wuz Yoomt.l States
Ulcers and suliers abprj, but ont II,
r1spe,k for ieeins NV their illu,t /.
Ia. - 10.
called, they KEEP themselves carefully
out of his site, that the color NV
ther uniforms might not awaken on
/ pleasant reflections. SO perfect, in
deed, wuz the arrangements that thS
ruilin NV the boat wich WIZ ori9i
nelly bloo, wuz hivered with gray
cloth, and the egle fgger-hed NV tn,
craft wuz sawed OF This WIZ spr
je4ted by a enluint Conservative Nv
Moo York, who hcz & large South
ern trade wich he didn't prci0oidi,
| by his course doorin the war. The
ladies cabin wuz originally assigned
to the party, but a female passenger
hed no more regard for the comfort
nv the marter than to die on the pas
sage. an they were deprived Nv It,
The conservative merchant insisted
that he corps be chuchek oycrborl
but Mr.. Davis, with a magnanimity
wich alluz characteristic uv him, ro
foozed. "No," said he, "let her res'
thor. ! kin indoor the inconvenience
severe rs it is. It is but one more
attempt TO break my spirit
All the way up WIZ the most tetch
in Difference soown him. At every
landin the people were assembled Il
greet him, wich he acknowledged i
with i condeselshcn I never sf tn,
stage. He conversed but little or
the passage up. Ez the boat was :
sweepin majestic4'iy past pints mad,
historic by the events uv the area
struggle his eyes wood brighten. o
they wuz sich pints cz q confelri
Good take pride in, ani dim witt
teers Of thoy wnl plnls at wich the
he'd bin reqerscs. The most con
sldrit preparsshcns he'd Din made 70
his reception. Their wuz no ironi
( onto him--thc only ;sunrtl- IN 7it,
wuz them wiGh wuz detailed to keel
the crowd from annoyin him, and
carriage wu2 IN readiness into wicl
we seated ourselves, and wu2 driver
oil at q dignifcd pace TO that resor
NV Virginry the spottswooj.-
Here more consideration wuz shown
Mr.. Davis being averse to walNin N
stairs, suit nv rooms had bin Pre-
pared Tor him on the fust Uoor. an
the presence NV General Burton, u
the Fcdral army, bein obnoXsms, i
was assigned by the EN Presileu
u room at the furthur end NV III
corridor. His nerves l.ih very seu
sitiyc, heavy mattin WIZ lsid dow
in the halls. and the servants NV IN
house especially directed to wca
list slippers and 90 walk on their Ii
toes.
wuz invited TO his room aud WI
favored with u few minutes conve!
sashen with the first Of Amerikcn.
i. Glancin cut nv the winier bis lin
, soft, grey eye restid on the roof Il
, Libby Lies lies sed he angril,
"What speshel lies hey yoo re
erence to?' askt /
, "Ihem wich WIZ puhlisht IN ia
Q scurrilous reports Nv the Committee
| nv a uncorstooshncl C0ngris regaro
o IN the treatment uy primers in Lihb,
, They asserted that the officers due
/ becoz they he'd but ten feet by tw,
for sleepin, washin, cookin, and ear
in. They he'd that space, and W.
more wnz necessary? Why give 'el
O room to cook when they hedn't an,
q thing to cooki Wherefore room
. eat Of they hedn't anything to eat
q No, its false. II wuzn't the crowdi
q that perdoost the mortality"