The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-18
NASBY,
Written for The Toledo Blade.
TriumphaI Progress of j. Davis from
Fortress Monroe to Richmond.
THE "SPoTTSwooD," RICHMOND, Val

May Is, 1857.
In castin n retrospective glance back
erd over the pathway NV the past, 1 kin
see many mistakes wich hev made.
hewitt aIluZ made the most NV opor-
toonities-I hev doubtid when doubtin
wuz a crime, -and hev stood shivrin
on the brink and feared to lAnch away
on Jordons on the tother side NV wich
wuz pelt and profit. Our foresite isn't
alluZ ez good ez our hind-site. 1 am
satisfied that the greatest mistake ever
made in all my life wuz in not plungin
headlOng into the war, eZ Confedrit
Maj jor- General, distinguishin myself
for croOelty toward Fedral primers,
and bein at the close NV the fratrisidle
struggle reserved and embraced ez a
lOng-lost though somewhat forward
brother by the Northern people, and
NV coorse bein the objek Nv sympathy
ez a. .marter by the Southern people. In
this sitooashen u man hez two strings
to his bow. He brings to his support
the two extremes. He fetches together
Horris Greely from the one side and
Genral Boregard from tother-they en-
brace, and staudin onto both their
sholderS he hez wat may be called a
soft thing Nv it.
wuz led into these train Nv reflec-
tions by the experience hev he'd with
| our sainted cheef, Jefferson Davis.
came to this city on a secret mishun, the
principal objick Nv wichwuz to see that
everything wuz done for the comfort
Nv the illustriOus man that Good be
done, on the occashen Nv his contem-
platid trip to Richmond, and that the
arrangements shood be ez perfect ez
possible. Partikelerly wuz 1 charged
to see that everything calkelatid 10 jar
onto his sensitive teelins be removed
everything wich Good wound his sense
NV hearin, seeIn or Bmellin.
The CRATE man had consentid to go.
He he'd bin, he felt, illegally deprived
Nv liberty-unconstooshnelly in fact
and ef he shood consult his own feelins
he wood rename, but to forgive wuz di-
vine. Viewin these perceedins in the
lite Nv an apology he wood go.
The day he'd arrived. The steamer
wuz at the Fortress carefully prepared
to receive its illustrious burden. It
he'd been thoroughly cleaned and fumi-
gated, the cabins he'd bin nooly fur
nisht, and speshl alterashens made for
the President and party. Their wuz
Yoonited States officers and soljerS
aboard, but out of respeck for the
feelins Nv their illustrious ''prizner, y
ez he is technically called, they KEEP
themselves out NV his site, that the color
Nv their uniforms might not awaken
unpleasant refeckshens. So perieck,
indeed, wuZ the arrangements that the
railin NV the boat which wuz originally
bloc, wuz kivered with gray cloth, and
the eagle figger-head NV the craft wuz
sawed OF. This wuZ seieSted by emf
nent Conservative NV Moo York, who
hez a large Southern trade wich he
didn't prejoodis by his course dOorin
the war. The ladies' cabin wuz orig
inelIy assigned to the party, but fe.
male passenger he'd no more regard for
the comfort OF the marter than To die on
the passage, an they we're deprived NV
it. The Conservative merchant insisted
that the corpse be thrown overheard,
but Mr.. Davis, with a magnanimity
wich wuZ alluz characteristic NV him,
refoozed. "No," "said he, "let her rest
there. kin endoor the inconvenience,
severe ez 1t is. It Is but one more at
tempt to break my sperit." 7-
All the way up ther wuz the most
tetchin Difference shown him. Atevery
landin the people were assembled to
greet him, and ez they salooted him, he
acknowledged it with a show NV conde-
senshen never saw of the stage. He
conversed but little on the passage up.
Ez the boat wuZ sweepin majesticalIy
past pints made historicle by the events
NV the great struggle, his eye wood
brighten, eff they wuE sich plnts ez
. Ihh0 paw @-t 70 NAAA4
with teers eff they Wuz pintS at wien
ther he'd bin reverses.
We arrived at Richmond at last. The
most considrit preparashens he'd bin
made for his resepshen. Their wuz no
irons onto him-the only guards in site
wuz them Wich he'd bin detailed to keep
the crowd from annoyin him, and q
carriage was in readiness, into wich we
seated ourselves, and wuz uzdriyen off at
dignified pace to that resort Nv the
aristocracy nv Virginny-the Spotts-
wood. Here more considerashun wuz
shown. Mr.. Davis being averse to
walkin up stairs, suit ny rooms he'd
bin prepared for him on the fust floor,
and the presence NV General Burton,
nv the Federal army, bein obDoxshus,
he Wuz assigned by the Elk. .President'a
room at the further end Nv the corridor.
His nerves bein very sensitive, heavy
mattin Wuz laid down in all the halls,
and the RervantR nv the hOuse wuE