The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-06
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Triumphal Progress Of j. Da-
Wis from Fortress Monroe to
Richmond.

/ AANhlAAOlNs
The 'SPoTTswooD, BIcHMoxD, Va,
May l3, 1867.
In castin a retrospective glanc
backerd over the pathway nv th
past, ! kin see many mistakes wicI
! hev made. 1 hevn't allnz mad
the most nv oportoOnities--I he
doubtid when doubtin wuz a crime
and | bev stood shivrin on tb
brink and feared TO lanch away
when on tothcr side NV Jordol
wuz pclf and profit. Our foresit
isn't alluz cz good cz our hind site
The great error NV my life wuz II
not plungin headlong into the wa
ez a Confedrit Major General, dis
tinguisbin myself for croolty I,
Federal primers, and bein at th,
close Nv the iratrisidle struggl,
reserved and embraced ez long
lost brother by tho Northern peo
pie, (lettin en- kill the fatted calves
for me) and Nv coorse bein the OBJ
Jeck Nv sympathy ez o marter BY
the Southern people. In this sit
ooashen man hcZ two strings u
his bow. He brings 10 his support
the two extremes. lie fetches to
gether Horris Greedy from the ont
side and General Boregard from
the tother-they embrace, anC
standin onto both their shoulders
he hez wat may be called a sofl
thing Nv it.
| wuz led into this train nv re.
Elections by the experience l hev
he'd with our sainted eheef, Jcffer
son Davis: / wuz sent hithcr by
the President to see that evcrythin
wuz done for the comfort Nv the
illustrious man that Good be done,
on the occashen NV his contempla-
It'd trip to Richmond. Partikcler
ly | wuz charged tosec that every
thing calkelatid 10 jar onto his
sensitive feelins be removed
everything wich Good wound his
sence of hearin, seein or smelIin,
The CRATE man had consentid to
go. He he'd bin, he felt, illegally
deprived Nv liberty-unconstoo
sbenelly in fact-and eff he shood
consult his own feelins he wood re-
name, but to forgive wuz divine.
Vewin these. proceedings in the
lite Nv an apology he wood go.
The day he'd arrived. The steam
er wuz at the Fortress carefully
prepared TO receive its illustrious
burden. 1t he'd been thoroughly
cleaned and fumigated, the cabins
he'd bin nooly furnisht, and speshl
alterashens made for the President
and party. Thcr wuz Yoonited
States officers and sojers, aboard,
but out Nv respeck for tho feelins
Nv their illustr;ous "prizner." ez
he is technically called, they kept
themselves carefully out Nv his
site, that the color Nv their uni.
forms might not awaken onpleas.
ant refeckshens. So perfeck, in.
deed, wuz the arrangements that
the railin Nv the boat which wuz
originally bloc, wuS kivered with
gray cloth, and the eagle fgger.
head Nv the craft wuz sawed off.
This wuz sejested by a eminent
Conservative NV Moo York, who
hez large Southern trade witch
he didn't prejoodis by his course
doorin the war. The ladies cabin
wuz oliginelly assigned to the par
ty, but female passenger he'd no
more regard for the comfort Nv the
marter than to die on the passage,
an they wcre.deprived Nv it. The
Conservative merchant insisted
that the corpse be chucked over
board, but Mr.. Davis, with a mag
nanimity wich wuz alluz charac-
tcristic NV him ref0ozed. "No,,
said lie, "let her rest there. l kin
endoor the inconvenience, severe
as it is. 1t is but one more attempt
TO break my sperit."
All the way up ther wuE the
most tetchin Difference shown him.
AT every landin people were assem-
bled to greet him, when he acknowl-
edged it with a condescenshen l
never saw off the stage. lie con-
versd but little on the passage up.
Ez the boat waz sweepin majestic
ally past pints made historicIe by
the events Nv the great struggle his
eye wood brighten, Of they wuz
sich pints cz Confedrit Good take
pride in, and dim with teers Of they
wuz pints at wich there he'd bin
revcrscs. Tho most considrit
preparashens he'd bin made for
his resepshen. Their wuz no irons
onto him-the only guards in site
wuz them wich wuz detaild to
keep the crowd from annoyin him,
and a carriage wuz in readiness,
into wich wo seated ourselves,
and wuz driven off at digniied
pace to that resort NV Virginhy--
the Spottswood. Here more con-
siderashun wuz shown. Mr.. Davis
bcin averso to walkin up stairs, a
suite NV rooms he'd bin prepared
for him on the fust floor, and the
presence NV General Burton, Nv
tho Federal army, bein obnoxshus,
he wuz assigned by the Ex-Presi-
don't a room at the further end Nv
tho corridor. His nerves bein very
sensible, heavy mattin wuz laid
down in all the halls, and the SER
wants NV the house wuz especially
directed TO wear list slippers and
To walk on their tip toes.
wuz invited TO his room and
wuz favored with few minutes
conversation with the first Nv A.
merikens. Glancin out NV the
winder his fine, soft, grey, eye res.