Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-23


cred over the pathway Nv the past, kin
see many mistakes which hev made. |
hewitt alluz made the most Nv oportoo-
nities-I hev doubted when doubtin wuz
a crime, and hev stood shivrin on the
brink and feared to lanch away on Jor-
dons on the tother side Nv which wuz
pelf and profit. Our foresite isn't alluz
ez good as our hand-site. l am satisfied
that the greatest mistake | ever made in
all my life wuz in not plungin headlong
into the war, ez a COnfedrit Major Gene
raj, distinguishin myself for crooelty to.
ward Fedral primers, and bein at the
close Of the lratriside struggle reserved
and embrased e. a long-lost though
somewhat froward brother by the North
ern people, and Nv cOOrse bein the OBJ
jock Nv sympathy ez marter by the
Southern people. In this sitOoashen a
man hez TWO strings to his bow. He
brings to his support the two extremes.
He fetches together Horace Greedy from
the one side and General BOregard from
the tother-they embrace, and standin
onto both their shOlders he hez wat may
be called soft thing Nv it.
wuz led into these train Nv refiec-
lions by the experience | hev he'd with
our sainted cheef, Jefferson Davis. l
came to this city on a secret mishun,
the Objick Nv witch wuZ to see that every
thing wuZ done for the comfort Nv the
illustriOus man that Good be done, on the
OCCsshen Nv his contemplated trip to
Richmond, and that the arrangements
shoOd be ez perfect ez possible. Partik-
elerly wuZ | charged to see that every
thing Calkelatid to jar onto his sensitive
feelins be removd-everythin which Good
wound his sense Nv hearin, seem or
smelln.
The great man had consentid 10 90.
He he'd bin, he felt, illegally deprived Nv
liberty ~unConstOOshnelly in faCt-and
eff he shood consult his own feeins he
wood rename, but to forgive wuz divine.
Vewin these preceedins 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. 1t he'd
been thoroughly cleaned and fumigated
the cabins he'd been nOOly furnsht, and
speshl alterashens mad for the Presi
dent and party. Their was YoOnited
States officers. and sOIers abroad, but
out of respeCk for the leelins Nv their
illustrious primer" as he is tech meal
ly called, they KEEP themselves away out
NV his site, that the color Nv their uni
forms might not awaken unpleasant re-
fleckshens. So perieck, indeed wuz the
arrangements that the railin Nv the boat
which was originally bloc, WAS kivered
with gray CLOTH and the eagle tgger-
head Nv the craft wuz sawed off. This
was sejested by eminent Conservative
NV Moo York, who hez large Southern
trade WlCh he didn't prejoOdis by his
course doorin the war. The ladies'
cabin was originally assigned to the
party, but a female passenger he'd no
more regard for the comfort Nv the mar.
ter than to die on the passage, an they
were deprived Nv it. The Conservative
merchant insisted that the corpse be
thrown overheard, but Mr.. Davis, with a
magnanimity which wuz characteristic
NV him, refoozed. No" sed he, let
her rest there. kin endoor the incon-
veniencQ, severe as it is. 1t is but one
more attempt to break my sperit"
All the way up Their Wuz the most
techin Difference shown him. At every
landin the people were assembled to
greet him. and ez they salooted him, he
acknowledged it with a show of condo
senshen I never saw off the stage. He
cOnversed 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, of they Wuz SIGH pints ez a
Confedrit Good take pride in, or dim with
teers eff they wuz pints at witch Their he'd
been reverses.
We arrived at Richmond at last The
most considrit preparashens he'd been
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 car
riage wuz in readiness, into Wlch we
seated ourselves, and wuz driven Off at
dignihed pace to that resort Nv the arts
tocracy Nv Virginny-the Spottswood.
| Here more COnsderashen was shown.
| Br. Davis being aVeIse to Walkln up
stairs. a suite NV rooms he'd been pre-
pared for him on the fust floor, and the
nresence nv General Burton Nv the Fed
| raj army bein obnoxshus, he wuz as
| signed by the EX-President room at
the further end Nv the corridor. His
nerves bein very sensitive, heavy mattin
was laid down in all the halls, and the
servants Nv the house wuz especially di-
rected to wear list slippers and to walk
on their tip toes.
wuz invited to his room and wuz IA
vored with few minutes conversashen
with the first Of Amerikens, and, when
he dies, the last. Glancin out Nv the
winder, his fine, soft grey eye restid on
the roof Nv Libby.
! Lilies lies !" sad he, angrily.
"Wat speshel lies hev 700 reference
to 7" askt |.
"Them wich wuz publisht in the sour
rilous reports Nv unconstoOshnel Con-
girls regardin the treatment Nv primers
in Libby. They asserted that the officers
died becoz they he'd but ten feet by two,