The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-06-06

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hedn't anytbin 10 eat2 No, til
false. II wuz't the crowdin tha
perdoost the mortality"
Only wunst wuz his buzznn
wrung, and that the Government
Good not pervent. He wuz stand.
IN at the winder, gain OFT upon
Richmond, his mind revertin tc
the time when it wuz the Capital
Nv his ConfedIacy, when a process.
sion passed with moosic, and fags
and banners. With n shreck Nv
angish he buried his head in the
curtins, and wept aloud. ! rusht
TO tho winder. 1t wuz ez l feared
Film slowly by, wuz a percession
NV niggers who he'd past that way
purposely. "Merciful Heaven r
sed he, 'hez it como to this ?" and
nc wuz very reserved and deprest
the balence Nv the day.
The next day the President wuz
taken to the Court. Ez he enter.
cd the room and glanced proudly
over the awjence, it wood hev bin
very difficult 10 hey decided
whether he wuz a goin 10 try the
Court or the Court him. But re-
pressin bisself he took his seat.
Techin solissitood wuz displayed
in the Court Room for his comfort.
A crack in the winder casin let in
a draft Nv cold air; he shuddered
and a shudder run thro the entire
assemblage. The Shudder Nv the
Conservative merchant from Moo
York wuz trovly artistic. Cotton
wuz caIld for, when the Conserya-
tive merchants wife tore off one Nv
her buzznms and stuff the aper.
toOr. Wuz ther ever more tecbin
sacrifis? The President wept ez he
bebeid it. On asccrtainin the tenn.
peratoor wich best sootid his sys.
TEN, q thermometer wuz brot, and
the room wuz kept at that precise
degree.
1her wuz sum trifin legal for
malities gone through with, and
the Presidents counsel made a mo.
ton that he be admitted to bail.
Ther wuz q stir in the Court
make it million q sed one, $50
that the craven North shell see how
we kin take keer Nv them We luv!"
but Judge Underwood fixed it at
slOO,OOO and brisk ez bees, Schell,
a Moo York Dimocrat, several
Richmond Dimocrats and Horris
Greeley stept forrcred and signed
it.
Never shel l fogit the shout that
assembled ez Horris wuz a signin his
name.
"Ihrec cheers for Jeffson Gree
ley and HOrris Davis--One and in
separable, now and forever :"
sboutid one enthusiastic confedrit.
Immortality is yoors I" sed an.
other, seezin him by the hand COR
jelly. "JeffsoL Davis is the big
dog NV the age, and 700. my dear
sir, are now the tin kettle tied to
his tale. Wat joyl Wat happi-
mis- ! When posterity speeks NV
Him they'll spcek Nv Your
l coodent restrane myself no
more. Dustin into teers l fell on
to Greeley's buzzum and we EN-.
braced. Ez he bedn't his s)ekti-
cles on he sposed it wuz Davis his
self, and he bustid into teers also,
and ther wuz wun nv the most
strikin tabloos ever exhibited. l
got away afore he diskivered his
mistake.
Here wuz the endin Nv our
troubles--the consummashun Nv
our hopes. Davis wuz free! The
pent up emoshens nv the people
found vent. Ez he slept into the
street the people crowded to the
carriage wich contained US and
rent the air with cheers. We
reacht the hotel, and after embra.
Gin his wife, u season of religious
exercises wuz held. The clergy
man who he'd excloosive charge Nv
Davis pietY doorin the war, wuz
present, and he offered prayer. He
prayed fervenGy that the Lord
wood forgive the people nv the
North for the wrong they he'd done
our sainted head, that he wood for
Civ eff possible, the late head Nv
the Fedral Government who he'd
opposed him and the glorious coz,
and ef Divine mercy Good stretch
so far that he wood forgive the
Colonel Nv Michigan cavalry wich
he'd hunted down the Saint who
wuz now in our midst, and made
Nv him captive. He prayed for
forgiveness for the reckless men Nv
the North who invaded Virginny
for the noosepaper condukters who
he'd abooEed him who is now with
us, and particklcrly Horris Gree
ley, who he'd this day in some mea-
sure atoned for his previous wick :
edncss. He prayed that the bles-
sins Nv Heven might rest, first, up
on the city Nv Richmond, then up.
on the balance Nv Vlrginny, and
aftcrward upon the rest Nv the
Southern States, and he wound up
with fervent appeal that the E.
thiopians, witch coodent change
their skins, might see the error Nv
their ways return 10 their normal
condishen.
After this the President roceiv-
ed his friends.
am not permitted to give more
NV the Presidents plans than this.
He will remain in secloosion, and
will take no part whatever in poll
tics until after bis final aquittal in
November. He don't feel at liber-
ty to take hold Nv the Government
SO long as tber is even a technikle
charge against him. Our friends