Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-05-07
Letter from Burgess He has been Swing
ing Round the Circle. ss.A

journey. Yea, like The great Andy,
| have been swinging roiinds the cir
Gle, but not just in the manner that
he did. Andy swung from East to
West, | from West to East. Andy
lmblbed OF the social beverage ="
to such an extent that it caused him
to make foolish speeches, scatter the
stass and stripes around in very un
ceremonious manner, and ruin his rep
utatiOn, for all of which the republi-
can party should be daily thankful?
|, however, kept sober, and tried to
conduct myself as an honest man
and good citizen should Our orbits
infringed only once. Our circles
crossed at the White House, and your
humble servant and his "Accidency"
were brought IN direct contact. The
laundering fool, who thought to rev.
olutionize a great party by appealing
to the cupidity of few thousand Of
fee holders, was brought face to face
with one of his "sufferin' Victims
One would have thought this false
man would have trembIed ard turned
pale, but he didn't. Nay, he smiled
even in the presence Of his decapita.
ted victim. Incredible as it may
seem, this man Andy, this false No
ses, this betrayer of his party, whose
crimes are so rank that they smell to
heaven, did smile, in fact he was all
smiles, yea to the tip of his nose; in
deed, there were several very respect.
able smiles visible even among the
hair abouthis temples. CerteS, the bard
OF Avon had Andy in view when he
said "a man may smile, and smile aud
be a william" at all events, he
is a verifcation Of its truth, ifnot an
inspiration of its utterance. 1t is
said he pretends to fear assassination.
Now, although C@zcr had his Brutus,
and other great men have had their
evil geniuses, yet Andy need have no
fear on that score; for the man does
not live outside his own friends and
party followers that is cowardly
enough to do such en- act. No, al
though his hands are red and his soul
covered all over with "damLetl spots
that will not out at his bidding, e. vet
1t is not Brutus nor McDuff's that he
should fear, but Burgess and other
spirits, the deep damnation for whose
taking off he is responsible, for that
must trouble bis sleep, if he is not
less than human
Ny circle extended to Richmond
and Norfolk, where | met black re-
publicans and noi>conatructed reb>
els by the score, and had some plain
talk with both, and must confess that
no phenomena of modern times is so
astonishing to me as the cool, uns
blushing impudence of this latter
class ubjugated rebels, paroled pris
oners. traitors with halters about
their necks-ail of them subjects of
such clemcncy as the world never be-
fore saw extended to criminals. They
talk as boldly of their constitutional
rights, and of the cruelty Of the re-
publican CONGRESS in imposing such
bard and unjust terms Upon them, as
if they were the most immaculate
and worst abused people the sun ev-
er shone upon. Verify, the military
reconstruction bills just passed by
Congress are the most approved and
best fitted for the people they are to
act upon that could be devised. If
they had only included Stevens con-
fiscaton bill and Summers provision
for educating the people, it would
have been the very perfection of hu.
han legislation. From rebeldom |
swung round to.Ncw York City, that
can boast. Of more wealth and less
honesty, more poverty, fsore wretch
edness, more crime and less Justice;
more religion and less christianity;
more democrats and less democracy;
filthicr streets and bigger scoundrels
than any other, | believe, in propor-
ton to its population, on the face of
the earth.
Itso happened that I was in the
city to witness the august ceremonies
Of St. Patricl1's Day in the Morning,
and saw sight that was marvellous
in my eyes. Broadway, which is
usually SO thronged that it is danger
Gus to cross it, was given up to the
St. Patrickers entirely For five or
six hours not q horse, carriage, or
dray was seen on that great thorough.
fare except those belonging to the
procession. The same is true ofsome
other streets, and to show their ab-
probation Of the favor, which would
! not have been granted to any other
religious denomination in the city,
they fell upon a poor drayman who
co4ld rot get out of the street, but
who was not disturbing the procession
in the least, and beat him L ost UNI
mercifully. What marks this out
rage as peculiarly wickedis the fact
that the name of the drayman who
! got so cruelty beaten was BURGESS,
and this was a religious celebration.
Now if the act Of betting my name
sake was in accordance with the spirit
Of Romish religion, and / have yet
to learn that the dignitaries ofthat
church disapprove oft. / am ted to
ayclaim in the language of the wick
/ ed, "d-n such religion" and the
sooner the world is rid Of it, the bet
ter for all mankind 1t is a sin, and a
shame that the principal city, the
great commercial emporium Of this
free and enlightened republic should
be so completely under the control OF
church men who have such an utter