The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-11

| w leu Is III IOe SIdlI Nv
| II - 4 Septemb Der 30, 1867.
From Ohio to Washington! There is
nary peece for me! The sole nv my
foot knows no rest. wher Democresy
is in danger ther am l. i wus called to
| Washington. to consult with the friends
/ nv the President in regard to the An
teetam dedicashun. The part his
fEgglency wuZ TO take in that affair
wat he wuz to saY--wat others wnZ 10
| say, eZ we'll ez who wuz to say it, wus II
matter wich required not only pro-
found thought, but the most careful
consideIation. Hence wuz called.
| I found assembled the entire Cabinet,
with the addishun NV Binkley, gem
tleman recently arrived from foreign
mission named McCracken, Governor
Swami NV Maryland. Ex-Governor
Bradford, the poel Nv the day, General
| McPounder, late Nv Lees staff, now NV
the Maryland meltshy, Kernel Screw
ditto, and twelve or twenty more who
had held posiShuns Nv trust and profit
under the Cohfederacy, and who wuz
now holdin correspondin, posishuns
under the Govner of Maryland, all et
wich wuZ a discussin the various Lpints
involved inthis matter The President
had prepared a speech WITCH kivered
thirty-eiRht pages nv legle cap paper,
and it was suggested that he reed It.
Iu the impressive nRnnerfor wich he
| il celebrated, he Degan : Lfil- ~ y.
"Fellow countrymen-"
II object 10 thet fraze,". said General
McPounder. Its liable TO miscon-
strucshun. alSposin thet upon thet
stand shood be them wich, doorin the
fratisidle struggle wich lost me my Mig
| ers, wuz in the Federal army L OBJ
| ject to bein considered the fellows NV
sich.' i.-ua --.- sH1r'sF
The objecshpn wuz finally got over
| by the Presidents agreein to turn, ez
he uttered these words, to the Mary
land delegRshun, wich satisfied EN-, ez
the most ultra felt II wuz enough Of the
President shood address himself excloo-
sively to Maryland Dimekrats ez his
conntrymen. He proceeded
"GaIhered together onto a field wich
the valor NV loyal arms made forever
memorable" HHaG --r g-a .as-
Governor Swami objected. He wuz
| for consultation. How Good our South
ern brethren, who had taken the oath,
be consolidated ef The fact they wuz wal
loped wnZ bein continually flung mt
en- Beside the word "lOyal" wuz of.
fensive to the hefL Nv the Dimocracy.
Mr., Seward thought ef references wuZ
made to the late onpleasantness, they
ought to be diluted. l sustained the
| objeckshun and it wuz stricken out.
The President resoomed: %H
"Feelin this day an uncomin solem-
nifty, standin ez We do over the moral
remains NV the thousands wich died in
the sacred cause NV liberty and III de-
| fence of the tiag NV our conn-"
t"Hold!'' said the iIlpetuous Mary
land General. II protest. In the maine
of Maryland l protest. Shell the Con-
servatives of that glorious State be in
suited by allooslonS to liberty. NV which
We are deprived, aud to the flag which
is the symbol NV oppression, and under
which we didn't fight 2''f @ ~. .
sustained the objeckshun, and that
wuz struck out. He went on:
"When / cast my eye over this field
and let it rest for an instant on the spot
where the impetuOus foemen wuZ
driven southwark by our brave troops
Governor Swami remarked that on
such an occasion il would perhaps be
better not to menshun the partiCkeler
| direckshun in which any body wu2
driven. Let 1t read, 1 wood say, thus !:
IpDn this spot where the impetuOus foe
men wuz driven by our brave troops"
Left thus 1t woodent be especially otfen-
siye to ANYBODY. 1t wood read ez well
South ez North, for in that encounter
both sides wuziut times driven. l Sus-
| tanned the amendment, and the PreSi-
dent went on; Es.GEs. - g. t.. --a,
"In fucher years the pilgrim to the
shrine NV liberty will paws u moment
on this spot, to drop tear over the
graves NV them who here checked the
advance NV the hosts NV rebellion,
and" si-a r9aaf- 't- F" -3El- Sf77 -.
Governor Swami wuz averse to this.
1t wuZI!t soOthin to the party wich wuz
checked. 1t wood be better to reed,
fraternal blood waz shed" Seein no
objection to the amendment, L he'd 1t
done. He went on
F@ftThe widder in her Northern home
1 may weep butBhe mayEconsole herself
that her husband died for his country.
She may"
Governor Swami broke in. "Sposn,'
sed he, "you should say: The wilder
in her Northern, or Southern, home, ez
the case may be, may Weep" &c.
Woodn't it be better2" ]. thOt SO, and
t.wuz altered The Presi-
dent proceeded. mE
I 5"Here, upon the spot, the armed hosts
of rebellion were met and hurled back
| by"
Governor Swami sejested that that be
omitted. The word Rebellion" when
applied TO brave people, who wuz
sirugglin for wat they deemed their
rites wu2, TO say the least, too harsh.
1t wuz struck ont, and the President
went on: ... .....-
"Upon this spot, amid the roar NV
cannon, the rattle Nv musketryi and
the clash Nv cOntendin arms, thou
sands of the brave sons NV patriotic
sires gave up iheir lives"
There wuz nothing inthis objections
BILE. Itcood apply toleither side, or TO
l both, but ez everything before 1t he'd
been stricken out, and ez there wuz al
u loosions follerin 1t that would hev to
4 be, il wuz advisable to bust it, and Rc-
4 lcordingly I drew my pencil over II.
j The President then wanted to know
wat in thunder he shood say. Feelin
that he must say sutin, i prepared for
him the follerin remarks:
my low-countrymen-1 appear
| afore YOU, NOT for the purpis ov max in
4 any lengthy remarks. L simply desire
to express my approbashtn Nv the cere'
/ monies wich hev taken place. My ap-
kpearance is the speech wich L will make
. 1cood make speech wich wood tech
yoor Geelins, but my thots Is in com.
! munion with the, dead-uv both sides
whose deeds we are here to commemo'
1 rate. shell not attempt to give
utterance to the feelins and emo
/ shuns Inspired by the ceremonies
NV the day. Not any. / shel at
tempt no sich thing. am
here to Civ conntenance to the proceed
Iine-to offishally beam upon enl-but
must be permitted to hope that we may
Ioller the eggsample set us by the illus
trious ded-uv- boath sides-and think
liv the brave -dy boath sides Nv he
fell in the feefce Struggle uv'battle, and
who sleep silent in their graves-yes
sleep in silence and peece after the con
tiiet has ceesed.s Wood to God that We
NV the liyin Good emulate thare egzam'
j pie es tina lay sleepin in the tooms
/ Wood that we Good live, eZ do the silent
l ded, in peece and Friendships; yes, in
? peece and friendship, ez do the silent
fall IFNTI