Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-06-05
Mistsllam II II .
From the Toledo Blade. q
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1r'amphat Progress eff. Davis from
Fortress Monroe,

The "SPorswocD, y
RICHMOND, VA, May l3, 1867 I
In castin retrospective glance backerd
over the pathway of the past, | kin see
many mistakes wich | hev made
hevnt alluz made the most Nv opportooui.
tles-i hev doubtid when doubtin wuz a
crime. and hev stood shivrin on the
brink and feared to lanch away, when on
the tother side of :he Jordan was pef
and profit Our foresitc isn't alluz cz
good ez our hind-site. The great error
NV my life wuz in not plungin headlong
into the war ez Confedrit Major Gencr-
al, distiuguishiu myself for crooclty to
Fedlal primers, and bein at the close Nv
the fratrisidle struggle reserved and en-
braced ez a long lost brother by the
Northern people Qettin EN- kill fattid
calves for me) and Nv coorse bein the
otjeck Nv sympathy ez martcr by the
Southern people. In this sitooashen a
man hez two strings to his bow. lie
brings tc his support the two extremes.
He fetchcs together Horris Greedy from
the one side and General Boregard from
the tother-they embrace, and standin
onto both their shoulders he hez wat ina y
be called soft thing Nv it,
wuz led into these train NV reflections
by the experience | hev he'd with our
sainted chccf, Jeffersnn Davis. wu7
sent hitber by the President to see that
everything wuz done for the comfort Nv
the illustfious man that Good be done, on
the occashun Nv his contemplate tri p tc
Richmond. Partikerly wuz charged tc
see that everything calkeated to jar onto
his sensitive feeins be removed--every
thing wich Good wound his sense Nv hear.
ing, secin or sIuellin. ..
The CRATE man had consentid to 60
He had bin, he felt. illegally deprived u,
liberty-unconstooshnclly in fact-and e.
he shood consult his own feelins he wood
RENAME. but to forgive wuz divine. View
in these percecdins in the lite wv an apol
ogy he wood 60.
The day he'd arrived. The steamer wuz
at the Fortress carefully prepared to re.
ceive-its illustrious burden. 1t he'd beer
thoroughly cleaned and fumigated, the
ca bins he'd bin nooly furnisht, aud spesh!
alterashens made for the President and
party. Their wuz Yoonited States officer,
and soljers aboard, but out Nv respeck fol
the feelins NV their illustrious "prizuer,
ez he is technically called, they KEEP their
selves carefully out Nv his site, that the
color of their uniforms might not awaken
unpleasant refleckshens So perfeck. II
deed, wuz the arrangements, that tn,
railin w the boat, which wuz originally
bloc, wuz kivercd with gray cloth, and
the eagle figge,head Nv the craft Wi
sawed off. This wuz sejcsted by emi
nent Conservative NV New York, who hcz
large Southern trade wich he didn'
prcjoodis by his course doorin the war
The ladies' cabin wuz originally assigned
to the party, but female passenger htc
no more regard for the comfort Nv th'
marter than to die on the passage. anc
they we're deprived Nv it The Conserv
vative merchant insisted that the corps'
be chucked overheard, but MIR. Davis
with magnauimif ipswich wuz allu'
characteristic Nv him. reioozcd. "No,
sed be, "lct her rest there. | kin en-
door the inconvenience, severe as it is
1t is but one more attempt to break ny
sperit"
! All the way up there wuz the most tech
IN Difference shown him. At every Ian
din tho people were assembled to gree
him, which he acknowledged with con
de ,censhen ! never saw off the stage. II
convcrscd but little on the passage ur
Ez the boat was sweepin majestically pas
pints made historicle by the events up tb
great struggle, his eye wood brighten, g
they were such pinfs as a Confederit coo'
take pride in, and dim with tears cf the.
waz pints at which ther had bin revcrses
The most considerit preperashens had BIZ
mude for his resepsben. There was n
irons on to him-tbe only guards in sit
wuz them which wuz detailed to keep th
crowd from annoyin him. aud carriag
was in readiness, into which we set our
selves, and was driven off at digniffe
zee to that resort Nv the aristocracy u
viigihDy-thc spotswocd. Here NOR
corsiderashen wuz shown. Mr. Davis bt
ing adverse to walkin up stairs, suit u
rooms he'd bin prepared for him on th
fust aooI, and the presence Nv Gen. BoI
ton, Nv the Fedral army, bei.l obnoxshuf
he was assigned by the Ex-Prcsident
room at the further end Of the corridor