Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-03
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\ Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer writes AS
follows:
IN respect to the prominent eNiles,
There have been dispatches publish
ed, touching their intended move
ments, which had no foundation but
guess work. 1t has been, for exam
pie, broadly stated that SIidell, Ben
janin, Davis, and Dudley Mann
were all making ready for their re-
turn, in consequence of the last am
nesty. AS for Mr.. Davis, he is much
more likely to return, now that the
amnesty is to be diSregarded, than If
his case at Richmond had been dis
missed. As for the other eXiles,
have been posted up to some extent
touching their means and future
prospects, as well as wishes. The
most anxious one to return, proba-
bly, is General Breckenridge of Ken
tucky. He has a large family and is
poor-haS nothing ut all ia fact. but
his profession as "A law yer, witch is
of little use in making n living
abroad, and | know on that very ae-
count he has been anxious for 4 long
| time to return. Probably no man
more candidly accepts the situation
in every sense of the word, consis-
tent with personal honor. He would
have been back long ago, but did not
like to encounter personal indignity.
Some of his leading friends have adj
Vised him to return at once, buthe
Is man OF great caution, and is Just
as lIkeiy y as not to wait until he can
see how the land lies, and the temIer
of the incoming administration 10
ward him. Old James NJ. e. as)n
must be now over seventy, and at
that time of life local attaCh-
ments are unusually strong. He
thinks, like all NirginIans, that
the Old Diminion is the finest part
| of the world, and would prefer great
~ to 1--we there to anywhere else.
He had a moderate income at the
close of the war, arising from some
property of his wife, and, though too
old and infirm to earn dollar by
personal eXertion, was thus put above
the necessity of labor. | see it sta
ted that he is about to return to his
old home in Winchester, in the val
ley of Virginia. He will be able to
| find the place, doubtless, and meet
| many old friends, but one thing he
will not see. viz: his old homestead.
The Federal troops destroyed it
| leaving not one stone upon another
old Jubal Early, major-general 10
Lee and Stonewali Jackson, lie WHO
stormed Winchester, III the cam
paign of 1868, and burned a part of
Chambersburg in retaliation for the
burning of Jackson, Miss, and other
places, went at the close of the war.
and has remained 10y choice an exile
| don't remember whether he accep-
ted parole on not | think he did ,
but most certainly he did not accept
the situation. He is a proud defiant,
unyielding man slow TO take a po-
sItion and very tenacious of il when
once taken. He was an original
Union man, and obstinatelv resisted
secession until Mr.. l4incoln's procIa-
nation was issued, and then ht went
| for secession, and the Gontederao osr
might nave nau al iti.l,I -, t.,., ttIiIl-
| ~ no Stouter soldier or more stead
| fast adherent. lie lived before the
| war in the country south Of the James
| river, and | suppose must have man
aged to save some little property
| from the wreck. | should take him
| TO bc about The Hast man III the world
| 10 make q cent in 4 foreign land.
| His brief book on the Virginia cam
| pai@n of lS64 Is pronounced by Lees
| stan, and | believe is considered by
|
| real value on the Confederate side !:
/ it is certainly very terse and pcrspic-
| uous, bat even the nature of the man
| is shown by the fact that he gave the
| copyright to help the memorial AS
| sociatlons of Virginia in collecting
| and marking the graves of thc South
| ern soldiers who fell ON the ba tie
| fields OF that State. Said he f.: per
haps 1 might have made something
| by a sale of the work but | wanted
| to keep clear of all suspicion of wri-
| ting a book for money! And this
| proud, but manly and sincere, old
Jubal hangs out on the Canada side
of the frontier, occasionally writing
n letter about the war, as, for exam
pie, the other day, to prove that Jack
SON never proposed the night attack
| bowie knife and bare arm and breast
business-Which til A.. muse of history
THAT lying bite a. as Watkins
Leigh called her-has attributed TO
him. / think old Jubal viii come
back at his leisure when the fit takes
him and his money gives out. A
man must have n good deal of mean
ness in his nature, be he Radical,
Democrat or Southern, not to sym
pathize with slch q nature.
As for Jake Thompson, who used
to be secretary of the Interior under
buchanan, many years before in Con-
gress rigid economist, general agent
of the Confederacy in Canada in
| lS60-he would have came back long
ago but for the miserable lie Holt and
Stanton got up between them about
his being accessory to Lincoln's as
sassination. lie is no longer rich as
lac was formerly; but is, L believe,
in easy circumstances. | am sure
that he would greatly prefer Ia re-
turn when ho~can do so safely, and
go to planting again. He has no
ambition, and says that he and llen
of his age must give way to the
younger men; but he is still far from
being old, and is still a man of Wig
orous, healthy, active intellect.
Mr.. John Slidell is in Paris and
has been there at his hotel in the Rue
dc Marignan since 1851 At that
time he was sent abroad by the Con
federacy to manage their relations
with Louis Napoleon, and he eXDec-
ted To stay abroad considerable
time, and knew the uncertainties o1
war-being a long-headed mamie
took abroad with him u considerabl.
amount of property which he had
converted. Hence, though advanc-
ed in life, he has been pretty lazy
and is Not starved out hy the confis.
cation of his Louisiana property
One of his daughters was married I,
Emile Erlanger, lac who took tn.
European Confederate loan, and bic
the other day for one in Spain hi,
son had a career in the French army
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