The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-13
stevved Dried Apples and Straw
berries.

In order that our readers may understand
the following despatch from Washington to
Philadelphia radical paper. it is only
necessary to state that the Southern Tour
is.s" were travelling party that have just
visited the South, and embraced Governor
Ward Of New Jersey, John W. Forney,
General Van Wyck of New York. Clinton
Lloyd of this State, and some other radicals
Of lesser note
The Southern tourists who accompanied
Governor Ward. had a chat with the Presi-
dent upon the status Of affairs South. One
of them gave as an instance Of the manner in
which the Southerners are developing their
own resources, that in Florida, where
oranges, straw berries and other fruits were
now in season, the travellers were given
steAce4 dried apples, which, ON inquiry. they
found had come from New York, and only
ttcice were strawberries found at the hotel
tables. They are unanimous in the opin-
ion that the time has not come when North
esu men can go down there to live, unless
they go in colonies large enough to be in
dependent of all but their OWE circle. They
concur, also, in the belief that the day has
not yet arrived for an ihdiscriminate reno
val of political disabilities, and that years
will have 70 pass away before thousands of
them viii be restored to loyalty"
Here is case which demands the most
profound sympathy of every loyal man
That away down il the fowery State
Ward. Forney & Co. the loving friends OF
the South, should be treated TO ''stewed
dried apples" instead of Strawberries
'.smothered with crame," is an indignity
not to be tolerated, and affords conclusive
evidence Of rank diSloyalty. If Congress
were in session this last outrage would re-
quirs prompt investigation at the hands of
committee. with power to send for persons
and papers. There is certainly wide dif
erence between dried apples aud straw
berries as an article of diet. Yet western
man once managed TO live on dried apples
for several days, by eating them for break
fast, drinking pint of warm water for din
ner and letting the apples swell for supper.
We admit, that to serve up dish of
dried apples, "stewed," to a maa of the
delicate sense of honor of John w. Forney,
was neither calculated to crafty his taste or
soothe his feelings. But who viii deny
that it WAS a dainty dish to set before the
author Of the Jamison letter2 We have DO
doubt that Gen. Grant was highly delighted
with this report of the Southern tourists
upon the relative merits of dried apples and
strawberries, and that all his doubts about
Southern dsloyslty were speedily confirmed
when he was informed by Ward, Forney &
Co., that in all their wanderings through
Florida ''ouly twice were Strawberries found
at the hotel tables" As the eating of an
apple on a memorable ocasion brought disease
aud death into the world and all our woes, so
in those piping times Of reconstruction have
apples, dried and Stelced, caused these
Southern tourist. to concur in the belief that
the day has not yet arrived for an indis-
/ criminate removal of political disabilities.
that years will have to pass away before
/ thousands of them (rebels) will be restored
to loyalty" The unhappy South will long
/ curse and dcplore the rashness of the man
/ who imported into one of the harbCrs of
/ Florida this accursed cargo Of dried apples
from New York" The fabled wooden
/ horse, full of armed soldiers, was not more
( calam;tous to the hopes of Troy than have
these fatal dried apples been to the peace
/ and quiet of the South. II John w. FOrney,
whose envenomed pen for four long years
I has indired constant and uninterrupted Ii
( bels against the men and woman of the
/ South, expected that he would be treated
! with kindness and consideration by those
whom he had so foully and causelessly ira
/ duced, he has at last found out the delusion
under which he has been laboring. Even
the worm will turn upon the foot that treada
! upon il.