Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-12
W ASH, Dec. 26, 1870.

Possible (and probable future.
WASH, Dec. 26, 1870.
Washington isn't q remarkably
good place for Dimocrats jist at this
time. The Abolishnists are in pow
er, and everybody seems to realize
the fact. The hotel keepers all know
it. They know that a Dimocrat kin
hev nothin to make here, and, ez q
conscience, when one Nv US makes
his appearance his unanimously re-
kested to pay afore he registers his
name. 1t wuz not so under John
son. The landlords all knew that
eff we hedn't money, all We he'd to
do wuz to git on good terms with
johnson and we Good git it, and
credit wuz then attainable. In con-
sekense Nv this inhuman suspishen
Nv men NV my appearance, l am not
patronisen hotel in Washington at
present. 1 take my lunches free
and repose at night under bridge.
1t is sometimes cold and sometimes
damp, but ez 1 hevn't any money 1
prefer it. Its at leest free. Pm
hampered by hours or exposed to
the superciliousnis Nv hotel clerks
with diamond pins. l breathe the
the free air Nv heven, mixed slitely
Nv course with the odors from an
adjoinin livery stable, which is,how-
ever a good thing, ez it reminds me
that 1 am Nv earth, and Nv earth
earthly.
The mite that McCreery, Nv Ken
lucky, interdooced his resolooshen
restorin the Arlinton estate to the
Lee family, and also pervidin for the
diggin mp NV bodies Nv the Federal
soljers which wuz berried there, ]
went to sleep full Nv that idea. l
wuz rejoist beyond expreshen, for l
saw in that movement return to
suthin like sense Nv justis on the
part nv the Government toward the
people Nv the South, wich failed to
bust it. Coin to sleep with my mind
full Nv this, 1 dreamed a dream.
In my dream, my mind o'erleeped
two yeers. 1 found myself standin
in the Federal cemetery at Airing
ton, on the ground made classicle
by its wunst hevin bin owned by Gen.
Lee. Iwuz amongst the monuments
OF fhn
the dead hirelins who wuz beneeth
EN-, and wuz indulgin in spasm of
cusssin the government which not
only yoosurped the property Nv the
great and good Nee, but which de-
secrated it by yoosin it ez cemetery
for its ded soljers. While thus
musin, l saw a regiment, more or
less, Nv Federal soljers enter the
cemetery, armed, not with muskits,
but spades andpicks. At thier
head wuz men drest in gray, wich l
recognized ez ez-Confederlt officers,
who wuz directin the force.
To my astonishment the men in
bloc, every man NV EN- with an ex-
preshen NV hoomiliashen sich ez /
never saw exalted, commenst knock
in down the tomb-stuns and pilin
Nv EN- up, after wich they dug up
the graves, and histin out the skele-
ton Nv the deceest hirelins, dumped
EN- permiskus into Federal army
wagons wich he'd arrived for the Dur-
pose.
''Wat does this mean?" l askt the
Confederit officer who seemed to hev
charge NV the proceedings.
Mean he returned; sit means
that at last the era Nv good feelin
hez returned. 1t means that at
last the Dimocrisy sin power, and
the proper equilibrium hez bin re-
stored"
swat year is this?" l asked in
astonishment.
"1S74, The eleckshen last fall
made Hoffman President, and the
Congress is Dimocratic likewise.
Hoffman wuz inoggerated day be-
fore yesterday, ,and We to-wunst COM
menst reconstructin, accord'n to our
idee."
"Wat is the programmed" 1 ask
ed.
"McCreery immejitly interdoosed
the same resolooshen which wuz de-
feeted in 1S70,givin back the Airing
ton estate to the Lee family, and
removin the dead Fedral soGers from
the grounds, that the site thereof
mite not offend the youthful Lees.
The South wuzn't satisfied. 1t wuz
good enuff, ez fur ez it went, but they
wantid suthin more. They wantid
an acknowledgement that them dead
soliers never shood hev been there,
and they demanded that that acknoll-
igement be made in sich way that
it wood be understood, that it wuz an
apology. Salisbury NV Delaware
got the idea. Immejitly he moved
to amend the resolooshen, pervidin
that the work NV removin the dead
soliers and restorin the grounds be
performed by vetran Fedral sojers
selcctid from all the regiments in
the servis, ez site token Nv the re-
gret NV the government for hevin des-
ecratid the property, wich wuz
promptly passed. To further soothe
the Southern mind, hundred Con
fedrit officers wuz rekested to take
command NV the men and sooperln-
tend the work, and"
At this moment one Nv the Fed
rails came up and salootid the officer
who wuz talkin with me.
eve hev the wagons loaded with
skeletons-what shell we do with
en- ?"
Dump EN- into the Potomac
dump EN- into the Potomac, where
the current will wash EN- out to sea" !"
aRut wat slse is TO he done" Sed /.