Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-02-18
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, 1870.


place for Dimocrats .jist at this time. The
Ablishnists are in power, and everybody
seems to realize the fact. The hotel keep
ers all know it. They all know that n
Dimocrat kin hev nothin to make here,
and, ez a conscience, when one NV us
| makes his appearance he is unanimously
rckested to pay afore he registers his name.
1t was not SO under johnson. The land-
lords all knew that ef we hedn't money, all
we had to do wuz to get on good terms
with johnson and we Good git it, and credit
wuz then attaiuable. In conscience Nv
this inhuman suspichen NV men NV my ap-
pearance, l am not patronisen hotel in
Washington at present. l take my meals
nj free lunches and repose at night under =
| bridge. 1t is sometimes cold and some
times damp, but ez 1 hevn't any money
prefer it. Its at least free. Pm not ham
pered by hours, or exposed to the super
cilousnis NV hotel clerks with dia-
mond pins. breathe the free air NV hevin,
mixed slitely, NV course, with the odors
from an adjoining livery stable, wich is,
however, a good thing, ez it reminds me
that l am Nv earth, and NV earth earthly.
The mite M'Creery, Nv Kentucky, inter
dooced his resolushen restorin the Airing
ton estate to the Lee family, and also pro-
vidin for the diggin up Nv the Federal SOL
jers wich wuz berried there, went TO sleep
full Nv that idea. / wuz rejoist beyond
eXpreshen, for l saw in that movement q
return TO sutlin like a sense Nv iustis on
the Government toward the people of the
South, wich failed to bust it. Coin to sleep
with my mind full NV this, l dreamed q
dream.
In my dream, my mind o'erleepcd two
yccrs. l found myself standing in the
ground made classclo by its wunst hevin
bin owned by Gen. Lee. L wuz amongst
the monuments and he'd stone commemora-
tin the dead hirelins who wuz beneath EN-,
and wuz indulgin in spasm Nv cussin the
government wich not only yoosurped pro-
pe.ty uv The great and good Lee, but wich
dcsecratcd it by using it as cemetery for
its ded eoljers, While thus musin, saw
regiment, more or less, NV Federal soljers
enter the cemetery, armed, not with mus
kits, but spades and picks. At their he'd
wuz men drest in grey, wich l recognized
ez ex-Contedrit officers, who wuz directin
the force.
To my astonishment the men in bloc,
every man Nv EN- with an expreshen Nv
hoomiliashen such ez never saw ekalled,
commenst knockin down tomb stuns and
pilin EN- up, after wich they dug up the
graves, and histin out skeletons NV the
skeletons Nv the dead hirelins, dumped EN-
permiskus in Federal army wagons with
he'd arrived for the purpose.
swat does this mean w l askt the Con-
fedrit officers who seemed to have charge
NV the proceedings.
'Mean !" he returned it means that at
last the era NV good feeling hez returned.
1t means that at last the Dimocricy is in
| power, and that the proper equilibrium hez
| bin restored.n
"What year is this ?" asked in aston
| ishment.
"iS73. The eleckshen last fall made
| Hoffman President, and the Congress is
Dimocratic likewise. Hoffman was Hog-
gorated day before yesterday, and towunst
commenced reconstructin, accordin to our
! idee."
"Wat is the programe ?" / asked.
"M'Creery immejitly interdooced the
same resolooshen wich wuz detected in 1870,
giyin back Arlington estate to the Lee
family, and removin the dead Fedral soliers
that the site thereof mite not offend the
youthful Lees. The South wuz at wanst
satisfied. 1t wuz good enufi, ez far ez il
went, but they wanted suthin more. They
wanted an acknowledgement that them ded
soljers never shood have bin there, and
they demanded that acknowledgement be
made in sich way it wood De understood
that it wuZ an apology. Saulsbury Nv
Delaware got the idee. lmmejitly he
moved to amend the resolooshen, provider
that the work NV removin the ded sOljers
aud restorin the grounds be performed by
Vetran Fcdral soljers, selected from all tht
regiments in the seryis, ez O tooken uN
the regret NV the Government for havins
desecrated the property, wich wuz promptly
passed. To further soothe the Southern
mind, n hundred Coniedrit officers wui
rekested TO take command Nv the men an'
booperintend the work, and
AT this moment one NV the Fedrals cam
up and sal0oted the officer who wuz talkil
! with me.
skeletons what shell We do with em ~
"Dump EN- into the Potomac, where tn
current will wash EN- out 10 the sea- ~
"liut what else Is to ho done ~ sod |.
"NOt much. the work Of consillashul
Is goin on. A bill is pendin proVldin fu
the removal NV dead bodies NV fedral sol
ers from all the cemeteries IN the country
} and the destrucshun NV all the tombsiun
, aud monuments erected 10 them. tn
, names NV the battle fields IL 10 be changed
! so that all memory Of the onpleasanlni
! shall be obliterated. The vessels Mlch TOO
, part la the war Is 10 bo sunk and lhei
! names taken on the records NV the Nav
, Department 10 make the goSernmen
! lrooly Nashunl, % il wuz, the South is
= hey complete control Nv tho GOyeTnneu
la all its departments, and ~ dletats u
I policy la everything, All the battle hasl
, guns aud trophies NV all kinds 10 ~
! taken out of tho Aashunl And state Cap
/, to.s celebrashens aud reunions VI fedFa
4 rcgimenls 10 ~ bo pTohlblIed, aiid u !.
v bo made penal ollrnse ~ eten lnenshe
Q ihe name ~ any One AZ Ihe battles vic
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u them which lDst theiT uIsh00n slIh III
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