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WASHINGTON, Dec. &C. 1870
Washington isn't a. remarkably good |
place for DinOcrats list at this time The |
Ablishnists are in power, and everybody |
seems to realize the fact. The hotel keep |
ers all know 1t. They know that Dim
ocrat kin hev uothin to make here, and, ez |
a conscience, when one Nv us makes his |
appearance he is unanimously rekested to |
pay afore he registers his name. 1t wuz
not 80 under Johnson. The landlords all
knew that eff we hedn't money, all we he'd
to do wuz to git on good terms with John
son and we Good git 1t, and credit wuz
then attainable. In conscience NV this IN
human stspishen NV men NV my appear
ance, L am not patronisin hotel In Wash
ington at present. take my meals at free
lunches and repose at night under bridge.
1t IL sometimes cold and sometimes damp,
but ez / hevn't any money prefer It, Its
at least.free. I'm not hampered by hours
or exposed to the superciliousnis NV hotel
clerks with diamond pins. i breathe the
free air uv heven, mixed slightly NV course
with the odors from an adjOinin livery sta
BILE, wich is, however, a good thing, ez it
reminds me that am Nv earth earthly.
The mite that McCreery, NV Kentucky,
interdooced his resolooshen restorin the
Arlington estate to the Lee family, and
pervidln for the diggin up nv the bodies Nv
the Federal soljers wich wuz berried
there, went to sleep full NV that idea. /
wuz rejoist beyond expreshen, for saw in
that movement return to suthin like
sense Nv iustis on the part NV the Govern
ment toward the peopleuv the South, wich
failed to bust it. Coin to sleep with my
mind full NV this, l dreamed dream.
In my dream, my mind o'erleaped two
yeers. L found myself standin in the Fed
raj cemetery at Arlington, on the ground
made classicle by its wunst hevin bin
owned by General Lee. / wuZ amongst
the monuments and he'd stuns commemo-
ratin the dead hirelings who wuz beneath
EN-, and wuz indulgin In a spasm Nv cussin
the government wich not only yoosurped
the property NV the great and good Lee,
but wich desecratid 1t by yoosin it ez
cemetery for its ded soljers. While thus
musin, saw regiment more or less, Nv
Fedral soljers enter the cemetry, armed,
not with muskits, but spades and picks.
AT their head wuz men drest in gray, wich
l recognized ez ex-Confedrit officers, who
wuz directin the force.
To my astonishment the men in bloc,
every man NV them with an expreshen Nv
hoomiliashen sich ez l never saw exalted,
commenst knockin down the tomb-stuns
and pilin NV em up, after wich they dug
up the graves, and histin out the skeletons
Nv the deeest- hirelings, dumped EN- per
miskus into Fedral army wagons wich he'd
arrived for the purpose.
"Wat does this mean?" askt the Con-
fedrit officer who seemed to hev charge Nv
the perceedins.
"Mean!" he returned; " it means that
at last the era Wv good feelin hez returned
1t means that at last the Dimocrisy is in
power and that the proper equilibrium hez
bin restored"
"Wat year is this?" asked in astonish-
ment
s"1S73. The eleckshen last fall made
Hoffman President, and the Congress is
Dimocratic likewise. Hoffman was inog-
gerated day before yesterday, and we to-
wunst commenst reconstructin, accordin'
to our idee" Trr
l'' Wat is the programme 2" asked
McCreery immeutly ihterdoosed the
same resolooshen wich wuz detected in
1870, givin back the Arlington estate TO
the Lee family, and removin the dead
Fedral soljers from the grounds, that the
site thereof mite not offend the youthful
Lees. The South wuzn't satisfied. 1t wuZ
goood enuff, ez fur ez it went, but they
wantid suthin more. They wantid an ac-
knolligement that them dead soljers never
.shood hev been there, and they demanded
that that acknowledgement be made in sich q
way that it wood be understood, that il
wuz an apology. Salisbury Nv Delaware
. got the idea. Immejitly he moved tC
amend the resolooshen, pervidin that the
work Nv removin the dead soliers and re
STORM the grounds be performed by vetrau
Fedral soljers selected from all the regi
ments in the servis, ez a Site token NV the re-
gret Nv the government for hevin desecratid
the property, wich wuz promptly passed
To further soothe the Southern mind, 6
hundred Confedrit officers wuZ rekested tC
take command Nv the men and sooperin
tend the work, and"
At this moment one NV the Fedrals came
up and salootid the officer who wuz
.talkin with me. -r
"We hev the wagons loaded with skele
tons--wat shell we do with em?"
Dump EN- into the Potomac-dump en-
into the Potomac, where the current will
wash em out to sea-"
But wat else is to be done?" sed l.
Not much. The work Nv consiliasheI
is goin on. A bill is pendin pervidin fo
the removal Nv the dead bodies NV Fedra
soldiers from all the cemeteries in thu
country, and the destrucshen NV all tht
tomb-stuns and the monuments erected Il
en- The names Nv the battle fields is t
be changed, so that all memry Nv the on
pleasantnes shall be obliterated. The yes
sells wich took part in the war is to b,
sunk and their names taken off the record
Nv the Navy Department; to make tn
government trooly nashnul, ez it was, tn
South is to hev complete control Nv tn
(NnUarpOnanf in oil ito 1aT1a rtr1oa an6 I
to dictate its policy in everything. Al
the battle flags, guns, and trophies Nv al
kinds is to be taken out Nv the Nashne
and State Capitols; celebrashuns and re
unions Nv Fedral regiments is to be pro
hibited, and it is to be made penal often
to even menshun the name NV any on
NV the battles wich took place betweel
the years 1851 and 1865, and all then
wich lost their forchoons wit
the Confedracy, and who lost propert
in conscience is to hev it restored, whe
practicable, or the valyoo in money, vic
the most NV em take, ez they prefer livi
in Moo York. The Cabinet is now mad
up Nv Southern men, and to remoonerat
EN- for wat they hev suffered, they are al
men who had commands in the Confederst
army go myself tomorrow to remoy
the bodies from the Cemetery at Gettys
buTgh, and to destroy the Federal asylum
for soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, and Augusts
Maine" We did hev some trouble. TIL
moment we commenst talking NV restori
estates to confederits, and remuneratin u
en- for lost property, then come som
thousands of southerners whose propert
he'd bin yoOsed by the Federal Govern
ment, who demanded remunerashen like
wise, but they didn't ask a second time
The proposishen wuz reserved with shout
NV lafture by every Dimocrat in Congress
"McCreery then, in 1870" r.ET
"Wuz simply two years ahed Nv his time
that wiz all. When the Republican part
lost its grip in 1871, we knowd we he'd EN-
We held McCreary and sich ez he steadily
till after the eleckshuh gave us the powe
now"
At this point gentle hog which wa
roamin in search NV his breakfast happen