Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-05-05

U. =. CAPITOL. Washington, y U, Oct. 7. go,
Messrs +. @. Smith Il 90
sncc sssoss to Vim. B. Bradbury,
/ Cientenaen.-Mrs Orhnt requests me TO write
to you and express her great approval OF the
| Bradbury fi4ro which sha purchGsed o. you for
thu uso OF the executive Mansion. he il per-
feotly delighted withit acd fints it all she Can
| Yours very respectfully,
/ n MECKLEB,
Bseyet Brig adler Genl c. H. Array, III charge.
New, if these pnblica,i ons be not base
forgeries it seems TO US p ain there has
been usurpation OF power at Wa hing
ton.
Are they forgeries Or not
! We think they are correct copies of gen
uine documents; first, because We fluid
them conspicuonsly published in a highly
respectable paper OF the city OF New York,
and eeconl !, because they contain internal
evidence OF their authenticity.
/ It would never have occurred to a mas
culine brain to have placed "Brevet
Brigadier General U. 8. Army in charge"
of piano That idea is Enthusiastically a
scintillai;on of feminine genius, before
which that Of the Iato lameated Emperor of
the French. il making sewing machine
man . Cheg4iier Of the Legion Of Eonor,
pales aud iadas aud disappears.
We know that conlumacioas rebels, so
called, have charged officers Of the United
States army with partially for pianos ;
but that was in the Sunny South, where
music and Ia moonlight and flowers and fancy
and poetry and pictures would fascinate
the most heather savage.
Again. Women are nero honest than
men. Hence it is that it appears that the
piano for the Executive Mansion was
purchased AMI not presented. =
Women we'll know that presents are brides
for expected love or favors Of some sort,
and intelligen tly-instinctiv We had
almost said-spurn them.
Again. II Mrs. U. S. Grant be not the
head OF the family and of the Executive
Department how can the absence of the
name OF her late husband be accounted
the Judiciary, and Admiral Porter, the
head Of the Navy, appear in their own
proper persons.
By what other authority could Mrs. U.
s. Grant purchase property for the Ex-
ecutivo Mansion or request" Il high Gov
ornment dignitary TO express her great
thereof over lis official sig
nature
Again. Who but a woman would have
thought 20 refer to secondhand planes .
or 20 put in the taIismapic words, THEY
ARE RELIABLE Shade of the immol tai
Pickwick Tomato sauce !!
Chief Justice Chase and Admiral Porter
can lay no claim to any honor because OF
this. We al bow TO CHASE on the Beech,
and PORTER on tho Sea, but for an opinion
as is al opinion upon secondhand pianos,
they must give way gracefully as their
ago and oft ipfrmities will allow to the
woman Of tho period. That woman has
spoken. She says of Bradbury's, THEY
ARE RELIABLE. Henceforth We buy no !
moro second hand pianos save of Brad
bury
y. Meckler, Btevet Brigadier General,
U. S. Army We could almost envy thee
did we notfear that Thy great honor might
make thee tho mark for SO many enven
0med shafts
Fitting finale for the declining years of
q hero of hundred battles, to exchange
the clash of arms and the din and roar of
battle for the concord Of s@e=t sounds i
Fortunate MECKLER to have thai piano all |
to myself !
From these considerations We arc of
opinion the documents are genuine, and if
they be SO, the pertinenoy of our question
is at onco apparent, and we repeat, have
we President Possibly he runneth
race, or is sleeping or talking horse Mon
0aHrre e1fdnt. J