Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-26
WAsHrNaToN, Dec. 90, 1870

place for Dimocrats jist at this time. The
Ablishnists are in power, and every body
seems 10 realize the fact. The hotel keep
ers all know it, They know that Dim
ocrat kin hey nothin to make here, and, ez
n conscience, when one nv us makes his
appearance he is unanimously rekested to
pay afore he registers his name 1t wuz
not SO under Johnson The landlords all
knew that eff we hedD't money all we he'd
to do wuz to git on good terms with John
son and we Good git it, and credit wuz
then attainabie. In conscience Nv this in
human suspishen nv men NV my appear
ance, | 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 ca / heyn't any money prefer ii. Its
at least free. I'm not hampcred by hours
or exposed TO the supercilio1snia Nv hotel
clerks with diamond pins [ breathe the
free air Nv heyen, mixed slightly NV course
with the odors from an adjoiiiH livery sta
Bile wich is, however, good thing, CT ii
reminds me that | aIn Nv earth earthly.
The mite that McCreery, Nv kentucky,
interdooccd his resolooshen rcstorin the
Arlington estate to the Lee family, and
peryidin for the diggin up NV the bodies nv
there, ! went to sleep full Nv that idea
wuz rejoist beyond eSpreshen, for saw in
that movement return TO suthin like
sense NV justis on the part NV the Govern
ment toward the peopleuy the South, wich
failed to bust it, Coin to sleep with my
mind full NV this, | dreamed dream
In my dream, my mind o'erlcaped two
yeers. found myself stHndin in the Fed
raj cemetery at Arlington on the ground
made clasSice by its wunst hevIn bin
owned by General Lee. ! WiZ amongst
the monuments and he'd stuns commence
Iatin the dead hirelinEs who wuz beneath
en-, and wuz indulgin in "A spasm nv Crssin
the government witch not only yOosurpcd
the property Nv the great and good Lee,
hut wich dc ecratid 1t by yooiu it G. a
cemetery for It's ded solicrs Whilg,'""
musin, | saw II regiment, more OF The 8
Fedral soljers enter the Genesis ,o,.,,
not with muskits. but spades ana o''o'
AT their head wu2 men drcst in gray, widh
] recognized ca ex Coufcdrit officers, wla
wuz directin the force
To my establishment the men in bloc,
every man Nv thcm with an CSpreghcn NV
hoomiliashen SIGH en- | never saw exalted,
cOmmenst bnoCkin down the tomb-stu
and pilin Nv EN- up, after wich they dug
up the graves, and histin out the skeletons
Nv the decest hirelings, dumped EN- per,
miskus into Fedral army wagons witch he'd
arrived for the purpose.
Wat does this mcanY' | askt the Con
fedrt officer who seemed to hey charge NV
the pereeedins.
Mean" he returned cit means that
nj last the era Nv good ieeIin Aez returned
1t means that at last the Dimocrisy is in
power and that the proper equilibrium hez
bin restored
wat year is thisY' asked in astonieh-
ment
1878. The eleckshen last fall made
Hoffman President, and the Congress is
Dimocratic likewise Hoffman was inog
Eerated day before yesterday, and we to
wunst commenst rcConstruCtin aCCordin'
10 our idee.'
Wat il the programme asked
McCrecry immeiitly nterdooscd the
same resolooshen witch wuz detected In
1870, givin back the Arlington estate 10
the Lee family and rcRovin the dead
Fedral soliers from the grounds, that the
site thereof mite not offend 'he youthful
Lees The South want satisfied II wuX
goood enutf oz fur cy it went, but they
wautd suthin more. They waniil an &c.
knolligement that them dead suljcrs never
shood hev been there, and they demanded
that that acknowledgement be made in sich
way that it wood he understood, that it,
wuz an apology. salisbury Nv Delaware
got the idea lmmejtly he moved TO
amend the resolooshen, per'idin that the
work w removin the dead soljers and re.
Storm the grounds be performed bv yrtraA
Fedral soliers selected from all the rcgi.
mCnts in the SprVis en- Slitp taken ne Inc 70