Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-10

yOOnlCoU unQer one uaS Nv peace anu
harmony. He desired North and
South to stand up together and clasp
hands fraternally across the bloody
chasm wich-
Ex-Gov. Bigler pulled the bell cord
at this pint, and we rushed on. The
great and good Greeley WIZ mad at
bein' interrupted in his speech. He
said he'd be dam eff they'd ever let him
git over that bloody chasm, nohow;
and he sot indignant all the rest Nv the
way to
HARRIsBURG.-Here the rooral Hor-
ris come out with more perspicasity
than ever. He sed to the people that
skasely he'd the last gun Nv our CRATE
civil war ceased to reverberate, when
his voice wuz raised for reconciliation.
AT that time and sence, his mishun
wuz to make the people one in SYM
pathy and yoonited under one flag in
peace and harmony. He desired North
and South to stand up together and
clasp hands across the bloody chasm
which wuz-
The train started here, and the speech
was unfinished.
We stopped at every station on the
road and Horris made sole-movin
speeches to the people at each place,
which wuz cheered vociferoes. After
leaving each place likewise / wuz CONF
PEELED to give aujience to from ten to
fifty patriots who wuz enlisted under
the banner NV harmony and cOnsiliash-
en- with all ther souls, but who never
theless wanted to know what wood be
done with the offises in the event Of
H0rris' eleckshun.
AT Altoona we wuz joined by rep
reseutatiyes from the South, inkloodin
Captain McPelter Nv the Crossroads.
There was nine or ten Confederit
officers, all Nv which he'd bin hazed up
and down the country for indulgin in
Kukluxin, which is the only amooze-
ment the tyranikle government hez
left a high toned gentleman. They
kept aloof frohi the. party till after his
speech at Pittsburgh. This one speech
NV the great Peace Maker wuzDt ak
kordin to programme, but l liked IT.
When he warmed up and spoke Nv
the soljers which he'd recently gathered
there to fan the flames, and sich, Nv
civil strife in the interest Nv Grant, and
aboosed em / wept. TrOo. 1t will lose
US all the soljers vote, but 1t hez fasten-
ed to us all the look warm secession
vote wich hez heretofore doubted the
sincerity NV his con version. Col. BuZard
NV Alabama, waved his hat in uncon-
tfollable enthoosiasm when the great
Horris commenst aboosin the soljers
which he'd Just met at Pittsburgh, and
before he got through, the whole nine
Nv EN- wuz cheerin ez Justly ez they
did at Fort Pillow. And when he
came 10 the pathetic account nv how
grandiy the South he'd conceded every
thing at the close NV the Y4R-eyery-
thing for the sake Of peace, Kernel
McPelter fell on the great philosophers
neck and wept.
"How true" sed the Kernel betweea
his spasms of teers. 'sI never realized
sfore how conciliatory wuz. But
now see it all. How well do l remem-
Der the mornin thzt | made up my
mind to concession. 1t wuz in 1865.
Lee he'd been mashed, JEFF Davis wuz
in prison, my niggers he'd all gone, and
there wuz Company Nv Federal SOL
gers in my front door yard. l then
made up my mind that L wood strug-
gle no more, but wood concede every
thing. After the solgers wuz with
drawed I did hang a few NV EN- in spite
of the muskets up the freedmans buro,
and possibly may hev helped to burn
out hundred since, but Wuz alluz
conciliatory-alluz, alluz."
And the Kernel was so agitated that
he shook from his buzzum a most beau
tiful pin made Nv the teeth NV niggers
and carpet-baggers which had fallen by
his good rite hand.
At Pittsburgh left in advance Nv
the party to go on to Louisville to nix
for his comm. Ez Horris g., is to preeeh
peace I want all the niggers, Northern
ers and other Objectionable people to be
kept out NV the way Nv our procession,
that the KILN Nv dozen Nv EN- may
not spile the effect NV the speeches Nv
the great pacificator. shel jine em,
however, ez soon ez possible.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Wicil wuz Postmaster and hopes to
be agin.