The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-10-22


esslv and with copy NV the Moo Yorl
Triboon stickin out NV his coat pock
ct, he remarkt that he wuz simply pri
vate citizen, goin in private way to til,
great industrial exposishen at Cincinnati
He had he the subject NV much aboose
He had been branded ez secessionist, q
rebel, a know nothin, negro trader, bu
he he'd never denied EN-. But he woulc
merely say that his mishen wuz to make
the people one 10 heart, one 10 sympathy
and yoonited under one flag NV peace anc
harmony. He desired North and South
to stand up together and clasp hand
fratcrnaly across the bloody chasm which
Ex-Gcv. Bigler pulled the bel-cord a
this point, and we rushed on. The grea
and good Greeley wuz mad at bein inter
rupted, in hisjspoech. He said he'd bt
dam eff they'd ever let him get over thai
bloody chasm, nohow, and he sot indig.
nant all the rest NV the way to
Harrisburg-Here the rural Horri
come out with more perspicasity thar
ever. He sci to the pc ole that skascly
had the last gun Nv our grate civil war
ceased to reverberate when his voice wui
raised for reconcilishun. At that time
and sence, his mishun wuz to make the
people one in sympathy and yoonity un
der one flag in peace and harmony. He
desired North and South to stand up to-
gether and clasp hands across the bloody
chasm which wuz-
The train started here and the speech
wuz unfinished.
We stopped at every stashen on the
road, and Horris made sole.movin speech
es to the people at each, which was cheer
ed vocferous. After leaving each place
likewise | wuz compelled to give aujdince
to and from ten to fifty patrons who wui
enlisted under the banner NV harmony
and conciliashun with all tn oir soles, bu
who nevertheless wanted to know wa,
wood be done with the ofiisis in the even
OF Horris' election.
At Altoona we was joined by repre-
scntatives from the South, lux oodiu Cap
tain Pelter Nv the Cross Roads There
was nine or ten confederite offisers, all w
which he'd been hazed up and down tn,
country fjr indulgin in Ku-Kluxin, wct
is the only amoozement the tyraniklt
government hez left high toned gen
tIernen. They kept aloof from the party
till after his speech at Pittsburg. Thi,
one speech Nv the great peacemakel
want akordin to programme, but liked
it. When he warmed up and spoke u,
the soljers which had recently gathered
there to fan the flames, and sich, NV civ
strife in the interest Nv Grant, auc
aboozed EN-, | wept. Troo, it will lose
US all the soljers vote, but it has fastened
to US all the lookwarm secession vote
wich hez heretofore doubted the sincerity
Nv his conversion. Col. BLIZZARD Nv Ala
bama waved his hat in uncomfortable en-
thoosiasm when the great Horris com
mcnst aboozin the sojers wich he'd JUS
met at Pittsburg, and before he 90
through, the whole nine Nv them WI;
cheerin cz Justify cz they did at Fur
Pillow. And when he came to the pa
thetic account Nv how grandly the soutl
had conceded everything at the close o
the war everything for the sake w
peace, Kernel McPelter fell on the grea
philosophers neck and wept.
"How true" said the kernel between
his spasms NV teers, II never realised
afore how conciIiatory l wuz, But nov
see it all. How well do remember
the mornin' that | made up my mind t.
concession. 1t wuz in 1865. Lee heC
been mashed, jeff Davis wuz in prison
my niggers he'd all gone, and there wuz
company of federal soljers in my from
door yard, l then made up my mine
tnat wood struggle no more, but Woo
concede everything After tie solier
was Withdrawal | did hang few NV en-
in spite Nv the muskets Nv the Freed
mans Buro, and possibly may hev help
ed to burn out hundred since. but | WI
alluz conciliatory-alluz, alluz."
And the kernel wuz so agitated tina
he shook from his buzzum a most beauti
full pin made Nv the teeth Nv niggers AM
carpet-haggers which he'd fallen bv hi
good rigat hand
At Fittsburg left in advance of tn
party to 60 on the Louisville to fix 70
his comm. Ez Horris e. is to preecl
pesce | want all thc niggers, northerner
and other Objectionable people to be KEEP
out Nv the way NV our procession, tina
the KILN IVA dozen Nv EN- ma J not spill
the effect Nv the speeches Nv the grea
pacifcator. | shell jine EN-, however, e
soon ez possible
PETROLEUM V. Massey.
(Wich wuz postmaster and hopes to b