The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-17
The Anti-AGonopolist.

Anti-Monop'
me- he said, II tell my wife that if
she dies l shall get another right away,
and ITS nosuse for woman to refuse
me, for i take women as do the king
dom Of heaven. by storm - It oc-
Cured to me to say, but I did net, I
feared he would never take that king
dom in that way, OF any other. 0.
With great warmth he secuted the
idea that any Of them were ever sstrait.
ors," and was evidently quite indig-
nant when, Mpon his referring to hang
ing, remarked that. 81 would have
hung thirty or forty Of them" He re-
piled: elf you had done it, sir, the war
wouldn't have ended in ten years-no,
not in hundred y He never liked
JEFF. Davis, but, when he refused to sue
for pardon, he said: 1.-THE mantle Of
charity vas thrown over his faults,
henceforth, for me, and he has been
brother beloved >e&er SINCE
One Of the most eloquent passages I
ever listened to fell from his lips as we
neared the place where he was to land.
He was sitting upon the side of the
boat, and knot Of gentlemen had gath
cred about him, discussing the question
of finance and State debts. He main.
tanned that the United States govern
ment ought to pay the State debt
of Virginia, and urged that she
might make the vivid plea of ''non-per-
soma" The debt Was an anti-war debt.
During the war two States had been
carved out of the original State that
made the debt. Now, whose is the debt!
Is it West Virginia. debtl Shaking his
head; "West Virginia oughtn't to pay
the debt. Is it old Virginia's debt!
Surely old Virginia oughtn't to pay it. -
A young man suggested that he ''didn't
believe Congress would see it so.'
mot see it, said the old man; Congress
ought to see it. Virginia one of the
original thirteen States, gave the Uni
ted States the territory out of which
four States were made, as free gift
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
And the United States gave those
States millions of dollars worth
of land for schools and to
build railroads, and now, when
she has taken Virginia, one of the orig
inal States, and made tive new States
out Of her. shall she do less for them
than she did for those four States Vir.
ginio gave to the United States :"
Some one said: "But Virginia brought
it upon herself II don't allow that
Virginia brought it upon herself. But
admit that she did, admit that Virginia
has been bad child, shall the United
States therefore be bad parent
would that be right! Look at Virginia
one Of the original thirteen States
not behind any Of them in her natural
resources-her industry paralyzed, her
system of labor disorganized-ruined,
by the war! She can never pay her
debts! Look at these plantations; wo.
men raising few chickens, carrying
them sixty or seventy miles to sell, and
and that's all the way they have to
make money. They cannot pay their
taxes; it's impossible; and the end
will be reputation. That's what it is
coming to. And rather than that Vir.
ginia should be so disgraced, would
gladly, if God would accept the sacri.
ice, give my life to save her tonor."
It was scene long to be remembered.
The intense earnestness, the eloquence.
the tender love of the old man for old
''Virglnia' cannot be Transcribed to pa.
per.
This letter grows to such dimensions
that will mention but one incident
more, and the one which, more than
any other, conyulsed us all with laugh.
ter.
He had been relating some touching
incidents that occurred just previous to
the fall Of Petersburg and Lees sur
render. Among them the death of
Lieutenant Fearing, a noble young man
whom he had loved as his own son.
Immediately after the surrender,
General Meade. who was his brother
in-law, and who heard that it was
Wise's own son, and his (Meade' s)
nephew who had just been killed, sent
to inquire what he could do for him.
He returned the answer that he could
10 nothing for himself, but did want
food for his boys. General Meade soon
sent him flour, coffee, sugar, ETC., with
the important addition of ten head of
fat cattle for his men, and gave him an
order for ten mules with which to
move his provisions, and an ambulance
for wounded men. The mules required
hay and there was none, except in the
possession of the Federal army. OBJ
tanning an order from General Meade
for hay, he started with his ambulance
of sick and wounded and his stores, in
search of the article. On the way they
met singular looking man on horse
back, whom he described rs follows
"ue was . tall, angular person. with
STOPPING shoulders. His nose, which
was immense, started from his fore
head at right angle, and after con-
tinuing some three inches, turned to
the left, SO that his small gray eyes
could not possibly both see the same
object at the same time. He was dressed
in blue swallow-tailed coat, which
must have been made about the wear