The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-17
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me- he said, 81 tell my wife that if S
she dies shall get another right away, I
and it's mouse for woman to refuse
me, for / take women as do the king
dom Of heaven. by storm !" 1t oc-
Cured to me to say, but I did not,
feared he would never take that king
dom in that way, or any other.
With great warmth he secuted the
idea that any of them were ever "trait-
ors,'' and was evidently quite indig-
nant when, npon his referring to hang
ing, l remarked that II 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 a 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 NE. and he has been a
brother beloved ever since. |
One Of the most eloquent passages |
ever listened to fell from his lips as we
neared the place where he was to land
He was sitting ,upoa 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 S debti Shaking his
head; "West Virginia oughtn't to pay
the debt. Is it old Virginia debt!
Surely old Virginia oughtn' 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-
ginia gave to the United States =
Some one said: "But Virginia brought
} it upon herself Il 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 a 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
e debts! Look at these plantations; wo.
! men raising q few chickens, carrying
! them sixty or seventy miles to sell. and
1 and that S all the way they have to
e make money. They cannot pay their
! taxes; it's impossible; and the end
/ will be reputation. That's what it Il
! coming to. And rather than that Vir
i ginia should be so disgraced, woulc
# gladly, if God would accept the sacri
d ice, give my life to save her honor.
t 1t was scene long to be remembered
: The intense earneSlness, the elOquence
d the tender love of the old man for OLE
: Virginia cannot be Transcribed to pa
y per.
n Ibis letter grows to such dimension
n that will mention but one inciden
t. more, and the one which, more thar
It any other, convulsed us all with laugh
"a ter.
t He had been relating some touching
n incidents that occurred just previous t
|: the fall Of Petersburg and Lees sur
n render. Among them the death {
y Lieutenant Fearing, noble young ma
1e whom he had loved as his own son.
Immediately after the surrende
IN General Meade. who was his brothe
i'd in-law, and who heard that it ".
l.: Wise's own son, and his MEADE
in nephew who had just been killed, ser
d. to inquire what he could do for hin
as He returned the answer that he coul
ci- 10 nothing for himself, but did wal
1t. food for his boys. General Meade sot
CHI sent him -four, coffee, sugar, ETC., vii
on the important addition of ten head
hit fat cattle for his men, and gave him I
!" order for ten mules with which
Oh move his provisions, and an ambulan
N. for wounded men. The mules requir
its hay and there was none, except IN t
al possession Of the Federal army. 0
,ut tanning an order from General Mea'
1t. for hay, he started with his ambulan
t." Of sick and wounded and his stores,
SIX search of the article. On the way tn
&C. met singular looking man on hor'
var back, whom he described as follow
ted 'Ile was q tall, angular person. vi
ent STOPPING shoulders. His nose, viii
he was immense. started from his TO
ne head at right angle, and after q
ha. tinuing some three inches. turned
INV the left, SO that his small gray E,
mt could not possibly both see the sa
VS. object at the same time. He was dress
oil in q blue tailed coat, VIII
to must have been made about the y
| / 1850, very short-waisted, and the br
! it buttons which adorned the back OF
out were close under his shoulder blad
ted he carried blue cotton umborell
Turning to the officer at his side, g