The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-05

feel for SOC. 900 more unfortunate than
you. We are at war, sir; don't yon
know we are at war? Sorrow is the lot
of all: bear your share like a man and
a soldier"
II try to, MI. President, but it seems
hard. My devoted wife lost her life for
coming to nurse me in my Sickness
and 1 even cannot take her body to my
children"
.sWell, she ought not to have come
down to the army. She should have
staid at home. But il they will so tear
ing about the country in such times as
these and running into all sorts OF Ian
gers. they must take the consequences!
Not but that l am sorry for you, Col
onel. AS for your wife, she is at rest,
and / wish l were?n
Saving this. the President leanedb back
YEARLY in his chair and closed his eyes,
not noticing, except by a slight wave OF
the hand, the departure of his visitors.
am not ashamed to confess that my
hero tossed restlessly that night upon a
pillow wet with manly tears, and he
was resentful, utterly unresigned to the
DEGREES of Providence and the War De-
| partment, and that he thought Abraham
| Lincoln as hard as he was homely and
rs inhuman as he was ungainly.
Toward morning he feel asleep and
slept late. Before he was fully dressed
there came a quick mock at the door Of
his chamber and he opened it for Prcsi-
dent Lincoln.
The good man came forward, pale
and eager, tears glistening in his eyes,
and grasped the Colonel's hand, say
ing, II treated you brutally last night,
l ask your pardon. was utterly tired
out, badgered to death. l generally
become about IS savage as n wild cat by
Saturday night, drained dry of the
milk of human Kindness 1 must have
seemed to you the very gorilla the rebels
paint me. l was sorry enough for it
when you were gone. | couldnot sleep
a moment last night, so ! thought I'd
drive into town in the cool of the
morning and make it all right. For
tunately l had little difficulty in finding
you"
''This is very good Of you Mr.. Presi-
dent, said the Colonel, deeply moved.
"No. it isn't; but that was very bad
of me last night. l never should have
forgiven myself if / had left that piece
of ugly work stand. That was a noble
wife of yours, Colonel. You were a
happy man to have such II noble woman
to love you; and you must he 4 good
fellow or such Il woman would never
have risked so much for you. And
what grand women there are in these
times, Colonel! What angels of devo-
ton and mercy. and how brave and
plucky! Going everywhere ut the call
of duty, facing every dangerl | tell
you, if il were not for the women WI
should all go to the devil, and should
all deserve to. They are the salvation
of the nation. Now, come, Colonel;
my carriage is ut the door. I'll drive
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