The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-02

| as we'll koiucrlBS llTu SrS
aud mechanics, and that General Logan |
YVES expected to be present TO make an ad- |
Gress 10 the soldiers; and acting on that |
notion il occurred to me as General Logan |
was not here perhsps | had better |
make his speech, lsughter, though | am
quite incapable OF doing it as he would do
II; but you can't have the best, so you
must take second best Renewed
laughter And 20, my friends, think ii
not quite inappropriate TO say a few words
that may be soldier talk even though Gen.
Sherman is here snd it don't become any
| one to talk about war when Hannibal lie
present. Cheers and laughter He IN
| Ger,ock when he found himself in the
presence OF company OF soldiers in the
| Grsnd Pacific Hotel, Chicago, to pass him
! self of as s civilisn and therefore to be
excused from talking loud. Laughter |
\ So l shall take him At his word and viii
| be soldier for while and talk soldiers
talk. Ny excuse for that is that during
the last year events have occurred in
Congress from s)me of our States which have
reviewed little the discussion as TO the
| settlements of the war. What are the
leg itimate results OF the war? 1t is Sc Ain
call ed up az question for discussion. let
me, NJ or two, talk about the
subject. / have tried to keep my head
rs level as l could on all there questions
indeed have been suspected OF having my
head too level on occasions. Laughter
and cheers Now, friends, Just one word
Of suggestion: | want TO present TO this
audience snd to present it somewhat fully,
in reply 10 the question "Nhst are the
settler Of the war? Whist NAV you, as
soldiers, fairly claim you gained by your
victory. When you metan honest COnteder-
ate soldier, VINO fought so bravely, what
| NAV We say he ought in all fairness TO al
nit are the questions settled by the
war? Ga that subject there are two
general ideas. There L. the idea of rels
| tionship between the general government
and the State government; between what
my friend the President, call the National
and the States another is the relationship
between the citizens OF the States "a among
| Yourselves aud the rights OF all. Now what
are the sentiment of both OF these thirss in
that gre at Struggle from 1861 10 1865, and
what may We claim was done in regard To-
both OF these matters, tO-xit, the rights of
States and the rights OF all citizens? Ga
| that subject, think, there has been some
| neglect on the part of sll who have discuss
4 GU HucetiOi, a. " bhc Otlhlour,
and settled Judgment of Abraham Lincoln
tie II al who has srit en- or spoken from
| The beginning until to day on these
| questions the best. Abraham Lincoln
Is the man most entitled to be called the
| highest authority on questions 81 to the
| rights of States and "a to the rights of men.
| Loud cheers A wonderful man was
Abraham Lincoln; the world does not vet
/ to Gnaw vubat - I,s. H., he
down. Such a nature, naturally devotional
and religious, and almost free thinker in
| his youth, full OF humor, fond of anecdotes
seeing in every human face a fellow-msn to
! be loved and to be respected Why, | re-
| member an old anecdote Of Abraham Lin
| coin. There was certain Missouri regi-
ment, commanded by General Fisk. IL
was largely composed by chaps picked
| up on the levees OF 81. Louis; rough, IN
| couth ard ready for almost anything in the
world, but good hearted fellows. General
| Fisk was pious man and a good man. A
pious man ought always to be a good man
| laughter He found that he WAS Col
onel OF the profanest regiment there
| was in the whole army. After he had
| been with them long enough to find out
them and they to find out HIN, he called
| them together once and said IL want tC
make one proposition to you. OIe of the
| frs orders that Gen. Mason Issued to hi
| q nv was al order sysinst prof4pitv
| Now, | dom, intend to issue snv order OF
that kind. bat | intend TO let Won vol.
about 1t. | am Colonel of this regiment
and | am going to do all the swearing for
it. Now, will you agree by a vote that you
will not swear. tut will leave me to do ali
the swearing?" The boys voted that they
would do it, and there was diminutioD
| in the swearing of that regiment for
some time: but one night there WAS
q Kentucky mule driver Tlsuphter1
| and | can tell. YOU Kentucky muir
| driver can swear some. His six mu e
| team got stalled, lust az he wss coming mn
| with the Generals tent and hesdquarter
articles, and the stream OF profanity that
| passed out OF the mouth Of that Kentucky
mule driver really freighted and burdened
| the air. Laughter After il was all
| over, Col. Fisk called him to his tent. He
! said to tn soldier: DON'T Won know
| that it was agreed b. vote OF the reyi-
ment that | was to do the swearing of
the camp ayes" ssld the man, Well.
| you were swearing loud enough to be heard
| through all the surrounding camp,. y
That's all right, Colonel, that's all right
said the man. 81 know we voted that
way but then, Colonel, the swearinp had
10 be done then and you were not there "
Loud laughter One day. in the
lecture room at Washington civ
along in the winter of 1864 and IS6j. Co.
Fish told that story in little lecture.
Abraham Lincoln was sitting in one of the
front seats, with his hands clasped over hia |
knee, enjoying il very much and laughing
a. he would at any good anecdote. IL 20
happened that about a week after that there
came to him an unfortunate old lady. who
said she must talk with the President. She
tod him her con in East Tennessee, who
had gone into the Union army, when COM
ing near his home, had gone off 10 visit hi. |
mother, or perhap. his sweetheart. and The
army, instead Of marching on in the direc-
ton he thought it would, took another
Route and he was gone three or four weeks.
lie was finally arrested as a deserter, tried
al deserter, and convicted and sentenced
to be sxzcu ed There had ben
a good deal of that sort Of thing. There
must he no more OF this weak hearted poll
cy. She told her story and Lincoln saw.
There is a good deal in this. Give me the
papers you have. / symrathize with YOU
and will ask the Secretary of War, Stan
ton. to look into It and we will see what We
can do for you" "BIt," Fays she, the ex-
ecutiOn takes place next Frinay, and YOU
must give me the pardon now. Why" saws
Lincoln, that reminds me Of Fisk's story :"
and then he went on and told her the whole |