Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-04-26

,st issned from the press of the
\ 49, se..i r4s,r,s, three hundred pages OF G
experiences and recoiiec-
E;ons ~ the war between the North q
~ south The New York World :
S s1 ii will be read with more IN
forest than any of the books on the
same subject. q
roLpstf7n tsOne short hour more
~ life IA Johnston would have COM
,,Iated his fGrant's) destruction.
Had it been possible for one
haart one mind and one arm TO
ave the cause of the South, she lost
them when Albert Sidney Johnston
fell on the field of Shiloh"
In an account of his effort to re-
lease jeff. Davis from Fortress
NTonroe. he visited Washington
through the kindness of Joe HOOKER,
and was cordially greeted anu
asked to dine by Mr.. Seward. a
Ioin Of veal was the piece de TeStSt,
rsace ~ his dinner, and he called |
sattontion To If as evidence that ne |
Iad KILLED the fatted calf TO welcome
the returned prodigal." seward
',,,,,aorad tn favor his miSSion-one
81 Two other members of the john
o " % Cabinet were also favorably in
C.Iined-Stanton he did not meet.
"a snv under Buchanan, tyrant
under lincoln, and a traitor 10
johnson, this man was as eruel as
nomitian. / never saw him. In
4be end conscience, long dormant,
came as Alecto. and he was not;
and the temple of Justice, on whose
tbreshhold he stood, escaped prOfan-
afion.n He finally saw Johnson,
and learned that he must wait. me
President Railways postponed action,
and was of an obstinate, suspicious
tarnner- Like a badger, one had TO
dio him out of his hole and ne was
over in one except when on the
bustin0s addressing the crowd
he was at last asked to request
Stevens. Sumner and others &c
recommend the permission 70 set
navis. Stevens received him VIII
az much civility as he was capaDl'
IF reformed in body and tempe
like Caliban, this was the Lore
HategoOd Of the fair; but he wa
f-ankness itself" He characterlst
icaIlv told Gen. Taylor that it wa
silIv to refuse his request, put n
wo1Id not say so publicly, as ne Oil
not wish to relieve Johnson c
resnonsibility. Thence Taylor re
Doired to Henry Winter Davis, {
whom he cIassically but pointedl
ranoarks : tsTIike the fallen ange
Davis Dreferred to rule in he'll ratht
than to serve in heaven or on eartl
with the head of Medusa and tn
owe of the Basilisk, he might nav
rSnresented silva in Hindoo ten
nle and was even more lnacceSslD
To sentiment than Thaddeus 81
80 Others too he saw, but the
We're the cuttle-fish of the part
whose appointed duty it was
obscure popular vision by clouds
IovaI defamation" OF Sumne
whom he visited next, Gen. Tayl
Gives an admirable portrait, who
SarisimiIitude no one who ever M
the successor of Webster Will fall
see. "He seemed" he says, ''OV
educated-kad retained, not dige
ed his learning; and beautiful no
prs of literature were attached
him nv fflaments of memory,
lovely orchids to saplesS Stlcl
Hence he failed to understand
force of language, and became |
victim of his own metaphors, M
taking them for facts. He had
irritable vanity and weak nerves
a woman. and was bold to rashn
in speculation, destitute as he v
IF ordinary masculine sense
TesDOnsibiIity, Yet / hold him
have been the purest and most
core man of his party" At last
Eworried the President as old NJ
tard would a sOt until he wrote
remission so long sOlicite
Whereupon follows an affecting
count of the meeting of Davis ;
Geu- Taylor in the formers prls
room at Fortress Monroe. -
Nowhere, indeed, does Gen. i
lor and il necessary to mince wo
In onening his chapter upon .
construction under Grant," he g
a pithy epitOme of the character
some of the leading Republic
from which we may extract Il
II DOrtraits as examples:
a banker, the pet of the Gov
mont. holding the same relatiO
n that the Bank of England die
William of Orange, discovered
ssa GREAT national debt was a
sing" and was commended
rewarded therefor. With a pa
On fine shores of the Delaware,
banker owned a summer retreS
a lovely isle amid the waite
Lake Erie. a piOus man, he !
This with many divines, who bl|
oil his enterprises. He contrib
= LARGELY. too, to the support OF a
AuentiaI Christian journal to a.
disseminating truth to Jew, lie
and heather. The diYines ant
Christian journal were employ
narsuade widows and weak m
purchase his rotten securitit
things too righteous to occasion
And
To represent the country a
capitOl of an ancient monarC
man was selected whom it
abuse of language to declare
Oates. after his release from tn
IOrv would have blushed to ]
niZp On the eve of his depa
os one NAV learn from the ne
Dars of the day, all that was r
F Ind hest in New York gat
around a banquet in his honor
Graduated the country to whi'
n WAS accredited, and lamente
nnjsfortune of their own Il
youId be deprived even tempo
of such virtue. Another wa
Z TO an empire which is assul
< our oft succeeding ENJOYS tina
the object of our particular atit
TO the aristOcracy of the real
genial person taught the "a
game of the West. A man OF
Views, feeling that diplomat
tentions were due to comma
we'll as to crown and mobiles,
casionally withdrew himself
the social pleasures of the
- end TO inform the stays OF
Court of the value of Am
mines. BenefactOrs are eve
- Judged. AristOcracy and the
antiered have since united to
him; but Galileo in the du
IL Pascal by his solitary lamp
sidney and Russell on the
D. will console him and IN th'
IN bosom of his native Ohio
found the exception to the ri
prophets are not without no
I'm their own country. The
Methuselah and the pen OF =
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