Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-04-01
had learned be was kind and generous

had learned he was kind and generous
to the needy and the deserving. 81
don't know him and couldn't see him if
went" be said. Turning away, Light
" replied +: well, I could give you q
letter of introduction to him. Think
about it." 1t turned out that he tool
me at my words, for he called upon me
the next day for the letter. We talked
the matter over seriously. "Have faith,
Uncle Watty, and do your best" ii
does believe the Lord will help. feels
it. He takes as good care of the moss
on the rocks as he does of them tai
pines on the Sugar Loaf Mountain, and
would't he care for me ?"
In my letter to the President gave
Uncle Watty's story in full about the
horse condemned to die laid stress
upon the fact that he had restored it,
nseful and valuable to the army pre-
paratory to the battle at Gettysburg
his contribution to the war for the Union:
that he had been a faithful servant, was
a worthy man and now, in his old age,
without any fault of bis own, was de-
pendent on his own exertions and pre-
carious calling for livelihood. | asked
the President to give him another horse.
| enclosed the letter in large envelope.
10 few days Uncle Watty found his
way to Washington and to the White
House, with the letter in his hand, and
gave it to an usher, who carried it up
stairs to the President, and later on
brought it back with a memorandum,
and directed him to carry it to the quar-
termaster generals department. Uncle
Watty obeyed instructions, and received
and returned home with another horse,
and resumed a successful business along
the old routes. The old mans return to
the village with another horse was to
his friends, young and old, the crown
ing event of his life, and he looked down
upon them with pardonable pride as he
drew in the reins before Aunt Polly at
the cabin door. We will draw the veil,
as the artists say, over the picture The
old man delighted to tell his experience
on his memorable trip to Washington
and of the kindness be received, and
used to close with the exclamation
"The half of it can never be told
Bless the Lord p
Uncle Watty sleeps in the Gods acre
at the old church he loved so we'll. The
representatives of another generation
crowd the gallery; the dark spots on
the wall and the square boxes filled with
sand, on the mems side, have disap-
peared. We indulge the hope that all
the sinners have joined the saints in
happier world, and it is all quiet along
the Potomac, but the atory of Uncle
Watty and his horses, and the Justice
and kindness of heart of the great man,
who, burdened with the cares of the
high Office he filled and adorned in the
perilous times in which he was the COM
handing figure, paused to give help
ing hand to poor, yet worthy, colored
man, are remembered as a happy cpl
sode of other and trying days The
United States are again the United
States. If Uncle Watty could speak
for his people to-day, he would say for
them the U. s. on the iron gray has
wider Significance, for they include US.
The village has never resumed its
old-time quietude. for within few miles
is a great railroad, its belts of steel
spanning the continent and clasping the
oceans. 1t has been noted by the faith
full chronicler of the neighborhood that
at the close of a long day, when the old
est residents have been reviewing the
incident of the war, and the distant
echoes of an approaching or receding
trQn fall upon them, they are always
of the exploits of Uncle Watty
and his horses through the village and
along the Potomac.
EnUrK HtonrnJo