The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-11
Voice Of the : People

tain tic excitement Of those Sc days lays
without VIII VI, .,r r., and he found i IN
aa,uuopted; Just before lie arrived at
city Point a pet cat belonging to Gen.
u ,,,i, Grant had presented the General
their owners Departure the President
TOOK them into his care; ana during
m W. lh ,,.i days of battle: in the inter
h. rel Mn,s me ne waited for dispatches,
tens. Wien eiehmonsd had lad fa alien and and
lie lie wa, Was about TO start for the front.
net q ndnesa for "s yo R'ib5 efope l S.
man mn n 4, open pc q your eyes lie then
u'sTrly aD 2 mother could handle her
onild. until he had accomplished his
purpose. He then put her down, and
being able to see. lie said sadly OH
mat, could open the eyes OF my
I.nii n fellow-co untrymen as easily as
have been full as much surprised at
,it,n ,. they would haye seen as the
Mr. Lincoln, like his great political
and perhaps natural ancestor Julius
caesar. would have been "undone"! 1t
nas been thought that he meant hts
ne Old; but time shows no blindness
on their part, but that 1t was his fell
!i.2' ,S,.., ll OF the. twenty three
trick played upon them. When their
eyes are opened it Will fare hard with
even ha L,nf,1in dead or alive Not
patton proclamation can save him.
!, BEFORE l close want to say that 4
, X,arglnia writer In the National INTEL
e cmrse N inc fall OF lSzo pronounced
frauded her Revolutionary pensioners.
but she. defrauded them, and curse
cane can, !, !. And what better could one OK,
i her career by defrauding her Revou-
tlonary pensioners than that she should
aiterwards get tricked out of her lib
more than forty years not know the
difference altho ngh we'll bled each
year IN pensions for having It done?
Revolutionary pensioners I am now
trying 70 help tho country out Of the
de2p ditch into which she has fallen.
4 Was Lincoln a legitimate President OF
4 the United States when Booth. under
the motto Of Virginia and a call for
i freedom, shot him? Had he not been
Pasfs y h hs vG1s the e ast
ton does not recognize. and does not
more votes than lega. voters render a
pa =. illegal? And did It not destroy
North as well as South? See Presi-
dent-elect Lincolns speech at Indian
apolis IN 1851. where he seemed to kick
the, dust Of both the. state of Illinois
and her motto. and the United States,
off OF his feet! In Illinois In 1856. and
!, afterwards In Kansas. he said enough
, to provoke secession upon his election
& as President, and every shot fred and
every bayonet stab in his coercive war
was a blow at the very vitals OF the
nation. No wonder that Lord Russell.
when he saw what was going on. In
lsSl. wrote back to England, saying,
The great republic Is gone.'' But Cod
overrultd It otherwise. and our great,
r free and glorious nation has been pre-.
served through 1T all. An unruly part
of the odd Dominion was formed
y into a new State and under new
: name. This new State" unrecognized
S by tho Constitution, like a huge piece
;. of court plaster on the map. has by its
\ continued existence covered to heal til o
: nations wound by rendering Illegal all
, OF the anti-Amerlcan proceedings!
Very respectfully
S CHARLES A. BURSHAM
Bnrnham Homestead, Derry. n. H..
p July 20, 1907.