Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-22

easily on his feet As he took step
TO meet me with outstretched hand
there came most pleasant expression
and a kindly honest look into his eyes
'You are welcome" What squeeze
that was! MY fingers tlngled after
wards. But was avenged at the first
reception, when a many-handed mon
ster-2,0o0 at least-had as many
shakes out of the Presidents hand.
AS | was, leaving, Mr.. Seward said
to me: ''You are invited to dine with
the President tomorrow. 1t is an oc-
casion. 1t is his first dinner with his
cabinet ministers, ana you viii meet
them all--no one else but ourselves !"
When l called next day on Lord Lyons
and excused myself from dining with
him that evening at the Legation, be-
cause was invited to the White House,
he looked surprised, THAT is great
honor they do you" All the game, the
honor rather troubled me, for the Sc
cession controversy was not ineligible
TO me, and TO these keen practised poll
ticians 1t would appear very presump-
tuous in me 20 write about them. | was
uneasy. Sam Ward called In the morn
ing. You will find them ordinary
people good honest folk most of them.
Chase is a remarkable man and worth
talking TO- He won't praise all his coll
leagues. Cameron is rs cute as any
Yankee alive or dead Smith and Co.
are just respectable people"
Senator Sumner, large man with a
fine presence and imposing lHanEer,
also favored me with visit and talked
good deal about opinion In England,
He broke out with an emphatic "Ncv-
err when l spoke of the possibilities
| of armed conflict between the seeding
! States and the government. "Neyer
| They are too crafty! Bullies Drag.
CARTS They would be assassins, some
of them, If they dared, but fair fight
never !"
The most difficult of the politicians
of whom l met many every day, was
Senator Douglas, not that he was am.
biguous in speech but that he was &c
| subtle and overlooking A small mar
with n large head aud flashing eyes
| full of energy Little Giant" as
he was called just returned from d
political tour, he was full of his theo
ries-totus in illls-but he was an all
round man and one of the finest speak
ers in America.
The news of the bombardment to my
| utter establishment, seemed to give tn,
utmost satisfaction at the Eutaw Hous,
in Baltimore Next day, at p. m,
hurried on board the steamer for Nor
folk, and arrived early next morning
and put up at the. Atlantic Hotel. Yes
sir. Fort Sumter has surrendered Tn
Yankees are prisoners Have a drink :?
Telegram after telegram a rush fror
every room as each was put up. Their
was one man in the coffee-room mex
table and exchanged some remarks wit
him, but he was not inclined to tall
with stranger about events of sucl
import. 1t was only when | saw hi
portrait later that knew 1t was Gen
eral Robert Lee!
We came ont at last, passing al
awful Slough of Despond, called LAX,
Drummond. on a miserable land. NJ
more alligators or turtles were visible
but wretched-lookin people. exceeding
pale and tan, "thin and ribbed like IN,
sea sand" were gathered at the sta
| tions in riotous spirits. There wer,
myriads Of very frlsky pigs everywhere
often OH the line. These pigs are very
Thin" said ! to the engineer. Dom
you know that Il takes three Nortt
| Carolina pigs TO make shadow
quoth he. That engineer was rabiC
| secessionist-- an ardent sportsman
] He wanted TO draw a bead" on "Abe.
| Sumner and the lot of them, and he
impaired to me at Intervals curious In
formation about wild turkeys, deer and
bear, to which paid Indifferent atten-
ton. as ! was anxious he should moi
neglect his driving At Blackwater sta
tion some thirty or forty men In varl-
Gus uniforms, fac fighting material 70
look at. the JEFF Davis Guards" were
going on to glory and Richmond, and
preparing for the Journey by coplous
libations. Aud so on, though North
! Carolina had not seeded, there were
/ militia or volunteers on the warpath
at every station "We're bound to 90
Hurrah for JEFF Davls!"
AS the train progressed southwards
the country and the people improved IN
appearance The enthusiasm for JEFF
! Davis" was unbounded, especially
among the women, who waved Confcd.
4 crate flags from the log houses IN the
] little villages.
At Goldsborough the insurrectionary
Juror was at its height North Caro-
| lima was arraying her forces to seize
the Federal forts on her coast-an
armed mob. bands playing "Dlxies
Land" followed by yelling crowds,
filed the streets. Flags ''the Stars
and Bars'--wayed on all sides women