Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-15
CIVIL WAR DAYS.
An Old Paper Dealing With Events O
That Time.

LII 1888 y uuge denry Miller fiSltcu
his brother, Conrad, in the state of
New York, and one day while rummag
ing through lot of old papers that
had been removed from the attic of
!; his brothers house he found copy OF
the New York Herald, giving an ac-
count of Abraham Lincoln's assassina-
!, tion. James Gordon Bennett was
then editor of the Herald, and the
copy is very interesting, especially to
young readers who wers not familiar
i with events of that time.
The paper is of the issue dated April
10, 1865. Preceded by "scare head
a foot in length the FIRST four columns
are devoted to the assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln and the
attacks on Secretary Seward and son.
| The presidents death is announced
fin telegraphic dispatch signed by
Edwin NJ. Stanton, secretary of war:
Abraham Lincoln died this morning
at twenty-five inmates past seven
O'Clock"
! The first page also contains clip
pings from southern papers, one OF
which gives meagre account of the
storming of Petersburg, and says the
fighting was terrific beyond descrip-
tion." A clipping from the Raleigh
Confederate says: "Our market, on
the arrival Of the Weldon train, on
yesterday became overstocked with
shad; they went off slowly at $50 per
pair"
The editorial page deals largely
with the war, the assassination of the
president. jeff Davis and an account
of the bombardment of Spanish fort,
at which two ''tin clads'' were lost.
One editorial, in part, says:
"The attitude of Spain and Portu-
gal in regard to this country, as
eyinced in their recent action towards
the United States war vessels Niagara
and Sacramento, is decidedly hostile,
and demands the immediate notice of
our government. 1t has come to pret-
lty pass, when such petty powers can in
suit us with impunity. AS for Portu-
gal, she has nothing to lose. Like a
poor yelping dog, she scarcely merits
a good kicking. But the case of Spain
is quite different. She ought to re-
member that she has valuable posses
sions within easy reach of us. If we
had sufficient cause tomorrow, it
would not require much more than a
month to take Cuba and Porto Rico,
and the Spanish pride and bombast
would be brought rather low" Just
thirty-three years and ten days later
there was passed in the United States
congress declaration of war which
resulted in the loss to Spain of these
possessions.
There is an account of an impend-
ing battle between the Confederate
ram tonewall and the federal frigate
| Niagara and corvette Sacramento.
The latter two had the former "bot-
tied up" in Cor .nna, Spain. The
Emporer Maximillian was busy at
about that time in Mexico, and the
United States was getting ready to
kick him out of that country. The
zone of dispatches from foreign coun-
| tries show that the people of most
other nations were in sympathy with
the confederacy. Here is one from the
London Times, written by cores
pondent in Richmond: 81 am daily
more convinced that if Richmond
falls, and Lee and Johnson are driven
from the field, it is but the first stage
of this colossal revolution, which will
then be completed. There will ensue
a time when every important town of
the South will require to be held by
a Yankee garrison; when exultation
| in New York will be exchanged for
soberness and right reason, and when
| it will be realized that the closing
scenes of this mightiest revolutionary
drama will not be played out save by
or children's children"
How prophetic! In the light of
later events the last statement makes
one smile. It was a case of the wish
being father OF the thought.
There appears an order from Secre-
tary Stanton abolishing the system of
recruiting the army by draft, and then
follows this paragraph:
Secretary Stanton is the best doc
tor we have had in this region since
the formation of the republic. The
entire Academy of Medicine is not TO
be compared to him. The faculties of
all the Esculapian institutions in the
country are but bauble beside him.
The splendid recipe which he sent all
over the country yesterday, free of
cost, made more sick men well than a
million of diplomaed practitioners
could cure in twenty years. People
who were lame last week no longer
iimped, hopeless consumptives ceaseq
to cough, half blind individuals re-
covered their sight, and numberless
cases of heart disease were relieved
from all dangerous symptoms, as if by
the stroke of a fairy wand, or by .
miracle of heaven. And all this was
affected by the simple reading of the
recipe, without any rascally compound
ing of apothecaries or leeches. Truly
Stanton is not only great in war, but
great also in peace and great in the
mysteries of the mdteria medsca."
There is letter giving an account
of the meetings of Gems. Lee and
Grant and of events leading up to the
surrender of the formers army, which
is very interesting. 1t describes the
meeting of officers, Federal and Com
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