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"J N." to the President!
A STIRRING LETTER FROM A
LIVE PHIL 0SOPJiER I
LIFTING THE VEIL OF TRUTH
"RECONCILIATION TS 1177.4 7'
77' ALL MEANb!
Ii OLD V T TER A XCES FR OM A N
IX.SJ *IR ED S 0 CR CE I
A true course- marked out fur the Presi
dent to follow if the South arc rerun
cited.
Exchange ITotkl,
MoNTOOMKttY, A i.a., Feb. ?2, 1873.
To His E.t rt /frtiri/, President Grant.
Kin.. Friknd-:?The pleasing re
He el ion of ths sympathy shown ma when
I last met. you at Qalloua, III., in 18b'S
prompt* tiie to address you this note
I steby the associated press dispatches
hat you have in contemplation a tour
over the Southern States. Having
traveled in the South for the lust few
months and knowing the feelings of the
Southern people towards you as the
Phicl Kxcc-utive of this nation, 1 can
ilsstllC you tint a cor lial roceptinti aw tit '
\ou iiiid that your presence her.: will :
h. vc a beurtb'iul effect tow ir is roeouui
ling the prejudices which h >s been rn j
geudend duiing the war. 1 have dur
ilig my J rcM'lit tour, made a jireit tunn>
appointment j to address ih<! people of
of this .-eet ion on my principles of Truth
and l'x <-on<-ill.itinu, but re Using thai
views which do jus'ice to the motives
and |atriotisui uf the Southern people
(nijst resist the general prejudice* of the
North I prefer to more fully explain the n
there before 1 ask u full recognition by
the 1'iiss of the 8wUth. T i Southern
pct<i>le have truly been misunderstood in
the late conflict and they cannot be re
cnjuil?-d whilst their true motives ire
spurned with contempt, their patriotUui
dir regarded and their gallant dead riu in
dishonored gravis.
Th'-y accej t, phtlosphically, th ? si ui
tion in which the furtum es of war hive
placed them, and entertain no id .-1 of
contending for what they sincerely
thought was ri^ht. They have beeil |
lecoiisiructed from a basis of preju
dice, they should uow be reconciled by
the iufluence of Truth. Their views of
right must be held sacred, or a union of
feeling cannot be effected The triumph
of the Federal Aliliy over the Confrder
ate Army established uo principal of
Truth. The soldiers of both armies
were lighting for ashington's princi
pies, as pure pntriuta with a totul dis
regard of each other's Maud point, ilene
they will have to change stand points,
and come to the truthful conclusion
that they were both right, the way they
viewed it wrong. Aud on no othnr ba-is
can a reconciliation uow he effected but
that of equal honor und glory meted out
to- Federal and Con federate alike. Had
the Confederate army triumphed over the
Federal, (which would have been cer
tain had they he'd thtf resources of the
latter,) the North would not have chaiig
cdand would have thought any less of
their noble deud, and you aud the gal
lant Comuuder of that urmy. would have
coutendent for the sincerity of your
principles the sumc us the S >uth do uow
for their Lost Cause.
The act of secession placed you in the
Presidential chair j without it, you
would now be sti humble citizen in the
private walks uf life. 1 sincerely trust
you will, in this hour of your triumph
and exultation", fee! toward the South
as the lamented President Lincoln did :
"with charity for all aud malice, for
nono."
Without secession three millions of
blacks would now bo slaves, and by the
sanction of a government which neither
thought of their abolition on philosopbj
ral principles, that of purchase, but
held tho union of the States, with
slavery recognized ss a constitutional
right paramount to their liborty Their
freed on wus thus compromised, and
they have achieved it by the blood of
both armies, hence their sympathies
must be equal in respect to the dead who
fell as martyrs to a principle of a mis
understanding by which they became
free. I have tried fur the last twelve
! years to take a philosophical view of tho
struggle, ari l I trust you v?ill, be next
December, recommend such mensures to
Congress that will secure the same
pension* to the Confederate soldiers as
is now awarded to the Pedcarl, and as
Time alone fully lift.i the veil of pre
judice which has enshrouded the South,
at the close of your second term as
Ctiief Executive uf the natiou, I think
it w<>uld be philanthropic for you to say
to the impoverished Southern people,
you deserve pay or a portion, at le:>st,
if not all, of our slaves, which they
would uow held had they listened to the
demands of the North. However great
thi? may resist the prejudices uf the
Northern people at present, I truly
deem it a truthful and unprejudiced
v-irw of the claims of the South, and
stand ready to assume nil the respoosibi
lity ol prejudice which it may engender
by self martyrdom losing truth for
truth Rake. No noe can imiinagine
without seeing the poverty of n great
portion of the Southern people, truily
thousand* once wealthy are uow penni
less, and the kiudncs and generosity ol
the great mass uf the people of the
Southern States is only equaled by the
heroic fortitudaFsnd energy which they
display in rebuilding their desolated
country luid waste by war, the battles
having mostly heco f.-ugllt on Southern
soil. Thousands of old grey headed
men can here be seen, men with their
forms bending to the tomb, that could
once command their thousand*ofd -liars,
with now scarcely the necessary mean*
for ? sc.wty Kubhihti iieo nnd iu llti
Mrurgle lor conMitutionul liberty it
ahould he lemcmb* rod dittiuctlv, ihnt
the South did only what the North
would have dune had they been similar
ly s.ttiat -d.
It appears in the provMeucu ?I Cod
that l^thi? war wax u he. It was I ort Un
at e for a few. ntifortunutu for th luaauds.
Among the former you cm truly be
clawed. .he ni ii uf alt, both North
and Sou'h, shnul 1 now bo to bccotUJ
reconciled. Let the p.ist be buried in
tiblivion, ard let disinterested truth be
the b isis fr< ni which all should now
uuluily reason* The South litis been
impoverished and the North enriched j
by this war. Honor and patriotism is
all the South have 1< ft. and ibis should
he held sacred.
Tru.sting you will not postpone you
int tided visit J ami that I v. ill have the
plea: ure uf teeing you before 1 gr>
North, 1 with p'< a-uie Mih-ci ibe lliyscll
your true friend for the Cause of Truth
and Reconciliation
"J. N."
McCutclicnville, Wyondo Co., Ohio
To His Kxcelluucy, President Uran:.
THE tSACIIKJt'8 SECRET.
'Depone you miserable little beggnr,
and never dare to hIiow your face here
again, or 1 will kick you out of doors,'
and Doctor Skinner rose, as it to put
his threat into execution.
The b >y whom ho h id aildressed re
treat d before the great, burly man,
though his blank eyes flashed vindictive
fire?his little hands were clenched, hi*
dark face flushed, and his whole munuer
told plainly that he wanted the strength,
and not the will to, retaliate. And
oneo out of the house of the physician
he threw himself down Ucneith the firs i
sheltering tree nud brooded over his
wrongs.
The Doctor roturned with an angry
fucc indoors, flung himself savagely in
his arm chair and gave passionate and
audiblo ulternuoo to his thoughts : 'The
young scamp, to k ;ep coming here day
after day. Somothi-ig mint he done to
quiet his tongue, or at Inat it may raise
a wnt-p's nest over my cars, and I tdn II
not escape without a sting, lie knows
too much, and lucky for me that he in
only a child. Yes, something must he
done; and the aooner the butter. Eel
me see. Ho hus uo relatives to be in
quiring into the matter and if he should
fail to turn up some day, then will be
no hue aud cry. Lot mo seo. If his
body was found in the river uo unc
could suy that he had not been acci
dentally/ drowned, even if thoy took
sufficient intercut for that, which is
doubtful. Then the law and its officers:
are very lax on the frontier, aud?but
good bcaveu ! 1 am thinking of mur
dor !' sid he started at the sound uf die
word, although it wrs uttered by his
own lips. But nerving himself from a
bottle that stood near, be continued : Ml
i his father did di?, nothing can be siid |
about it. Sucb things huppen in tIt?
practico of every one of my precession,
and if lie chose to leave me bis h?ir,
thut was his own business. The*fact is,
the brat was ajwnys a curre to him, and
he will be to me, unless I can j$et him
out of the way. Let rue see.'
While he was pondering thus (ho boy
wa? thinking of the same subject but in
a very difierent strain. YourJg ss he
was he became satisfied at the death of
his fnthcr that he had not been fairly
dealt with, hut could prove ffpthing.
Doctor Monroe Skinner was the only
physician ol any note in that part of the
country. His word was low in all
questions of medicine, and it would
j hare boon a bold man indeed, who
I would have d trcd to accuse him of mal
pructioe. Hut, had such a charge been
made, h'-w could it have beon proven ?
There was no chemist to analyze the
contents of the stomach of tub dead
man ? no ono sufficiently skilled in
pnison to t'pply the proper tests, ^ml the
standing of the doctor would have out
weighed a score of witnesses beforo the
uneducated juries common upon the
frontier at that tiiuo.
Hut the pour orphan boy bad bis own
opinion of the matter. He rememborud
the lust and fatal sickness of his father
?his last kind words?the teoderuess
with which he had always In on treated
and hu could not understand why he
should havo been left a beggar.
Perhaps others thought the same, but
; duty were wise in uot expressing it, and
uiiiking an enemy of the nahob of the
IV> titier village. They knew little id
the (iiial hickness of John Muuuiug. He
hud nud suddenly, with no one save bis
only sou and the physician, and the
account the hitter had given of it could
not well ELc questioned. But he was a
I rich man ? thut is, he was the owner tf
! many a.-re? of wild laud that Would
I lapidly increase in price, am' .wise:: it
was louud that he bud will d i**j?*ll to
j Muoitn. Mlntfcf; thT^h"3f7fc thciflfeatts"
doubtfully. However, there were nouo j
to look after the interests of or faxe the j
part of ihu boy, arid he drifted from j
place to place, though often visiting the j
doctor nt'd cudcavcring to obtiiti what
? I
Im ?rtiily believed was his right.
But ngniu and ngain he hud 'eon re- i
pulsed, eveu though the phyriciati made
,i grout sliiiw of tenderuu-s 'u hiui in
[tub.ic, talking loiidiy of what he iu
Ictided to do. and never doing it ; pro- j
fearing to pity a..d at :h.' same time
cursing?llayiug the saiut aud ?viug
the sinner?vaunting his liberality and j
keeping his pockets closed, and at last
j resolving to remove the boy from bis J
I path, though shuddering at even the
j name minder like one who ha 1 already
' lasted of the bloody cup.
If he hud done so it could ncv<*r he I
proved upon earth?no, uot until h:s
trembling soul awaited judgment bciore
s higher ti ibunal.
I Rising from his chair?taking
another draught of his favorite pre
script ion ^fi-r himself !j?Monroe Skin
ner walked to the window and grew still '
moie angry, as his eyes rested upon the j
pallid face of the boy, who was still
lying at a little distance, with his head .
resting against the trunk of a tree.
Kcpcntiug his favorite expression, he I
retreated beyond the eves of the boy, '
that even ippeartJ to him to be reading j
his guilty soul, communed with hiiusell
fur a long time, and then finding th it
John Manning (he bore the same name
us his dead father) had dtsappea ed. he
started forth, mounted his horse, and
rode out of town, ^wit 1? his customary
dignified bearing and not to bo read
luce, wheu ho choose to conceal his
emotions.
But "it was no patient that had called
him from bis comfoitablo offn e. as soon
became apparent ; for, turning aside
from the vicinity of tho sparse settle- I
nicnts, he struck into a wooded path,
and went on until he reached a little
group of w igwams of the Indians one ol j
whom?a siivhuio, by the eagle plumes
twined with hi* scalp lock ?he familiarly
addressed ami motioned aside, so thut he
could converse with him unheard.
'The medicine of the pile faces want
more of the root that grows in the deep
BWampS V said the Indian questioning
' Yes, though not to-day. You kuow
the boy thut is constantly following and
teasing ine. 1 wsnt you to take him
out of my sight. Do you under
bland ?,
'Yos!' and the savage drew his scalp
ing knife from hi-- belt sufficiently to
show the shinning blade aud the keen
edge.
'No, no! Not in that manner,' was
the hurried answer.
'Then tho trail is dark The pale
medicine must clear it so that the red
man ? an see.'
? 'Your people are soon frjoin^ ofT on
yonr annual buffalo bunt, I presume.'
The Indian bowed in affirmation,
crossed his arms upon his breast, stood
like a bmu/cd staturcaud waited to hear
what more would be said.
Could you not taka the boy with yon?
I don't seo any difficulty in it. and w 11,
you need not bring him buck again?
can manage to trade birr off with some
distant tribe 1 believe you often do
such things with your captives.'
'The light is beginning to break upon
tho trail/ replied tho Indian though
scarcely moveing a muscle uf his face.
'That's well. . Now we understand
each other. When will you break your
encampment!'
'When the mnou ia dark again.'
'Let me see, That will be in about
two weeks. Well, I suppose 1 shall
have to get along with tho troublesome
brat somehow until that tiuie.'
'The warriors and hunters go first
very soon, an 1 the squaws aud ptpouses
will follow.'
1 Ah ! I low soon ?'
?All are ready but mo.'
?What keeps you'/'
'The rest are mounted. My pony died
last uight. Tho trail is very long, aud
my moccasins would wear out ond my
feet become sore should l Heek to keep
up with tlicin.' And he turned bis eyes
to where the horse of the physician was
standing. 'Yos. yes, I see. If I give
vou the horse, you will take caro that
the boy pesters me uo more?that he
never returns!"
'The word of Hig Klk has never been
broken. His tongue never lies. D ies
the j- ile medicine not know this? and he
looked iu a uianuer that would have
mTfnVh" denial "9vjrn>wbat dangerous.
'Ye*, you have dealt squarely with int.
I own, and if you still continue to do so
will not be the lo?er. Yon wmt tho
horse?he ii a gojd one au I will carry
you fait rud h.r?and I want to bj clear
of the boy. That's a fair trade. Su it i
I happen to li-.d tho stable door open
and the s.te I g UC 1 shall a-.k DO ques
tions l!ul when shall the matter b:
finished V
? 'i'l.v- pale ?.ri'.l go on foot irjien t'u
sun fciiincs ag.ii-i, O'- get another horse,'
replied the Indian, permitting tho stern
Iuns about bin mouth to relax into some
thing liko n smile.
'To-morrow? So soon? Why, bow
you do iump at conclusions. No matter.
It shall he. as you wish, and the fact is,
that the thing hhall be done quietly,
without noise, or coming tu the knowl
edge of any one'
'The footsteps of Maple Leaf uru soft
as the tailing of a suow Hake.'
'What has }ut:r daughter to do with
it?'
'The boy of the pslo faces and the i
child[of the red nicu arc friends. She
will lure him into tho forest and none
uf his people shall know that Iu has
gono.'
'A capital plan. Yo.i well deserve
your reputation for wisdom] Hig
Klk.'
'Is tin re anything, awked the Indian
entirely ignoring tho compliment, 'the
pale medicine would like to have from
the oouutrjf where the gr ?und trembles
as the herds of butlalo pass over
it.'
'I don't know. Let me Ree?'
?lie who cures the sick of his people
lo\e to study the nature of serpents and
teht their poUlOUS,'
'So I do. Are thero any diffcreut
oues where you are going fiom what We
havo about here!,
'Seme. Hut the rattlesnakes of the
mountains are as kings to those that
live in the prairie.'
'That 1 have heard. Yes bring nu
llte largest you can find. Mind, how.
ever that you kuock its'.eoth out.'
'It shall be so harmless that a papoose
could play with it iu safely.
'That settles the matter. Mind you
make sure that the bo) don't cotue buck
aud when you return I'll find uioans to
further satisfy yuu for all yuur trouble
With a few wurds more tho physician
departed fully satisfied with the result
of b:s mission, except that he bsgrudged
the valuable horse he had been
forced to ytrL with, uut daring to ques
tion the terina so. plaiuly.implied by lu.s
savage coufederate.
The Icdun watchod until he had
entirely disappeared and then sought
his daughter and whispered a few words
in her ear. To hear a command waa to
obey; and that afternoon tho obnoxious
boy w is tompted to th? forest?tempt-d
to pass the night there and to join the
Indians upon their distant journey.
Abused and homeless as he was, this
did not prove a difficult task, especially
with the prospect of a great buffalo
hunt bofore him.
Provided with a pony by the Indian,
und constantly in flue need by the young
squaw, he enme to lose, io a great de
gree, his remembcrancc of wrongs and
his love for civilized life ; and after
wandering with the tribe for several
years, was adopted into it?adopted
their manners and customs and dress,
and, when di?guised by paint it would
have been very difficult to tell tho real
from the counterfeit. This his natuarally
swarthy complexion and black eyes and
hair favored, and still the more so as he
invariably used tha language of the red
man.
But the chauces had been as a thou
sand to one against such a consumma.
lion. It had been the intention of Big
Elk to carry out his contract to the let
ter, and he would have done so had the
boy not displayed great bravery and
ouftcing?had not been tho means of
saving his life, and had he not been
sway? 1 fur more tha a he would have
been willing to acknowledge by his
favorite daughter.
Of what had become of the detested
boy, Dr. Skinner never knew. The
wily Indian effectually blinded his eyes
when ho visited, nnd as years passed
even permitted the physician to see htm
(among others of his age,) and rejoiced
wh?r. be found that his disguise was not
penetrated. Yet the counterfeit Indian
knew him well enough, and all the old
hatred awoke within his bosom, was
intensified by the life ha had led end it
was lucky that the opportunity of re
venge did not offer. And yet it vat
coming?was very near. When Big
Klk returned from one of his annual
visits to the physician, his brow was
ciou led aud his heart filled with auger.
He had*brn?> c Idly received, brutally
treated Liiden to be gone fur a miser
able, thieving Iu linn dog. when he
hinted thai he should receive a proscut
as h .d always been the custom) for
removing the boy out of the way of the
great man. That he, a Sachem of his
tribe, should be spoken to iu this man
ner, rankled within his soul, aud he
pondered long upon the course
he should follow.
lie saw clearly that the physician
would hare nothing more to do wilh
hitn. He had become very rich?the
power ol the red mau had becu steadily
tailing?ilia great white ouo could
trample him uuder his feet like dust,
aud there would be uouc to forbid.
Everything was for the one and agaiust
tht: other, and Big Elk knew it would
not answer for him to attempt any upon
revenge. Such a thing, however, was
foreign to his nature. Like all of his
race, he loved to lie iu ambush until he
could crush his eucmy without danger
to himself.
For many hours he bitterly brooded
over the iusults he had received, then
sought John Maiming (who had growu
to the stature aud almost years of a
man.) took him beyond the heariug of
all and poured veuoin iuto his ears, aud
uwoke agaiu, iu all the prialiua fresh
uess the devilish fire that had loug
slumbered within his brso-st.
'My son,' said the Sachem, speaking
?fter the u.auner of the elders of this
raue, 'have you forgotten tho home of
your childhood, aud he who drove you
from it as lbs fierce wolle drives the
deer Y
'Never !' was the curt reply.
'Then listen to me. The pals mcdi
eiuo bribed me to lure you away, that
you might no louger trouble him wilh
your demands.'
'For my right !'
'Aye, 1 did so, and you have grown
into my heart like n son.'
The boy shook with anger, and aa the
Sachem paused, he laid his baud in a
meaning manner upou his hatchet, and
ask od !
?This V
'No. Let your ears be open?your
brart soft as the coil of the prairie in
the Ppring time to receive, and hard a
it is io Winter to retain. He of whom
wo are speskiog loves to etudy the ser
pents that most men dread and shun
In a little box in the room where he
keeps his medicines he has those I have
*
brought him T-r f ff-p fTljjBj
handles thera as fearlessly and ?Wf;*a)
ho could the s?aglcss fishing worm. Ha
knows, thnt?and the Indian dreppr?&i*'
voice into a whisper aud finished lb*
swdtehfcc"^ C?- 'HZ Jan as off
Tha> boy ------J ?j?f| 1v-j list,
been revealed to him, and. a, j99T^*sA$v
the usually stcsrn lines about his taMMy
?stern, for the sorrows of hwtswjy
youth and the habits of reticence* Waaati
iubihed made him much morcsvffcatt
wie usually the case with one of h.? eg*.
*iw will go,' he said at length.. Jlhas^L.
not bring back to me the broad lands S
k now beloi'g to me, but it will give ma?-*
?Revenge !' interrupted the Indian,
breathing the word that was moat dear to
his savage heart. - . ajfl*
Their eoasuitation was controlled fin? _
Rome time. Then they separated^s^-^
the boy stole away from the encampment*
and hastened towards the villtge, grown
so now that he eould scarcely find his way
to the place ho sought amid the many
houses. But he did so?foasaat aaVT
abode of Monroe Skinner, watawatLetk^^
opportunity, aud, creeping within timm ^
offico, deposited an open vessel ofwiaW
behind the branches of feathery
asparagus that decorated the fire place.
Then like a shadow he agaia depaetssa? -
and no one kucw eifb.-r of his ?esssjpg .
or going. ? MU|-r
'The next murniug Doctor Skinner
wts busy as usual in his office even
more ho. IIo had a professional friend
visiting him from the East?one
be hnd not seen sioee thoy wer? 1
ents together?aud showing biea tik?' .
curiosities he bad collected, proudly
be had done his landeJ property _
atock.
'By the way,' said he, alter t%#s*t*??
rey oi tha room was finished,
take any interest in serpents ? I
some rare specimens that I hare coHect}*
ed from time to time, and among thesa
the Jarg??t rattlesnake I ever saw,
you need not start; there is not ihm
slightest danger. I hatte handled eWsaV"'
for years without the cbsooe of being ?
puis-med, knowing what I do.' i-erfl
lie opened the box in which they .
were confined, dragged them forth, 2^4
in a moment the ugly monsters werv*
wriggling about the floor.
?This,' he continue!, takin
largost, 'is King. An Indiar
it to me from the Rocky Mouutsiaa.'
'Do careful,' was the reply pfhjf^
friend, who shuddered sod draw at
at the sight- 'It is never safe to handl
such things.' '
?O. pshaw! I have danenoaawtl
saod times,' aud he continued tariapjtin^
ing it for s time. Then his atteatiotx. {
was called to other matters, lie petit .
lorn, and it crawled swiftly away to
join its compnnion behind the bush at 111 '
the chimney?Che ' Doctor muttering
that it was a favorite place with than*
when at large. . i?9<?j,
The conversation flowed on with, lb<s ?
olden times fur a theme, and the eer-,.
pent was forgotten until a patient de
manded the presence of Doctor Skinner. "
Thou he looked about him and found
them coiled upon the floor. Uue after
another he took up and threw then|>ipfcSty
their box, and receiving a bite Crop
several aud especially the largest. Sat'
he only laughed at the fears of his com
panion.
?Their bite is harmless,' he said <I*
have tested it again and again. No ser
pent can?O heaven! how came this
there?' aud be pointed to a little stream
of water that trickled from the Gro-place
?dashed thither, tore away the bushea,
discovered the vessel the boy had plae
ed there, aud sinking upon the floor ex*,
claimed: ea.ai''.
'Groat God! I am lost!'
An hour later he was a bloated
figured horrid corpse. From mat
wounds the poison had spread
startling rapidity, and aver* effort aa
save him was in vain. The very thjjag*
he had most guarded against h*d<j^j?j|.
his death. He had learned that serpents
canuot produce poison unless they have
access to Water?that kept from it, they
are entirely safe. ( sh ; vil *?<gu
That was the secect that had heen;
whispered by the angrey Sachem n?id
the wronged boy had nude use of it for
a terrible revenge.
For Sale CheupV'*
A small WILL IMTROVBD TLaCR la a
mile of Coder Grove Store, in thitarV.
Terms easy. ' * 1
\ THAD 0. ANDREW*. ?? ?
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