l in the Yoonited States. There's so many Congressmen here who resemble me,
that I hev no difficulty in passin for one, two-thirds uv the time.
Yesterday I met, in the readin-room uv Willard's, Ginral MacStinger, of South
Karliny. The Ginral is here on the same bizness most uv the Southern men hev
in this classic city, that uv prokoorin a pardon, wich he hed prokoored, and
wuz gittin ready to go home and accept the nominashen for Congress in his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy. Things didn't soot him, he observed, and he wuz afeerd
that the country wuz on the high road to rooin. He hed bin absent from the Yoonited
States suthin over four yeers, wich time he hed spent in the southern confederacy.
When he went out the Constooshnel Dimocrisy hed some rites wich wuz respected.
On his return wat did he see? The power in the hands uv Radikals, Ablishnism
in the majority everywhere, a ex-tailor President,--a state uv affairs disgustin
in the extreme to the highly sensitive Southern mind. He had accepted a par
