Shall I quote a paragraph from the yellow old paper? It will be
bitter--we were all bitter in those days! though to-day we are so
fraternal and harmonious. With his trenchant pen, Daniel pierced to the
core of the matter; and the paper may give some idea of the spirit of
the times.
I could fancy the great satirist sitting in his lonely study, and
penning the lines I shall quote, not without grim smiles at his own
mordant humor.
Here is the slip I cut out. The old familiar heading may recall those
times to some readers, as clearly as the biting sentences, once read,
perhaps, by the camp-fire.
* * * * * DAILY EXAMINER. * * * * *
MONDAY MORNING OCT. 31, 1864. * * * * *
"Every day must now bring its brilliant bulletin to the Yankee
nation. That nation does not regard the punctual rising of the sun
as more lawfully due to it than a victory every morning. And those
glorious achievements of SHERIDAN in the Valley were grown cold and
stale, and even plainly hollow and rotten--insomuch that, after
totally annihilating the army of EARLY at least three times, and so
clearing the way to Lynchburg, instead of marching up to Lynchburg
the heroick victor goes whirling down to Winchester.
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