Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1872 — The Mourners. [ARTICLE]

The Mourners.

The SpringfieldTfrfU'W/twn on thejnorning after she ejection rejoiced with those that rejoiced, but in a very rueful manner. it said : “There are several very happy men in th«Be United States this morning. Mr. Caniero* in happy ; Governor Jewell is, nappy; Honest Tom Mrirohy is happy; vonnu~MrT~t:e~cr--it*—hatiav: all the brothers-in-law and cousins are very happy iu:" deed, and well thev may be. Rut the happiest man of all is Onr Henry.'. It Is' really -a consolation think of‘the solid comfort he is taking.” But why did not the Republican' also mourn with those who mourned? Itself a mourner, it certainly fehoubl not have forgotten its grieving companions. For there were several very unhappy men in these United States on the same morning. Mr. Oakley Hall and the rump of ! the Tannnanv Ring were unhappy, Beauregard and Raphael Semtnes were Very unhappy. The Ku Klux were disconsolate, and the sentinels of Andersonville, ana the jailers of the Libby and Belle-Isle, and “every man who secretly hates the. Union and the Stars fuid Stripes, were as utterly dismayed as “Our Henry was delighted. It was unkind and ungrateful in the Re“jn&liam to forget the sorrow of .ite friends. Or does it mean to forget its turn friends as swiftly as it did its old?— Harpers' Weekly. V