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Show Horace Greeley Interpreted. In an editorial article on the National Nation-al Capital Convention at Cincinnati the Tnn m of that city says : We have been shuwn an autograph letter from Horace Greeley to L. L. Reavis, of St. Louis, who is the head and front of the movement-Mr. movement-Mr. Greeley, having written thi-letter thi-letter (in response to an invitation t be present at the convention) with hi own fair hand, it is rather difficult K decipher it. After two or three hours' intense study over the letter, we mad. out that he wasn't coming, but we ar, no: quite certain regarding his sentiments senti-ments on the question of removing th capital. As near as we can gathei. however, frem his hierog'yphies, b ''Kases his butter of th" 15:h resist ing the codfish cucumbers of Cincin nati at I'-i cents a pound." "It is not possible," continue.-Horace, continue.-Horace, "that 1 should ever stole then, again. As pudding is a reproach t-conic t-conic sections, the very gayest conveyances convey-ances of our cemeteries are untrue am. our preserves ihe bankrupt. Sffil your nicest eantelopes in Washington, until it swims in an unfortunate loca tion. All the McCarty's are sure u be veneered unless they accept mora polecats. I bought four of the earli est, and I suffered fearfully undefinabk cross-cut saws." "Who bought all the nuts and lozenges loz-enges of the Ketuneuical Council' The babe of the Federal parentage is the bearer of its own two horse lumber lum-ber wagon. It squaled when surrounded sur-rounded by a dose of Widow Cliquot. Experimented n by tho population o, repeating voters in myriads to the defeat de-feat of nautical anchovies and tomatoes. toma-toes. It swelled to a forest of artichokes, arti-chokes, :ind amid the solitude of rosin barrels thus inviting the Boise de Boulogne, and accommodating the formation of chee.-e factories throughout through-out the civilized world." The above may appear a little obscure ob-scure on the first reading, but a little attention will convince the most skeptical skep-tical that Horace is right. |