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Show fha War Child, St. Louis Post-Dispatch General to Wheeler is the only Southern congressman whom the president has sue-cecded sue-cecded in making a conspicuous fool of in the Chilean controversy. General Wheeler is one of those romantically and effulgently calvalrous Southrons who delight in patriotic cfToresecnce and conspicuous poses. They say when he had a command of rebel cavalry lie used to stride out of hisjtent with spurs Jlafflhtg and saber clanking, and order his negro servant in tragic tones heard over the whole camp, "Saddle my large grey! The War Child rides to-night." |