Shorty, "it appears to me--it
really appears to me, Villiam, that I never see so much magnanimity!"

They took it to Captain Samyule Sa-mith as he sat by the roadside,
straightening his highly-tempered sabre with a stone.

"I cannot always agree entirely with my brother officers on all
points," says Samyule, reflectively, "for some of them are ineddicated:
but I find in this document great magnanimity!"

Magnanimity, my boy, is the revenge of generous minds; as the venerable
male parent feelingly observed when he made over his whole property to
the interesting son who had just tried to poison him by putting arsenic
into his coffee, and expressed an intention to burn him to death in his
bed that night.

The glorious news of the surrender had no sooner reached the city of
Paris than the aged and gifted Miss P. Hen organized an enthusiastic
mass meeting of the decrepit Union element, and a speaker's stand was
quickly erected, over which floated a banner inscribed

REGULAR MAGNANIMOUS NOMINATION

FOR

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

IN 1869,

_COLORADO JEWETT_.

The meeting being called to order, Miss P. Hen came to the front with
her umbrella, and addressed the populace. She stated that this meeting
was designed for no political purpose, but only to show Providence that
a great nation knows how to be grateful for victory. Now was the time
to heed the heart-sobs and gushing soul-pangs of the misguided
Confederacies, and receive back all the Rebel leaders with kisses on
their penitent noses. As for our present President, he meant well;
but--

The speaker was suddenly interrupted by a burst of fifes and drums
coming up the Accomac road, and right quickly there appeared a
procession of political chaps with immense stomachs, from Chicago, who
carried a fine banner inscribed:

REPUBLICAN NOMINATION

FOR

PRESIDENT IN 1869,

THE

_GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE_.

At this apparition Miss P. Hen ate a Graham biscuit with great
accerbity of bearing, and was about to go on with her _Te Deum_, when a
fleshy Chicago chap lightly jumped upon the platform and pushed the
venerable maiden aside. He said that no scheme of politics brought them
together this time: but a humble, heartfelt wish to thank a benignant
Heaven for the downfall of a mighty people's enemies. As for the chief
of those enemies, the Rebel leaders, they must every one of them be
hanged without mercy, or j