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Tramp, Tramp", the refrain running "Beneath the stars and Bars we will breathe the air again," &c. I was not myself present, but ascertained the particulars from a reliable party who was. The Mrs Bingford & Miss Wilson referred to, reside in Fincastle, Va. but are here on a visit to their Aunt, Mrs Josephine Hale, wife of Giles Hale.
 
The singing of such songs as those named above, aloud on the  piazzas of the "Early House", and other houses in the neighborhood, and even in the jublie streets, so as to be heard nearly all over the village, is of common practice here; and it in many instances seems to be done pointedly, in order that i should hear even the very words used. This will alone give you a faint idea of what the tone of a certain class of persons here is. The Congress of the Nation is denounced and reviled in better and unmeasured terms, and no epithet is considered too vile or degrading to apply to any one of its detested members. I have myself heard a Mr "John S. Hale", uncle of Giles, denigrate Mr Stephens "a son of a Bitch" not long since I heard Mr "Vaughn" at the Post Office, say speaking of a paper which some one had sent him, that the Flag of the Country, which it bore, "damned the paper." A Miss "Alice Hale," a sister of Giles, in my presence, among other opprobrious epithets, once called our late, lamented President a "rascal" & said "it was the best thing ever happened for the Country that he was Killed, and "that "he ought to have been long before he was." This is a stereotyped expression that they were never beaten, only over powered. That the "Yankees" have the power but not the right on their side. They say that they are robbed, and oppressed with traces to support the Yankees and the negroes - and that appears to be a leniency to even cry dawn the currency of the Country