CHAPTER XXIII.

MOURNING EMBLEMS AND MILITARY POMP.

“Wails of Anguish”——“Intense Excitement”——“A Scene of Woe seldom Equalled”——“A Sublime Portraiture of Frontier Life”——“Who shall say Vengeance on The Avenger”——“The Government called to a Rigid Account”——“War Succeeds Sorrow”——“The Grand Army of Two Hundred”——“Opinions that _are_ Opinions, and the Reasons for them”——“A Job before Breakfast not accomplished”——“Benefit of the War to Oregon and California”——“The Politicians and Speculators’ Opportunity”——“Four Hundred White Soldiers”—— “Proposition to slay Modoc Women and Children”——“A Little Gray-eyed Man Objects”——“A good deal of Buncombe and of anticipated Glory” 377