The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

QUISBY GUY.

LETTER ON RECONSTRUCTION.
(To the Editor of the St. Paul Pioneer.)

Mn. EDITUR—You may think it strange that an original
Aberlitionist of the old Puryten skule, as I am knone to
be, shud address a ledin Democratic jurnel, yet when yu
konsidor that the chanses aro that the Democratic party
will carry neerly awl the loial State elections this fall, as
the old saying is, I'd rather hey the good will of a dorg
than the ill will, besides there is a grate deel of disaffec-
shun in our Radikal party. I wanted to git a situation in
the Fredemens Buro that I could ade in the reconstruck-
shun of the rebel territory, but the Radikal leeders,
whom I'd done the most fur, hey gone back on me. I
wrote to Thad. Stevens an Ben. Butler that I'd served
as a soger during the late rebellion, an hed lost a arm
at Freidericksburg and thort I was entitled to a payin
situation from the Government (wich is a caukus of the
Radikal Senators and Representatives from a few loil
States), and I look forard to the joyfull da when I cude
reech my hands into Uukel Sams pocket for what stamps
I wanted, but how vain aro hopes.
Thad answered my letter promptly and said I'd neglected
the most important points, or I'd faled to state wcther
ben a white or culered soger, if I was 1 of those darin en-
thrauled black gentlemen who'd faut so nobly for there
fredum and bounty an was a radikal he'd git me a good
sight, but ef I was a white sogor he didn't want to be bothered
with me as he was the principal part of the government
or kongress and kongress was exclusively in the Nigger
business. Butler encouraged me sumwat moar, he ignored
kuller altogether and was willin to help me if I'd some
trofy of the war, sick as watches, spunes or silk dresses
that I'd kaptured front the wicked rebels to let em kno
that the rath of a grate popel wur on em. Well as miss-
fortune wud have it I lacked the requisite kuller to fill
Thad's bill, and hed bin kept in the ranks an hadn't stole
enuff to satisfy Butler, I failed in my mishun.
I hey many dames on the loial posliuu of the pepol of
this grate kountry, of my kuller is too lite and I didn't
get rich out of the war. I wus born in loial Masachoosits
not fur from Plimuth rock and am a direct desendant of
the Pil-grim fathers, who, you will reckoleck left the
tirants of ole flingland to rare themselves nu hoams in a
lan of liberty, where tha could git rid of pain thare dets
and wuship God accordin to the dictates uv thare own
konscience ; an everybody who afterwards moved inter
thare settlement wus allowed the religus freedom uv be-
lievin jist as the Pilgrim fathers did or be burned as
witches. Later in the progress of time, the idee of
religion wus abandoned, and all of the good
and wise men went exklusively into the nigger
biznes; the wur filanthropists of the furst water,
and scorned the grovelin idee of assistin the
toilin masses uv operatives in their facktories an work-
shops, but gin thare filanthropy a broader scope of takin
in the niggers of the Southern Staits. Tha originated
the idee that thare wus a bier law than the knostitution,
and deklared that if the Bible upheld slavery there wus
for above that, wich wus abolition votes ; so tha resolved
to make Cuffee thare sole politikel dependence, and jist as
tha wur about to reseed from the wicked and korrupt
Union and league with the Devil, the indiscreet Southern
States took the initiatory step au saved the aberlishunists
the trubel.

1 had a unkel, a venerable and pins man, an a minister
uv the gospel ; he could preach the best single-handed sar-
min uv any man in the stait, but as his flock liked the
almighty dollar better than there Father in Heaven, he
maid up his mind to quit even with them. He bought
stock, on time, in a wooden nutmeg facktory and joined a
horse tralin society, and soon realised largely in stamps. As
soon as it wur known that the Rev. Mr. Guy had plenty uv
money, he became the idol uv his flock, and the sisters
dished up thare fattest spring chickens an most winnin
smiles for him in a wa that wud hev put the later day
saints uv that Purytanic lan inter extasies. 1 mite here
menshun many little episodes of his hunkey and Pius
career amlng the weeker sex, did not the exploits of his
reverend successors, thro his fame into the shade.
Well, under the most faverable influens uv famerly pres-
tige, I stepped upon the threshhoald uv manhood. I had
lamed to hait Noo England rum to that extent that I tuk
a sekret wa uv destroyin it ; I hed lerned to drop, with
sancktimonious grace a 5 cent piece inter the contribution
bor on Sunday and steal out twenty-five cents in change,
and abuv aul things I hed lerned that the only sure rode
to politikal faim must be travelled on the back uv a
nigger.

Brite and shinin examples wore around me on every
side. Tho experiment of amalgamatin with the black race
had been tride in the South and proved a sucksess in
bloeching the sons of Ilam, yet many skeptix doubted until
the Noo England army officers tride it durin the war when
the frutos uv thare labor removed aul doubts.

Wel, the South inoggerated a bloody and cruel warfare,
and all uv us Noo Englanders were reddy to rush teu glory
or the grave. My uncle the preecher, accepted a commis-
sion in the home gards (black), and generusly acceptid a
kontract for furnishin shoddy clothin for the brave b ,ys
in blue, in which capacity he cleerd many a coupon bond

exempt from taksation, and his heroic conduc throu that
terrible struggel to put down the rebellion and keep the
Republican party in pour will be remembered with pride
by his greatfull posterity. When he was drafted iu 1863,
ho patriotically baut a kullored substitute, whose sacred
bones now lie bleechin on the hill of Georgia, and whose
widous pension my pious unkol still draws regularly, and
distributes it among tho Freedmen's Buro agents, to buy
nigger votes with.
Having thus shown you that I was born a aborlitionist,
with a natural hatred to the Constitution and the Demo-

cratic party, I will briefly state what further klames I hey
to a payin position in the rekonstruction of the rebel
staits. When the Kongreshional Kommittee agrede to
send Wilson South to stump the several territories,
and be pade travellin expenses and whisky out of
the public munnys appropriated by Kongress, I wur
appinted bis privet sekretary, and dru up the follerin
prambel and resolutions which wur adopted by the U.S.
Kongress in Republican caucus assembled, as a polar star,
or kumpus, to guide the rekonstructionists in bringing the
lait rebel staits back into the Union with a Republikan
form of government.
Whereas, durin the late war with the so called Konfede-
rate Staits, we defined and understood disloialty to be any
mean armed enemies aginst Federal Government or the
aders and abbitors thereof ; and whereas all opposition to
the Federal Government has nonceased, and the lait rebels
are willin to exsept the situation, abolish slavery and re-
turn to there aleogance therefore be it.
Resolved, that by rite konquest we hereby dictate new
meening:i to the terms as fullers to viz.: The term disloial
will hereafter be understood to meen, all persons who
oppose the Republican Kongress and the radikal party, or
give aid and kountenance to the Konstitution or the
Dimi-
cratic party._

Resolved, That any person North or South who prato

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the vile Konstitution fraimed by our korrupt fourfathers
shall be deamed kopperheds and opposed to the rekonstrue-
tion of the rebel staits with republikan form uv guvern
ment.

Resolved, That kno stait shel bo deamed to hey a Re-
publikan form uv government, who elect Domokratic
Guvernors or Songressmen, as the exproshun "Republikan
form of government" means a government in which all
the people vote the strate Republican ticket, peaceably if
tha will or forcibly by baonets if tha must.
Resolved, That in completin the registrashun in the
rebel states no distinkshun shal be maid on ackannt uv
kuller or the prior status uv the applicant, to only ques-
tion to be asked the applicant is—will he aware to voat
the Republican ticket.
With these instruckshuns in his pocket Wilson and I
started on our southern tour ynd the result of our mishuu
I will write you in mi next. Y our trooly loyal,
QUISBY GUY.