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

QUISBY GUY.

LETTER ON RECONSTRUCTION.
(To the Editor of the St. Paul Pioneer.)
MR. EDITOR—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
konsider that the changes 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 doel of disaffec-
shun in our Radikal party. I wanted to git a situation in
the Fredemons Buro that I could ado in the reconstruck-
shun of the rebel territory, but the Radikal leaders,
whom I'd done the most fur, hey gone back on me. I
wrote to Thad. Stevens an Bon. Butler that I'd served
as a soger during the late rebellion, an had lost a arm
at Freidericksburg and thort I was entitled to a payin
situation from the Government (with is a caukus of the
Radikal Senators and Representatives from a few luil
States), and I look forard to the joyful! cis when I cede
reech my bands into Unkel Sams pocket for what stamps
I wanted, but how vain aro hopes.
Thad answered myJetter promptly and said I'd neglected
the most important points, or I'd faled to state wether I'd
bon a white or culered soger, if I was 1 of those darin en-
thrauled black gentlemen who'd faut so nobly for there
freduin and bounty an was a radikal he'd git me a good
sight, but ef I was a white soger 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 from the wicked rebels to let em kno
that the rath of a grate pepel wur on em. Well as miss-
fortune wud have it I lacked the 1-equisite kuller to fill
Thad's bill, and had 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 porshuu of the pepel of
this grate kountry, ef 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 desondant of
the Pil-grim fathers, who, you will reckoleck left the
tirants of ole !England to rare themselves nu hoams in a
lan of liberty, where tha could git rid of pain thare dots
and wuship God accordin to the dictates uv there own
konscience ; an everybody who afterwards moved inter
there 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 idea of
religion wus abandoned, and all of the good
and wise men wont 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 hier law than the knostitution,
and deklared that if the Bible uphold slavery there wus a
for above that, wich wus abolition votes ; so tha resolved
to make Cuffee thare sole politikol dependence, and jist as
tha wur about to seseed from the wicked and korrupt
Union and league with the Devil, the indiscreet Southern
States took the initiatory step an saved the aberlishunists
the trubel.

1 had a unkel, a venerable and pius man, an a minister
uv the gospel; he could preech the best single-banded 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. Ho 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 there fattest spring chickens an most winnin
smiles for him in a wa that wud hey put the later day
saints uv that Purytanic lan inter extasies. 1 mite here
menshun many little episodes of his hunkey and pius
career among the weeker sex, did not the exploits of his
reverend successors, thro his famo into the shado.

Well, under the most favorable influens uv famorly pres-
tige, I stepped upon the threshhoald uv manhood. I hed
lerned to hait Noo England rum to that extent that I tuk
a sokret 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
nigger.

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

Wel, the South inoggerated a bloody and cruel warfare,
and all uv us Noo Euglandors were reddy to rush teu glory
or the grave. My uncle the proecher, 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 struggol to put down the rebellion and keep the
Republican party in pour will be remembered with pride
by his groatfull posterity. When he was drafted in 1863,
ho patriotically baut a kullored substitute, whoso sacred
bones now lie bleechin on the hill of Georgia, and whose
widous pension my pious unkel still draws regularly, and
distributes it among the 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 rokonstruction of the rebel
staits. Whou the Kongroshional Kommittee agredo to
send Wilson South to stump the several territories,
and bo pade travellin expenses and whisky out of
the public munnys appropriated by Kongress, I wur
appinted his 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 Republik.=
form of government.
Whereas, durin the late war with the so called Konfedo-
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 Guvernment has noneeased, and the lait rebels
are willin to exsept the situation, abolish slavery and re-
turn to there aloegance therefore be it.
Resolved, that by rite konquest we hereby dictate new
meenings to the terms as fellers to viz.: The term disloial
will hereafter be understood to meen, all persons who
oppose the Republican Kongross and the radikal party, or
give aid and kountenanee to the Konstitution or the Dimi-
cratic party. _

Resolved, That any person North or South who prate of
the vile Konstitution frairned by our korrupt fourfathers
shall be deamed kopperheds and opposed to the rekonstruc-
tion of the rebel staits with republikan form uv guvern
ment.

Resolved, That kno stait shel be deamed to hey a Re-
publikan form uv government, who elect Domokratic
Guvernors or Kongressmen, as tho expreshun "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 complotin the registrashun in the
rebel states no distinkshun shal b 3 maid on ackonnt 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 mishun
I will write you in mi next. Y our trooly
QUISBY Guy.