The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-06-06
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wall, let lin scroen,. Ef yer Eegel
can amuse hisself by screemin, let him
went l'
The men annoyed me, for I was bizzy
making change.
I'VE al: cur upon a u after Of dooty-"
"You air right. Captins Its every
mans dooty to visit my show" sed I.
owe sir cum"
"And that's yer here |" sed l, larfn
wun of my silvery larfs, thawt if he
wanted to joak, dgive some of my spark
lin epyKrams.
"Sir, you air inscrient. The plain
question is. will yu haul down the Star
! Spsngled Banner and hist the Southern
fagi"
Mary hist" Those was my reply.
"Yure wax works and beests is taen
copfseated. & you air arrested as spyr'
SEE I, my fragrant roses of the Suth-
ern cline and bloomin daffodils, what's
the price of whiskey in this town, and
how many cubic feet Of that seductive fu-
id can ~ indoowidually hold ~
They made 10 reply to that, but said
ny wax fgscrs was son6seated. | axed
them if that was generally the stile among
thieves in that country, to which. they al
so made 30 reply, but sed | was arrested
as a Spy, and nust go to Montgomry in
iuus. They was by this time jined b.
large crowd Of ether Suthern patriots,
who coz menst to boiler Hang the bald
hoded ato!itionist, and bust up his in
moral exberbishuu | vas seezed and
tied to stump, and the crowd went for
ms tent-that water-proof pavilion where
In instruction and amusement had been
SO mutchly combined at S cents he'd
and tored it all to pieces. Meanwhile,
diriy-fased boys was THROWN stuns and
empty beer bottles at ny massiV brow,
aud taken improper Liberties With my
person. Resistance was useless, for va
riety of reasons. as readily observed,
The Seccshers coDf,cated M statoots
by smashiu en- to attums. They then
went to my mOuey box, aud oOnfcated all
the loose change therein contained. TbeF
then went and BUST in my cages. lettiu all
auiuiles loose-a small bat healthy tageT
among the rest This tager bas an ex-
centric way of teaFin dogs to pieces aud |
alters supposed from bis ginral condnck
that bed bcv 10 hesitashun in sergin hu-
nan beins 10 the sane way ef be Good git
at EN-. Excuse HE sf I was crooil, bot
l larfed boysterou-ly when l seen that
taeer spring among the Ieepe.
&c it usy sweet onss y iuardIy cx-
claimed, "l !orsiv you for bitin off ny
left than, With all " hart! Rip un Up
like bully tager whose Lare has bin in
waded By Seceshers =
l CAPT say fer sertin that tie tsger Sc
riously ipjerd a0y OF them, but as he mas
seen few dase arter. sum ailes distant,
with large an wel selected assortment
OF seats of trowsis in his mouth, and as be
lookt as tho be bin heyin some vilen ez-
ercise, l rether guess be did. You'll
therefore perceive they dident conGacate
bin much.
was carried TO Montgomery in iuus
and placed in DURANGO vial. TIE jale
was au orDcry edifass. bat the table vas
literally supplied With Bakin and Cab
idge. This vas good variety, for when
| dident banker arter Bskin | Good help
myself to Cabidge.
l had no body to talk to nor Duthin to
talk about, howseger. and was very lone
Iy. spesbully OF the first day; SO when the
jaler past my lonely sell l put the few
stray hairs on the back part of my he'd
Iue bald now, bat thar was time when
wore sweet auburn riuglets) into as dis
beyeled state as possible, & rollin my
ize like a naDniak. l cride: ''Stay, jaler,
stay ] am not uad, but I soon will be
eff yu dont'bripg me suthin to talk" He
brung me sum noospapers, for "ich
thankt him kindly.
At last got an interview with Jeffer-
son Davis, the President of the Suthern
Conthieveracy. He was kwite perlite
and axed 0e to sit down and state ny
case. | did it, and when be larfed and
said bis galysnt men had bin leetle 2
enthusiastic 10 confscatin my show.
"Yes," seq |, 'they ccnfscated me too
nucbly. l had SUN bosses confsCated
in the same way wunet,. but the conf'oa-
tors air DOW poaudin stun in the States
prisun at Injiunapylus."
avail, wall, Mr. Ward, yu are liberty
to depart-yu air friendly to the South, |
know. Egin now se bev lots of friends
in the North, who sympathize with US
and wont miOglO in this fight"
81. Davis. there's yer CRATE mistake.
Many of us vas yure sincere friends, aud
thawt sertin parties amung US was fussin
about you and uedlip with your eonsarns
entirely too much. But j. Davis the min
it yeu fire gun at that piece of dry goods
called the Star Spangled Banner the
North gifts up and rises en- massy 10 de-
fence of that Banner. Not agin you as
ipdividuals-not sgiu the South even
but to save the flag. We should indeed
be weak 10 the knees, unsound IN tho
heart, milk white iD the liver. and soft IN
the head, if We stud quietly by and saw
this siorius Government smashed to pea
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