The Nevada journal., 1861-07-05
From the Hartford Courier.
SAIL WE ASK is TO BE LET ALONE

GALL WE ASK Is To BE LET ALONE"
As vonce I walked by dismal swamp.
There sot an Old cove in the dark and damp,
And at everybody as passed that road
A stick or a stone this Old Cove throwed:
And venever he flung HIS stick or his stsnc,
He'd set up song of :" Let me alone.''
" Let me alone, for loves to shy
These bits of things at the passers by
Let me alone, for I've got your tin,
Aud lots of otner things snugly in
Let me alone, Pm riggin' boat
To grab votever you've got ahoat;
In a week or so expects to come
And turn you out of your ouse and ONE
Pm quiet Old Cove" says he, With groan.
" All axes is-Let me alone."
just then came along, on the selfsanie way,
Another Old Cove, and began for to say:
Let you alone That's comm it strong!-
You've ben let alone darned sight too long.
OF all the sarce that ever heerd.
Put down that stick You may well look skecred }
Let so that stone If you once show fight
III knock you higher than ary Aite
You must have lesson to stop your tricks,
And cure you of shying them stones and sticks,
And I'll have my hardware back and my cash,
And knock your scow into tarnal smash.
And if ever catches you round my ranch,
Ill string you up to the nearest branch.
The best you can do is to go to bed,
And keep decent tongue in your head
For reckon, before you and l are done,
You'll wish you had let honest folks alone"
The Old Cove stopped, and the other Old Cove
He sot quite still in his cypress groves
And he looked at his stick, revolvin' slow,
vether twere safe to shy it or no
And he grumbled on, in injured tone,
" All that l nxed vos, let me aLoner'
GENERAL PATTERSON TO HIS TRooPs.-Gen
Patterson, in command of the Department
of Pennsylvania, has issued An address to
his men, which reads thus:
g To the United States Troops of this De-
partment THE restraint which has neces-
sarily been imposed upon you, impatient to
overcome those who have raised their pari
cidal hands against our country, is about to
be removed. You will soon meet the insur-
gents.
You are not the aggressors. turbulent
faction, misled by ambitious rulers, in time
OF profound peace and national prosperity,
have occupied your forts and turned the
guns against you: have seized your arsenals
and armories and appropriated to them
selves Government supplies have arrested
and held prisoners your companions march
ing to their homes under State pledge of
security, and have captured vessels and
provisions voluntarily assured by State
legislation from molestatiou, and now seek
to perpetuate reign of terror over loyal
citizens.
They have invaded a loyal State and en-
trenched themselves within its boundaries
in deharce of its constituted authorities.
You are going on American soil to sus-
tain the civil power, to relieve the op-
pressed, and to retake that which is uniaw-
fully held.
You must bear in mind you are going for
the good of the whole country, and that,
while it is your duty to punish sedition,
you must protect the loyal, and, should
occasion offer, at once suppress servile in
surrectIon.
Success will crown your effoi IS 4 CRATE
full country and happy people will reward
you"