Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-18
Letter From jonathan q. Smith 60
Governor Tod
AFRicAN RANuiE, No. 5G, SALT RivEni
Decombor l1th, 1862. (

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IIoSEnABrL DAVID TOP, Guvernor,--Dccr Sur
| hav not rit letter for 10, these many days -
The fact II, hay iclt too bad on ackount Of our
moyin up hear. SHELLENnARGER, Wet, GunLrY
aud WELKER air hear and they can't bca consocd.
Tha just keep on rayin like mad WELKER says
If LiNKES had issued his proclamashon a few
months sooner 30 that another carload Of free
Americans OF African descent" rs onost old Abe
calls 'om, Good a got to Oberlin he wood bin
elected. But, ! think THAR Is some blame to be
put on SHERMAN for not attcndcn to onest JoHS
BARcRoFr's letter and arresten the locofocobu
tcrnut seccsh party Of Iloams County and haven
'em away Mt the time Of the elccshun.
The honorable ana onest Judge BRNKERnorr,
Esquire, one Of the Judges Of the Supream Court,
is sound on the goose. lie went down to Canton
with military force and after consultcn with on.
est ALEXANDER BERcE, aud oncst ANsoN PEAsE
and our onest ana beloved bruthcr who keaps the
St Cloud Hotel arrested McGREGoR and RElTzELL
and toted them off to Kamp Mansfield.
McGREeoR and RElTzELL is bitter seccsh. Tha
deny that the Chicoggcr Platform is the Supreme
law Of the land, and also deny that the Constitu.
ton and the Union is a league with hell and a
covenant with the devil. 1ha was opposed to be-
in drafted, and tha dispute the well known fact
that oncst A. LlNKEN, Esquire, is the best man
what ever split rails in Amerky. 1t is sed tha
deny that the normal condishun of "frcc Ameri.
cans of Alrikcn DESCENT is unrestrained, unre.
strictcd and unbounded liberty, aud that the nor.
NAL condishen of the Union party is to hold office
and that the normal condish en- Of the locofocos,
buttcrnuts &C., is to do the tighten, pay taxes and
be drafted Men what hold to such devilish Sc.
cesh principles as McGREGoR and REl1zELL sIioud
be hung, imprisoned burnt at the stake, chawcd
up by a corn shelter, dro vnded in the canawl and
punished otherwise in sundry and divers manners.
Sum Judges wood bea two proud to attend to ar.
resten of locofocos, but onest Judge BRINKERHoFF
isn't two proud to do anything forninst a locofoco
He loves the cuered peepel, aud he is pizon on
everybuddy what is fomnst EN- like McGREo
and REIrzEL is.
If US Union men ever git down from Salt Riv-
er we'll arm the "iree Americans of AfrIcn de-
scent and arrest every secession coppcrhcad what
goes for the "Constituton a. it is and the Union
as it was" and put them in some strong pri. on, Oh
hang them,
DEER GUyERNER. THAR was lot of fellcrs cum
up from Fairfield County yesterday and tha sec
tha cum up on account Of DR., OLDs being clec
ted to the Legislature from Fairfield County -
You had the "backbone' to arrest OIDs and senl
him to Fort Lafayette and think you shood ar
rest all who voted for him for the Lcgislatur,
and send 'em to Fort Lafayette two. You hevt
"the backbone to do it" if you straighted up ant
take the kinks outov that old back bone of yours
I'hare is no pack mule in the army has half the
backbone what you hlv got.
| We have nearly all turned nfdel up hear
Some of the best prcaches we had in the coun
try is now rank inidels The reason is plain tC
every intelligent contraband as we'll as other pee
h pie. The Bible says 'llonor thy father an,
thy mother that thy days may bea long in tn,
land" &c. We all know that office ,hunten wa
the father and Africa was the mother of the Re
publican party. We hav all clung to the fathe
| with the tcnacity that pup sticks to II beecl
root, nor hav We ever been wanten in devosheI
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ted for the worship of the living God into house,
of praise and thanksgiving to Africa, the beloved
mother of our party. For her we hav shaken the
Union to its deepest foundation, placed the Con
sttution at the mercy ov Presidential Proclama.
shcns and official edicts gathered the reward OF
toll and industry by taxation, Redeemed the rivers
with blood and whitcned the Lis and valleys
with bones, de stroycd the liberties of white men
and America that once rejoiced in the beauty OF
her garments and the promise ov her days, we
have dressed in sackclotE and caused her tC
mourn like Rachel ov old. After doin so much
for our father and MOTHER if the promise ov the
Bible is true, shouldn't our days be long in the
land what was given us? OF course tina shood
But you know it haint bin so, for the butternuts
have beaten us everywhere. Like the gourd of
JONAH, we sprung up in night and withered in a
day, comparatively speaker. We cum from the
jimpson weeds, numerous as army with banners,
and now shon of our strength we air driv up Salt
River by the cursed copperheads. Aint this
enough for to make us infdes? | say it is a
cussed shame.
| think you had better 20 down to Washington
and grease the back,bones of our Congressman
so tha can do something right smart for our cul-
Tered friends before their official lives expires -
THAR last hours air drawn nigh and tina shood
bea up and doin. If onest OLD ABE's PROCLAIM
shen ken be put in force it will secure us about
eight hundred thousand votes from the "lree
Americans of Afriken descent" and that will let
us out of this cursed place and put us back in of
fee.
DEER GUyERNER, if your back bone keeps
sound, tote us up few barrels of whiskcy next
fall when you cum.
1t is very unpleasant up hear. | think will
hire substitute. THAR is a good many wants
substitutes. If we had oncst OLD ABE up hear,
and few Stree Americans of Alr can descent
to play the banjo and fiddle we Good enjoy our
selves more better. We will maik money here.
THAR is several Kompanies putin up mills to
manufacture shoddy cloth for the solgers clothes.
Starch is riz. We hav to use so much of it to
keep the cloth together till it is sold: We hav
just started printer ofes to manufacture green
backs, Everything wanted for the army we will
furnish at 500 rer. cent. profit. MARTIN WELKER
is teachen Dancen Schulz this winter. BACKUs is
actin Justice of the Peace. ON. OLDs is deliv.
eren literary lectures.