Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-15
Letter OF Jonathan q. smith TO Joshua
IL. Giddiugs.
Columns. Ohio, May1ltb. 1869.

II W.
COLUMNS, Ohio, May lith, 1869.
Nj DEGR ON Jo3nUA talk mi pen in hand to
rite you few hasty lines. Tho Legislator has
got dun with It's pondcrus abcrs. We dun nifty
site of good for the time we was ut IL. Mi deer
old icllcr, 1t Is asthonishon what site of pro
slavery cusses thare is in the State. About sixty
thousand rctitioned US to pass a law for to keep
our deer cullercd bruthcrs and sisters from cumin
into to this State, but our Republican friends the
members Of the legislator, cum up uidniuly aud
recorded tharo votes feminist scch ainfanous law
Tho good time for which me and you and other
sound Re publicans have prayed and labered, and
for which our patron saint, JoHN BRowN, poured
out his last lifc's drop on tho God accused silc
of Virginny is fast approachin. Hundreds and
thousands of our cullcrd bruthcrs and sisters is
the Republican party has so long strove to gain
for EN- and SO freely offered en-. 1hare is a
crate menny men den off and gitten killed in the
army and am fappy to say that for every one
lost III that way our popclashun will rescaye at
least three behaved Africans.
w Z nave ulstlcIcu inc Dtdtc so tndJ INC lOCo-
focos will cum up short on Congressman at the
next election. 1t was very necessary to do this
for if we hadent the locofocos might got major
ity in Congress, and then tha wool stopped abol'
ishen slavery and levied no tax for to buy slaves
from masters what was wilen to set en- Free
Besides doin that tha wood bring the war to a
closed (tha are HI on fxcn up fusscs), and then
all our rich army contracts and government spec.
ulatons would be gone forever. A locofoco Con.
gress would ruin the prospects, Of our beloved cul.
crdbruthcrs, throw thousands of good Rcpubli
cans out of ofcs, and bring the country to peace
by commitlcn tho government to the degraded
niggcr driven policy Of WAsuiNFroN, JEFFERSON,
MADISON, MONROE, JACKSON, and them other fcl.
lers That is what we will never submit to this
country must be all free or burst
! The locofoco members tried to get us on hool,
by passcn a law to allow the solgers to vote in
camp the same as tina do in pcnsilyany, New Jcr.
scy, Illinois, &C., but VIC beat en- on this. In the
States have named, the solgcrs nearly all voted
the locoioco ticket, and from What can find out
the solgers frum this State wood do the same
thing if tha had chance to vote. Mr.
SMITH, Mr.. HILLS anl several other good Repub
lcans made glorious speeches against allowcn the
ragged sogcrs to vote, and for this tha shood be
sent to Congress.
Congress is doin the thing up brown and l be.
leave that if we ken secure majority OF jist sch
men in the next Congress we ken keep up the
war until every slave in Amcriiy is free and all
distinction on account of cutler banshcd from our
C 'untry Oh, that the year of Jubilee ma quickly
cum when the whites and blacks will foudy en-.
brace and kiss each other and lay down together
mead to tail and tail to head like litter of pigs
Farmers and other pcepcl growl about Congress.
assessor taxes to keep them big government oil
GERS, buy slaves and sich like. WE'LL man wha
will growl about that haint got no sense. Why
if you git all the slaves FREQ it will make labcrer
50 plenty that you can hire en- for ten cents
da instead of payen m.irom sevcnty.iiye cent
to dollar as you now do. But if thare was n
gain in it every man what luys his fellers and
sound on the goose shood be willcn to give al
he's got to bind the devil and establish Il heave
upon earth as thare will be when humans of va
rious cullers associate together like the yariou
cullerd sheep, f'gs, horses, COWS, dogs, &C.
Sum stingy cusses complane about paycn tax
to purchase our African bruthcrs and sisters, bu
emmy man what wood compane at that hasent
proper reverence for his God to emmy Alarmin ex
tent. Besides gtten our cullord bruthers am
sisters free it will maik the Shareholders SO ma
that tha will keep on ften and we will have tn
iun of shooten en-. No christian will care 70
the kost if We only git to kill the seceshcrs.
What if our men dhz git killed, tha wood hay
to die sum time INFLOW. The taxes aint nuthe
for the people kin work little harder and CT
less and mak up the amount as easy as lie.
In konklushen, Deer JOSHUA, | wood advis
you to run for Congress We must have tn
next Congress komposed of majority of sic
substanshel and liberty loven men as YOURSELF
We ma haV to drop the naim of Republican an
call our party the Union party or sum sich main
but African lady smells as sweet by one main
as she duz by another. You kin talk hint froi
this and guvem yourself accordingly.
Yours Forever,
JoEATHAN z SMITH.