Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-11-15

blackguarding me "Why didn't | go
in for jeff. Davis and my native South?''
| Drunk OH mean whiskey-for the first
levy they brought into the field were
not the flower Of the Southern youth
as they said-not tie best blood of the
South; but the rag-tag and bob-tail of
Southern society. Said I: "What are
you going into this war for?'' eve
are going III for our rights ''What
rights have you lost?'' "The right, by
Cd, to carry our negroes into the
territories, > when to my personal
knowledge, for no man in the South
knows more men than [ do, thirds
Of the whole army at that time never
owned a negro in the world, and never
were related by affinity or consanguin-
ity to any man that ever did or ever
will own negro. Great laughter and
applause.
Here is his opinion Of rebels:
[ hoId-and [ will utter it now, lest
| forget this part of the subject-that
everything a rebel has on the face of
the green earth, rebel South OF reb-
| al North his lan1 his hnrSac his mon
ny his hnns b;e ,ronnr+v ;nnInl;,ln h;c
nanrnos- ali h., bas orer5t - ~, aE2er > t:.'
cofl.d and thnn lie ;ne5,.,,aI ,o.1, n,,,xL+
to ha conGs.otol TI,,,,onea n.,,>1,l7.,e
and laughter. l deny that the rebel
North or South, against this benign
government of ours, has any but two
rights under the sun: the one is, the
r;7h ~ " ho ~ dn,5d '', IGnti 80; U,'I' , - ''io
+a- n,,J ~ oLnnr'l '''0' L0''''''''0|' 'A' W Il
''', 'l,0N',.
So"th oafollha, he says, always was
burleSqne on Republican Institutions;
that she always aped monarchies, and
proved her tendencies in that direction
f,om soma of lor ,roson+ looo1 ons+o,,s
.'> I Wv ~ 80 0'''''0'''S'
i1's '0o'' IS O"'S:
| am IN favor tonight, of letting out
rs q contract to the Yankees, by our
government, the saving of South Car
DINA out OF this Union and floating her
INTO the Atlantic and sinking her into
eternal perdItlon Applause and laugh
ter 1t that cannot be done, | am for
reducing Charleston TO ashes, leaving
not one stone upon another, and then L
nope those men who are running for
congress Will pledge themselves to vote
wh;i, 10" ,.a1 ,'I;, Ioth aL ",'a.I oo
Laughter. The truth is and if is no+
worth while to disguise it from those of
you disposed to apologize for us at the
South, we have intended this thing at
the South for thirty wears. We long
since determined to break up tic GOV
ernment and we're satisfied with moth
ing short Of that. In l83l-32. we got
up the raid Of notification, but fortu
nateIy there was q man IN 1881. 80, the
first letters Of whose name were = Old
JackSon.' laughter [ never sup
ported him in politics, bEt would to
God he had been living three years ago
in place Of Buchanan. GChears. lie
would have taken these vile traitors bv
the throat and straiohtenino himself ND
about ten feet in his boots, Tlauobterl
he would have said in his old familiar
style: "By the God that made Moses
fellows, this thing has cot to stoD,''
Tlaughterl, and when old Jackson said
Il thing had 20 stop. it had to ston and
all the people said amen. TContinuea
laughter.
To show the hlustar;no bloton+ bro
7. e
'' .'''' d ''o's
Al'HoSC 'he last tnIng that happened
W "i0 oeioie ,,iey cr"saeu ouI my pa
f'o' " d d c"a'le'.se ~, 70 'lSnC d onei tfom
is IT. Pone . snpc;nen of bn'oan;%>. .1l
who weighed 95 pounds. a worse look
ing man than Alleck Stephens. lie
SUppoSgo 1hat oelng a preacher and
ltI' ~, "o"'''' = 'I='l'' '''T ,'e "aNe1
W. ,,o"a1 s,,o AZ? =; p'1',T'o'' p,oun 3PpI",'Se'
,ha 1ttan ,la4 ms 'h",e"s, ha, '''1 N'o'e II,
,''" ''ItI' ia a. 'o.i 'ne In"i'ei'Se''
l,''y' 1 'i.:,' ''Ie ''S III u oic'"'e tae
"e"i'o">, '''n7 "','t pi''ce' 1t was 'neh
SI'il1'lei t,i'le ana not "ea'her: l sald
l ',eeI .IH c. .il"I We n?hC lHlneolatel! al
le' '''e h'S' m; n'r' ram that comes, IN
,'oS pen l he weapons shai! be two
1aFse, l0'I-Pronee", iron dung forks,
Lconllnne" la"sll'tl ana Whoever shall
sn'Se' 'ne o!',GI ,l;Ia oi'', Snonin De regard
ed as i'aylng s'iled nm IN mortal com
! bat, =" \ OClfprOuS l1u0ntGr. He rp-