Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-23
HEADQUARTERS "SCALP HUNTERS, y
Camp Chowan. \. c.. July IL {

Cdiup CuOWau, ~ ", July IL. J
ErceAency Davis With feelings of unde-
veloped pleasure, affectionate conscript
eutrusts this sheet of confscated paper to the
tender mercies of Confederate States mail
carrier, addressed, as it shall be, to yourself,
jeff, Red Jacket of the Gulf, and Chief of
the Six \ ations-more or less. He writes on
the stump OF a shivered monarch of the forest
with the pine trees wailing round him." and
" Endymion's planet rising on the air." To
you, . Gar of all Chiyalrv and Khan of Cot
ton Tartary, he appeals for the privilege of
seeking, on his own hook, land less free-a
home among the hyenas of the North VIII
you not halt your " brave columns" and stay
your gorgeous career for thin space and
while an admitting world takes brief gaze
at your glorious and God -forsaken cause, pen
for the happy conscript furlough without
end !? Do SO, and mail tiff you please to
that city the windy, wandering Wigtal didn't
winter in-called for short, Philadelphia
The Etesian winds sweeping down the de-
files of the Old Dominion, and DER the swamps
of Suffolk, come moaning through the pines
of the old State, laden with the music, and
sigh themselves away into sweet sounds of
silence to the far-off South Your happy
conscript would 90 to the far-away North,
whence the wind comes, and leave you to
reap the whirlwind, with no one but your
father, the devil, to rake and bind after YOU
And he's going.
1t is with intense and simultaneously proud
satisfaction that he gazes for the last time
upon our holy flag, that symbol and sign of an
adored trinity-cotton, niggers and chivalry.
He Still sees it in the little camp on the Chow
an, tied to the peak of its palmetto pole, and
floating out over our boundless Confederacy
the revived relic of ages gone, banner of our
king of few dayseand full of trouble. And
that pole in its tapering uprightness testfying
some of the grandest beauties of our nation
atty; its peak pointing hopefully toward the
the tropical stars and its biggest end-run in
to the ground Relic and pole good bye,
lis best the conScript goes; his claim to
chivalry has gone before him. Behind he
leaves the legitimate chivalry of this unbound
ed nation conferred in the illegitimate son of a
Kentucky horse thief.
But few more words, illustrious President,
and he is done-done gone
+ Elevated by their sutferings and suffrages
to the highest Office in the gilt OF great and
exceeding free people, you have held your
position without a change OF base, or purpose
OF any sort, through weary months of war,
and want, and woe !, and though every con
script would unite with the-theusands of loyal
and true men insthe South IN a grand old
grief at your downfall, so too viii they sink
. under the calamity of an exquisite joy when
YOU shall have reached that eminent meridian
| whence all progress is perpendicular
And now, bastard President, of 3 political
| abortion, farewell. z
.ssScalp hunters relic, pole, and chivalrous
! confe derates III crime, goodbye. Except il
/ be in the army of the Union, you will not
! again see the conscript, ~.,s----..-.--. I.