The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-04-17

the leis 1t grew, an finally be found that he
couldn't make wagon bolt. It Then he declared
he IHa iron enough left for a horse shoe nail,
an that he .aooaId make, but upon trying, he
found that the most difficult job Of all. Final
ly, giving up in despair, ses he, sWal, one thing
1 can do enyhow, can make a siss r and plum
ging the tongs and what was left Of the iron in
the water, he did get up avery respectable siss.
Now; sesl i, 'waen Yhs started out, .Linkin sed
he was goin to restore the old Union That
has besn given up long ago, and now they sag
they are going to conquer the southern States,
THAI is, make despotsm, but the war will turn
out ii4 like the horse shoe business. Linkin
win. sdter ALL nesther make Union or des-
po,ism, or an Empire by it, but it will end with
great big ssiss.' That's all he will accomplish
byit. an = dear 'siss, itwiube for many a poor
fellow A dear 'siss,' it will be for the father
less and the widows, and wonderful dear 'siss
it will be for the people who will have to pay
the taxes and foot the bill of the war; dTWen
| edtais, the Deacon drew a long breth and
loolln down on the floor didn't say enything for
some minutes. Finally, ses he, ssWal, Majer,
will we have to give up the Union after all r
Ses 1, II Idon't see any necessity for that, pro-
| vidin that we kin only stop the war and talk o.
yer inatters q little,"' "Bat," ses /, "ef the u
MOSS going " be Union wherein white
man lasn the right to express hisopinions, then
must say don t love such Union as that,
an PM as strong Union man as ol9 Glnneral
jackson, an sure he WAS strong enough. | am
for the old Union, but ef the Union is to mean
despoipm, then I'm for breakin it all to smash
as soou as possible Wen man begins to hum
bug me by callin things by their wrong names
to try an deceive me, it llis rifles me onsccount-
ably. aintoa very larned man, but | kin
generally see clean through one Of these college
chaps Wen he talks Union to me an all the
time means despotism, allus feel jest like haul
in up my old hickory, an given him a sockdolo-
ger. 40 hy,1 ses l, s'Deacon, the teller who
wants to turn this government into a despolism,
an keeps all tne tl,ne .holl,rln 'Unlon, while he
s doit 1t, is not only a traitor, but a hypocrite
an coyard. He is afeered 10 speak his rale sen-
timenls, ap so goes around tryin to deceive the
people Jest as the false prophets in the Saylors
time. I'm teetotally down on such fellers, an |
mean tsfae to the end of the chapter.
l aimsst forgot to- tell you that Insine Steb-
ohio, WHY WcLe oh W tho Wal, isso JSee 80
He had a recepshun by the milingtary of Dow
ning,iiie Nen he arriv. Col. Doolittle called
out the D,wningville Insensibles an the Moroor
artillery, an all Downingville was in blaze of
glory. ThD Insine has been promoted TO be Cap
tin sense he went of, for ritin pome for the
contrybands at Port. Royal where the lnsine
has been stashioned The Insine is not Il Bad
poet. But you orter seen the turn out in Dow
ningviue to receive him. Col Doolittle rode
down street on Elder Dusenberrys sorrel mare,
an jes, as the cannon was blazin forth the joy
Gus news of the Captains arrival on the ground,
old sotrel's colt, that the Elder thought he had
locked up in the stable, come tarein through
the street an fairly moved swath rite through
the women. Such a yellin an screachin yer
never heered afore. A good many people tho't
the rehls wer comm. Elder Dusenberry's wife
tore ha best silk dress, an the Insine who had
prined himself for big speech on the occashin,
had it all scaret out of him. If it hadn't been
for TINT rascally young colt | think thai the
celebrsshin would have been the greatest day
DownIngvlle had seen ,sence the time General
jackson visited it. The Insine brings the news
from Washington that the Kernel thinks some
of payin visit to the North, an maybe to the
East, afore long. Eff he does he ses he wants
me to go along with him to help him make
speeches and keep off the offs seekers. Ell he
sends for me spose shall have to 60, though
I hate to do it. Yourn till deth,
MAJER JACK DowNINa. 4