The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-06-02

been learning you these things. And now
let me tell you, tho they sound mighty big,
thars scurcely word o truth in 'em from
one end to the other"
'Whats this, what's this? ?" said the So uire
''Do you mean to call your father iar9
Say, sir, am | liar? Am | liar ?"
Andy's bunch of beard began to work in
a curious way and he waited little before
he spoke.
''Who talks about liars but yourself? Shan't
tell you what the army would say of you
if you talked like that among them I'll tell
you. They'd say you was a id traitor;
and if you didn,t happen to have first best
friend by you, they'd string you up. And
I'll tell you, too, we think heap more ofan
out-and-out Rebel than we do Of the traitors
at home, who, when we strike the Rebels
lick, help them to strike us back
''You git out of my house. If you are my
own son you shant insult me in it. I've done
with you-you shan't have none of my prop
erty-not hait-out ofmy house-PIl haYs
nothing to do with you"
''That suits me if it does you. Susan, pick
up what things you want now, and leave
the rest for another time. Well go to Bob
Reynolds. He's good Union man. Your
dads a Copper, know. You'll hear differ
ent story one of these days, dad, mind | tell
you.
''You may go to the devil for all kere
Andy buckled on his woodland stood wait
ing for Susan. She was running around ia
king care of her things; her sisters in-law
were helping her. while Mrs. Clifford tried
to soothe her husband He would listen to
nothing; his son had turned out to be a YAM
| kee niger, and it must be he wanted mig
ger wench-he would MT speak to him, and
he never wanted to see him again.
The house. lately SO joyful, had becomea
house ofmourning. All the women folks cried
and the baby, seeing something was wrong,
cried louder than any body else.
| At last Susan was ready, and crying, she
left the house with Andy; and they went
away through the lane. In addition to this
| trouble, S usan had another which was on
account of piece she had just got in the
loom, and she had thrown the shuttle only
few times to see how it would look. Her faith
er-in-law had planted patch of cotton for
her and plowed it and she had hoed, picked,
got it ginned, and spent almost all Winter
in spinsling and coloring She was going
to have a piece Of check for dresses for her
self and baby. Now she did not know what
would become Of IL. Perhaps the old man
would cut it out Of the loom.
They had gone quite 2 distance, when
Mrs. Clifford came into the porch and called
her.
Susan, you forgot your pocket handker-
chief"
She went back, willie Andy waited. She
was gone long time. Once she came out,
lingering, then hastily went back. At last
she came running, and looking pleased, and
said his father wanted to speak with him.
He turned, rather reluctantly, aud found
his father filling his pipe by the fireplace.
81 want to AK you one question, Andy,
Answer me now, fair. Sayin nothin about
them Northern chaps, amt it a shame to
us as comes from the South to be a fightin'
and killin' our kind O folks, and some on em
our own kim"
II don't TO dispute and trouble with you
dad, but can't answer that mighty sudden.
1t is a shame--but the shame is theirn, not
ourn It's they that's fighting u.s. We
didn't strike the first Lick. We didn't want
no war, but they did, and they've tried to
break up the Government. When they want
peace, and to have things as they had em
afore, excepting one little thing as has gone
up, all they've got to do is to say it, But
! if they've a idly they can make two Cover
ments of one, that belongs to both on u.s.
they've got bigger job on hand than they
ID a idy form fact, the thing can't be did
I'll tell you what all John Logan's men, and
the rest of the sojers say, We say, well Rweep-
'em from the face of the arth afore we'll give
up to em And we can do it.
'"That's dreadful hard talk, Andy, but there
seems something in that you said about the
fust lick hadn't thought O that. | say
/ Andy, you amt gon' to desart your old ia
ther kase he got riIed and spoke kinder sharp.
Let's argerfy this business-Ive got the
handsomest clover lot you ever seed, and the
primest wheat you ever set eyes on.
want YOU to look at 'ep. You shan't go
what a talk it'll make. We'll argerfy and
keep cool"
So things quoted down. The women
were happy as crickets, and Andy went
through the story of the fights he had been
in at Belmont, at Fort Henry and Fort DON
eIson where Logan was wounded, at Shiloh
at the Big Black and Champion Hill, and
finally at Vicksburg. But even then he
was not done There was not time that eye
ming to tell all. In listening the Squire was SO
proud of his son and Of the success Of the
Northern Army, that he almost forgot he
was Democrat.
Next morning before they started, Susan
had to show her husband her piece, and
how she could weave He left her weaving
with all her might. a woman needs strong
ankles to work the treadles and in weav-
! ing she gets them.
They went out to look at the wheat
and colover. The woman saw them walk
ing around, and at last to stop by pair of
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good deal, as if listening, while Andy made
gestures as if engaged in telling something
When they came to dinner, Of greens and
plenty Of other things, the suqire said
eOid woman, if what Andys been te)lin
mes true, there's some mistake about this
Golden Circular business, and Eve got to
look into it; and if it's so, and 1t seems to
be 50, then them lawyers to town have been
iyin to me the cussedest."
J When Andy's fprlopgh h&d expired, and
he had started to return TO the army, hls
> father gave him his best wishes and hoped
5 his safe return. He hoped too That he might
' hn victorious over the rebels in every bat
z tie Susan held up her baby as high as she
D could that he might gee it the last. 1t would
] be hard to undertake to tell how npch en-
s couraged Andy felt. ,.
S Soon after this, it was talked about among
/ the Copperheads, that the furloug he'd soldiers
< had been converting the people of Rose Prai-
8 rie to Unionism, and couple oflawyers came
S down from the county seat to see about it.
4 Mr.. Clifford being the most influential mar
|. thew called upon him first. After going thro
}, considerable long, smooth and slippery IN
e trodnction, they told him their business. lie
r confessed he had changed his mind, and he
!. thought men Of learning ought to know bet
e ter than to be deceiving plain farmers who
r couldn't be expected to know all about poll
G tics, And how could they know,
h when they never had much schooling
a and this was because the blasted old slave
holders where they came from didn't wan'
n no schools. One Of them, who is figuring TO &c
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