The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-12
] YBUREIN6TONd WKEKLYf HAWK-EYE
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Mr.. EDruR-I am afrade you wont 81,
this letter till after the lokshln, as that il
klose by, but # i comes to hand too late,
flap It into print any how, for the kontenta
are matturs that viii be ov thrust to the
crate a e peepn. You know, NJ
when ever ieiIur wants pece, iist 10 strike
Iout 70 Niaggufy fawls or Richmon, and
there komprom3ze on his own hook, iist to
suite hiz taste. ,Akotdinly I have list Ariv-
ed nom q sekret expedishun to Kichmon,
where I went to try my hand negosheatin
with JET davus. AT ft1st reserved the
kold shoulder and almost despared ov my
then found myself rife ia Hover as long
Is stads in Mchmon. When kalled On
JED I found him alone in his offus. / in
turi uced myself ak0rdin TO my rank. an
tO16 him waz on sekTet Mishun in behalf
ov my guvermint 70 sec what. would be the
show fc- stoppin the war And maxim pece.
Wei, SEE Jef, ifthats your bizness I am il
nul fitur,-he then loked the doore, set out
his bo:tul we both took our seets, and now
SEE he, kurnul you kan perseed with your
negosheashuns, looked him rite ID the
face. now SEE JET davies see here, you
wax IN the Mecksicken war and 80 waz !.
you waz kommishnrd oHyeeur and 80 wax
/. you was . demnnokYat and 50 was I.
4s
are an old line dimmocrat TO day an so am
I. here Je6 peked up the bottul and we
both took snort, when SEE he kurnul 4
you want to make pece state your terms
quick, for ] can stats mine in one wurd, and
that wurd is rekognishun. But sed kam-
~, don't be in hurry tor dident kalkalate
70 state any turns this trip, put that OF
hn6y) what did You come here for. Hook,
him, rite in the eye kinder savage griffin
my teeth sex ] now ole boss youde better
jist kepe your shirt on for you are foolin
with An old one now. you amt foolin with
old Grealy or kurnul Jakquass or Eiynoys
not by Jug full you Amt given him this
fore tust ov my pluk. He pulled an kept
quite mute, s1
Then wen. on, now sez you've bin
narryed twice an % nave I, an You know
il won't do for fsllsr 20 pop the questshun
the nrst time he goes sparkln. or he'll
never sukseed. Jist so in maxim pece.-I
The north and south has got 10 spark
Awil0 before they make puTposals. Now
SD ], till the dimmakratik party aits in
when 1t gifts in pour most any TURNS Will
be akseptud. Jist % sed JED. And now
pece depends upon the rezult ov the next
elekshun, and you know that our trinmf |
depends entirely upon your suksess. Jist |
20 sod Jed. Last summer sex Ne ekspek. |
ted you to hold yiksburg till AMOR the
elekshun, and We nominated pece kandi- |
dates and that We had it awl snone when
vicksburg wont'up Tho spout and turned /
The skale agin Us, SO that We had to haul |
our pece men Oh the track and war dim.
nokrats on an got beet badly then. This
We took warnin and nominated
men Of both kinds and it happily saved 7
3ur oaken, otherwize the Rapture Of ALBANY
ist at the kloze ov the Shecawgo konven.
nbAyavA AA~ i
or &H that's out, and now our last and
,nly hope Is in you holdin Richmun until
lfter the lskshun. Kan you hold it sed
slapping him on the shoulder and
oikin up the bottle. Sed be, / will if I
Kan, but that depens much on the forch-
ines Of war. I kant promis to hold it for
!ursin. The forchunes Of the devvul, says
!, bonnsin up and shaken my list in his
ase. you surrender Richmun aforo the
'lekshun if you dare, and yule be red out
y the dtmakrattik party for keeps, by
ie0rge you will. This demmonstrashun
Ilnder skarte him, and turnin pale. seq he. II
ie hold il or perish. Now, sea I, you're
akin sensibul-you hold on to Richmun
nd weie 60 intu pour aud then we will [
tate turms, and II We kan: maze pece one
vay We VIII try anuthcr, aud if anuiher II
gay wont do, we'll make pece anyhow,-I,
here Jeh piked up the bottle, which we
mtied, and the negosheashuns klozed.
think, Mr.. Edtur, that Kurnul Jak-
uass was the roDg man to send to Rich.
aun, for he let's JET davis bluff him rite ia +
ne star. aud then blow over him duriu /,
be intervu. Now. Inc willen to bet nv
ommishun agin a bottle OF liiskur that J
lie git koinpromize out or jetf davis when
90 back, for all I've got 10 do is TO list Civ
n niggers enuf and territowry enaf and I
1unny enuf and of'uses enuti, and then q
punk rite up 10 him and he'll kaye in. by I
Ieorge he'll KAYE. Ii
KURNEr. 1KKAsuD T1KKLEsRy. +
Kom. Bag, Rig.