Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-09

weaving with all her might. woman |
needs strong ankles TO work the tread
les, and in weaving she gets them.
They went out TO look at the wheat |
and clover. The women saw them |
walk around, and at last to stop by a
pair of bars. The old man held down
his head a good deal, after listening, while
Andy made gestures as If telling some
thing. When they came to dinner, OF
greens and plenty of other things, the
Squire said;
cold woman, If what Andy's been tell
in mes true, there's some mistake bout
this Golden Circular business, and I've
got to look into it and If it's so, and 1T
seems to be so, then them lawyers to
town has been lynn to me the cussed-
est"
When Andy's furlough expired, and
he had started to return to the army,
his father gave him his best wishes and
hoped his safe return. He hoped too
that he might be victorious over the reb-
els in every battle. Susan held up her
baby as high as she could that he might
see it to the last. 1t would be hard to
tell how much encouraged Andy felt.
Soon after this, it was talked about
among the copperheads, that the fur
| Laughed soldiers had been converting
the people of Rose Prairie to Unionism,
and couple of lawyers came down from
the county seat to see about 1t.
| Mr.. Clifford being the most influential
man, they called on him first. After go
ing through considerable long, smooth
and slippery introduction, they told him
their business. He confessed he had
changed his mind, and he thought men
of learning ought to know better than
to be deceiving plain farmers who
couldn't be expected to know all about
politics. And how could they know,
when they never had much schooling
and this was because the blasted old
Shareholders where they came from
didn't want no schools. One of them
who is figuring to go to the legislature,
let out, in quite speech filled with gen
uine copper democracy, telling about
Lincoln's tyrany, the overthrow of the
constitution, high taxes, the ruin of the
country and concluded by saying we
ought to let the South go.
"Tll tell you," said the old man.
"what they'd say of you down in the ar
my if you talked that way to EN-
they'd say you was a damned traitor !;
and if you had no fust-best friend with
you they'd string you up; and if Twas
with 'em | wouldn' kere much to help
EN-. Them's my sentiments fair and
square" ......
"This is very strange, Squire Clifford,
very strange indeed. Why, sir you be
long to our order of the Knights of the
Golden Circle, and you cannot have for
gotten the solemn oath you have taken,
nor the dreadful penalty which attaches
to the violation of that oath"
This made the Squire mad.
| "Git out of my house you Internal
scoundrel-you traitor to your God and
| and your country. You lied to me
| to git me into it. Git out of my
house! And if any of you Golden Cir
culars tech hair of me or mine, I'll
send for Andy and the rest of the boys,
and by the Jehoka, they won't leave a
grease spot of your whole gang. Git
| out of my house; I'll have nothing to
do with traitor to my country and the
| old flag of the stars and stripes"
| The lawyer went-they both went
When he was getting on his horse he
said
"Good by, Mr.. Clifford You've got
to be Yankee niger, see. 1t must
be you want niger wench'"
eyes, do; | want a thousand of
em. | amt afeared of niggers, as much
as / was. I'm ashamed though, that
ever was traitor like you are. Yes, /
was traitor, and l helped to fight agin
Andy and Susan and her baby there
But thank God in his marcy, I'm trail
tor no longer"
! 1t would have done you good had you
seen how pleased the women were to
hear the Squire give the lawyers his
| mind N. G. M.
Dongola, Union Co. Ill. April 26, 1854.
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