North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-13

<1oderg o'cotted, Nary time. NO, SIR -
But I'll jest tell you, ,Artemus, and you may
tell it to your show If we aint allowed to
express our sentiments, we take it out in
hatin and hatin runs heavy in my family
sure. hated man so bad once that all
the hair cum off my head, and the man
drowned himself in a hog-waller that night.
| kould do it agi", but you see Pm tryin to
harmonic, to acquiesce, to bekum kahn
| and SCREEN -sfrtI ...
Now, | suppose that, poetika'!y speak
in,
In Dixie's fall
We sinned ALL"
But talkin the way see it, a big feller
and little feller, so called. got into fite,
and they fout and fout and fout a long time
and every body all around kept hollerin
hands off, but kept helpin the big feller,
until finally the little feller caved in and
hollered enuf. He made bully fte, l
tell you, Se!ah. Well, what did the big
feller do !? Take him by the hand and
help him up and brush the dirt off his
clothes? Nary time No, sur But he
kicked him arter he was down, and throw
ed mud on him, and dragged him about
and .chbed sand in his eyes, and now he's
gwine about huntin up his poor little prop.
erty. Wants to confskate it so called
Blame my jacket if it aint enuf to make
| your head swim.
But I'm a good Union man-so-called. -
| Amt agwine to fite no more. / shan
vote for the next war / amt gorilla
I've done TUX the oath, and Pm gwine to
keep It, but as for my bein subjugated, and
humilyated, and amaIgamated, and enerva-
ted, as Mrs. Chase says, it amt so--nary
time. aint ashamed of nuthin neither
amt repentin-ain't asking for no one
horse, short-winded pardon. Nobody
needn't be playin priest around me. |
amt got no twenty thousand dollars
Wish | had I'd give it to these poor wild
ers and orfns, I'd fatten my own numer
Gus and interesting offspring in about two
minits and half. Theyshould'nt eat roots
and drink branch water no longer. Poor,
unfortunate things ! to cum into this sub
loonary world at sich time There's four
or five of EN- that never saw sirkus or a
monkey show-never had pocket knife,
nor piece of cheese, nor a resin. There
is Bull Run Arp, and Harper's Ferry Arp,
and Chickahominy Arp, that never seed
the picters in spelling book. I tell you
my friend, we are the poorest people on
the face ofthe earth-but we are poor and
proud. We made a bully fite, Selah and
the whole Amerikin nation ought to feel
proud of it. 1t shows what Amerikins can
do when they think they are imposed on
-"so-called." Didn't our four fathers fit Ii
bleed aud die about little tax on tea, who
not one in thousand drunk it? Bekaus
they sukseeded, wasent it glorious? But
if they hadent, suppose it would be trea :
son, and they would have been bowin and
scrapin round King George for pardon
So it goes, Artemus, and to my mind, if
the whole thing was stewed down, it
would make about half pint ofhumbng.
We had good men, great men, Christian
men, who thought we was right, and many
ci 'em have gone to the undiscovered coun-
try, aud have got pardon as is pardon.
When die, I'm nifty willin to risk my
self under the shadow of their wings,
whether the climate be hot or cold. So
mote it be. Selah! .......
Well, maybe I've said enuf But
don't feel easy yit. I've had my breeches
died blue, and I've cot blue bucket and
very often feel blue and about twice in
while go to the doggery and git blue
and when I look up at the blue serulean
heavens and sing the melancholy choryus
of the Blue tailed fly. I'm doing my du-
an dest to haImonize, and think could
succeed ifit wasn't for some things. When
I see a hlaci-guaId goirg arourd the
streets with a gun on his shoulder. why
right then, for few minutes hate the
whole Yanky nation The institution
what was handed down to us by the heav-
enly kingdom of Massachusetts, now put
over us with power, and ball. Har-
monize the devil! Amt we human
beings? Amt we got eyes and ears and
feeliu' and thinkin'? Why the whole of
Afriky has come to town, woman and chill
drsn, and babies and baboons and all. A
man can tell how fur it is to the city by
the smell better than the mile post. They