The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-07-11
4 Yankee among the Rebels.
MERrprs, Miss, May IA.

hotel in Meriden, Miss, livery natural
ly fell in with some curious characters,
The general topic of conversation
seemed to be show all this came about
Officers and privates mingled miscella-
neously, and beheld Yankee in citi-
zen's clothes, and the only one present,
enjoyed the full benefit of the recital of
opinions, .t
One strapping young fellow, with
M NJ. o." on his grey hat, attracted my
attention. A finer formed man have
never seen, aud opened conversation
with him. !.
"Hev you got airy postage stamps
sir?" .Ii1s et .7o
"a few" a..
az want to write to the old man, tel
ling him I'm all right. ] can't go back
home you know, under the cartel"
Where do you live?"
"Well, dad lives in Missouri, but |
was born in Ohio, and live in Chicago.
III tell you how it was," said he, with
an incompatible wink; "you see, l
had a little business down South when
the war began, so l came down and
went into the army. i had heard that
the South was the garden spot of the
world; and dad owned niggeps, and so
come, We'll, / got detailed the first
day they knowed, and got a beef con-
tract out of them--=fbr l was packer
and drover in Chicago, you know
and SO haven't struck lick or stood
n ruard. l didn't have but five hun:
drcd thousand dollars when Dick Fay
lor " ent up the spout! i had a drove
of cattle 'oncewTof the Confederacy,
YOU know-but" (another wink) "some
three hundred head was sold to the
;. citizens. Confederate money warn't
no account to me, SO / got a few o.
these.n Here followed the eloquent
chink of a pocket full of gold. :"
have got aIlittle piece up in Wisconsin,
: there gracious and decidedly loving
look,) 81 have; and, if know myself
: / guess l can get there. TNs hes'
oath amt going to hurt me much"
"What do you think Of the country
anyhow ?" asked. z.ata.
aThink of it," said he swell Ihav,
I been all over it, buying cattle.
wouldn't give Rhode Island for th'
e whole of Mississippi. The womel
: either chew tobacco or dip snuff, ant
/ they amt civilized, for they don't know
t how to live, and civil .a!i IN means eat
ing and living comfortably. You &c
s out of a seventy mine house and wall
: q quarter of mile to the well, am
wash out of basin, and wipe on I
I tfamily towel. when they might have
{ washstand in the corner" - ,7o.
? The more conversed with this mar
I I noticed an improvement in pronuncl
!. alton and'i in manner. His crafty win
y eavs way to an open-eyed glance, an
|, he wrote his name oin the Register IN
q clear. round, business hand.
q So perfectly had he counterfeited tn
$ look and gesture of the people, that
L said to myself elf few more like ya
would come down, into this country
n how these fertile acres would blossoi
r. like gardens, and civilization commenc
u in earnest. %
: aWhy," said he, "I have gone hut
q pr, into poor house, surrounded D
20 negro cabins, and sat down to hog an
'f hominy, without milk or butter; an
right in front of the door have seen,
lc drove of cattle feeding among tn
J. stumps, among which were twent
IS cows, So, when the Yankees woul
tx burn down bridges, it would take the
n months to repair them. "Why can
r we build them as fast as the Yankees
S, they used to ask me, 'Recapse w
r don't know how / told them. y
Of don't know how to work, and the va
KEGS do, for they make their living tn
ut wav,' The people down here are
,r Internal lazy that if it wasn't for IL
Il, negroes they woald Starye,"-Cor.
"a o. True Della.
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