The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-12

fess that it was a powerful small con-
cern. I would try to sorter smooth
it over if I knowed what to say, but I
don't. If they was Altered of the
wimen, WHY didn't they sav SOP IF
they wasn't, what do they mako 'em
sweer for? Just to aggrevate 'em?
Didn't they know that the best way
to harmonize man, was to har-
monize his wife first? What harm
can the wimen do by receivin their
letter oath free? They can't vote,
nor they can't preach, nor hold offs,
nor play soldier, nor muster, nor
wear breeches, nor ride straddle, nor
cuss, nor chaw terbacker, nor do
nuthin hardly but talk and rite letters.
[ hearn that valiant kernel made a
woman put up her fan bekause it had
a pikter Of Borygard pom it. Well
the tro2h!e os IL SIGH is that after
these bayonets leave here and go
home, these petticoat tyrants can't
come back any more Some Gorgy
fool will mash the juice out of 'em,
sertin, and that wouldn't be neither
harmonious nor healthy. Better let
the wimen alone
Then there is another thing I'm
waitin for. Why don't they rekon-
strukt the niggers if they are ever
goin to? They've give 'em a powerful
site Of freedom, and devillish little
else. Here's the big freedman buro,
and the little buros all over the coun-
try, and the papers are full of grand
orders and special orders and para
grafs, but I'll bet possum that some
of 'em steals my wood this winter or
freezes to death. Freedman's buro!
freedman's humbug, I say. Just when
the corn needed plowing the worst,
the buro rung the bell and Jolled all
the niggers to town, and the farmers
lost the crops, and now the freedmen
is gettin cold and hungry, and wants
to go back, and there amt nothin for
'em to go to. But freedom is a big
thing. Hurrsw for freedoms buro!
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I don't
sing! But it's all right I'm for free
dom myself. Nobody wants any more
slavery. If the Abolishunists had let
us alone, We would have fixed it up
right long time ago, and we can fix
it up now. The buro amt fixed it;
and it amt goin to. It don't know
anything about it. Our people have
got heap more feeling for the poor
niger than any Abolishunist. We
are as poor as Job, but I'll bet dol
lar we can raise more money in Rome
to build nigger church than they did
in Boston. The papers say that after
goin round for weeks, and Boston
Christians raised thirty-seven dollars
to build nigger church in Savannah.
They are powerful on theory, but
devillish scarce in practice.
But it's no use talkin. Everybody
will know by waitin who's been foold
Mr.. johnson says he's gwine to expe-
riment, that's all he can do now-its
all enybody can do. Mr.. Johnson's
heads level. I'm for him, and every.
body ought to be for him-only he's
powerful slow about something's.
amt a worshippin him. He never
made me. I hear folks hollerin hur-
raw for Andy Johnson, and the
papers say, oh! he's for us, he's all
right, he's our friend. Well, spose
he is, hadn't he ought to be? Did
you expekt him to be a dog, or
Black Republican pup? Bekause he
amt banking Of us, is it necessary
to be playin hipocrit around the foot
stool of power, and maxim out like
he was the greatest man in the
world, and we was the greatest sin
ners? Who's sorry? Who's srepentin?
Who amt proud Of our people? Who
loves our enemies? Nobody but a
burned sneak. 1 say let 'em hang and
be hanged to 'em, before I'd beg 'em
for grace. Whar's Sokrates, whar's
Cato? But if Andy holds his own,
the country's safe, provided these
general assemblys and sinods and
bishops conventions will keep the
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