Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-11-17
.fFron the Rome Courier.
BIZ Arm en- the State Of the Country.
Sweet hand of Liberty, Of thee I sing"

''SWeet land OF Liberty, OF Thee sing
Not much I don't, not at this time. If
there's anything sweet about liberty. in this
part of the vineyard, can't see it. The lands
good enuf and would Mt mind healin hyme
or two about the dirt | live on, but as for
fndin sugar and liberty in Georgy soil, its
all a mistake. Howsumever, I'm hopeful.
I'm much calmer and sereener than | was a
few months ago. | begin to feel kindly to-
wards all people, except some. Tmnow en-
deaycrin to be great national man. I've
taken up NOTICE of no North, no South, no
East, no West: but let me tell you, my friend,
I'll bet on Dixie as long as I've got dollar.
It's no harm to run both skedules. In fakt
it's highly harmonious to do 50. I'm good
Union rcb, and my battle cry are Dixie and
the Union.
But y6u see, my friend, we are gettin rest
lees about some things. The war had bek1lm
nifty heavy on us, and after the big collapse,
we thought it was over for good We had
killed folks, and killed folks until the novel
ty of the thing had wore off, and we were
nifty nigh played out all over. Children
we're increasin and vittels dilninishin. BY a
close calculaslfun it was purseeyed that we
did mt kill our enemies as fast as they was
imported, and about those times thought it
was pity that some mirakle Of grace hadn't
cut oft the breed of furriners somebl8 or 20
years ago. Then you would have seed a far
fight General Sherman wouldn't have
walked over the track, and Ulysses would
have killed More men than he did-of has
oun side. | hav always thot' that a Gener-
al ought to be pertikler which side he was sac
riisin. ftr
Well, if the war is over, whats the use Of
film up our towns and cities with soldiers
any longer. Where's your Reconstruction
that the papers say is goin on 50 rapidly =
Where's the liberty and freedom? The fakt
is, General Sherman and his caterpillers
made such clean sweep of everything, |
don't see much to Reconstruct. They took
so many liberties around here that there's
nary liberty left. L could have rekonstruk-
ted thousand sch States before this. Any
body could. There wasn't nuthin to do but
Jest to 90 off and let us. alone. We've got
plenty Of Statesmen plenty ofmen for Gov
ernor.
Joe Brown amt dead-he's a waitin-
standin at the door with his hat off. Then
what's the soldiers here for-what good are
they dom who wants to see 'em any longer.
Everybody is tired of the war and we don't
want to see any more signs Of it. The mig
gers don't want 'eln, and the white men don't
want en-, and as for the wimen-whoopee
I golly! Well, there's no use talking -when
the stars fall agin maybe the wimen will be
harmonized. That male business-the oath
about gittin letters! Gee tiger They always
was Jealous about the males anyhow, and
that order Jest broke the camePs back. Well
| must confess that it was powerful small
concern. I would try to sorter smooth II
over if ] knowd what to say, but don t.
IF they was Altered Of the wimen why dldn'
they say so. If they wasn't what do they
make 'em swear for, Jest to aggregate EN-
Didn't they know that the best way to har
monte man, was to harmonic his WIZ
first ? What harm can the wimen do by3re
ceiyn their letters oath free? They can
vote, nor they can't preach nor hold otis
nor play soldier, nor muster, nor wea
breeches, nor ride straddle, nor cass, no
chaw terbacker, nor do nuthin hardly bu
talk and rite letters. / hearn that valan
kernel made wimen put up her fan becaus
it had pikter of Borygard 'ron it. Well
she's harmonized, reckon. Now the troubl
of all SIGH is that after these bayonets leav
here and 60 home, these pettycoat tyrant
can't come back any more. Some Georg
fool will mash the juice out of EN- sertin, an
that wouldn't be neither harmonious Q
healthy Better let the wimen alone
Then there is another thing I'm waltlnt o1
WHY don't the rckonstrnkt the nigscrs i the