Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-11-17

steals my wood this winter or freezes todeath.
Freednan's buro freedman humbug, say
Jest when the corn needed plowin the worst,
the buro rung the bell and tolled all the Mig
GERS to town, and the farmers lost the crops;
and now the freedman is gettin cold and hum
CRY, and wants to 60 back, and there amt
nuthin for 'em to 90 to. But freedom is a
big thing Hurraw for freedoms buro !!
Sweet land of liberty, of thee don't sing !!
But it's ali right Tn for freedom myself
Nobody wants any more slavery. If the alb
olishunists 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 a goin to- It don't know anything
about it. Our people have got heap more
feelin for the poor niger than any abolishun-
ist. We are as poor as Job, but I'll bet a
dollar we can raise more money in. Rome to
build niger church than they did in Bos-
town. The papers say that after goin round
for 8 weeks, the Bostown christians raised
thirty-seyen dollars to build a Niger church
in Savannah. They are powerful on theory
but mighty scace in practice. j'2
But it's no use talkin Everybody will
know BY waitin who's been foold. Mr.. john
son says he's gwine to experiment., that's all
he can do now-its all anybody can do. Mr.
,Johnson's heads level Pm for him, and
everybody ought to be for him-only he's
powerful slow about something's. | amt
worshippin him. He never made me. | hear
folks hollerin hurraw for Andy johnson, and
the papers say, oh he's for us, he's all right,
he's our Trend Well, spose he'is, hadn't he
ought to be? Did you expellt him to be a
dog. Bckause he amt a hangin Of US, is it
necessary to be playin hiprecrit around the
footstool Of power, and maxim out like he was
the greatest man in the world, and we was
the greatest sinners? Who's sorry? Who's
rcpentin? Who amt pround Of our people
Who loves our enemiss? Nobody but a
burned sneak. | say let 'em hang and be
hanged to 'em, before I'd beg 'em for grace.
Whar's Socrates, whar's Cato? But if Andy
holds his own, the country's safe, provided
these general assemblys and sinods and Bish-
ops conventions will keep the devil and Bron-
low tied Here's passed Of stink hearted
fellers who played tory jest to dodge bullits
or save property, now howlin about for offs,
want everything bekause they was for Union.
| They. was for themselves, that's all they was
for, and they amt going to get the offises
neither Mr.. johnson amt got no more
respck fer EN- than + have We want to
trade 'em Off BY hockey, wen give two Of
EN- for one copperhead, and AK nothin to
boot Let 'em Skinny on their own side,
and git over among the folks who don't want
| us reconstructed There's them newspaper
scriblers who slip down to the edge of Dixey
every "a hours, and peep over at US, on tip
toe. Then they run back putin and BLOWN
with straight coat tail, and holler out .''He
amt dead-he amt deadlock out every
body I'm Jest from thar--seed his toe move
heerd him grunt; he's goiu to rise agin.--
Don't withdraw the sojers, but send down
more troops imlnegeately." And here's your
Harper's Weekly a headin all slch--a gassin
lies and SANDERS in every issue-makin in
sultin pikters in every shoet--breedln ever
lasting discord, and chawin bigger than ever
since we got licked. Wish old Stonewdl had
cotch these Harpers at their Ferry, and we
boys had knowd they was goin' to keep up
this devilment so long We'd made baptists
Of them sertain payroll or. no payroll. Hur-
raw for a brave soldier, [ say, reb or no reb,
yank Or no yank hurraw for manly foe
and generous vietor-humaw for our side
too, [ golly, excuse me, but SIGH expressions
will work their way out sometimes, brakes
or no brakes.
But Pm for Mr.. johnson. I'm for all the
Johnsons-its bully name. There's our
Governor, who amt goin at a discount; and
there's Andy whois dom powerful we'll CON
sidering, and there's the hero Of Shiloh-peace
| to his noble ashes. st Ss9fs.!#
And there's Joe-my bully Joe, -wouldn't
I walk ten miles Of a rainy night to see them
hazel eyes, and feel the grip of his soldier
hand. Didn't my rooster always clap his
wings and crow whenever he passed our
quarters? 'Instinct told him that he was
the true prince and it would make anybody
brave. to be nigh him. I like all the John
sons, even to SAM. G. He never. levied
on me if he could git round it. For 70 years !!
me and Sam have been workln together /, IN
the Justice court. ] was an everlastln de-
PENDANT, and Sam the Constable, but, he
never sold my property nor skeer cred i, Mrs
Arp. Hurraw for the Johnsons
Well, on the whole, there's heap Of things
to be thankful for, I'm thankful the wal: is
that's, the big thing. Then Pm thank
full amt a black republican. Tn thankful nix
that Thad Stevens and Sumner and Phillips,
nor none of their kin amt no kin to me
I'm thankful for the high privilege, Of hatln
all such. I'm thankful [ live in Dlxey, in
the State Of .Georgy; and our Governor
name amt Brownlow. Poor Tennessee!
golly, didn't she catch it. Andy Johnson's
pardon- won do rebs much good there. They
better git one from the devil if they expek1
it to pass. Wonder what made Providence
affiikt 'en with SIGH cllss
But I can't dwell on SIGH a subject. Its
highly demoralizin and Improbable.
l. ':Sweet land Of Liberty, Of thee, = ,if
l could not sing in Tennessee. ~ K
But then we've had circus once more
and seen the clown play round, and tina
makes up for a heep of trouble. In fact, it
the best sign Of Reconstruction | have yit OBJ
4 Yourn, hopin,
! go. - fI Bill ARP.
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thousand miles. Well Sherman's war hors
STAYED in my stable one night want to sci