The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-22

men-picnty hcn iOr BOftrnOV. Joe Drown |
amt dead-he's waitin-standin in the |
door with his hat off, Then what's the SOL |
diers here for? what good are they done ?
who wants to see 'em any longer? Every |
body is tired of the war, and we don't want
TO see any more signs of it. The niger don't
want 'em, and the white men don't want 'em |
and as for the wimen -whooppe, L golly
Well there's no use talkln I; when the
stars fall again maybe the wlmln Will be
more harmonized. That male business, that
oath about gettin letters! Gee tiger! They
ALWAYS was Jealous about the males, any how,
and that order just broke the camel's back.
Well l must confess is was powerful small
concern. | would try to sorter smoothe il
over if knowed what to say, but don't. Ii
they was afeerd of the wimin why didn't
they say so? If they wasn't what do they
make 'em swear for ? jest to aggravate 'em?
Didn't they know that the best way to harm
onize man is TO harmonic his wife first p
What harm can the wimin do by receiving
their letters oath free They can't vote, nor
they can't preach, nor hold office, nor play
soldier, nor muster, nor wear breeches, nor
ride stradde, nor cuss, nor chaw terbacker,
nor do nuthin hardly but talk and rite let
tiers. | learn that q valiant kernel made a
woman put up her fan because it had pix
ter OF Boregard pom it. Well, she's harmon
lied, | reckon Now the trouble of all SIGH
is that, after these bayonets leave here and
90 home, these petticoat tyrants can't come
back any more. Some Gorgy fools will mash
the juice out of 'em, serClu, ana that wouldn't
be neither harmonious nor healthy. Better
let the wimen alone.
Then there is another thing Pm waitin'
for. Why don't they rekonstruct the mig
gers, if they are ever goin' to ? They've given
| 'en powerful site of freedom, and devilish
little else. Here's the big freedman's buro,
and the little burOs all over the country and
the papers are full Of grand orders and speci
al orders. and parGgrats, but I'll bet Il pos
SUN that some OF 'em steal my wood this
winter or freeze to death. Freedman's bur0.
Freedman's humbug. l say. just when the
corn needed plown the worst, the buro rung
| the bell and to!iei ell the niggers to town,
and the farmers lost their crops, and now
thu freedman is cetCiu cold and hungry, and
wants to 90 back, and there amt nOthIn for
| 'em 20 go to. But freedom is a big thing -
IIurrayg for freedoms buro. Sweet land of
liberty of thee / don't sing But il is all
right. I'm for freedom myself. Nobody
wants any more slavery. Ii the abolishun-
lists ha5 let us alone, we would have fixed it
up right long time ago, ana we fix il
up now. The turo amt fixed it, and it amt
"a goin to. It don't know anything about it.
Oar people have got a heap more ieeiin for
the poor niger than any abolishunist We
are as poor as job but I'll bet a dollar we
Gan raise more money III Rome 10 build
niger church chan they did In BosstDwn.-
| The papers say that after goin round for
| three weeks, the BosssOwn christians raised
| thirty-seven dollars to build niger church
in Savannah. They are powerful on theory
but deViish scarce IN practice.
But ISIS no use taikin. Every body will
know by waitiu whose been fooled. Mr..
Inf- hot
| Is all he can do now-it's all anybody can
do. Mr.. johns n's head is level, I'm for
| him, and every body ought 70 be for hlLG-on-
IL he's powerful slow about some Things !
ain't a " Irshippin him. lie never made me.
| | near folks holerin hurraw for A adv john
son, and the papers say, oh, he's for us, he's
| all right, he's our friend. Well, spose he is !?
| hadn't ne ought to be? Did you expekt him
to be dog, OF Il black repu biean pup? Be
| kause he hain'I haagin US, Is 1t necessary
70 be playin hypocrlt around tho foot stool of
power. and maxim out like he was the great
est man in the lodge, and we was the greatest
| sinners? Who's sorry? Who's repentin p
| Who amt proud of our people: Who loves
/ rur enemies? Nobody but durne1 sneak.
| | say let 'em hang and be hanged to 'em, be-
| fore Ia beg 'em for grace Whar's Sokrates?
| -whar's Cato? But if Andy holds his own,
| the cOuntry's safe, provided these general as
| semblvs and synods, and bishops cOnvsn-
! ti0ns will keep the devil and BrOwnl0w tied
! Here's passe of slink-hearted fellers who
| played tory jeet to dodge bullits or save prop
! ertv, now howlin about for olis-want every
/ thing bekause they was for Union. They
was for themselves, that's all they was for,
| aud they aiu't gOin 20 get the of'isis neither.
! Mr.. johnson amt got no more respek for EN-
! than [ have. We want to trade 'em off. By
| hockey, well give two of 'en for one copper
head, aud az no-hin to boot. Let EN- skinny
on their owa side, and get over among the
/ folks who don't want Us reconstructed
! There's them newspaper scrbbiers who slid
down 30 the edge Of Dixey every p hours,
and peept over at US on tip toe Then they
run back putin and BLOWN with u straight
coat tail, and holieT out, He amt dead-he
amt deadlock out everybody. I'm Jest
frc,n thar--seen his toe move-heard him
grunt he's goin 70 rise agin. Don't with
draw the soliers, but send down more troops
immegeatly." And here's your Harper s
| Weekly ahead in all sich--a gassin lies and
Islander in every issue--makin insultin pix.
tiers in every sheet-breedn everastin dis
cord, and chawin bigger than ever. since we
got licked. Wish old Stonewall had c1tch
these Harpars Mt their ferry, and we boys
had knowed they was goin to keep up this
devilment so long. We'd a made baptists OF
them sertin, payroll or no payroll. Hurraw
for a brave soljer, | say, reb no reb, yank
or no yauk hurraw for q manly foe and a
generous victor-hurraw for our side too |
golly, excuse me, but such expressions will
work their way out sometimes, brakes or no
brakes.
But Pm for Mr.. johnson. Tn for all the
Johnsons-its bully name. There'F our gov.