Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-11-22


his hat off. Then what's the soldier
here-for-what good are they dOin'-
who wants to see 'em any longer? Ever!
body is tired of the war, and we don
want to see any more signs of it. Th
- niggers don't want 'em, and the whit
- men don't want 'em. and as for the winner
-whoopee I gollyl Well, there's nc
use talkin'-when the stars fall agir
maybe the wimen will be harmonized.-
That male business-that oath about get
Itin lettersi Gee tigerl They always
was Jealous about the males anyhow, ana
that order Jest broke the camel's back
Well I must confess that it was a power.
full small concern. / would try to sortel
smooth it over if I knowd what to say
but I don't If they was Altered Of the
wimen why didn't they say so ? If they
wasn't what do they make 'em swear for
Jest to aggra7ate emp Didn't they
know that the best way to harmonic a
man is to harmonic his wife first? What
/ harm can the wimen do by receivin their
letters oath free p They can't vote, nor
they can't preach, nor hold Office, no1
play soldier, nor muster, nor wear
breeches, nor ride straddle, nor cuss, nor
chew terbacker, nor do nuthin hardly
but talk and rite letters. hearn that a
valiant kernel made a woman put up her
fan bekause it had a pikter Of Borygard
pom it. Well she's harmOnized, Ireckon.
Now the trouble of all sich is that after
these bayonets leave here and go home,
these petticoat tyrants cant come back
any more. Some Gorgy fool will mash
the juice out of EN-, sertin, and that
wouldn't be neither harmonious nor
healthy. Better let the wimen alone.
Then there is another thing l am wait
ing for. Why don't they reconstruct
the nigger if they are goin' to? They've
give 'em powerful site of freedom, and
tlittle 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 special orders, and paragrafts,
but I'll bet a possum that some Of 'em
steal my wood this winter or freeze to
death. Freedman's buro freedman's S
humbug, I say. just when the corn
needed plowin' the worst the buro rung
the bell and tolled all the niggers to
town, and the farmers lost their crops,
and now the freedman is gottin' cold and
hungry, and wants to go back, and there
amt nuthn' for en- to 90 to. Bat free
dom is big thing. Hurraw for free
dom's buro Sweet land of liberty OF
that I don't sing! But its all right
Tn for freedom myself Nobody wants
any more slavery. II the abolitionists
had let Us alone, we'd have fixed them up
long time ago, and we can fix 'em up
now. The buro amt fixed it, and it a
going to. 1t don't know anything about
it. Our people have got heap more
feelin' for the poor negro than any abO-
Iitionists. We are as poor as Job, but
I'll bet dollar we can raise more money
in Rome to build nigger church than
they did in BOstown. The papers said
that after going round for three weeks,
the Bostown christians raised thirty-seven
dollars to build a niger church in Sa-
vannah. They are powerful on theory
but deVilish scarce in practice.
But its no use takin. Everybody will
know by waitin who's been foOld. Mr..
johnson says he's gwine to experiment,
that's all he can do now--its all any
BODY can do. Mr.. Johnson's head
level. I'm for him, and everybody ought
to be for him-Only he's powerful slow
about some things. amt worshippin
him. He never made me. I hear folks
hollerin hurraw for Andy johnson, and
the papers say, oh I he's for us, he's all
right, he's our friend Well, spOse he is,
hadn't he ought to be? Did you expect
him to be a dog, or black republican
pup. Bekause he amt hangin of US,
lis it necessary to be playin hipocrit
around the foot stool of power, and maxim
out that he was the greatest man in the
world and we was the greatest sinners
Who's sorry2 Who's repentin? Who
amt proud of our people ? Who loves
our enemies? Nobody but darned
sneak. I say et'em hang and be hanged
to 'em, before I'd beg EN- for grace
Wbar's Sokretes, whar's Cato? But if
IAndy holds his own, the country's safe,
provided these general assemblys and
sinods, and Bishops conventions will
keep the devil and Brownlow tied
Here's passel of slink-hearted fellers
who played tory. jest to dodge bullitts or
save property, now howllo about fol
ofRs-want everything because they was
for Union. They was for themselves,
that's all they was for, and they amt
goin to git the ofises neither. Mr.. John
con amt got no more respek for EN-
than I have. We want to trade 'em off
By hoky, we'll give two of 'em for On'