Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-05-18
Ut ITIt T FUIIIlVT
Great Curiosity i'm Berlin.

For the Farmer.
Great Curiosity i'm Berlin.
A Missouri Crow, accidcntly, or other
wise, getting out Of its latitude, made its
appearance in Berlin on Tuesday evening,
May 9th, and to the astonishment Of the
people this wonderful Crow talked Ar
rangements were made between the aforesaid
Crow and Berlin birds of the same feather
to assemble in the upper story of the school
house, at the tolling of the bell The hour
came--the bell was rang long and loud-the
people gathered from all quarters, until
Sererdl seats tcere filled. George Hott was
then appointed chairman Soon after this
wonderful jayhawk made his appearance to
the great astonishment of the natives. Oh,
horror! what picture His hands in his
bitches to the elbows, his head hanging, as
one might expect from guilty puppy like
him. The first word he spoke was ''Ahem, y
his head still hanging. The next was,
"Well? After some time had elapsed he
went on to tell that having been requested
by his friends to make speech he appeared
before them but to make speech was out
OF his line Of business, that in Missouri
where he came from, they didn't make
speeches, they just talked, and that was what
he was going to do to night. But really
thought he meant to say squawk. He then
consoled the audience by saying ''You all
know what | was four years ago when | left
you. | now can say am the same yet, only
more so. Four years ago, when Abraham
Lincoln was elected President, | left my
native State and travelled yes sir, travelled
away down the Mississippi River, where
rebels were as thick as flies in harvest, aud
where man stood in danger of being eaten
up by catfish and mosquetoes. Well what
is this government? Some of you would
answer Lincoln was the government, but if
you do you lie. We are the government,
you and |. Meaning Abolitionists We
are the government, we made it, we fought
for it, it is ours. - He then attempted to
explain what this government was, but
wound himself up so affectually that he
stopped short and told them that he knowed
something; that man could not travel as
he had without knowing something. Says
he, 'Y GU might say have been in this war
three years and half, for there was war
right in our own village, which is not larger
than this Berlin. There was sixty Union
soldiers who have taken up army and gone
to fight the rebs out of our own village, and
Berlin has not sent half that many, and
Nlillcrsburg has not sent more Now If
their village is not larger he surely must lie,
for there never was sixty able-bodied men
in Berlin, let alone being enough left to fight
at home suppose he was the only male
left, and had number Of the colored females
to contend with, for he afterwards said there
was not over one in one thousand of the
females in the South that was honest and
virtuous. lie also tells us that he is Il
brave man. No doubt Of it, all crows are:
So,,u Io E1\NhiIo ln, VIM, fba
River one day, | picked up paper and saw
an article headed Napoleon Fight" I
stopped and thought moment; thought
Napoleon was dead, the next thought was
that he had arose from the dead or another
one sprung up. On reading little further
discovered it was in Holmes county. |
had forgotten the little place, but it soon
came to my mind that there was a little
place in this county of that name, and there
was where the war was, but they were such
towards that two blank cartridges was all
that was necessary to scare them out. L
could take two regiments of niggers from
Missouri and whip all the Internal copper
heads in Holmes county, or in the State of
Ohio, that voted for Valandigham, if there
are 200, 900. for they are too Internal big
towards to fight, and every man who voted
for Nallandigham is traitor and ought to
be hung" He tries to prove that all men
are connected with the assassination of Lin
coin except his kind, and says they all
ought to swing, the internal towards they
are too cowardly to go and fight for their
country, but they will slip up and shoot
man behind his back. ! hate not these men
alone but there is an internal site Of women
that are traitors, and you have them right
among you that wear butternut badges, an
emblem worn by Missouri bushwhackers -
You have Is or 20 candidates running for
office and not one of them have ever been in
| the army, and could take them out there
and pick up nigger and beat all of them. I"
| He goes on to tell how to make these cop
perheads' vote He says the way they do
in Missouri they pass them through between
two lines of soldiers with fixed bayonets
and if they don't swear to vote right they
cam vote at all. He harped considerable
on the one point of hanging and using the
knife on those stay-at-home towards and
traitors, and says, every man that don t
anty up and pay his taxes without growing
is traitor, and every man that discries
greenbacks are traitors, and every man that
says we should pay tax on government bonds
are traitors to their country and Internal
towards and ought to be hung" He also
tells us our national debt is trihe and can
be paid in two years by donation. In speak
ing of the traitors of the South he turns
around and tells us we have the same at
home, only worse, and that he respects the
traitors that are not too cowardly TO take up
arms and fight, and that he respects those at
home, too, but in different way. He says
their mouths must be shut do it by put
ting paddock on them, and if that don t
do put cold pill through their heads. -
Tom Crow left very early next morning.
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