Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-06-29

And SO, from thy spirits chambers,
Shall the dust and the gloom be driven.
Euanston, H., 1885. ..r...
Correspondence of the CharIes City Intengcncer.
| Letter From New York.
.... New YORK, June 10th, 1865.
FRIEND HnDRETH - The people
what are they? A great boo.hoo
baby, which needs more nursing,
pampering, juleps, assafntida, nap.
kins, yellow shoes and other things
that glitter but aren't gold, than all the
other calf infants that were ever born.
The people, matted mass of skin,
hair, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, liga-
ments, nerves. cartileges. bones, mar
row, brains, glands, genitals, humors
and calculations. Evidently, the
people are a humbug. There is
enough of them here in this city to
have a few of all sorts. Still, say
what one may, it is uncertain il the
world could live without the people.
If it wasn't for the people the common
council, alias uncommon scoundrels, OF
this city would go on, until the crack
of doom, robbing the city treasury.
lent it cruel to disturb or annoy
the "city fathers" in the natural
business they were born to? They
feel to steal, they live to steal, they
know they steal, they Lore to steal /;
and the people (monstrous execution
ers) are going to hang them this fall
at the polls for stealing. Protection,
give us protection from the wrath
Of the people.
Another little item the people are
bothering their brains about nova
days is, the small business Of recon-
struction. The politicians say par
don Alexander H. Stevens, he writes
so we'll be careful and don't insult
Robert Lee, he is such fine gentle
man and, oh Lord, hasten the en-
largement of Jefferson Davis, he is
such noble martyr to his principles!
Amen. Then for the expedicnt policy
purposes of reconciing conquered
armed rebels to northern victories I;
to conciliate amnesty pardoned, oath
breaking, colossal, internal and eter-
nal white ignoramuses Of the South,
take from the loyal black men their
rifles with which they succored the ma.
ton in the crisis Of the war; place
upon their limbs again the turkeys,
padlocks, bolts, bars, anacles, chains,
aud thumb screws Of oppression ;
hand them over, bound hands and
feet to the tender mercies and forgiv-
ing spirit of their late rebel masters,
and then the high toned and native
born chivalry Of the South will be-
come complaisant and condescend to
re-entcr the Union, unite with the cop
perhcads of the North in 1868 and al.
low the Government to formally pass
into the power of the confederated
cabinet for oil time.
The people are blockheads they
don't understand the process. The
dear people are blind, they don't see
it, but on the contrary, believe,
affirm and swear in every shape, that
Davis, Lee, Stevens, their accomplices,
accessors and abettors, should either
be hung, banished, DISTINGUISHED, ex-
posed to the measles, catch the ninety
nine year itch, or die with the yellow
fever.
As for enslaving the blacks under a
new name. the people talk like this !:
that the three hundred and twenty
FIVE thousand fresh made Northern
graves the one hundred and sixty
thousand cripples made in this slave
holders rebellion. hereafter to be sup
ported by the charities of the humane;
the enormous national debt, which
has mortgaged the industry of this
generation and many generations to
come. have placed in their hands a
blank card on which they will write
their own terms for the re-admission
Of the Southern States into the Union.
The accepted terms must be these !:
Libery, justice, protection, equality
in law, not for the whites or the blacks,
but for all. As for permitting the cop
perheads and their allies in the South
to be burdened with the responsibility
of power, the people would as soon
place the devil on the throne of
Deity. The curses Of the people are
evidently upon the copperheads.
The weather here is very hot /; SO
hot that if both sexes wore nothing
but hoops they could not keep cool.
Nothing has occurred in the city du-
ring the last week of special interest.
Gold has had IFS usual fluctuations
The press of the city have caterwanl-
ed each other, as usual. Policemen
have enjoyed their customary tights
and accepted their regular brides.
The dressed to kill" Miss 5th Ave-
nues, have delighted themselves with
their weekly adventures. Politicians
have sent down their professional
prayers to the devil, and ministers
have sent up their church ones to the
Lord, whilst the common people have
sent few both ways. The niger
stands in the front grounds. Andy
Johnson is getting little mixed on
the suffrage question, but, like honest
Abe, will work himself straight The
ink is used up. Your readers are GO
ing to sleep and ! am w.
P. S. ! see by copy Of the latelli-
genoer which has just come to hand,
that its able Editor cautions his COR
respondents to be chary in the use Of
adjectiyes. Now, Hildreth, if you
meant any of that advice for me, you
would have met with equal success to
have ordered me to refrain from the
luxury Of kissing in the honey hours
OF courtship. Writing with adjec-
tives, counting with kisses---oh Muses.!
are they not both natural2 w.