Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-02-02

see yit. wouldn't have niger or a
dog to stay round me that didn't want
20. Some say they wanted us to strength.
en- them agin their enemies in case of q
Turin war. Does any man in his senses
expect us to help the black republicans
whip anybody? Have we got any worse
enemies than they are? They cant
make us fight reckon if we don't want
to. We've fout enuf and made nothing
by it but glory, and We amt going tc
CINE in another war to crafty other PEG.
pie. Dodds says before he'd pull trig-
ger for Thad Stevens, he'd have his soul
transmigrated to bench-legd fee, and
bark at his daddy's mules 1000 years.
wonder if the experience of the last
four years amt satisfied these fellows
that our boys are dangerous set to be
turned loose in time of war. Wouldn't
you think that, as matter of policy,
they would soft-sodder us little, and
quit their slanderin If we do fight for
'em there will be one condition certain
they mout be put where David put Uriah,
and our boys mout consent to make a
charge or two behind EN- at the pint Of
the baeo
But | want you to tell me, John, if |
am right about the history Of this bust
ness. 1t amt long story, and TIL tell
it the way see it. Old Pewrytin went
off one day with some ships, and took a
few beads and juceharps, and bought up
lot of captured niggers from the Hot
tentots or some other tots, and stole a
few more on the coast of Afriky, and
brought 'em over and educated 'em to
work in the field, and cut wood, and
skeer bars and SO forth, but not includin
votin', nor musterin', nor the jury bu-
siness. nor so forth.
Well, after while they found that
the cold winds and Goldfish airs of New
England dident agree with the niger,
and so they begun to slide 'en down
South as fast as possible After they
had sold 'em and got the money, they
jined the church and became sanctified
about slavery sorter like the woman that
got converted and then gave all her
norvels away to her unconverted sister.
Well, the Old Dominion, and SIGH Of her
sons az Washington and Jefferson, and
Madison and Randolf, bought 'em and
worked 'em to satisfaction; whereupon
old Pew got jealous and began to preach
agin it to break it down. The fakt is,
they would't work gals in their Factories
if it wasen't so profitable, for they are
conscientiously opposed to everything
that don't put money in their pockets.
After while they went into the stripe
almanak bisness. maxim bloody piktures
Of poor lascerated niggers gettin' hun
bred lashes for nuthin, and monrnin' for
their first born because they were not.
Taen they started tho stealth program,
and while we were tryin' all the big
courts aud little courts to git back one
sixty melatter, by the name Of bred
| skott, they we're stealn' from five to
fifty day, and GOVERN their carcasses
= over with niger larceny, and Snug
q the Constitution into an abolishun
rush. They built fence around the
Institution as high as Haman's gallus
nd hemmed it in, and laid siege to il
EST like an army would besiegc city
D starve ont the inhabitants. They kept
eggin' at it untel we got mad-show
uf mal-and resolved to cut loose
Sm 'em and paddle our own canoo.
Now all this time we bad some good
tends among 'em-some who sworc We
ere imposed upon, and said VIC had
God cause to dissolve the partnership.
hey said that if we did sesced and the
oolishunests made war upon us, they
ould stand by us and throw their lives
I'd fortunes and their sakred honor
ght in the breach, and the first fight
]. My memory is bad, but remem-
er that some Of 'em we're named james
uchanan, and Dan Dikinson. and
ohm Cokran, and Logan. and Cushin,
I'd Butler, surnamed the Beast, and
tcIernand, and Stephen A. Douglass
ho got bis commission about the time
died, and carried it with him to parts
Unknown, and, lastly, man by the
anne of Andy johnson, who, ] suppose,
re some distant relation TO the Presi-
ent Of the United States of Ameriky
tut man amt responsible for the bad
onduct of his relations. and don't
lrow it up to nobody I suppose that
ur President are dom the best he can.
nd Mr.. Ethridge oughtcn to be taken
his record.
{ Well, the war come on, and show
emf Logan and Cushin and NJ -
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