The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-02-28

OOmDcTmlScS WuZ our DeSt nOit. w ncn-
ever we wanted anything all we had to do
wuz to ask for it. The ablishnists wood
ohiect--ihc Dimocrisy wood draw up a
compromise witch inelooded e5 a rool,
twice or times wat we asked, and pass
it to save the Union. Sich Union WIZ
worth havin, and | opposed all efforts to
dissolute it. He'd the South succeeded,
l should have gone with EN-, tor Ken
tucky alone-the only nigger State in the
Norh-wood hcv bin helpless Scaldn
horrors Nv war, but could do noihin to
avert it. Kentucky wuz loyal but nco-
trail"
find down here that the loyal citizens
nv Kentucky who hev returned from the
Confedrlt service are not at all discour-
aged, on the contrary they are hopeful
Sed one to me q bleeve he wuz a Kernel
under under Gen. Foster-indeed, | think
he told me he participated in the glorious
victory at Fort Piller.)
"Why art thou cast DOWN. Things Is
working eggasackly to our hand"
In mournful tone | retorted that fail
TO perseve it.
II kim" says he. 'Lookye, my ven-
cradle friend Is the Northern Demo-
crisy still troo :"
"They is" replied, swat few remains,
| But alas war, crooel war, hez decimated
our ranks five times"
GLOW SO p SEE he. ''none Of your kind
Nv Democrats jined in this unhoy croo-
sadc and fell afore our death.dealin
swords, did they!'
Not any," seq |, "but Kanady and
Montana took EN-, at0re each draft. That
wuz why we wuz so beset at the eeck-
shuns. For one week kneed Ablishnist
we scared into our ranks we lost two by
emigration, and uniortunitly wun half
that emigrated starved to deth, and tother
half IL distributed in the various States
prisons in them lands Nv refuge"
Still" says he, at matters not. Yco
hev deestri ks 700 kin carry in most Nv
the States. The Five Points deestrick in
Moo York is ours. Moo Gersey will go
back to her allegiance. The new gold
states, where 80 many of our friends fed,
will send up Democrats to Congress.
Ohio hasz 2 devoted to US, Pennsylvania
hasz several and the most NV the North
ern States will send one or two, and them
from the North kin be depended on to 90
any measure we say" ''Then,' and he
slapped me on the back highiariously,
"Ihe niggers is free !"
swell I" sez |, not seein wat cause for
highlariny there was.
''Well,' says he, "them niggirs is not
now OTHER PERSON! We alluz counted
five Nv em for three in maxim up our
Congresscrs we wuz entitled to, now they
count as white men witch increases our
delcgashuns to slch an extent that eff yoo
Northern men do half your duty we'll hev
a majority in Congress, Then, good
Lord The pleasant crack of the whip
shel i agin be heerd on the plains NV the
sunny South The niggers won't be re-
enslaved, but our Legislators will speedily
redoose EN- to their normal condishun
We shell observe the Constitushenol
Amendment strickly and in good faith
| The Atrlkin shell be free, bat the good
NV society demands thet he shell be under
proper guardianship. He wont be allow
ed to change his lokashun, and the laws
Nv the states will define his dooties, and
give us the power Nv enforcin EN-. He
wont be allowed to hev arms, so he cant
resist. Ez he cant leave plantation, he
will hev 10 submit quietly to 81 h roofs as
the high minded planter makes for him,
or be shot on the spot, or turned out to
die Nv starvashun, akordin to circum-
stances. If the planter is an unregenera-
ted child NV damnashun, he will shoot
him-ef he is saint who hez south .rn
hope uy blessed Immortality beyond
the grave, he'll rcstrane his anger and
turn him out to die Nv hunger, onless
he repents and comes back humble.
Then, they bein free and responsible j
for themselves, we amt obleeged to
take care NV the sick, the aged, and
the infrm, so it will be really better than
it wuz before | see IL geliorious future
afore us. ThrougI, the thick clouds NV
gloom the bite sun NV hope clearly
breaks. Say to the Northern Dimocrisy
be NV good cheer. Agin shel they lick
our hands--agin they shel eat the crumbs
that fall from the national table
"Thank God for the Northern Dimoc-
risy, with the other bleSsins He has given
the South. With niggers to do our man
ual labor for nothin, with Northern Dimi-
Gratis to do our votin at almost the same
price, we are trooly favored people.
Bless the Lord fur the niger and the
Dimcrat, wich is both ust ful to us, each
in his speer"
drew encouragement from his re.
marks. The deep vane NV pious thank
fulness wich run through his discourse
was material to him. He is trooly pious
man, and was just back fun the meetin
NV the Synod NV one NV the Suthern
churches, wich still persists in quotin
Opesimus and Hayget. feel encourag-
ed o, Dimmycrats Nv the North, let US
"Our vigger renao
Aud our journey pursoo"
And feel shoor that success will at
least crown our efforts
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Lait Pastcr Nv the Church Nv the Moo