The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-08

4. time, and there was big parry ,els.e ,Il4
wanted US to go out and stay out. Eve
body knows that we dident git along in
4 peace, SO wesconcluded to do like Abra-
ham and his brother-in-law-to separate
our households. What they wanted to
keep us for Inever could see, and l can't
Isee it yet. Iwouldent have niger or
a dog to stay round me that dident want
to. Some say they wanted us to strength
en- 'om sagin their enemies in case of a
turren war. Does any man in his sober
senses expect us to help the black repub-
licans whip anybody? Have we got any
worse enemies than they are7 They can't
make us fight, ] reckon, if we don't want
to. We have fout enuf and made nothing
fby.it but glory, and we aint going to give
another war to crafty other people
Dodds says before he'd pull q trigger for
Thad Stevens, he'd have his soul transmit
grated to bench legd fec, and bark at
his daddy's mules 200 years. I wonder
if the experience of the last four years
amt satisfied them fellers that our boys
saro dangerous set to be turned loose in
the time of war. Wouldent you think
1 that as a matter of policy they would
soft soddcr us a little, and quit their
slanderin? If we do fight for 'em, it will
| be on one condition certain-they must
be put where David put Uriah, and our
boys must consent to make charge or
| two behind 'em with the pint of the bay
Eonet
| Butt want you tell me, John, if I am
| right about this business. 1t amt long
story; I'll tell il the way l see it. Old
Pewrytan went off one day with some
ships and took few beads and juice
1 harps and bought up a lot of captured
niggers from the Hottentots, or some
other tots, and stole few more on the
coast of Afriky, and brought EN- over
1 and educated EN- to work in the field, and
cut wood, and skcer bars and SO forth,
but not includin yotin nor musterin, nor
the jury business and SO forth.
Well, arter while they found that the
cold winds and Goldfish airs of New Eng
land dident agree with the niger, and so
they begun to slide EN- down South as
fast as possible. Arter they had sold
them and got the money, they jincd the
lchurch and became sanctifed about slave
ry, sortor like the woman that got con-
verted and gavesalI- her novels away to
her unconyerted sister. Well, the Old
dominion and such of her sons as Wash
Iington, and Jefferson, and Madison, and
Randolf, brought EN- and worked EN- to
|:satisfakation, whereupon Old Pew got
Jealous and began to preach agin it to
break it down. The fact is, they wouldent
work gals in their falstories if it warrant
SO profitable, they are conscientiously op-
posed to everything that don't put money
in their pockets After awhile, they went
Into the striped almanac business, making
Ebleody pikters of poor laserated niggers
/ gettin hundred lashes for nuthing, and
mourning for their first born because
they were not Then they started the
stealing program, and while we were try
| in all the big courts and little courts to git
back. one silky melatter by tho name of
bred Skot, they werc stealth from FIVE to
| fifty day, and coverin their carcasses all
over with niger larceny, and smuglin
the Constitution into an abolishun mush.
They built fence around the institution
as high as Haman's gallus, and hcmmed
| it in, and laid siege to it just like an army
would besiego a city to starvc out the in
habitants. They kept peggiin at us until
we got mad-show enuf-and we re-
solved to cut loose from EN- and paddle
our own canoos
Now, all this time we had some good.
| friends among em-some who swore we
were imposed upon, and said we had good
cause to dissolve the partnership. They
said that if we did .scseed and the aboli-
shunests made war upon us, they would
stand bysus and throw their lives and for
tunes and their salzred honor right in the
breach, and tie first fight would be over
their dead bodies, and so forth and so on.
My memory is bad, but I remember that
some of EN- were named James 9Buchan-
an, and Dan Dikinson, and John Cokran,
and Logan, and Cushin and Butler, sur
named the Beast, and McLernand, and
Steven A.. Douglas who got his commits,
sion about the. time he; died., and carried
/ 1t with him to parts unknown, and lastly