Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-01-19

KY and brought EN- over ana educated EN-
to work in the field and cut wood, and skecr
bars and SO fourth, but not. includin votin
nor musterin nor the jury bisness nor 50
fourth.
Well, after while they found that the cold
winds and Goldfish airs Of New England did
ent agree with the niger, and SO they begun
to slide EN- down South as fast as possible
After they had sold EN- and got the money,
they jined the church and got sanctlfed about
slavery, sorter like the woman that got con
verified and then gave all her novels away to
her unconyerted sister. Well, the Old Do
minion and SIGH of her sons as Washington,
and jefferson, and Madison and Randolph,
bought en- and worked en- to satisfaction.
whereupon old Pew got jealous and began to
preach agin it to break it down. The fakt
is, they wouldn't work gals in their faktories
if it warent so profitable, for thay are consci-
entiously opposed to everything that don't put
money in their pockets. .
AFTER while they went into the striped al
manak bisness, maxim bloody pikters of poor
laserated niggers gettin hundred lashes for
nuthin, and mournin for their first born be-
cause they were not. Then they started the
stealth program, and while we were tryin all
the big courts and the little courts to get
back one silky mellater hy the name of bred
Skot,. they were stealth from FIVE to fifty a
dav, and GOVERN 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 hemmed it in, and laid seige to
it jest like an army would beseige city to
starye out the inhabitants. They kept peg
gin at us untell we got mad-sho enuf mad
and we resolved to cut loose from en- and
paddle our own canoe.
Now all this time we had some good trends
among em-some who swore We were impos-
ed upon, and said we had good cause to dis
solve the partnership. They said that if we
did seseed and the abolishunests made war
upon us, they would stand by US and throw
their lives and fortunes and their sakred hon.
or right in the breach. and the first fight
would be over their dead bodies and 50 forth
and so on. My memory isbad, but I remem-
Der that some of EN- were named James Buc-
hanan and Dan Dikinson; sand John Cokran,
and Logan, and Cushin, and Butler, surnam-
ed the Beast, and McLernand, and Steven A.
Douglass, who got his commission about the
time he died, and carried It Withhim to parts
unknown, and lastly a man BY the name Of
Andy johnson, who { supposeare some dis
tant relation to the President Of the United
States Of Ameriky, but man Amt response
BILE for the bad conduct of his relations, and |
don't throw it up to nobody. [ suppose that
cur President are doing. the best he can, and
Mr.. Ethridge oughtnt to be taken up his
record.
Well, the war come on and show enuf Lo-
gan and Cushin and McLernand and Butler
and Company buzzed around while like
humble bees till they were bought up and
then they lit over on the side They got
their reward, and they are welcome to it as
far as [ am concerned.
How is it now Mr.. Happy? They con-
quered US by the sword, but they haven't con-
WINGED us of nuthin much that I know Of
All is lost save honor, and that they can't
steal from us nor tarnish.
If they had held out the hand Of fellow
ship, we would have made friends and buried
the Ratchet. But the very mint they whipped
US, they begun to holler Treason from one
end of the country to the other, just like they
had made a bran new discovery. Itseemed
to strike EN- all of sudden like an Xpost
fakto law, and they wanted to 90 into gen
eral hangin business, and keep it up as long
as they could find rope and timber.
Now the idea of several millions American
freemen being guilty of Treason at once =
The idea of applyin such crime to eleven
great suvreen States. which met in solemn
convention, and irrthe light of day dissolved a
Union they had created and which had been
a disunion for twenty years! The idea Of APP
plyin Treason to the Old Dominion, the muth-
er Of States and Of Washington and Jefferson
and Madison and Marshall and Patrick Hen.
ry, and all the Lees, and who give away all
the territory in the northwest for nuthin =
Is she to be-scandalized by these new light
Christians, who are compounded from all the
scum Of all creation, and think that Paul and
Peter and Revelations have been for 200
years maxim special arrangements for receiv-
in their sancti6ed souls in Pardise? Treason
the dickens! Where's your dictionary p
Where's Danl Webster !? Where's the history
of the American revolution
No it amt Treason nor reeson-but its dew
ilish Internal inhuman hate. What do they
keep Mr.. Davis in Jail for I? | hear sum say
that it amt Mr. Johnson voluntary doings;
but the tremengius pressure Of surrounding
circumstances. Durn the circumstances
Amt Mr. Davis great and good man? IF
Andy johnson amt an infdel, wouldent he
swap chances for heaven with him and give
all his earthly estate to boot? IfMr. Davis
honor and integrity, and patriotism, and true
courage were weighed in a balance against
Sumner and Stevens, and all of his enc
mics, wouldent he outweigh EN- all Wont
his conduct in Mexico, and in the late war;
and his nobility of character live long and
grow bright in history, while the memory Of
the howns that are bayin at him in his dun
geon will sink into oblevion I think So
that's what say, and I'll bet on it, and Chas.
O'Conner and all the women in the country
will 60 my halves.
But there amt no particular point in all
this, Mr.. Happy. It's only my opinion,
that's all. [ may be tarnal fool, and /
sometimes feel that / am q fool about every
thing and don't know nothin. I'm tryin my
best, however, to take things jest as find
EN-, and my principal bisness for the last two
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