The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-03-16
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You were wrong to engage in war
very wrong to do that thing. New Eng
land alone could conquer you. Why,
Bill, if you had billion of millions of
dollars, aud enough nice furniture to fur.
nish all Of the houses in the coun try,
New England could steal it in four years !;
and if New England Abolitionists could
not, the Kansas saints and western children
of Christian Abolitionists could. Haven't
we prayed for youth nearly all our churches!
And haven't we told you better? You wan
ted to get out of the Union All, Bill,
Stacsonce in can never get out j.! That is
what We always told you. All those friends
ofthegreat martyrs tell you SO. We wan.
ted t., Keep youin. We fought you at An
tietam, Pea Ridge, Gettysburg, Vicksburg,
Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Mobile, Fort
Donelsou and devil only knows where, to
keep you in the Union. And then we
sent Christian missionaries down there,
Bill, to rescue your valuables and remove
them North, for safety you know. And
we burnt down your houses, and we took
what food your wives and children had
and we sent your cotton to market for
you, you know, Bill. And We sent three
million men to war to keep you burned
fellers in this happy Union. God only
knows how many Of you folks VIC killed,
for one northern man was always good
tor five southern men, to say nothing
about mules, niggers, cotton and keep
sakes. And, Bill, VIC have stepped into
some little debt on your account. You
see, Bill, cotton was too cheap. Tobacco
was too cheap. Rice was too cheap
Sugar was too cheap Happiness was too
cheap. Our national debt was too small.
1t was costing too much to keep that ne
gro boarding-htu use of yours, SO we rene
died that by killing your niggers or giving
them the benefit Of liberty, rags, old
bones and Abolitionism.
We made your cotton more valuable.
And, Bill, we enhanced the price of
everything for you, and made demand
for carpenters and house builders down
there. You forget how we have benefit.
ed your wicked country, Bill, or you would
not Arp so continually on imaginary evils.
And we did all this to keep you in the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace
to his ashes !! fresh from stealing horses
in Kansas, to atone for his sins by rescu
ing negroes from your grasp in Virginia.
And for this little pleasantly on the part
of one of our martyrs-one of our illumi-
mated title pages to history-you never
thanked us as you should. And didn't
We throw some few iron ;ato Charleston
harbor? The waters of that pool will be
a good tonic for years, Bill And didn't
Curtis save your cotton? DID mt Butler
save your gold and protect your women !?
And didn't Banks save the Red River
property? And didn't two hundred and
eighteen generals get rich as mud from
fading things you folks had lost? And
is not there housefull after housefull of
keepsakes up North, picked up in the
woods and on wood piles by our army
chaplains and our moral boys, while you
were trying to kill those of our folks who
wanted to visit you to keep your souls
from hell =?
Bill, You are ungateful And then
didn't we keep this war up. till the States
were all back in the Union? And didn't
we 60 to war and keep on going to war to
keep your dog gored States from going
out of the Union ? And didn't you want
to get out of the Union ? Aud didn't we
act magnanimous, aud soon as war was
over, unite in saying that you were out of
the Uuion? Really, Bill, it seems as if
you had it all your own way? This war
has proved success. We were bound to
push it through in ninety days, and we
should but for your stubborness. All we
wanted was your niggcrs-and your cot
ton, mules, furniture, silver wares aud
such odd tricks which your folks could
buy better than We could, for you had
more money! 1t was wrong to keep
slaves, Bill, but it was not wrong to steal
This war was to preserve the Union
Everybody said so. The Union has been
preserved-so much for US. No,o breM.
rem, let US pray. w 0.4-.a'
Your States are Kept out Of the Union,
which is still preserved |! You wanted re-
construction. Wen reconstruct you =
You folks are very wicked, Bill. God
Furnishes wickedness. Gods agents live
in the North exclusively, Bill And
we'll let you back in the Union, which
has been. preserved, when we get ready
First, you must hunt up the balance of
your property and give it to some of our
great and good agents or generals. Then
you must move out of your houses, that is,
what are left, and let the niggers in
And your must give the niggers your plan
tations. And, Bill, you must give them
all your property and then support the in
nocent cause of the late war by manual
labor. And you must let the niggers
vote, for they are wanted for Republican
Congressman, Senators and SIGH. And
you must ignore all your personal or war
debts, and not pay them even upon the
basis of honor. And you must help US
pay for licking you. And ere you do
this, you must have all your property