The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-03-30

~ b"S othC' Chu VI INC avenue Is nos q
clown, Guil,on, vulgar jester, low wit,
boorish story teller. All ! no, Bill p?
lie Is very good man and you will like
him. We like him because he is Just
Tue people like him because he is gener-
GUS aEd statesmlnlike.
We have been having some little trou-
bic up this way, Bill. The jewellers who
lately sat in our banquet hall were kitch-
en- scrlliou$, but they are going home
SON And when they have all gone, we
shall have nice party there. Time is
loosening the ice in the river. Some of
us know how you folks have been used
and we are telling Others
\ OF long since when we told people
that our people when fighting your peo-
pie We're stealing themselves rich, they
said ws'wero disloyal and put US in pris-
on. And they pulled down our printing
offices. They threw our type into riv-
ers. They mobbed us in our places of
business. They shot at and wounded us
on the street. They withheld business
from us. They sought to array the people
of the North against those who believed
in toting fair. They did all these things
in tho name Of God aud the great moral
party? But spring fashions are coming
on, Bill, and in little while you and |
will meet somewhcro aud will be good
friends, aud your boys and our boys after
while will be loving the same girls and
riding down the same lane together.
1t is hard to sit behind the stump,
Bill, aud see the fight going on. 1t may
be hard for your folks to work on their
plantations, to rebuild their cities and
bleach out their mourning goods, while
there is a tremor Of war yet on the air,
Bill, but you can do ii. And you will
do u. Do you be true and brave-we
will answer for the rest. You have more
witnesses in the North, Bill, than you
know of. There are skeletons in many
families heroaway, aud there are skeletons
some people would b dog goned glad to
get rid of-glal if they had never took
them in.
There are pianos, silver spoons, silver
sugar bowls, silver cream pitchers, silver
sugar tongs, gold watches, beautiful paint
ings, valuable books, Important documents,
rings, breast pins, lockots, laces, silk
goods, fast horses, mlrble top bureaus,
rose wood furniture, guitars, photographs,
keepsakcs of mcmeutoeS of gold and sill
yer, and other witnesses here from YOUR
district; witnesses ia the convention
against the thieves who ovcrran your
country i'll the name Of loyalty and stole
from yea while their Comrades were
fighting. And thcs. witnesses are hav
ing weight now. Their testimony is be-
coming more and more important Not
more in your behalf, Bill, than against
the plunder loving thieves and towards
who went into the war to steal more than
to fight, to ill their pockets more than to
subdue the rebellion so-callcd.
We have got sick Of this kind of fool
ishness. We sent for Macginnis, and he
is now at the ether end of the Avenue
with gun in his hand, ready to resist
further encroachments on our domain.
1t is hard, Bill, to forget the insults of the
past, but we must do 1t. We were both
wrong. We both fought we'll. We
hurt you and you hurt US . We are both
Americans, and You know Bill, that is
good stock. UP here in the North the
people are sick of feasting on blood, and
we will have no more of it, except in de-
fence of law, order and the Constitution.
The mask is being stripped from the high
waymen who lately patroled our noun
tain paths and all is coming out we'll. So
be of good cheer. DO you stand close by
it. Assert your rights, Bill, and we will
help you maintain them. The war is
past. The bloody curtain is rolled up
You take hold Of one end, we will take
hold Of the other and carry it far away
The scenes of the past shall ue0er be re
enacted Bill, agd if youns will be brave,
wcuos will stand by you, aud we will soon
be happy together.
.tBRICK" PONEROY.