Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01

put money into their pockets After while
they went into the striped almanak bisness,
making bloody pikters of POOR laserated mig
gers gettin hundred lasbes for nuthin,
and mournin for their first born because
they we're not. Then they started the steal
lin program, and while we we're tryin all
the big courts and little courts to git back
one silky melatter by the name of Dred
Skot, they were stealth from FIVE to tfty a
day, and GOVERN their carcasses all over
with uigger larceny, and smuglin the Con-
stitution into an abolishuu mush. They
built fence around the institution as high
as Haman's galus, and hemmed it in, and
laid siege to it jest like an army would be-
siege city to starve out the Inhabitants
They kept peggin at US untell We got mad
-sho euuff mad-and we resolved to cut
loose from EN- and paddle our own canoo.
Now, all this time We had some good
trends among em-some who swore we
were imposed upon, and said We bad good
cause to dissolve the partnership. They
said that if we did sescede and the abolish
unests made wa. upon US, they would stand
| by us and throw their lives and fortunes
and their sakred honor right in the breach,
and the first fight would be over their dead
bodies and so forth and so on. My memo
ry is bad, but 1 remember that some of
em were named James Buchanan and Dan
Dickinson, and John Cochran, and Logan,
and Cushin, and Butler, surnamed the
Beast, McLeruand, and Steven A. Doug.
lass, who got his commission about the
time he died, and carried it with him to
parts unknown.
Well, the war come on and show enuf
Cochran and Cushin and McLernand and
Butler and Company buzzed around a
while like humble bees till they were bott
up and then they lit over on the other side.
They got their reward and they are well
come to it as far as I am concerned.
how is it now, Mr. Happy? They con-
quered us by the sword, but they haven't
convinced us of nutbin much that l 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 bur
led the hatchet. But the very mint they
whipped us, they begun to boiler treeson
from one end of the country to- the other,
Just like they had made bran new diskov-
cry. 1t seemed to strike em all of a sud-
den like an Xpost fakto law, and they wan
ted to 60 into general bangin bushes, and
keep it up as long as they could find rope
and timber.
Now the idea of seven millions Ameri-
kan freemeu being guilty of treason at
once The idea of applyin such crime to
eleven great suvreen States, which met in
solemn convention, aud, in the light of day,
dissolved Union they had created, and
which had been a disunion for twenty
years! The idea of applyin treeson to the
Old Dominion, the muther of States, and
Washington, and Jefferson, and Madison,
and Marshall, and Patrick Henry, and all
the Lees, and who give away all the terri.
tory in the Northwest for nuthin !! Is she
to be scandalized by these new light Chris
tians, who are compounded from all the
skum of all creation, and think that Paul
and Peter and Revelations have been for
200 years maxim special arrangements for
receiviu their sancti6ed souls in Paradise !?
Treeson the dickens Where's your die.
tionary? Where's Danl Webster? Where's
the history of the Amerikin. revolution .?
No, it aint treeson nor reeson-but its
devilish Internal inhuman hate What do
they keep Mr.. Davis in Jail for =? hear sum
say that 1t aint Mr.. Johnson's voluntary do
ings but the tremengious pressure of sur
rounding circumstances. Durn the circum,
stances. Amt Mr.. Davis great and good
man? If Andy johnson aint an ipidel,
wouldent he swap chances for Heaven with
him and give all his earthly estate to boot !?
If Mr.. Davis honor and integrity, and pat
riotism, and tru courage, we're weighed in
balance against Summers and Stevens I,
and all of his enemies, wouldent he out
weigh EN- all? Wont his conduct in Mexi.
co and in the late war, and is nobility of
character, live long and grow bright in his
tory, while the memory of the howns that
are bayin at him in his dungeon will sink
into oble7ion? l think so-thats what l
say, and III bet on it, and Charles OCon.
ner and all the women in the country will
60 my halves
But their aint no particular point in all
this, Mr. Happy. It's only my opinion,
that's all. l may be tarnal fool, aud I
sometimes feel like | am fool about every
thing aud don't know nothin. Pm tryin my
best, however, to take things jest as l find
em, and my principal bisness for the last
two months have been weanen niggers for
to make em feel free. I put EN- all out to
take care of themselves, but they keep COM
in back to me, and it keeps me workin day
and night to provide for EN-. I've been
wilin long time for EN- to be free, if they
could take care of themselves, and l don't
know what Thad Stevens is fusSin about,
unless he is jest mad because our boys burnt
his iron works. If that's all, we can plead
the ruins of various siniler establishments
in these regions, and get a judgment again
him
But I'm about through, Mr.. Happy
with what bad to say. ONLY this-if there