The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-06-27
Weuns and Youuua
BRICK PoxERoY TO BILL ANA s1c
LETTER.

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Did you hear anything drap up this way
Something fell down! The man at Il
other end Of the avenue snapped ca;
Bill, just to see if the nipple was clear!-
That cap means business! It is soma
| ways to the other end Of the avenue, where
, the vultures have gathered to feed on the
corpse so terribly mangled; but the man
tat-the other end of the avenue hes q eaick
eye, cool brain, steady nerve, and his
gun Is. ready! Just you cit behind a stump
like and keep cool. It is dogvoned aggras-
waiting to keep cool in fight, but YOU
must do it. The repor. Of that cap whis.
tied from Maine TO Minnesota, and several
millions OF true sportsmen are ready to
load for the man at the other end Of the
avenue To fire. sfs:a -
And tell your folks there to keep still
to plant their cotton, corn, rice andssugar
cane. Give them good advice. Bill. Help
them smooth down the hillocks, and level
the sod over the graves where so many Of
your brave boys and our boys are sleeping
together. Build mp the houses our boys
pulled down. and soon as We get our war
duds off We will help you Bill.
You see We are unhitching the team,
which ran away and broke downyour gates.
We don't like the team any better than.
you did. Your gate post was our gate
post. The team that broke it down was a
bad one-the man at the other end Of the
avenue is unhitching it. Tell your folks to
be brave in peace as they were in war,
The early winds Of spring-the February
and March .winds--are of more account
than you dream Of. They are blowing the
dead ducks far out to sea! They are clear
ing away the debris-whirling the little
sticks hither and yon. Rolling, flying and
eddying around. the leaves and twigs are
leaving their late resting place. and it will
not be long, Bill, before oil this rubbish
will be removed, and the grass and flowers
will again beautify the earth as btfore.-
And there shall be no more proving and
no more poachers. The man at the other
end of the avenue is not clown, buffoon, q
vulgar jester, q low wit. boorish story
teller. All. no, Bill! He is very good
man. and you will like him. We Ike him
because he is just. The people like him
because he is generous and statesmanlika.
We have been having some little trouble
up this way, Bill! The jewellers who lately
sat in our banquet hall were sculIions, but
they are going home soon. And when
they have all gone, we shall have very
nice party there. Time is lessening the
ice in the river. Some of us know how
you folks have been treated, and we are
telling Others.
Not long since we told the people that
our people. when fighting your people. we're
stealing themselves rich; they said we
were dsloyal aud put us in prison, And
they pulled down our printing Offices
They threw our type into rivers. They
mobhed 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 doing fair
They did all these things in the name Of
God and the great moral party. But
spring fashions are now coming on, Bill
and in little while you and will meet
somewhere and be good friends. and your
boys aud 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,
and see the fight going on. It may be
hard for your folks to work on. their plan
tations, to rebuild their cities and bleach
ont their mourning goods, while there is
tremor of war yet on the air, Bill. but You
can do it. And you will do it. Do you
be true and braye-.we will answer for the
rest. You have more witnesses in the
North than you know of. There are skel.
etons in many families hereaway; and
they are skeletons some people would be
aoggoned glad to get rid of--glad if they
had never taken them III. -
There are pianos, silver sugar bowls,
silver cream pitchers, silver sugar tongs,
gold watches, beautiful paintings, valuable
books, important documents, rings, breast
pins. lcckets, laces, silk goods, fast horses,
marble top bureaus, rosewood furniture, gai-
.ars, photographs, keepsakes and raenen.
toes Of gold and silver and other witnesses
here from your district witnesses In theI
Convention against the thieves who over.
run your country in the name Of loyalty
aud stole from you while their comradea
were fighting. And these witnesses ara
having weight now. Their testimony il
becoming more and more important. Mol
more in your behalf, Bill, than against th(
plunder-loring thieves and cewsrds whd
went into the war to steal more than ID
fight to fill their pockets more than to sub
due the rebellion, so called.
We have got sick Of this kind Of foolish
1ishness.I We sent for MaginniS, and he il
now at the other end Of the avefne With !
gun in his hand. ready to resist Iurther en-.
croachments on our domain. i is hard.
Bill, to forget the insults Of tie, past, but
We must dot. We both fought well, VS.
Ihurt You and you hurt US! We ire both
Americans, and you know, Bill, that s
good stock. Up here in the North, tlH
! people are sick Of feasting on blood, md
We will have no more Of it, except in de-
fence of law, order and the Constitution
1 The mask is Being stripped rom the high
wayaan who lately patrolled our mountait
i paths, and all is coming GU, we'll . So, b
! Of good cheer. Do you stard close by thu
flag, Bill, aud we'll stand clDse BY it. Thu
war is past. The bloody cnrtain is rolled
up. You take hold Of one end, and We
will take hold Of the O hE aud carry il sfat.
away. The scenes of the past shah never
be re-enacted, Bill, and il youuns will BE-
brave, weuns will stand BY you and viii
soon be happy together.
"BRICK "POMERoY.
Judicial Relations.