La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-02-24

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its and a half. They shouldn't eat roots
and drink branch water any longer. Poor
unfortunate things to cum into THU
subloonary world at sieh a time. There.
four or FIVE of EN- that never saw a sirku:
nor a monkey show-never had a pocket.
knife, nor a piece of cheese, nor a reesin
There's Bull Run Arp, and Harper's
Ferry Arp, and Chikahominy Arp, thai
never seed the pikters in a spellin book
| tell you. my friend, we are the poorest
people on the face of the earth-bat we
are poor and proud. We made a bully
fte, Selah! and the whole American ma
ton ought to feel proud of it. It shows
what Amerikins can do when they think
they are imposed upon, = so-catled." Did
ent our four fathers fife, bleed and die
about a little tax or tea, when not one in
thousand drunk it! Bekaus they suk-
ceeded wasent it glory but if thoy
hadent | suppose it would have beer
Treason. and they would have been bowin
and scrapin round KingGeorge for pardon.
So it goes, Artemus, and to my mind, if
the whole thing was stexed down, it would
make about a half pint Of huinbug. We
had good men. great men. Christian men.
II thoNSAb W. was i1RfGs ItilQ Uld1lY Ol
EN- have gone to the undiscovered eoun-
try, and have get a pardon as is a pardon.
When die, I'm NIFTY willin to risk myself
under the shadow of their wings, whether
the climate bellet or cold. So mote it be,
Selah!
Well, maybe I've said emf. But don't
feel easy yit. I'm a good Union man,
serrin and shure. I've had my breeches
died blue. and I've got Il Mae bucket, and I
very often feel blae, and about twice in a
while. 60 to the doggery and git blue, and
then | look up at the blue serulean he avens
and sing the melancholy choryus of the
B1ue-tailed Fly. I'm doin my durnaest
to harmonic, and think | could succeed if
it wasent for sum things. When I sec a
blackguard goin around the streets With a
gun on his boulder. why right then.'for a
few minits, l hatesthe whole yanky nation.
Jerusalem, how my blood hiles. The IN
what was handed down to us BY
the heavenly Kingdom of Massachusetts
now pat over us with powder and ball
Harmonize the devil! Amt we human \
beings? Amt we got eyes and ears and
feelin and thinkin? Why, the whole of
has come tor town, women and
children, and babies and baboens and all.
man can tell how fur it is to tile city by
the smell better than the mile-pust. They
wont work for us, and they went work for
themselves, and they'll perish, to death
this winter as shore as the devil is a hog,
so-cated. They are now baskin in the
summers sun, Twin on roastin ears and
with nary idee that tho winter
will cum agin, or that castor oil and salts
costs money. Some ofem a hundred years
DID, are wLinin around about going to
Sawlidge. The truth is. my friend, SUM
oody's badly fooled about this bzness.
.suInbody has drawd the elephant in his
ottery, and don't know what to do with !
lim. He's jest thrswin his snout about /
oose, and by-and-by he'll hurt snmbody .
lhese niggrrs will have to go back to the {
and work. I aim agwine to
Import nary one of EN-, and when you I
ear ANYBODY say SO. You tell EN- Its a :
Ie'" so-caHed. | golly. ! Amt gat nuthia :
Q support mysel on. We fonf ourselves !
ut OF everything except children and
ind, and | suppose the land are to be 4
over to the niggers for graveyards. t
well, my friend, | don't want much. a
INT ambitious as | used to was. You all
got your shows and MONKEYS and
Irkusses and brass bands and organs. and
m play on tho petroleum and the harp
a thousand strings, and SO on, but I've
nly. get one favor to ak Of you. want r
1uf powder to kill a big yallor stump-tail
og that prowls round my premises at
.ght.-Pon honor, | went shoot Mt any
ing blue or black or malater. Will Won q
nd it! Are you aud your foaks so o
'eered OF me and my foaks, that you 4
ont let us have any amynishun? Are II
Q squirls and crows and black rackoons q
eat up our poor little corn patches e.
the wild turkeys to gobble all round - =,
with impunity? If a mad dog takes y
g hiderfoby, is the whole community to ..
n itself to de"th to get out of the way ? :.
solly! it looks like your pepul had all =
k the rebelfoby for good, and was never - -
Fine to git over it. See here, my friend. u
u must send me a little powder and a n
to your show, and me and YOU will 50
rmonize. sertin. OF
it3 remarks I think I feel a
haint made nobody =
ut on that line Mt this q,