The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-09-05
CLYMER SOLDIER VS.. Roy IN BLUE,

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well surrender Since the pow-wow in
the Wigwam there's no chance left for
the Republicans
You'd better wait ill the battles
fought before you blow your trumpet -
For nv part, think it little better to
Join hands with the rebels, for the pur-
pose of ofmaking them our superiors, and
giving to them twice as much power at
Washington, man for man, as we pos
scss, than it would have been to join
their armies through the war
'Oh, that's false doctrine ! The cons
flict is over. The people OF the South
nre brethren again, and you must give
them back their rights. Peace reigas.
Peace reigns once more, and 1t don't
become brave men to trample on a van
quishc1 foe.'
That sounds well, but it's poor plan
to govern the South. When the war
broke out, the prisoners we captured
were only asked to take the oath, and
then set treei but in the very next
scrimmage they were sure to be found
popping away at us, and it was a stands
ing joke that swearing allegiance to
Uncle Sam had no mole effect on them
than or a rattcsnake. When the rebels
took Union prisoners they were sent to
Libby, Belle Isle, or Andersonvllle, and,
with bad food, poor medical attendance
and exposure, killed off by thousands. -
That was a specimen of rebel strategy,
They don't know what fair dealing is,
in war OF politics, or if they do thev take
precious good care never to practice it.
Congress has them IN split stick now,
in spite OF Andy Johnson. While it
holds on, the country will be safe, but
when 1t lets 60, look out for squalls. 1t
will be worse than letting loose the I, Id
dragon confined in the bottomess pit
for thousand years.
'Oh, you're too full of prejudice You
forget that war is one thing and peace is
another Men can't go on fighting each
other forever. They've got to make up
some time, and for my part, l like to see
them do it. One of the prettiest pictures
in the Wigwam wa's the delegates from
South Carolina and Massachu set,s walk,
ing arm.in arm
you can get few politicians to play
any antic when you bid high enough
The delegates from South Carolina were
ofthe hemp neck-tie stripe. They were
either just pardoncd for treason or ap-
plicants for pardons, and there was no
more sincerity or meaning in anything
they did, than there would have been in
the talk OF some such scoundrel as Probst,
if he had been told that by an electloneer
ing speech he could have got a pardon
from the Governor for the murder of the
Dearing family. The deleg$ts s from
Massachusetts were nearly all Office
holders or Office seekers, detailed for
extra duty in the Bread-and.Butter Bri>
gade. 1t was an easy thing TO coax
Andy Johnson's dogs, North and South,
into the same kennel. He only had to
put in it patronage for the one lot, and
pardons for the other and it wasn't
hard to teach them tricks in posturing.
Any circus man could do it,
i don't like such comparisons and
you can't deny that the convention had
big men In it from all the States, nor
that they agreed on patriotic platform.
Leaders who were true to the country
through the war-Republicaus, too, for
that matter-had their own way in every
thing, and there wasn't bit of straight
out rebel or Coppelhead doctrine preach-
ed
Everybody can understand that well
enough. The trap was set to catch
Union voters, and it wouldn't have done
to sprinkle the bait with too odorous
position. What the rebels need most is
plainly offered 10 them-unconditional
ropreseutationl-and if they get this,
good'by to all the fine promises made
to secure it. They will bark as loudly
for secession, repudiation, and even for
slavery, in new form as they please,
and spurn any platform not built, with
the aid of there Copperhead friends, to
suit themselves. They are inbred trai.
tors to everybody and everything except
their own people, and they never dare
play false to them. They act on the old
rhyme, that, they shall take who have
the power, and they shall keep who can
They tell us plainly every day that
they submit to the Union because they
were badly whipped by our armies !
not because they believe its authority or
action is rightiul, and they will conform
to the decision of the sword, just as far
as thay must-not one nch farther.
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