The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-02-14

keep us for never could see, and can't
see yit. | wouldn't have a nigger or a
dog to stay with me that didn't want to.
Some say they wanted us to strengthen
them agin their onemies in case Of fur.
rim war; Does any man in his sciences
expect US to help the black republicans
whip anybody +? Have We got any wors
enemies than they are They cant make
US tigh. | reckon if we don't want TO-
We've fought enuf and made nothing bv
II but glory, and we aint agoing to iine
in another war to CRAFTY other people
Dodds says before he'd pull trigger for
Thad Stevens he'd have his soul trans
migrated to a bench legd fee, and bark
at his daddy's mules 1000 years.
wonder if the experience Of the last four
years ain, satisfied these fellows that our
boys are dangerous set to be turned
loose in time OF warl Wouldn't You
think that, as matter Of policy, they
would soft-sodder a little and quit their
sianderiu IL we do fgh. for en there
will be one condition certain-they must
be put where David pu, Urah, aud our
boys mout consent to make charge or
two behind EN- at the pint of the bagnet.
But want you to tell me, John, if
am right about the history of this bisness.
1t Amt long story and Ill tell i, the
way see it. Old Pewrytan went Off
oae day with some ships, and took few
beads and some juceharps and brought
up lot Of captured niggers from the
llotentots or some other tots, and sole
Il few more from the coast Of AfrIkv and
brought EN- over aud edukated them TO
work in the field, and cut wood and skeer
bars aud sofor;h, but not includin votin.
nor musterip, nor the jury bisness, nor
so forth.
Wei, after while they found that the
cold winds and Goldfish airs Of New Eng
land didn't agree with the nlgger, so they
begun 10 slide them down South as fast
AZ possible. Afier they had sold em and
got the money, they jined the church
and got sanc,itied about slavery, sor,er
like the woman that got verted and
then give all her novels away to her On
converted sister. Well the old Dominion
and sich Of her SONS rs Washington and
Jefferson, and Madison AMI Randolph,
bought EN- and worked EN- TO satisfaction
wherenpon old Pew got Jealous and be.
gan to preach agin Il to break it down.
The fskt is, they wouldent work gals in
their faktorie'. If it warent SO profitable.
for they are conscieniiouoly opposed to
everything that don't put money into their
pockets. Afrer while they went into the
striped almsnak bisness, making bloody
pIkters.of poor lasera;ed riggers gettin a
hundred lashes for nu,hin, and mournin
for their frs, born because they were not.
Then they started the stealth program,
and while We were tryn all the big coris
and little courts TO git back one silky me.
latter by the name Of Dred Skot, Aev
were stein from five to fify dav, and
coyerin their carcasses alt over with MO.
ger larceny, and smugln .he Constitution
into an abolishun mush. They boi!t a
fence around the institution as hirh as
Haman's galus, and hemmed it in, and
laid seige to it jest like an army would
bssiege city TO starvs out the inhabi.
tant'. They KEEP, psggir at us un,elI we
got mad-sho enutf msd-and we resol.
we'd to cut loose from EN- and paddle our
own canoo.
Now, all this time we bad some good
trends among em-some who swore we
were imposed upon, and said we had good
Cause TO dissolve the partnership. They
said that " we did sescede and the abol
ish unesIs made war upon US, they would
stand by us and throw their lives and for,
tunes and their sakred honor right in the
breach, and the first fight would be over
their dead bodies and so forth and 90 on.
My memory Is bad. but remember bat
some OF EN- were named James Buchanan
and Dan Dickinson, and John Cochran,
and Logan, aud Cusbin, and Butler, sur
named the Beast, McLernand. and Sleyen