American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-06-06
Letter from Petroleum ". Nasty.
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My sole is 2 full for utterens. hen
had a refreshuu sezin; hev herd 2soune
gospil surmens, and nary Rigger mem
shuned in EN- wunst. Only sinners wui
askt 2 repent and go to glori, and ime
bound for the promised lapd. Hallelu-
gerl 1 left my charge at Confedrit X
Rodes, Ky, With mi oA female friend
Garret Davis, whilst sought to reQper-
ate NY failing helth by voyage the
see sboar. | wuz desirous also 2 sec
what those traitor Bpcher and hi agitan'
Gen. Howard vas about at the Mary Ann,
iversarys. Greeved am l 2 say that they
hev not shown proper distress at the
calamity which has overtakin our beloved
bretheren and sisters Of the Sunny Soul,
resulting from the tyranicle eorse Of Mr..
Anna Dickinson and Miss Wendell Phil,
ipa
From watehip the corners in New fork,
l visited the CORY field of Gettysburg,
where hecatomes Of the noblest suns OF
the Sour wuz jfe g offered 2 appese the
insasheate blood thurstinsss of wolfish
Aberlishunists but alas no Nashunal
Monnerment is rearin marksthe spot
whure they ly. I call upon the democ-
racy, headed by the God-like Andy john
son, 2 rase dime conterbushun la Val
laLdigum 2 rear a monnerment which
shill overtop the Aberlishunist !, Il pfoov
yisip gennerashuns that the Democracy
never forgits its friends-never Halle
luger! The copterbushuns may be cent
to the ppdersined.
Notisin brass band appFoaehin as |
arrove into Chalnbersburg on Saturday
eve last, | thot my trends wuz intendin
to Civ me the grand recepshun dew my
distinguished talents and seryeces in the
Democratic party, and after it had dis
coursed its music a spell, l slept forred,
throwen back the curling bog FROM my
massive brow, placed one hand serenely
in my buzim and striking classie atti-
TODD, wuz about 2 begin "Countrymen x
Lovers" when the crowd called out "Cur-
tam = .-.-, 1---t-:- u, 7 iooLAA .
see if any curtain or drapery was to be
histed, and finding none, was about two
proeede 2 remark as much, when 10
Advertisements interrupted me by sain :;
See here you confounded ape what yon
standin there in the Gpvners way for =
Get out O. here p And with no rever-
ence for the cloth which covered my man
ly form, he pushed me roodly aside be
tween 2 niggers who hadn't been washed
since before the war, and he'd been sot
there as spescial boka for Guv. Curtin.
All, What a curtain to be dropt twixt
me and triumphant rsaepshHa! My feel,
ins was hurt and l Indignantly retired
will Just say here that that brass band
is the poorest, meenest, contemptiblest
brass band as ever footed onto horn. l
wood rather heir cord of tom cats onto
a wood house roof at mite one thousand
times.
And now I Lev got back the Press
by tear len church, where started. As
| remarked, the surmun was pew-er gos
nil. but what delited me most was the site
of uigger gal lery wunst moar. What
b;zness has niggers on the same floar with
white folksl Are they goin to the same
heyin ? or is there any hevin or hereafter
for niggers? Eff l thot niggers was 60
ing to sit down with me in Abraham's bo-
som, Pde resine my charge in disgust
There is a bare possibility of thar going
TO the same hevin with white folks, but [
don't believe it. Why how would mig
ger loek robed in white Itwooqlida't be
harmonious.
Twas speshully pleased with the gloamy
appearance of the aujience room, tor tho
heviu is brite and calculated 2 make a
man cheerful it is well in this world OF
sin aud sorrow to keep the spirits down
by evry artifcul meeus, SOS to enjoy hevin
the moar-when we git thers. So make
your rooms "dank aud dreary'-its Sc
impressive on the minds Of children.
And now must cloas with delicate
allushuu the quire. "When Music
Heavenly Maid, was young" (Which If
quotations) I suppose she looked exactly
IKE : sof those beautiful gurls in the
quire, le-stways she ought 2. They wa
luyly and it did me good 2 see how lits
harted they wasl When one stoppd ritz
in the middle of verse, sung to thai
morneful old tune Windham, and laffed a
a sister singer who had made q mistake
and whispered acrost the melojiu ium an
other to tell her about it, and when qnoth
er threw conikle leer out OF the N. y
corner of her right eye, because the me
lojiumist's right hand little finger struci
d fiat instead of d natural, and his LET
hand didn't come to time on the "Sow-