The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-04-18

didn't You folks stay down there and attend
to business little too close? And didn't
you have better horses, finer grounds, and
more land than we had?
We are all Christians in the north.
We felt that all these fine things were drag
glng your souls downto hell. We didn't
want You to rest III rhinestone, being in tor
ment, so we tried to correl you in Abra-
hams bosom. Abraham was great and
fgood man who died some time since, as we
Tread of some where. Il d JAN; sa
And then, Bill you kept your niggers too
fat. Our factory operatives grew Jealous.
And our girls went down there to teach
your girls something, and fell in love with
your boys and forgot to come home. We
felt that you were wicked. We didn't want
you to go to hell! All the fine things YOU
had were leading you away from salvation,
so we sent Butler and Curtis, and Banks.
and Washburn, and Steele, and Hovey. and
Prentlss, and Hurlburt, and several of the
eject of our Christian churches down there
to win you out of the jaws of hell by with
drawing your dne furniture, such as pianos,
books, pictures, rosewood bedsteads, mar
BILE tables, silyerware, horses, cotton and all
such plumber, to place of safety!
You were wrong to engage in war-very
wrong to do that thing. New England
alone could conquer you. Why, Bill, if
you had billion of million of dollars. and
enough nice furniture to furnish all of the
houses in the country, New England could
steal it in four years; and if New England
abolitionists could not, the Kansas saints
and Western children of Christian aboli-
tionists could. Haven we prayed for Won
in all our churches? And haven't we told
you better? You wanted to get out ofthe
Union All, Bill, States once in can never
get out! Thatis what we always told you.
ALI those friends of the great martyr tell
you SO. We want to keep you in. We
fought You at Antietam, Pea Ridge, Get
tysburg, Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Shiloh,
Mobile, Fort Donelson, and devil only
knows where, to keep you in the Union.
And then we sent Christian missionaries
down there, Bill, to rescue your yaluables
and remove them North, you know! And
We burnt down your houses, and we took
what food your wives and children had
md we sent your cotton to market for
you know, Bill I! And we sent three mil
ion men to war, to keep you burned fellers
n this happy Union. God only knows how
many fyou folks we killed, for one North
I'm man was always good for five Southern
nen, to say nothing about mules, niggers,
'otton and keepsakes. And Bill, we have
topped into some little debt on your ac-
cunt. You see, Bill, cotton was too
heap. Tebocco was too cheap. Rice
Fas too cheap. Sugar was too cheap.
happiness was too cheap. Our national {
ebt was too small. 1t was costing too
1uch to keep that negro boarding house of
ours, so we remedied that by killing your
egroes, or giving them the benefit OF liber-
=, rags, old bones. and Abolitionism.
IND Bill, we enhanced the price of every |
hing for you, and made demand for car
enters and house-bailders down there. J
,ou forget how we have benefited your
ounty, Bill, or you would not Arp so con /
lnuadiy on imaginary evils.
And we did all this to keep you in the a
Jnion. We sent old John Brown, peace t
> his ashes fresh from stealing horses in
lansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing s
egroes from your grasp in Virginia And r
u this little pleasantly on the part Of one
t our martyrs-one Of Illuminated title d
ages to history-you never thanked us as "
GU should. And didn't we throw some T
w iron into Charleston harbour? The 10
alters of that pool will be agood tonic for a
ears, Bill! And didn't Curtis save your
otton? Didn't Butler save your gold and G
rotect your women? And didn't Banks "
I've the Red River property And didn't
70 hundred and eighteen generals get rich (
, mud from finding things you folks had a
'st 2 And is there, not housefrll after )
ousefuH of keepsakes picked up in the 9.
GODS and on woodpiles by our army chap e
ins and our moral boys, while you were a
wing to kill those OF ourfolks who wanted L
!, visit you to keep your souls from he'll I.N'
Bill, you are ungrateful And then y
dn't we keep this war up, till the States
ere all back in the Union ? And didn't d
Q go to war and keep on going to war to b
eep your dog-goued States from going out
the Union? And didn't we act mag y
and as soon as the war was over, y
1ite in saying that you were out of the "
Mon? Really, Bill, it seems as if you
I'd it all your own way! This war has i
owed q success. A brilliant success. y
e were bound to push it through in nine u
days, and we should but for your stub
)rnness. All we wanted was your negroes IL
and your cotton, mules, furniture, silver
are and such old tricks which you folks
,uld buy better than we could, foryou had