Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-03-28
NEW SERIES-VOL. VINO. Sc.

grasp in Virginia. And for this little
pleasantly on the part of one of our
martyrs--one of our illuminated title-
pages TO history, you never thanked
us as you should. And didn't we
throw some few iron into Charleston
harbor? The waters of that pool will
be good tonic for years, Bill And
didn't Curtis save your cotton? Didn't
Butler save your gold and protect
your women? And did mt Banks save
the Red River property And didn't
two hundred and eighteen Generals
get rich as mud from finding things
you folks had Iostf And Is there not
housciul after houseful of keepsakes
up north, picked up in the woods and
on wood piles by our army chaplans,
and our moral boys, while you were
trying to kill those of our folks who
wanted to visit you TO keep your
souls from hells
Bill, you are ungrateful. And then
Gid'nt we keep this war up till the
States were all back in the Union |?
And didn't VIC 60 to war and keep on
going to war to keep your dogoned
States from going out of the Union? ?
And didn't You want to get out of the
Uniony And didn't we act magnan-
inncus, and as soon as the war was
over, and unite in saying that you
were out of the Union Really, Bill,
it seems as if you had it all your own
way This war has proved n success.
A brilliant success. We were bound
to push il through in ninety days, and
we should but for your stubboruness.
All We wanted was your niggcrs-and
your cotton, mules, furniture, silver
ware and such. odd tricks which you
folks could buy better than we could,
for you had more money. II was
wrong TO keep slaves, Bill, but it was
not wrong to steal. THIS war was to
preserve the Union. Everybody SAID
so. The Union has been preserved--so
much for us. Non, brethren, let as pray.
Your States are kept out of the
Union, which is still preserved, You
want reconstruction. Well recon-
struct you. You folks are very wick
ed, Bill, God Furnishes wickedncss.
Gods agents live in the North exclu-
sively, Bill And we'll let you back
in the Union, which has been pro-
served, when VIC get ready. First,
YOU must hunt up the balance of your
property and give it to some of our
great and good agents or generals.
Then you must move out of your
houses, that is, what are left, and let
the mggers in. And you must give
the niggers your plantations. Aud,
Bill, you must give them all your
property; and then support the inno-
cent canse OF the late war by manual
labor And you must let the niggcrs
vote for they arc wanted for Repuhli-
can Congressman, Senators and sich.
And you must ignore your personal
or war debts, and not pay them even
upon tho basis of honor. And You
must help us pay for hcking you. And
ere you do this, you must have your
property taken from you, so it viii be
easy. We are n Just and a maguani.
NOUS people in the North We are
} liberals aud brotherlyl Wowantpcace
and harmony! We dent want you
J folks TO go to hell, nor do we want
! you to dress better than we do. Per-
, sonally VIC know but little Of this
/ country In eighteen hundred aud
, sixty-thrcc we left your country i'm
, mcdiatcly in advance Of a bayonct for
: saying that some of our folks were
; stealing from some of your folks and
for writing naughty letters to the
La Crosse Democrat, charging some
! of our generals with stealing and cow
ardicc. And we have had a very
pleasant time of it at home for think
ing much as you think, but now we
are convinced that the war for the
Union was n splendid success--that
} the country is better off-that the
: negroes are hsppler-that people are
in better circumstances, especially tho
} thieves and robbers who have fatten-
! ed upon the blood and stolen their
enemies poor-that the way to make
: one section of country love another iH
} to fight rob, steal and desolatc thcm
into happiness--that our taxes are
! lighter--that republican retrenchmcnt
and reform is good thing for poor
people and tax-paycrs-that the surc
} way to national greatness is to quar-
} rel with sections continually-that a
people arc apt to love their pcrsecu-
tors-that it is honorable and an evil
, dcnce of manly Christianity to ham
: mer man after he is down--that it
: is blessing for poor men to pay in
! terest on bonds the rich hold not tax
= able-that the negroes arc better of
: in rags, sickness and shallow graves
: than at coutcnted labor-that il is
unchristian to resent insults, and that
you folks down South, and especially