La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-02-10

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have his soul transmigrated to a Denef
leg'd fee, and bark at his daddys mules
1000 years. I wonder if the experience
of the last four years amt satisfied these
fellows that our boys are q dangerous Sc
to be turned loose in time of war Would
emit YOU think that as a matter of policy
/ theywould soft sodderus q little, and quit
their slanderin. IF we do fight for en-
there will be one condition certain. They
mout be put where David put Uriall, ane
our boys mont consent to make a 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 business
1t amt a long story and I'll tell it the way
I see it. Old Pewrytan went off one day
with some ships, and took a few beads and
juce-harps and bought UP a lot ofcaptured
uiggers from the Hotentots or some other
tots. and stole % few more on the coast of
Afriky and brought EN- over and educated
EN- to work in the field. and cut wood, and
skeer bars and so forth, but not includin
votin nor musterin nor the jury business
nor so forth.
Well. after a while they found that the
cold Withstand Goldfish airs of New Eng
land dident agree with the niger, and SO
they begun to slide EN- dawn South as fast
rs possible. After they had sold EN- and
got the money, they jined the church and
| BECAME sanctified about slavery. sorter
like the woman-that got converted and then
gave all her norvels away to her uncon-
verified sister. Well, the Old Dominion
and such of her sons as Washington and
Jefferson, and Madison and Randolph,
bought EN- and worked EN- to satisfaction,
whereupon old Pew gotjealoas and begun
fact is they wouldent work girls in their
factories if it warnt SO profitable, for they
are conscientiously opposed to everything
that don't put money in their pockets.
After while khey went into the striped
almanak b~isness, maxim bloody pieters of
poor laserated fniggers gettin a hundred
lashes for nothin, and mournin for their
first born because they were not. Then
they started the stealth program, and
while they were tryin all the big courts
and the little courts to get back one sickly
mellater by the name Of bred Scott, they
were stealth from five to fifty a day, and
GOVERN their carcasses all over with mig
gerlarcenry, and smugglin the Constitution
into an abolishun mush. They bilt a fence
around the institution as high as Humans
gallus. and hemmed it in, and laid siege to
it, jest like an army would besege a city
to starve out til, inhabitants. They kept
peggin at US untell we got ~mad--show
enuff mad-and we resolved to cut loose
from en- and paddle our canoo.
Now all this time we had some good
friends among em-sopae who swore we
were imposed upon and SAID we had good
cause to dissolve the partnership. They
said that ii we did sesecd and the abolish
inists made war upon us, they would stand
By US and throw their lives, theirfortunes
and their sakred honois right in fhe
breach, and the first fight would be over
their dead bodies, and so forth and so on.
My memory is bad, but | remember that
some OF EN- were named James Buchanan
and Dan Dikinson, andsJohn Cochran, and
Logan, and Cuslin, and Butler, %surnamed
the Beast, and McLernand, and Steven
A. Douglas, who got his commission about
the time he died, and carried it with him
to parts unknown, and lastly a man blythe
nalne of Andy johnson, who | suppose are
some distant relation to the President of
the United States Of Ameriky. But a man
amt responsible for the bad conduct of
his relations, and | don't throw it up to no.
body. / suppose that our President are
doin the best he can, and Mr.. Ethridge
oughtent to be raken up his record.
Well the war come on. and show ennff
Logan and Eushin and McLernand and
Butler and Company buzzed around a
while like humble bees. till they. were
broughtup, and then they lit over on the
other side. They got their reward and
they are welcome to it SO far as l am con-
cerned. 3g 8'13 q
How is it now. Mr.. happy? They con-
quered us by the sword, but they haven't
convinced us of nothin much that know
of All is lost save honor, and that they
cant steal from us nor. tarnish.
If they had held out the hand of fellow
ship, we would have made friends and
buried the Ratchet. But: the very mint
they whipped us, they began to boiler
the other, just Ike they had made a bran
new discovery. Itseemed to strike them
all Of a sudden like an Xpost fakto law, and
they wanted to 60 into a general hangin
bisness. and keep-itf up as long as they
could find rope and timber.
Now the idea of several millions Of
American freemcf being guilty Of treason
ct oncel The idea Of applyin such a
crime to eleven great suyrcen States,
which met in solem convention and in the
light Of day dissolved a Union they had
created, and which had been a disunion
for twenty years! The idea of applyin
treason to the old Dominion, fhe muther
of States and Of Washington and jefferson
and Madison and Marshall and Patrick
Henry and all the Lees. and who gave
away all the territory to the Northwest
for nothin! is she to be scandalized by
these new-light Christians who are com
pounded from all the skum Of all creation,
and think that Paul and Peter and Reva-
lations havl beensfor 200 years maxim
special arrangements for receiyin their
sancsified souls in, Paradise? Treason
the dickens! Where's your dictionary?
Where's Danl Webster Z! Where's the
history Of the American revolution
No it ain treason-bat its devilish in-
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