The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-17
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
II. n. ROBINSON, nI
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
''Bricl5'' Pomeroy to BIN ARD.


You write as II something was the matter
with you-as IL there Is clover floating over
the land of fnagnollas and the sunny South
generally. Really, Bill we are surprised
There never was so ungrateful a people
as you Southern gentlemen are, and now
after all has been done for you to see letters
written by you SO full Of inshuations. Il
too much. i" fnt iil'I m, =
The FAULT of all this lies with you. wern't
you folks most dogoned wicked before the
warp Honest Indian now, Bill Didn't
you get proud, and Is not pride sin? And
didn't you own fliggers down there, and
larrup them continually to raise cotton for
New England nabobs to spin--sugar TO
to sweeten our coffee, rice to eat in our pud-
dings, and tobacco to chew and squirt over
meetin house floors? And didn't YOU have
better horses, better clothes, better houses,
finer grounds, better furniture, and more
| land than we had? I 'iT
| We are all Christians in the North. We
felt that all these fine things were drag
ging your souls down to hell. We didn't
want you to rest In birthstone, being I'M tor
ment, so we tried TO correl you in AbraA
hams bosom. Abraham was great and
good man, who died some time since, as we
read of, somewhere. ,ii ..lis t..l.
And then, Bill, you kept your niggers too
iat; 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
didn't want you to 90 to hell. All the fine
things You had were leading you away
from salvation, so we sent Butler, and Cur
tis. and Banks, and Washburn, and Steele,
and lloyey, and Prentiss, and Hurlbert and
several of the elect of our Christian church,
es down there to win you out of the laws
of hell by withdrawing your fine furniture.
such as pianos, books, pictures, rosewood
bedsteads, marble tables, silver ware,
horses, cotton and all such plunder to
place of safety .a l..1
! You were wrong to engage in war-very
wrong to do that thing. New England
alone could conquer you. Why BILL ifyou
had u billion of millions of dollars. and
enough nice furniture to furnish all of the
houses In the country, New England could
steal IL In four years and If New England
Abolitlonists could not, the Kansas saints
and western children of Christian Aboli-
tionism could. Hav'pt we prayed for you
In nearly all our churches? And hay'nt we
told you beterp You wanted to get out of
the Union All, Bill, States once In never
get out! That Is what we always told You.
All those friends of the great martyr told
yous0, Wewent to keep you in. We fought
you at Antietam, Pea Ridge, Gettysburg,
Vicksburg, fredericksburg, Shiloh, Mobile,
Fort Donelson, and the devil only knows
we sent Christian missionaries down there,
Bill, to rescue your valuables and remove
them North for safety, you knowl And we
burnt down your houses, and we took what
food your wives and children had-and we
sent your cotton to market for you, you
know, Bill And we sent three million men
to war TO keep your burned fellers in this
happy Union. God only knows how many
ofyou folks we killed, for one Northern man
was always good for five Southern men, to
say npthing about mules, niggers, cotton
and keepsakes. And, Bill, we have stepped
into some little debt on your account. You
see, Bill, cotton was too cheap. Tobacco
was too cheap. Rice was too cheap. Sugar
was too cheap. Gold and silver were too
cheap. Happiness was too cheap. Our ma
tiOnal debt was too small. IL was costing
you too much to keep that negro boarding
house of yours, so we remedied that by XIII
ing your niggers or giving them the benefit
of liberty. rags, old bones and Abolitionism.
Aud we make your cotton more valuable.
And, Bill, we enhanced the price Of every
thing for you, and made a demand for car
penters and house builders down there. You
forget how we have benefited your wicked
country, Bill, or you would not Arp so con-
tinually on imajinary evils!
And we did all this to keep you In the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace TO
his ashes, fresh from stealing horses in
Kansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing
negroes from your grasp in Virginia. And
For this little pleasantly on the part of one
of our martyrs 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
water of that pool will be Y good tonic for
years, Bill And didn't Curtis save your
cottony Didn't Butler save your gold and
protect your womenS And didn't Banks
save the Red River property And didn't
two hundred and eighteen of our generals
get rich as mud from finding things YOU
folks had lost 2 And is there not houseful
after houseful of keepsakes up North.
picked up In the woods and on wood piles
by our army chaplains, and our moral bows
while you were trying to kill those of our
folks who wanted to visit you and keep
your souls from hell. o rtsfl.
Bill, you are ungrateflll And then didn't
we keep this war up till the States were all
back In the Uniong Aud didn't we 90 TO
war and keep yonr doggoned States from
going out Of the UnionF And didn't we act
magnanimous, and rs soon as war was over,
unite in saying that You were out of the
Uniony Really, Bill, IL seems as Ii YOU had
1t all your own way! This war had proved
a success. A brilliant success. We were
bound TO push il through In ninety days,
and we should but for your stubbornness
All we wanted was niggers, and your cot
ton, mules, furniture, silver ware. and such
odd tricks, which you folks could buy
much better than we possibly could, for YOU
had more money! 1t was wrong 10 steal.
This war was 70 preserve the Union. Every
body said so. The Union has been presery-
ed-so much for us. Noto, brethren, Zee as
'preyS i"
\ Your States are kept out of the Union.
which Is still preserved You wanted re-
construction, Wen reconstruct you'll Your
folks are yefy wicked, Bill, God publishes
wickedness. Gods agents live Ia the North
exclusively, Bill And we'll let YOU back
IN the Union, which has been preserved,
whenwe get ready. First, you must hunt
up the balance Of your property and give
It 70 some of our great and good agents or
generals. Then you must move out OF
your houses, that Is, what are left, aud let
the niggers In, And you must give the
niggers your plantations. And, Bin, YOU
must give them all your property, and then
support the innocent cause of the late war
by manual labor. And you must let the
Ihiggers vote, tor they are wanted for Re
publican Congress, Senators and slch. And
you must Ignore all your personal or war
debts, and not pay them even upon the
basis Of honor. And you must help
us pay for licking you. And ere
YOU do this You must have" ali