La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-04-07
Brick" POmerOy
BILL A r p

III ~ AN~
daughter-so to speak? There must b.
something very wrong in your nature
Reckon you must have lost something o,
found a horse shoe and no horse to hang
it on. We believe you are a very bad Bill
and SO we don't want to pass you in 81
lence. You write as if there was some
thing wrong with you-as if there were
clouds floating over the land of magnolia
and the sunny South generally. Really
Bill, We are surprised.
There never was SO ungratefnl a people
as you Southern gentlemen are, and now
after all has been dpne for you, to see
letters written by you SO full of insinua-
tons, is too much.
The fault of all lies with you. Weren't
4 you folks most dogoned wicked before
this war? Honest Indian now. Bill
Didn't you get proud, and is not pride a
sin? And didn't you own niggers down
there, and larrup them continually to
raise cotton for New England nabobs to
spin, sugar to sweeten our coffee. rice to
eat in our buildings and tobacco to chew
and squirt over meeting house floors ?
Answer US, Bill. And didn't you folks
stay down there and attend to your BUSH
ness a little too close And didn't you.
have better horses, better clothes, better.
houses, finer grounds, better furniture and
more land than we had ?
We are all Christians In the North. We
felt that all these fine things were drag
ging your soul down to hell. We didn't
want you to rest in birthstone. being in
torment, so we tried to correl you in
Abraham bosom. Abraham was a great
and good man, who died some time since,
as we. read of somewhere.
And then, Bill. you kept your niggers
too fat. Our factory operatives grew
jealous. And our girls went down 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 ALI the
fine things you had were leading you away
from salvation. SO we sent Butler, and
Curtis, and Banks. and Washburne, and
Steele, and Hovey, and Prentiss, and
Hurlbut, and several Of the elect of our
Christian Churches down there to win you
gut of the jaws of hell by withdrawing
line furniture. such as pianos, books, |
pictures. rosewood bedsteads, marb @ |
tables, silverwale. horses, cotton, and all
such plumber, to a 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 a billion of millions of dollars.
and enough nice furniture to furnish all
of the houses in the country, New Eng
land could steal it in four years; and if
New England Abolltionists could not. the
saints and Western children of
Abolitionists could. Hayn't we
prayed foryou in nearly all our charches?
And havn't we told you better ! You
to get out of the Union! All,
Bill, States once in can never get out
That is what we always told you. All
hose friends oSthe great martyr tell you ;
10. We want to keep you in. We fought i
Tou at Antietam. Pea Ridge, Getty sbure, !
'lcksburg, fredericksburg, Shiloh, Mo- d
'Ile, Fort Donelson aad the devil only |
nowsw where, to keep you in the Union. d
Ind then we. sent Christian missionaries
own there, Bill, to rescue your yaluables !
nd remove them North for safe Y. Won Q
now! And we burnt down your houses, :
nd we took. what food your wives and i
hildren had and We sent your cotton to +
market for you. you know, Bill And we b
ent three million of men to war to keep 6
burned fellers in this happy Union. I
roo only knows how many OF you folks
e killed. for one Northern man was al u
'ays good tor five Southern men, to say =
about mules, niggers, cotton and :
eepsakes. And Bill, We have stepped
ito some little debts on vour account. t.
on see, Bill. cotton was too CHEAP. Il
'obacco was too cheap. Rice was too tt
heap. Sugar wa too cheap. Happiness W
as too cheap. Our National debt was til
20 small. 1t was costing too much to ca
eep that negro clearinghouse of yours,
we remedied that by killing your Mig
ars or giving them the benefit of liberty.
lgs, old bones and Ab%olitionism. And
e made your cotton more valuable. And. y
III we enhanced the price of everything \
+ you. and made a demand for c%arpen.
rs and house builders down there. You In
rget how we have benefited your wicked DO
'untry, Bill, or you would not Arp SO
'ntinualiy on imaginary evils ~
And we did all this to keep you in tile to
nlon.. We sent old John Brown, peace Co
his ashes, fresh from stealing horses in wi
ansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing or
groes from your grasp in Virginia. De
nd Tor this little pleasantly on the part to ii
one OF our martyrs-one of our illumi- n
ted title pages TO history-you neverG
mixed US as YOU should. And didn't we TIL
some few iron into Charleston har-
r! The waters of that pool will be a
cd ~tonicsfor years, Bill And didn't
Irtls save your cottonl Didn't Butler
your gold and protect your women q
"a didn't Banks save the Red River
And didn't two hundred and !,
;hteen generals get rich as mud from par
ding things you folks lad lostl And po,
not there housefall after housefull Of ces
apsakes up North, picked up in the ]
obs and on wood piles by our army per
aplalns and our moral boys, while YOU re
trying to kill those of our folks who ;.naaa,
nfed to visit you to keep your souls e Yt
m hell? ess
~, you are ungrateful! And then adm
we keep this war up, till the States -
e oil back in the Union? And didn,t u
go to war and kann ~ c- 80