Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-08-29
The Martyr, DR.. Dostie.

The brutal murder of the Union hero,
DIR. Dostie, by the Rebel mob at New Or !
leans on the 3oth of July, has given the
Copperhead and Rebel press rare opPor-
tunity to caluminate that sincere, though
impulsive patriot. The Richmond Erdns,-
ner speaks of the miserable wretehes who
were sacrificed to popular justice and
fury in New Orleans but the Mobile,
Alabama, Tribune, of the Sd August, has,
perhaps, the most outrageous article that
has been written on the subject. In order
to show our readers what kind of spirit ami
mates reconstructed Rebel editor, (which
may also be regarded as an index to the
feelings of the whole tribe in the South. J
We copy the article entire 1t is as follows:
another name is added to the list of
Abolition martyrs. Dostie has gone the
way of John Brown marching along to-
| ward country, compared with the climate
of which, even the heat OF these dog days
viii be considered COOL Brick Pomeroy,
some time back, drew a very graphic picture
of three-handed game of cards that the
souls of three Abolition martyrs, of which
Jim Lane was one, were playing around a
ed-hot iron table In hell and lntlmated
that one more was wanted to make four
handed game They are now gratihed, for
Dostie will do TO take hand till some more
| important parsonage benjamin the Beast
| for example) arrives to take his allotted
place. The soul of little Dostie, the barber,
| may then be employed curling the shadowy
hair of John Brown-if John can be made
to step marching on long enough to have
| his hair curled. 4.r. o ...,. s.5E.
Some time ago Dostie was trying to get
| up an excitement by declaring to set of
| horror-stricken Radicals, and negroes with
| eye balls popping out of their heads, that
somebody had been dogging his steps with
| intent to shoot him with an empty horse
pistol, or bottle of ginger-pop. He was
| joking about that; but. alas ! it was no joke
| this time. The poor barber who had gen.
erously given up the shaving Of white men
| i'll Chicago, to come South to shave ne groes,
thus ended his career in a manner little in
| keeping with the inoffensive mode of life of
a knight of the striped pole. Dostie is
dead! That garrulous barber tongue of his
will wag no more }aas sr a-.
| Take him up tenderly,
| Lift him with care'' '''
What to do with him? This is a practi-
cal age in which we live, and we must turn
everything to account There are great
many suffering negroes in the South, in
| spite of the Freedmens Bureau, and the
number of plantations demanding the hoe.
| Let Dostie's skin be forthwith stripped
from his body, stuffed and sold to Barnum
the proceeds to go to the Freedmen Bu-
reau and negro newspapers, to be used by
them for the benefit of negroes who have
no taste for work. Dostie's body viii make
good soap. Let him be boiled down, pre-
paratory to being distributed in bars to Yam
kee ''sehool marms - Delicious will be the
kisses slipped by those angular females from
ebony cheeks, late lathered with sweet
scented Dostie.' IA
Brutal, malignant and fendish as sthis ar
ticle is, it is after all but text which has
been promptly followed by Northern Cop
perhead editors. Even the Cleoryfeld Re
publican, the home organ of Mr.. Wallace,
Chairman of the Democratic State Commit
tee of Pennsylvania. having caught the cue,
INDUCES in petty TRADE about DR.. Dostie
having kept barber shop at Amsterdam,
n. Y, where he became indebted to every
body and ''left the town abruptly one
night, forgetting to pay even his washer
woman. 1t is to such villiication of a
murdered man that the organs of the once
great Democratic party are compelled to re-
sort as means of sustaining bad and
sinking cause. All they win gain by it,
they are welcome to enjoy. 7...i ~