The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-02-21
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Mr.. John Happy Sur IL want t,
write toyou personally about some hing,
that's weighin on me. I look upon vol
as friend, and l feel like droppin few
lines by way Of unbdrthenin nv sorrow
full reflections. For the last few wear!
you have travelled round right smart and
must have madoa heap Of luminous OBJ
seryations. | hear you are now livin ii
Nashville, where you can see all sides Of
everything, and read all the papers
where you'can study Paradise Lost with
out a book, apd see the devil and his an
gels, without drawing on the Imagination
and l thought may be you might assist
me in my troubled feelings. 4 1 have al.
walls, Mr.. Happy, cndeavored to see the
right side of, every pikter, if had any,
but there is one or two subjects about
which I had nigh gin it up a.e
l want you to tell me if you can, about
what time are the black republicans goin
to quit prosecutin our people 2 What arc
they SO everlastin mad with us about p
Old Skewball says it's for treason that
we've gone and done, and that I am the
slowest preserving man he ever seed not
to have found it out. Now tleason is a
mighty bad thing, and any man found
guilty of treason ought to be talked to
by preacher right under q gallus, ard
then be allowed to stand on nothing for
a few hours by the clock. Shore enuff
Treeson. mean Tree3on where a man
slips around on sly in time of war, and
takes sides agin his country. Just as
though, for instance, should have work.
ed agin my suvreen State after she had
seeded, and had stole her powder or do
serted her in her time of peril, while she
was defendin, herself against tho COZ.
blned assaults Of the world, the flesh aha
the devil. l wouldn't have blamed no.
body for habgin me for the like, would
you? p But Skewball says we amt got no
suvreen States-that the war hay settled
the question agin us on, that pint.
don't think SO, my friend. I admit that
We amt nothin in partikler now, but We
did hav suvreen States before the war,
and the sword aint settled orsuusettled no
great principles. There amt no trial of
right or wrong by wager of battles now a
days. For mighty nigh hundred years
this country have baen big debatin so.
clety on these questions. From the time
of Hamilton and Jefferson down to 1861
the right of State to dissolve her own
partnership have been argued by power.
ful minded men, and there are more for
it than agiait. More Presidents-more
Senators, more statesmen, more judges,
more people, Massachusetts and Con.
necticut were for it at one time, and bel.
Tered round and paved dirt amazing 10
get out, but they found out Barcus was
willin and they didn't 60. believe,
however, that old Nutmeg did stay out
about two hours and half
Well, the South went out mi'y unwill.
iuely, Mr.. Happy, as you know She
had been nifty nigh kicked out for a long
time, and there was big party wanted
US to 90 out and stay out, We conclu.
ded to do like Abraham and lis brother
in law-to separate our households -
What they waited to keep us for l never
could sec, and can't ace yet. l wouldn't
have nigg.r or dog to stay around me
that didn't want to. Some say they want
ed US to strengthen EN- agin their enemies
in case Of furrin war Does any man
in his senses expect us to help the black
republicans to whip any body2 Have We
got any worse enemies than they are ?
They can't make us fight reckon if We
dol't want TO We've fout enuff and
made nothin by it but glory, and we aini
a going to jine in another war to CRAFTY
other people. Dodds says before he'd
pull trigger for Thad Stevens, he'd
have his Noul trausmigrated to bench
leg 'diGce, and bark at his daddys mule,
1000 years. / wonder if the experience
of the last -four years aint satisfied these
fellows that our boys are dangerous set
to be turned loose in time Of war p
Wouldn't you think, as a matter of roli.
cy, they would soft solder US a little and
quit their slanderin 2 If we do fight fol
EN- there will be one condition certain
they must be put where David put Usiah
and our boys must consent to make 0
charge or two behind EN- at the pint ol
the bagnet. a- st T-,fr
But I'want you to tell me, John, if
am right about the history Of this bust
ness. II amt long story and I'll tell it
the way | see it, Old Pewrytan went Of
one day with some ships, and took a few
beads and juceharps and bought up lot
Of captured niggers from the Hotentots
or some other tots, and stole few more
from the coast Of Afriky, and brought
EN- oyer and educated EN- to work in the
dsld, and cut wood aud skeer bars and SO
forth, but not includin votin, nor muster.
in, nor the jury bisness, nor so forth.
I Well, after while they found that the
cold winds and Goldfish airs of New Eng
land didentagroe with the niger, and 50
they begun to slide EN- down South as fat
as possible. After they he'd sold EN- and
got the money, they jined tho church and
got sancti6ed about slavery, sOrter like
The woman that got converted, and then
gave all her novels away to her pucon.
vertsd sister. Well, the old Dominion
and sich Of her sons as Washington, and
Jefferson, and Madison and Randolph,
bought EN- andworked EN- to satisfaction,
wbereup5n old Pew got jealous and be.
gan to preach agin il to tear il down.
The fskt is, they vOuldeut work gals in