Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-09-15
NUMBER 36.
from the Sacramento Bee.1
The Boys I'm Blue.


1t is undoubtedly true that there never was
in all the wide world, nor at any time, so great
an array of thinking bayonets rallied to put
down the late rebellion. The present Prussian
army is very intelligent, and is much better
drilled than ours was at first, but there has been
no million and half of them nor will there be-
1t was pretty severe on the boys to leave their
plows, shops, stores, offices and schools, and
learn to submit to strict military discipline; but
after little, and before the fight was over,
could obey with great alacrity. If they had been
ordered, after the surrender of the rebels in
Virginia, to gather up all the heaps upon heaps
of Confederate muskets and return them to the
paroled prisoners who had just laid them down,
they might have done it. IT, after that, they
had been commanded to pass their own over to
the gray clad crowd, they could have done that
too. Or if in the heat of the battle they had been
ordered to bout face and demolsh the supply
train, burn all their ammunition and slaughter
the teamsters and servants a the Sanitary and
Christian Commissions, they might have done
that. Or they might have been induced to fire
upon q company of Paymasters coming to settle
with them. In the flush of victory and heat of
battle they would have done almost anything at
the command of their chosen and tried leaders,
and inquired the reason afterwards. If on that
sad and Joyous day, when the war-worn veterans
filed past the new-made President and his Cabinet
at the Capital, the Commander-in-Chief had led
them to the Halls of the Nation and ordered
them to arrest the usurpers calling themselves
the Congress of the United States" the deed
might have been done. But that time has passed
the grandest army of the earth has dissolved
The soldier has again become citizen; the
bayonet rusts in the castle of the sovereign and
the Confederate commander at the head OF MS
b. B. Brigade may shout himself hoarse, may
send out his underlings with untold wealth of
crumbs, may display his sideboards groaning
with oysters, turkey, and champagne and all
the delicaces of all the seasons it will be all in
vain No graduate of Libby, Belle Isle, Sails
bury, Andersonville or Fort Pillow can be charm
ed by the voice from that lions skin, though 1T
roar gently. Though Stanton, Grant
and Beecher add their might of lungs, and coax
and cajole, it will avail little. The common
schools and the peoples college with its four
years course, have done the work of educating
the soldiers beyond the lead of leaders wander
ing into devious paths. They may call them to
Chicago or Cleveland, or wherever they please,
very few will go. And those that do can never
be brought to condemn the Congress which has
fed them from the bounties of the people; Con-
gress which has stood firmly by the soldier in the
day of peril, furnished means without stint, and
been the bulwark behind him assailed as fierce
ly as cowardly northern traitors dare Congress,
the bravest, truest, wisest, most far-seelng band
of men ever intrusted with the legislative power
u
eminent danger, and has ever been found equal
to the emergency. Ask a soldier to a council to
defame Congress Ask him to whip his wife,
slander his mother, dash out the brains of his in
fant ask him to call himself all the pet names
flung so freely at him by the peace Democracy
during the war ask him to spit and trample
upon himself as a knave and fool for loving his
country and freely offering his life for her;
but Oh, mad men, do not ask the soldier to
thrust his bayonet, rusted by traitor blood, into
the great warm heart of Congress There are
crimes that mankind by instinct shrink from
mentioning. Put this in the category Let par
ricide be respectable but speak not of Congress
eide. Ask anything in reason, or out of it, but
ask no soldier to smte with rude hand the ap
pie of the eye of this nation.
THE "BREAD-AND-BurTER REsoLUTIoNs.-Here
is the Philadelphia Platform as drafted by Mas
by in "prorhetc dreem."
1t resolved that Whereas, there he'd bin
season unpleasantniss in national history
wich, OWN to circumstansis over wich nobody
he'd any CONTROL extended over several periods
Nv ninety days each and Whereas, the unpleas-
antnss resulted from the two sections viewn
things each from its own standpoint, nstid
viewin things from the others standpoint and
Whereas, both parties wuZ highly in the wrong,
partikerlerly the North and Whereas, the South
with a magnanimity unknown in history, he'd
thrown down her arms, and wuz ready to resoom
her old position in the Government, nay more, to
take more than her old share NY the trouble
runnin the Government; therefore be it Resolved,
That for the Yoonyun ez it wuz.
That the persistency Nv sectional Congress
in contlnuin the unpleasantniss wich hez to
some extent disturbed our system Nv Government,
in legisating while eleven sovereign States is
unrepresented, is pizen.
That we view with alarm the manifest determ-
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the law-makin power NV the Government, and we
pledge our support to our worthy Cheef Magis-
trate, who is a second Jaxon, in his efforts to
cheek their centralzin schemes by vetoin all
they may do.
That all traces nv the late unpeasantnss may
be wiped out ez soon ez possible, we demand Nv
Congress appropriation for plowin over all the
fields wich the citizens Nv the two sections
who wuz indoost by their respective Governments,
so-called, to carry muskets, cum together, par
tkerlerly them wich our Southern brethren
got the worst Nv the dispoots that ensood.
That Congress shood ez ez it convenes,
change the names Murfreesboro, Gettysburg,
Atlanta, Vcksburg, ct settry, to sich names ez
Smithboro, Brownsburg, Jonesyille, ct settry,
that the serious unpleasantnsses Wien occurred
at them places may be remembered no more for
ever.
That the citizens NV the Southern States wich
lost heir lives and legs and sich, IN the late nm
pleassntnisses wich hez bin referred to, ought
to he placed on the pension rolls the same ez the
Nor,barn citizens who suffered likewise, and that
the debt incurred by the South in upholdn
sswd from bs its dss rs entitled 1x lied
North in upholdin things ez viewed from its
standpoint.
That we are willin for the sake NV harmony
to admit that Sherman and Grant were all
things considered, worthy NV being ranked with
Lee and Stonewall Jaxon.
That the safety the Government demands
that sich ez took part in the late unpleasantniss
from the Southern States be twounst admitted to
Congress and to the other positions wich they
yoost to ornament, and that the more unpleasant
they WIZ doorin the trouble the more they ought
to be admitted.
That there shell be gushin condolences, we
freely forgive the honored Secretary Nv State for
the too free use his little bell doorin the un-
pleasantniss, believin the that he viewed things
from his own standpoint instid Nv somebody
else's, wich alluz causes trouble.