Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-09-11

despatch, wuz the identikle mint l struck
Moo York and stood before a bar. Oh what
pleasin, soothin, magnetic thrill run thro
my veins ez the golden 1ikquid gurgled down
my esotfagus Jest SO | thrilled at reedin
that despatch. My thot-contracted brow
smoothed agin, the wrinkles of care left my
face, and wuz boy agin
left immejitly, and after pleasant jour
ney reached Moo Orleans.
had no trouble in finding them to whom
| was accredited. IF there's divinity
wich doth hedge king, ther must be suthin
also in the face NV a troo Dimekrat wich be-
trays him. | wuz follered to my hotel by a
crowd NV the first men in the city, and when
they saw my name on the register the scene
wuz terrific. They knowd me they knowd
my comm wuznt for nothin, and afore had
time to say nay, | wuz hurried to the 90 Lost
Coz " Club rooms and made an onorary
member for life, incloodin the freedom NV the
bar, wich privilege priced.
. Wat nooze from Washington ?" shouted
they with one akord.
- Calm yourselves ~ sed | impressively
- and restrain YOUR emoshens. Four days
ago | received this and | read 'em this
despatch, Never shell | witnss anuther sich
sceen. Old men danced like yooth, while
young men wept like wimmen.
. Excuse us, sir, - sed one, '' this weepIn
is onmanly, but ah, did you know wat hev
suffered Sence last Joon, year, | hevn't
kl'ied nigger nor a preecher, and hev only
knocked two NV EN- down and for them two
wuz imprisoned three months each. But,
thank God, IN free agin-I' m free - and
he fell onto my neck and askt me to take "A
drink with him, wich, fearin the etfex Nv
irritashen on him, in his present eggsitable
state, | did
wuz askt ifI he'd ever bin in Moo Orleens
and on saying that | hednt, my friend ac-
companied me To the many objecks Nv inter
est IN the city.
= Here, eed he, is the buildins in wich
Beast Butler received the surrender NV the
city, and where he signed the order for the
hangin NV Mumford. Subsekently, in this
SAME room, the tother beast, Sheridan, took
his orders from Mayor Munroe and Abel.
iia ha - twuz retribushen, and he smild
grimly several minits.' - Here is the hall
where Dostle and his Ablshn hordes gather
ed over year ago, and from wich Dostie wuz
carried corpse. At that angle in the bildin
|, with this good rite hand, slew three mig
gers and Burow preacher Right here
where we are standing, cart contaInln the
killed came along. | wuz eggsted and in
-uriated at their obstinacy in holdin the con-
venshen. In my revolver wuz one load-in
the cart under the corpses wuz niger
groaning. ! mounted the cart, and turned
over the corpeeses the wounded niger had
on bloc cOte-iniamed with rage at the
size pulled the trigger and he groaned no
more.
:. Glorious sperit - sed | in eggstacy
vringing his hand.
:. Just in front NV where stand thirty
odd niggers wuz killed, and one or two Nv
them Burow teachers. 1t don't become me
to saw how many.I killed, but | want idle.
In three weeks thereafter | received my par
don from the President and am now, thank
God, Il citizen
Bv this time we reached the Club again,
and for hours | listened to tales of oppression
on the part of the military satraps wich
made my blood run cold \ citizen had
shot a niger and forthwith he wuz torn
from the buzzum his family and inkar-
serated in the common prizen Another's
wife had throwed a buckit NV bilin water
over wench in the street, Nv which the
ncrverse creature died. and she, too wuz ar
rested Policemen he'd bin discharged for
retoosin To arrest men whose spirits couldn
brook niger ekality, and who he'd banged
EN- about somewhat, ana Otnefe lIau Dln uls-
misst for hurrahin for JEFF. Davis and pullin
down Federal flags. Their he'd bin no liberty
Nv speech nor ackshcn. lhls Cluo room
he'd been invaded. and pistols and shot guns
Dcu hln taken Out ~ ihScS oCS Hoeo, VIVA
wuz a grindin the citizens into the dust.
But the most oppressive case wuz that Nv
one NY our first citizens, VINO he'd girl in
MS family " no would persist IN attendn
skools after he he'd positively forbidden her
doin 80. He tied her up, and in the most
patriarchal manner gave her one hundred
and fourteen lashes. She wuz obstinlt and
died. He gave her Chrischen berricl, but
nevertheless he wuz pulled up, and fined
and imprisoned Fined and imprisoned for
walloping niger
Then bizncss commenced. Lists were be-
in made out, the purport Nv which | COM
prehendid. : Enter up, sed one, ollin a
revolver. the nest NV nIggers on the alley,
list around the corner from my house. They
hev ther chapel, in wich they hey preachin
SUNDAYS. and skools durin the week. Aside
from the annoyance it is to my family, it is
really dangerous. Two hundred Niger chill
dren attend it. beside the adult niger
classes.
Enter up said another, cleanin out
shot gun, the grocer on the same street
He is from Iowa, and teaches Sunday skool
class in that same chapel. Sich incendiaries
we kin never tolerate. - There Niger
church two squares from me wich must be
ahated. - sed another, - and by the way,
Il agent NV the nigger missionary sosiety and
two teachers from Connecticut boards next
door. Put EN- down" - In my part Nv
the citv,'' said another, 4" there's four mig
GER dravmen who hev been impudent enough
10 scrape together enuff to buy ground and
build EN- houses Don't forget to put EN-
They are niggers and hey
houses. l." he added bitterly, g | am
white man, and hev none. Put en- down.
When Sheridan goes ha ha
And so on The sekretary entered the
names as fast as they were furnished him
ontil the name NV every man suspected NV
Yankee perclivities registered. The
niecers wuz not put down, 'ceptin' them NV
sich prominence eZ they desired to make
soor NV, it is considered entirely safe to kill
a Niger anywhere. Some EN- desired to
make exccpshens in favor NV certain niggers
who Good be depended upon eB tru. One NV
EN- KEEP kenno and t'other faro bank
But they wuz rooled out. The niggers it
wuz decided, wuzn't to be trustid- Their
impudence. in T,resumin to keep faro banks,
wuz friteful,
The next day, brite and early, [ wuz at
the Club, when | received another despatch
The members flockt around me. g Is 1T
done? - shreekt they. - Is Stanton out ?''
He is said l slowly, 90 he is but
:. But what o relieve our suspense w
:. But Grant is in returned | droppin
the message, and sinkin on a sofa ina brown
study But they wuz delited.
:. It's better than we hoped,' sed they.
Grant he's come over at last. Bless the
Lord, His name will give the Administra-
ton strength - They cheered like loona-
tics.
Finally, one mornin got despatch that