Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-09
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WASHINGTON, d. c., April 2O,1S5S
Happcnin to be i'll Washington at the
time Sergeant Bates, that noblest Ro-
man NV all the Northern men who took
arms against the Sunny South, wuz to
arrive, it okkurcd to me that it would be
a payin Investment eff shood go out to
Peetusville which is beautiful village
centalmn one dry goods store and Il
| floold groserieS, sit0oated about six ty
miles from here, and witness the recep-
tion that should be given him. Wat trans
pired thrilled me; in fact, | never felt
such a thrill Nv JOY in my life ez l did
wien | saw tins battle scared veteran
heave in sight. He came, proudly bear
ing alott the Flag wich, when the South
he'd her and owned the niggers body
and soul, in fee simple, wuz reely and
trooly the Flag Nv the Free, but wich
now that, alars there aint a slave under
lis shadder and all are PERMITTED to do
ez they please, is the symbol NV the most
oppressive and grindin tyranny wich the
world over witnest.
But, neverless, the devoshen to the
old flag, wich a site Nv it stirred up in
the breasts Nv the people Nv Pettusville,
reely surprised me. Never shel | forgit
the site that met my eyes. The Sergeant
|, WIZ met three miles out NV town, by a
perceshun wich accompanied him III,
marchin in the toilowin manner:
Band, payin 'The Bonny Bloc Flag"
Detachment NV the Pettusville Avcn-
gers, made up NV scjers wich form, rly
served in the 18th Virginia, wuz employ
ed for fourteen months Il guardim Ander-
sonville
Detachment NV the Pcttnvsille Cadets,
made up NV sons NV Coniedrit sojers
who wnz killed in the serys, with black
banners onto wich wuz inscribed "Ne
WI aveDge our slain sizes" q
Quartermas- Sergeant Bates, Commissary
ter in proudly in
late c. S. A. clriyin the late c. S. A.
Amerikin Flag.
-Four survivors NV the late unpleasant
lis, caryin each battle flag capchered
from Wisconsin regiments.
Bands playin "Dixie' meloiusly.
Citizens Oh foot and hossback and in
carts.
On striken the corporation, the May
or, Captain Badger, Of Forests Cavalry
and the town clerk, Qate Nv the lamen-
It'd J John Morgan's commandD appeared,
and the procession stopped, while the for
malties wuz gone through with. The
Mayor received the Sergeant with these
words:
SERGEANT BATES SIR :-Understan-
din ez we do, that yoo chivalrously made
wager, (wich is bet) with a Wiscon-
sin ablishnist that 700 Good walk from
Vixburg to Washington carryin the
Amerikln flag uniurled without bein in
suited nor nothin, and heyiu received
testimony from leading Democrats Nv
Wisconsin, wich is entirely satisfactory
to rs, that 700 are not in no sense, Eor
never WIZ at any time, in sympathy with
the Ablishnish, or ez they falsely style
themselves, the Itepublikiu party, We ex-
tend to yoo the hospitalIties NV PettGs-
vile. And cz there are reporters pres
ent, let me remark, sir, that yoor eXper
ience hez showed how falsely we hev bin
jduged by the crooel perscekooters Nv
the Northern States. 700 have bin met
Oh every hand with nuthin but kindness.
Southern hospitality NV the broadest
kind hez bin extended to 700. Ioo hev
he'd chew off nv every plug-yoo hev
ned yoor suck ont nv every bottle, yoor
nose shows that since you entered the
Sunny South 700 hev not bin allowed to
taste water, wich is our idee Nv hospita-
bic treatment Wat, my deer sir, does
this 90 to show ? Wat does this prove?
Ef Charles Sumner, for instance, or
Judge Kelly he'd bin SO presumpshas, or
eny other Republikin, ez to attempt such
a feet, the outraged Southern hart wood
hcv billed over and he wood hev bin tor
ed in pieces. Wat does itprove 1t proves
that faint the flag we object to so much
ez it is the men who hev been in The hab
it ufcarryin it. In the hands NV Consti-
tooshnenel Demokrat its the same flag
it alluz wuz. In sich hands, its russle
sounds in our ears like the crack nv the
niggcrs whip, and the site thereof Is
soothin. For when the flag wuz III them
hands, we hunted niggers under Its
folds in the streets Nv Boston. Under
that flag we shot LovejoY IN Alton, ana
sunk Bailey's press in the Ohio, at Gin
cinnati. Tnder the shadow NV the bleed
flag, we sold niggers at auction in Wash
ington; and that flag, that symbol NV
Freedom, wood hev floated over the
fdtck Nv every slave ship that sailed from
Africa, but for the unjust and soolsIdle
laws wich forced the philauthroplsts IN
the biznis to sale under others penants.
In yoor hands, and the hands NV SIGH ez
700, the flag is to us the old flag it wuz
then, and its sacred TO us bccoz under
it we Good do all these things. That's
why we love it, and that's why we toler
ate YOU with it. He'd it remained sich
we never wood hev raised our hands
aicn it. When sich ez Polk and Fillmore
,,SJ P,,,I-anou hr1 the control uy IT. we