Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-05-15


other Republican, ez to attempt sch feet
the outraged Southern heart would hev bilec
over and be wood hev bin toTed to pieces
Wat does il prove? 1t proves that tain
the flag we object to so much ez it Is the
men who bev bin in the habit nv carryin it
In the hands Nv constitooshenel Democra
its The same old flag il alluz wuz. In sict
hands, lis russle sounds in our ears like the
crack NV the nigeer whip, and the site there
Of is soothin. For when the 6ag wuz II
them hands, we hunted niggers under IL
folds in the streets NV Boston. Under tha
"a. ws sho, Lovejoy in Alton, and sunl
Bailey's press in the Ohio at Cincinnati
Under the shadow Nv that blessed flag we
sold niggers at auction in Washington, snc
that flag, that symbol wv Freedom, wood he'
aoatcd over the deck Nv every slave shiI
which sailed from Africa, but for the unjust
and sooisidle laws which forced the pLilan'
thropists in the biznis to sale under penants
In yoor hands, and the hands Of sich ez you
the flag is to us the old flag il wuz then, and
its sacred TO US becoz under it We Good d.
all these things. That's why We love It, aac
that's why we tolerate 700 with it. He'd I
remained sich We never would hev raised
our hands sgin it. When sich es Polk enc
Fillmore, and Bookanon, he'd the control Nv
il We wuz satisfied with Il and ssvereneed
every stripe aud every star-the spese bed
that surmounted i and The staf Web upAeld
it-for to us that 6ag meant suthin. Il
meant freedom 10 us-ffee trade in niegers
1T meant suthern soopremasy-it meaat
the rite to buy niggers- niggefs-impori
niggers-export niggers-fog niggers-hunt
niggers. So long ez the Asg wuz sich we
loved it. But when the Nor.h disposted our
control Nv it and put it in tie hands nv A.
Linkin, Ablishnis;s, il wuz our flag no
more. Then we felt that il must come down
that its mission wuz ended, and TO US it
wux noihin. l fred onto that flag. l rais>
ed my hand agin it, and proud | am. But
borne by Democrats old style Democrat
"A Democrat who stuck to US becoz he wus
Altered Of nigger ekality, il is wunst mess
the same old Gag, and We reverence il. Why,
then, when 700 carryin this emblem uvthe
nashun's grander, kin walk all over the
South, where all is peece and so much afec-
shun is manifested for the Gag why do they
keep an army to overawe US? Why"
4 interruption here occurred. A shot y NJ
heard, and the crowd rushed to see vat it
wuz. They returned presently. A funeral
procession Nv niggers wuz passin shro the
next street a carryin 10 the Niger graveyard
q nigger solger who had jest died Nv injooris
received durin the late unpleasan,nis, and es
they marched with . Gag at tber head, the
excited and insul,ed populis bed cleaned EN-
out Two NV EN- wss shot and the preecher
with EN- wuz left for dead. TLis over, they
returned and ihe Mayor welt on. Ser
geant Bates, welcome yso and with 700 the
flag, to Pe.iusville.n
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since be
come into the South be he'd bin treated kid
ly. In the rooral deestriks once or twice
where the people in their delightful unsofs>
iicaiior don't read noospapers, and conse>
kently didn't jist know The objcck Nv his car
ryiu the flag, be wuz went for ra.her ruf,
but few words convinct EN- that he wuz
sound aud It didn't inconmode him. The
niggers in the rooral destricks also rather
overwhelmed niY. with a.tenshuns, but be
had no difficulty in shakin EN- of. Stiekin
. copy nv the Moo York World in their ia
ces, did it. He Good say be wuz delited with
his experience.
The ceremony bein over, the Mayor
mounted his his horse. and one brad playin
Dixie and to,her The Bonnie Bloc Flag, the
perceshun moved to the twon hall, where
the Serseaa. wuz interdoost TO the principa
citizens, ineoodiu the officers nv the Kuk
k,dx Khan.
The afecskun displayed for the Gag il
rather teching than otherwise. notist sol.
iers in the service nv the late Conrsderacy,
who kist it in the fe-vor Of their devoshun
One man who had servsd four years in For,
es,'s command. wep;, ez his eyes lit onto il,
and be remarkt that it wuz the happiest mo
ment Nv bis life and lady, the wife of an
ex kernel NV Lees whose buzzum wuz dec
GRATED with pin made from from Fed>
eral solier's skull. kist the corner nv it. per
testin that it wuz deerer to her than lie.
l left Peitusvi'le entirely satisfied. Ou,
stump speakers hev nov suthin to 20 on
The Aag hez gone tbro the South, i.s folds
hev kist the breeze in evry Southern State,
caa It's -r-rve- he7n't bin shot on the apol
onct. Ne kip now appel to the people
He'd Ablishnist carried it be wood hev bin
shet. Can't they see in this the path 70
peece? Cant they see now much more j,
wood harmosize things ef they wood let sieh
men carry Il al the timet Can't they zee
that, whereas, ther will be . coEtinyool hart
burnin in the South ef sich . man es Grant
hez charge of the uashnel emblem. that all
will be lovely and sweet ef It is given into
the hands nv Pendleton? Sich Is the lessen
l extract from Sergeant Bates.
PETROLEUM. V. NAsBY, p. n.
(Wich is Postmastef.)