The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-05-07
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Sergeant Bates at Va.
MIR. Nasby II Present when Hs
Arrives.
WASHINGTON, D. G. April 20, 1868.
Happenin to be in Washington at the
time Sergeant Bates, that noblest Ro-
man NV all the Northern men who took
up arms agin the Sunny South, wuz to
arrive, it occurred that it would be a
payin Investment eff / shood go out to
Pettusville wich is a beautiful village
containin one dry goods store and 3
fooid groseries, sitooated about sixty
miles from here, and witness the recep-
ton that shood be given him. Wat
transpired thrilled me; in fact, never
felt Sich a thrill nv joy in my life cz
did when / saw this battle-scared vet
eran heave in sight. He came proudly
bearin aloft the Flag wich, when the
South he'd her rites and owned the mig
gers body and soul, in fee simple, wuz
RELY and trooly the Flag Nv the Free,
but wich now that, alars! there amt a
slave under its shadder and all are per-
mitted to do ez they please, is the
symbol Nv the most oppressive and
grindin tyranny wich the world ever
witnist
But, nevertheless, the dovoshen to
the old flag, wich site nv it stirred up
in the breasts NV the people Nv Pettus-
vile, RELY surprised me. Never shall
forget the site that met my eyes. The
Sergeant wuz met three miles out Nv
town, by perceshuu wich accompani-
ed him in, in the following order:
Band playin "Bonny Bloc Flag"
Detachment NV the Pettusville
Avengers, made up NV soliers which
formerly served in the 18th Virginia,
wich wuz employed for fourteen months
a gardin Andersonville.
Detachment NV the Pettusvile Ca
dets, made up nv the sons of Confedrit
soldiers who wuz killed in the servis,
with black banners, onto which wuz
Inscribed, "We will avenge our slain
sires."
Quar- termaster Sergeant Bates Commissary in
In proudly late
late G. s. A. carryin the C.S.A.
Amerikin flag.
-Four survivors nv the late onpleas-
antnis, carryin each battle flag cap
chered from Wisconsin Regiments.
Band playin "Dixie" melojusly.
Citizens on foot and horseback and
in carts.
On strikin the corporation; the Mayor
| Captain Badger, nv Forests cavalry,
and the town clerk Qate nv the lamen-
It'd John Morgan's command) appeared
and the procession stepped, while the
formalities wuz gone through with.
The Mayor received the Sergeant in
these words:
"SERGEANT BATES, SIR: Understand
in, ez we do, that you chivalrously made
a wager (wich is bet) with a Wiscon-
sin ablishnist that you Good walk from
Vicksburg to Washington carryin the
Amerikin flag unfurled without being
insulted nor nothin, and hsvin received
the testimony from leadin Democrats
NV Wisconsin, wich is entirely satisfac-
tory to us, that you are not in no sense,
nor never wuz at any time, in sympa-
thy with the Ablishen, or ez they falsely
style themselves, the Republican party,
we extend to you the hospitality of
Pettusville. And ez there are reporters
present let me remark, sir, that yoor
experience hez showed how falsely we
hev bin judged by the cruel perskooters
NV the Northern States. Yoo hev bin
met on every hand with nothin but
kindness. Southern hospitality Nv the
broadest kind hez bin extended to you.
Yoo hev he'd chaw off every plug
yoo hev he'd yoor suck out Nv every
bottle, yoor nose shows that sence yoo
entered the Sunny South 700 hev not
been allowed to taste water wich is our
idea Nv hospitable treatment
Wat, my dear sir, does this go to
show7 Wat does this sprovei EfCharles
Sumner for instance, or Judge Kelley
he'd bin so presumpsbus, or any other
Republican, ez to attempt sich feet,
the outraged Southern hart wood hev
billed over and he wood hev bin tored
to pieces. Wat does tprovei Improves
that faint the flag we object to so much
ez it is the men who hev bin in the
habit Nv carryin it. In the hands Nv a
constitooshnel Dimocrat its the same
old flag it alluz wuz. In sich hands,
its russle sounds in our eers like the
crack Nv the niger whip, and the site
thereof is soothin. For when the flag
wuz in them hands, we hunted niggerS
under its folds in the streets Nv Boston.
Under that flag we shot Lovejoy in AL
ton, and sunk Bailey's press in the
Ohio at Cincinnati. Under the shad-
der NV that blessed flag we sold niggers
at auction in Washington, and that
symbol NV Freedom, would hev foated
over the deck NV every slave ship wich
sailed from Africa, but for the unjust
and sceisidle laws which forced the
philanthropists in the biSness to sale
under other penants. In yoor hands,
and the hands Nv sich eE you, the flag
is to us the old flag it wuS then, and its