Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-08


The Ku Klux Klan is another de-
velopment NV the same spirit prodoosed
by similar causes and eventocatin in the
same results. The niggers instid of hum
bly, persooing the even tenor NV their for
mer ways and bowin meekly to the 500
perior power NV them wich wuz formerly
ther masters, is inflated to the pint NV
takin wat | sed to EN- four years ago in
dead earnest, and bleevin themselves to
be men. They persist in votin and hold
in meetins and sich, and NV course the
Caucashens NV the South cant tolerate it.
The murder NV these innocent niggers by
the men NV the South is another mani
festation Nv Radical hate and malignity.
Had they counseled them to continyoo
In that meeknis, the hoomility and hum
blenis NV wich is so lovely in the nigger,
there wood hev bin no Kuklux, and the
hair, or to speek more eggsact, the wool
NV the head NV no one NV EN-, wood ev
bin harmed, exceptin when the high spir-
tied sons NV the South after an unwonted
indulgence in the fowin bole mite in a
playful, sportive mood, occasionally shoot
or stab dozen or sich matter NV EN-.
They hev brot it upon themselves. Ask
menow, about Grant, Sherman and them.
/ tla I
promptly, enforcin his remarks with ap-
prit testers.
alluz reposed great confidence in
Grant. For long time he wuz wonder
fully reticent Nv wich / didn't take no
notis, for ez it wuz incomprehensible to
me how any one Good differ with me,
sposed he wuz troo to me and the con-
stooshun. | never lost faith in his pater-
tism till he insanely and blindly COM
menst opposin me, and then / resigned
him reluctantly But he finally went
over. Wat an awful thing is that one
who he'd won such laurels ez he hed-who
he'd made sich a name, shood throw it to
the earth by one false step. But so it
wuz with Grant He he'd rendered me
valyooable assistance in putting down the
rebellion and he'd suffered almost ez much
for the Constooshen ez / he'd, but he
rooined hiself after all. Sheridan opposed
me from the beginnin, TINS layin hisself
out for all time. Howard, ez eff bit with
the same snake, was in advance NV him !;
Sherman, Sickles, and the great majority
NV the Generals who served did likewise
Rosso and Steedman remained troo. and
Hancock wuz finally persuaded to stand
by the ship Nv state, but the rest Nv EN-
persisted in plungin the country into dis
sension and trouble by opposin me. When
think NV how they rooined me.-When
think NV how they theirselves-uv wat
a ridiculous figure they will cut in histo-
ry, ez my opponents, | can't avoid drop
ping bitter teer or two. 1t wood be well
to put in here, The President wuz viz
ably affected
The removal NV Stanton and the ap-
pintment NV Thomas in his sted is wat
these disorganizer, these colcentrators
who oppose me that the government may
be concentrated in their hands instid NV
bein diffoosed thro mine, cheehy depend
upon. Wat is there in it /? Stanton wuz
opposed to me, and /, laborin for that,
unity and oneness, without wich no gov
ernment kin go on satisfactorily to the
head thereof, removed him. How kin
the Government go on with anybody op-
posin me ?-ef nobody opposed me there
would be no dispoots. The people must
understand this, that they may put the
blame where it belongs. / hev no OBJ
jeckshun to sayin that to bring about
harmony and peece-I wood, eff / Good,
remove Congress, that the struggle be-
tween us mite be ended. But no one kin
object to my removin Stanton. Will
they say that the tener NV offs act per-
tected him? shell anser to wunst that l
he'd decided that law be constooshnel
long ago, and consekently it he'd no bind
in force onto me. l weep continyooally
over the perversenis NV the men who will
eontinyooally keep passin laws wich
they know l will declare unconstooshnel.
Ez to the final result, have nary
doubt The people are with me- Look
at their anxiety for my triumph and the
sacrifices they are willin to make. Why,
over four thousand NV my friends residin
in Moo York were so anxious that no
other friends in Connecticut shood sue
ceed, that they went all the way to Hart
ford and Moo Haven to vote Wuz there
eversich patertism displayed afore? Who
kin doubt when backed by sich adher-
ents ?"
The President signifed that he wuz
done.
Hadn't yoo better look over these
notes." sed l "there may be things VOC
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