The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-05-07
WHOLE NO. 1894.

baOieu W uS DtCOl uuueF III we C000 DO ,
all these things. 6s
That's why we love 1t, and that's
why we tolerate 700 with it. He'd il
remainedsich we never wood heY raised
our hands agiu it. When sich ez Polk
aud Fillmore and Bookanon he'd the
control NV it we wuz satisfied With il
and reverenced every stripe and every
star-the speer he'd that surmounted Il
and the staff wich upheld it-for to us
that flag meant suthln. 1t meant free
dom for us--free trade in niggers-it
meant suthern soopremacy-it meant
the rite to buy niggers-~sell niggers4--
import niggers-export niggers--hog
niggers-hunt niggers. SO long ez the
flag wuz sich we loved it. But when
the North dispoOted our control Nv it
and put it into the hands NV A. Linken,
Abolishionist, it wuz our flag no
more. Then we felt it must CONS
down-that its mission wuz ended and
to us it wuz nothin. / fred onto that
flag. l raised my hand agin it, and
proud / am. But borne by Dimocrat
"a old style Democrats Dimocrat
who stuck to us becoz he wuz afeerd
of nigger ekality, it is wunst more the
same old flag, and we reverence it.
Why, then, when 700, carryin this
emblem NV the nashen's grander, kin
walk all over the South, where all is
peece and so much affeckshun is mani.
tested for the flag, why do they keep g
army to overswe usi Why"
An interruption here occurred. A
shot wuz heard, and the crowd rushed
to sec wat it wuz. They returned
presently. A funeral procession nv
niggers wuz passin through the next
street carryin to the nigger graveyard
a niger soljer who he'd jist died NV in
jooris received doorin the late onpleas-
antnis, and ez they marched with flag
at their head, the excited and insultid
populis had cleaned em out. Two NV
EN- wuz shot and the preecher with EN-
wuz left for dead. This over, they re-
turned and the Mayor went on. "Ser-
geant Bates, welcome you and with
yoo the flag, to Pettusville."
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since
he come into the South he he'd bin
treated kindly. In the rooral destriks
once or twice where the people in ther
deliteful unso6stication don't read noos-
papers, and Consekently don't jist know
the objeck nv his carryiR the flag, he
wuz went for rather ruff, but a few
words eonvinct EN- that he wuz sound
and it didn't incommode him. The
niggers in the rooral deestricks rather
overwhelmed him with attenshuns, but
he'd no difficulty in shskin EN- of. ?
Stickin copy nv the Moo York World
in their faces did it. He Good say he
wuz delited with his experience ,'l
The ceremony bein over, the Mayor
mounted his hoSs, and one band pIayin !
Dixie and the tother the BOnny Bloc
Flag, the perceshun moved to the town
hall, where the Sergeant wuz introdoost
to the principal citizens, incloodin the
officers NV the Kuk Klux Klan. r5oag
The affection displayed for the fagis
rather techin than otherwise. l notist
soliers in the service of the late Con-
federacy, who kist it in the fervor Nv
their devoshun One who had served
four years in Forests command, wept,
ez his eyes lit onto it, and he remarkt
that it wuz the happiest moment Nv his
life and lady, the wife of an ex-,
colonel nv Lees, whose buzzum wuz
decorated with pin made from Fed
eral soGer's skull, kist the corner nv it,
persisten that it wuz deersr to her than
life.
I left Pettusyille entirely satisfied.
Our stump speakers bev now suthin to
go on. The flag hez gone through the
South; its folds hev kist the breeze in
every Southern State, and its carryer
hezent bin shot on the spot Onct. We
kin now appeal to the people. He'd a
Ablishnist carried it he wood hev bin
shot Can't they see in this the path
to peece7 Can't they see how much
more it wood harmonize things eff they
wood let siCh men carry it all the time
Can't they see that whereas ther will be
a continyoed hart-burnin in the South
eff sich man ez Grant hez charge Nv
the nashuel emblem, that all will be
lovely and sweet eff il IS given into the
hands Nv Pendleton? Sich is the les
son l extract from Sergeant Bates.
PETROLEUM V.sNAsBY, Pm, :,
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