The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-05-22

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700 are'not in no sense, nor never wuz, a
any time in sympathy with the AbliSheu, OF
ez they falsely style themselves, the Repub.
likin party, we extend to yoO the hospitality
Nv Pettisville. And, as there are reporters
present, let me remark, sir, that yoor expe.
Iience hez showed how falsely we have been
Judged by the krool persecooters NV the
Northern States, You hev been met on ev-
cry hand with nuthin but kindness. South
ern hospitality Nv the broadest kind hez
been extended TO yOo. Yoo hev he'd chaw
NV every plug-yoo hev had yoor suck out
Of every bottle, yOor nose shows that sence
700 entered the Sunny South you bev not
been allowed to taste water, wich IS our idea
NV hospitable treatment. Wat, my deer sir,
duz this go to show2 Wat does this prove 2
Ef Charles Sumner, for instance, or Judge
Kelley, had been so presumpshus, or eny
uther Republican, ez to attempt snch feet,
the outraged Southern hart would hev billed
over, and would hev been tored to peeces.
Wat does II prove? 1t proves that faint the
flag we object to so much ez it is the men
who hev bin in the habit Of carryin it.. In
the hands NV a constistooshenal Dimocrat its
the same old flag it allns wuz. In sich
hands, its russle sounds in our eers like the
crack Of nigger 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 Alton, and sunk Bailey's
press in the Ohio at Cincinnati. Under the
shadow Nv that blessed aag we sold niggers
at auction in Washington, and that flag, that
symbol Nv freedom, wood hev AOated over
:he deck Nv every slave ship wich sailed from
Africa, but for the unjust and sooisidle laws
wich forced the philanthropists in the biz
mis- to sail under other penants. In yOoT
hands, and the hand nv such ez 700, the flag
is to us the same old flag that it wuS then,
and its sacred to us becOz under 1t we Good
do all these things. That's why we love 1t,
and that's why we tolerate 700 with 1t. He'd
1t remained sich, we never wood hev raised
our hands aginst it. When sich ez Polk and
Fillmore and BoOkanon he'd the control NV it
we wuz satisfied with 1t and reverenced ev
ery stripe and every star--the speer-hed that
surmOunted it and the staff that upheld it.
for to US that flag meant suthin. It meant
freedom for us--free trade in niggers--it
meant Southern sOopremacy--it meant the
right to buy niggers-Sell niggers-iIhport
niggers-sxPort niggers-AOg niggers-hunt
niggers. So long eZ the flag wuz sich, we
loved It. But when the North dispOOted our
control nv it and pu. it in the hands Of A.
Linkun, Ablishnist, it wuE our Gag no
more. Then We felt that it must come down
that its mission wuz ended, and to US 1t
wuz nothin. fred onto that Gag. raised
my hand agin it, and proud am. But borne
by a Democrats old style Democrats
Democrat who stuck to us becOE he wuz
afeerd Nv nigger ekality, i: is wunst more the
same old flag, and we reverence it. Why,
then, when 700, carryin this emblem Nv the
nashun's grander, skin walk all over the
South, where is peece and so much afecshun
manifested for tie dag, why do they keep q
army to overawe us2 Why"
A interruption here occurred. A shot wuz
heard, and the crowd went to see wat it WuE.
They returned presently. A funeral process
sion nv niggers wuz passin through the next
street carryin to the nigger graveyard a
nigger who he'd list died Nv injoOries re-
ceiyed dooring the late unpeasantnis, and
ez they marched with a flag at their head
the eggsted and insulted populis he'd clean
ed EN- out. Two nv em wuE shot, and the
preacher with EN- wuz left for dead. This
over, they returned and the Mayor went on.
Sergeant Bates, welcome 700, and with 700
the flag, to PuttisVille.
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since be
came into the South he he'd bin treated kind
". In the rooral deestricks once or twice
where the people in their deliteful unsO6sti-
cation don't read noospapers and cOnsekenl-
u didn't Jest know the objeck Nv his carryin
the Gag, he Wuz went for rather ruff, but q
few words eonyinet EN- that h6 wuE sound
"a 91.ik - A.. ha AZ
in the rooral deestricks also rather over
whelmed him with attenshuns, but he bad
no difficulty in shaking em of. Stickin a
copy NV the Moo NOrk B0rld in their faces
did It. He Good say he wus delited with bis
experience.
The ceremony bein over, the Mayor mount
ed his hoes, and one band playin Dixie and
the tother the Bonnie Bloc Flag, the perceSh-
un moved to the town hall, where the Ser
geant was introduced to the principal citi-
Esns, ineloodin the officers OF the Ku Klux
Klan.
The affecshun displayed for the flag wuz
rather techin than otherwise. | noiist sol
jers 10 the service Of the late Confederacy,
who kist it in the feryOr Of their deyoshun.
One man who had served four years In For
rests command, wept ez his eyes lit onto it,
and he remarkt that IL Wus the happiest mo-
menl Nv his life j; and lady, the wife Nv an
ex kernal nv Lees, whose buzxum was deco
rated with pm made frSm Federal soljer's
skull, kist the corner Nv II, per,estin that IL
wuE dearer to her than life.
len Pettusville entirely satisfied. Our
stump speakers heV now suthin 10 60 on
The Gag hez gone thru the South, It's folds
bev kist the breeze IN every Southern State,
and It's kAresr hesn't been stopt on the spot
onct. We kin now appeal TO the people
He'd a Ablishnist carried It be would hev
been shet. Can't they see 10 this the path
10 peeee7 Can't they see how much more II
wood harmonic things II they wood let sich
men carry il all the timer Cant they see
that, whereas there will be continual hart
burnln In the South ef such man eE Grant
bez charge nv the nashuul emblem that all
win be lnVly and sWes. ef il is given int the
hands NV Pendletonl Sich Is the lessen |
extract from Sergeant Bates.
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