New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-03
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Sergeant Bates in PettusvIIle, virginia
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WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20.
, Happenin to be in Washington at the
time Sergeant Bates, that noblest Roman O
all the Northern men who took up arms agir
the Sunny South, wuz to arrive il ok
kurred to me that it would be payin in
vestment eff l shood go out to Pettusville
W1ch is beautiful village containin one
dry goods store and thirteen food grocer
les, sitooated about sixty miles from here
and witness the reception that shood be
given him. Wat TRANSFERRED thrilled me; in
TACT, never felt SIGH a thrill Nv Joy in my
life, ez did when | saw this bautle.scared
yetran heave in sight. He came, proudly
oearln aloft the flag witch, when the South
beg her rites and owned the nippers pody
anu soul in fee simple wuz RELY and trooly
the Flag Nv the Free, but witch now that,
slars! there amt slave under its shadder
and all are permitted to do ez they please.
is the symbol Nv the most oppressive and
grindin tyranny witch the world ever
Witnist.
But, nevertheless, the devoshun to the
old flag, with site Nv it stirred up in the
breasts Nv the people Nv Pettusville, RELY
surprised me. The Sergeant wuz met three
miles out Nv town, by perceshun witch &C.
NOulpdulGt ulul III luG AOllOW III OfUGrs
Band, playin Benny Bloc Flag"
Detachment of the Pettusvilie Avengers,
made up Nv soiers witch formerly served in
the thirteenth Virginia witch wus employed
for fourteen months guardin Anderson.
Vile.
Detachment Nv the Pettusville Cadets,
made up NV sons of Confedrit soliers who
wuz killed in the servis, with black banners
onto witch wuz inscribed, I'VE will avenee
/ our slain sires,N
QuaTtsrmaster Sergeant Bates COmmissary in
| in proudly late
! late Z. s. a. carryin the G. S. A,
Amerikin flag.
Four survivors Nv the late onpleasautnis
carrying each battle flag capchered 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 ilate of the lamentid John
Morgan's commsnd) appeared, and the pro-
cession stopped, while the formalities wuz
! gone through with. The Mayor received
| the Sergeant in these words:
| SERGEANT BATES SIR-Understandin, eZ
we do, that you chivalrously made wager
| (Which is bet) with Wisconsin Ablishnist
that you could walk from Vicksburg to
| Washington, carryin the Amerikin flag I'M
furled without being insulted nor nothin,
and hevin received testimony from leadin
Democrats Nv Wisconsin, witch is entirely
satisfactory to us, that you are not in no
sense, nor never Wuz at any time, in SYM
pathy with the Ablishen, or as they falsely
style themselves, the Republican party, we
extend to you the Inequalities of Pettus.
vile. And ez there are reporters present
let me remark, sir, that your experience has
shoWd how fal0ely we have been judged by
the crooel prosecutors Nv the Northern
States HOn how haaD IN rv no ID
with nothin but kindness. Southern hos
pitality has been extended to you. 700 hev
/ he'd chaW Of every plug-you hev had
your suck out Nv every bottle. Your nose
shows that since you entered the Sunny
South 700 hev not been allowed to taste
water, witch is our idea of hospitable
treatment. Wat, my dear sir, does this 90
to show What does this prove? Eff
Charles Sumner for instance, or Judge x elley
he'd bin so presumpshus, or any other Re
publikin, ez to attempt such feet, the out
ragged Southern heart wood hev billed over
ane he wood hev bin tored to pieces. What
does 1t prove It proves 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 constltushenel DimOcrat its the
same old flag it alluz wuz. In such hands
its russle sounds in our GERS like the crack
NV the niger whip, and the site thereof is
soothin. For when the flag wuz in them
the streets Nv Boston. Under that flag we
shot Lovejoy at Alton, and sunk Baieys
press in the Ohio at Cincinnati. Under the
shadow Nv that blessed flag we sold niggers
at auction in Washington, and that flag, that
symbol nv Freedom wood hev foated over
the deck Nv every slave ship which sailed
from Africa, bat tor the unjest and sooisidle
laws which forced the philanthropist5 in
the biznis to sale under other penants. In
yoor hands, and tine hands NV such eZ you,
the flag is to US the old flag it wuz then,
and its sacred to W becoz under it
We Good do all these things. That's why we
love it, and that's why we tolerate VOC with
hey raised our hands agin it. When SIGH
as Poik and Fillmore and Bookanan he'd the
CONTROL NV 1t we wuZ satisfied with it, and
reVerenced every stripe and every star; the
speer he'd that surmounted il and the staff
which upheld it; for to US that flag meant
suthin. 1t meant freedom to us-free trade
in niggers-it meant southern soopremacy-
1t meant the rite to buy niggers-seA mig.
gers-import niggers-export niggers -hog
niggers-hunt niggers. So long ez the flag
wuz SIGH we loved it. But when the North
dispooted our CONTROL Nv it, and put in the
hands NV A. Linkin, Abilishonist, it wuz
our flag no more. Then we felt that it must
Come down-that its mission Wuz ended
and to us it was nothin. / fired onto that
flag. raised my hand agin il, and proud
/ am. But borne by Democrat old
style Democrats Democrat who stuck to
US becoZ he was afeerd of niger ekality-it
is wunst more the same old flag and we rev
erence 1t. Why, then, when 700, carryin
this emblem of the nasnen's grander, kin
walk all over the South, where all is peece,
and SO much atfeckshun is manifested for
the flag, why do they keep a army to over
awe us Why
A interruption here occurred A shot
wuz heard, and the crowd rushed to see
wat it wuz. They returned presently. A
funeral procession nv niggers wuz passin l
thro the next street carryin to the Niger
grave yard q Niger s9lger who had Jest /
died Nv iniooris received doorin the late on
pleasantnis, and ez they marched with
a flag at ther head the excited and insulted
popnlis he'd cleaned them out. Two NV EN-
WuZ shot, and the preacher with EN- Wnz
left for dead. This over they returnrd, ana
the Mayor went on. Sergeant Bates, vel
come 700, and with 700 the flag, to Pettus-
ville.n hh.Iea
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since he |
come into the South he he'd been treated |
kindli. In the rooral deestricts once OF
twice where the people in ther deliteful
unsohstication don't read newspapers, aud !
consikently didn't jist know the obiekt Nv
his carryin the flag, he wuz went for rather /
ruff, bus few words c0nVinct EN- that he I
Wuz sound, and IL didn't incommode him.
The niggers in the rooral distriks also rather
overwhelmed him with attenshuhs, but be
he'd no difficulty in shakiu them of. Stickin
a COPY Nv the New York World in their
faces did it. He could say he wuz delited
with his experience.
The ceremony eein over, the Mayor
mounted his boss, and one band plaVin
Dixie and the tother the Bonnie Bloc Flag,