Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-09
ASHTABULA OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1868.

that surmounted it and the staff wich
npheld it-for to MS that flag ment stith-
in. 1t ment freedom to us-free trade
in niggers-it ment Southern soopre-
macy-it ment the rite to buy niggers-
sell niggers-import niggers-export
iiggers-fiog niggers niggers. So
long ez the flag wuz sich we loved it,
But when the North dispooted our con-
troll NV it, and put it in the hands NV A.
Linkin, a Ablishnist, it wuz our flag no
more. Then we felt it must come down
that its mission wuz ended, and that to
us it wuz nothin. | fired onto that FLAG.
1 raised my hand agin it and proud am
But bore by Democrat-a old style
Democrat-a Democrat who stuck to us
becoz he WIZ Altered NV nigger equal
i'y, it is wunst more the same old flag
and we reverence it. Why then, when
yoo, a carryin this emblem NV the ma
tion's grahder kin walk all over the
South, where all is peece and so much
affcckshun IS manifested for the flag,
why do they keep a army to overawe US?
why"
A interruption here occurred. A shot
was heard, and the crowd rushed to gee
wat it wuz. They returned presently.
A funeral procession of niggers was pas
III thro the next street 4 carryin to the
nigger graveyard nigger sojer who
he'd Just died nv iEjoories received doorin
the late onpleasantnis, and ez they march
ed with the flag at ther head, the exei-
ted and insultcd populis he'd cleaned EN-
out. Two uv em was shot and the
preacher with EN- wuz left for dead
This over, they returned and the Mayor
went Oh; Sergeant Bates, l welcome
yoo and with yoo tho flag, to Pettus-
vile"
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since
he come into the South he he'd bin treat.
ed kindly. Iii the rooral deestricts once
or twice where the people in their de-
lightful unsofstication don't read moose
papers, and consistently didn't iist know
the objcck!uv his calry!n the flag, he WIZ
went Tor rather ruff, but few words
convinst en- that he wuz sound and it
didn't inconmode him, The niggeiB in
the rooral deestricts also rather over
powered him with attenshuns, but he
he'd no difficulty in shakin EN- Off Stick
i'll copy NY the Moo York World in
their faces did it. lie Good say he WIZ
delitcd with his experience"
The ceremony bein over, the Mayor
mounted his hoss, and one band playin
Dixie and the tother the Bonny Bloc
Fag, the processhun moved to the town
hall, where the Sergeant wuz interdoos-
ed to the principal citizens, incloodin the
officers NV the huk Kiuk Klan.
The atfecshun displayed for the flag is
rather techin than otherwise l notist
solerS i'll tie s;ryiee Nv the late Conted-
racy,who kist it in the ftryor Of their de-
Yohshen. One man, who he'd served four
years in Fore t's command, wept, ez his
eyes lit onto it and he remarkt that it
wus the happicst moment Nv his life
and lady, the wife of an ex kernel NV
Lees whose buzzum wuz decors ted with
a pin made from Fedral a soljeIs skull,
k.st t. c corner NV it, pertestln that it
wuz deerer to her than Il e.
l left Pettusville entirely satisfied.
Our stump speakers hey now sutbin to
go on. The flag has gone through the
South, its folds hey kist the breeze in
every Southern State, and its carryer
hezn't been shot on the spot onct. We
kin now appeal to the people. He'd a
ablishnist Carried it he wood hey bin
shot. Can't they see in this the path to
pcece? Can't they see how mach more
it wood harmonic things eff they wood
let sich men carry it all the time? Can
not they see that, whereas, ther, will be
Il continyooal hart burnin in the South if
sich men ez Grant hez charge nv the ma
tional emblem, that all will be lovely
and sweet if it is given into the hands
NV Pendletcn? Sich is the lesson | ex
tract from Sergeant Bates.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ.
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