The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-01-24
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Notion in tho public prints that Vallan.
dygum. and passed. NV others Nv that kid.
ney. he'd calleda Convenshen Nv those who
he'd suffered imprisonment for holdin the
opinion, doorin the war, that tho soath wuz
rite in sccedin, and Tor doom wat they Good
to further the rite, to review their sufierins,
! Nv course, expected to be invited to ut
tend. Ez no invitashen came, ] resolved to
spare cm the stigma Nv hevin gone back
onto fellow sufferer, and, hepcely, wrote
the iollowin letter, witch shell hev publ'sht
in all the newspapers. feel il dooty to
call the attenshun ofihe party to my suffer.
ms lest now. il bcin just siorc new deal
takes place:
To c. l.. Yaliandygum. Edson b. Olds.
Henry Clay Dean, and Others, Committee {:
Your movin note NV the 18th inst, invit-
in me to he present ut mec'in Nv those
wich he'd suffered for Conscience sake door
in the late croosade, and to mingle my teers
with them, is received. Ex ] received
yoor note and red il, my sufierins come
back to my mind 80 wildly that the foun-
tins Nv the crate deep wuz onsccled, and !
wept scaldin tecrs. wept ez ] thot how
I suffered, how he'd wasted in Basteels
the time so much needed in furtherin the
CRATE coz in witch we wuz all engaged ;
when ihot how, for three long weeks, |
wasted away, pinin for the free air outside
my prison walls how for all that time, I
wuz exposed to the horror Nv secin around
me feends:in human form, clad in the bloc
I always letestcd how wuz compelled to
listen, perpciooally, to sich songs ez:
Ue'lI rally round the Gag, boys,
Be'll rally wunst agin.
Shoutin the battle cry Nv Freedom !"
And tina, other ,letesiible air witch never
hear without thrill NV horror
"John browns body lies mouldrin In the grave,
But his sole 10 u marehin on"
wich il is. And also how for three long
weeks ] wuz compelled to live-no. not
line hut eggist-wi,h not drop Nv any
thing stronger or more rcviviiyin to drink
than coffee endoorin the namels horrors
witch follers the sudden takin away NV that
on which we i've, and witch our moral. en-
well ez physikill nachers depend. But out
NV regard to my feelns, ] close these har-
rowing refecshens. Shood I dwell onto
EN-, I shood DO entirely onmanned. When
I think Of them three weeks without wills.
key. reason totiers onto her throne, and !
wonder that am still alive. Trooly am
a spared movement. str
Il would not be out NV place in this con-
necksheu for me to dwell for moment
upon the sacrifices hev made and the tor.
tiers to witch hev bin SUBJECTED. ! hev, l
may say Il humbly, suffered probably more
than any Of the glorious company Nv mart
ers, for righieousnis sake. My first tast euv
Fedral tyranny wuz in 1869. Well do !
remember the day. A draft wuz impendin.
The tyrannical Linkin, revelin in tho gor-
gus halls nv despo,ic powerat Washington,
he'd issood his oppressive decree for "three
hundred thousand more" went, conf
IDENTIFY, to the eggsaminer's offs for my
c.gsempshcn. but in the face Nv the most
positive ashooranee OH my part that ] he'd
bronkectis and liver complaint at that time,
and he'd he'd at different times NV my life
dolirium tremens, wuz lait to scor,, and
pcrnounst ez sound ez brick. | deter
inclined not to imbrue my hands in the
blood NV my brethren NV the South. i
shuddcred at two ices. First, at being
punctured myself, and second, ut punctur.
in any NV my friends NV the Confederacy.
Therefore, I made my way best mite to
that refuge from the Ipcrsecu,or, Canady.
Need iilnie onto the tcrrors NV that pas
sage? Need state how walked from my
then place Of residence to Detroit, and how
swan across the river ut ,liat pint, on
log. aud how, when on strikin the sacred
soil, I struck taboo aud shook my fists
at the stars and stripes, witch l saw way.
in on tho iother side? No. For all NV
you hev done il, ei' not in Canady, some.
where else. The draft wuz over, and !
returned, supposin il wuz all rite.
Skarcely he'd reached my humble home,
when wuz arrested, and dragged to u
military camp. he'd drawn, and WIZ
taken ez n n dcscrtcr. did not serve
tho. Ruihcr than to carrya Fcdrcl mus
kit, dcser,id in ernst, AMI wat military
life did see | saw in the conie,lrit
ranks. Hut tina, wuz short. The kur-
nul Nv my regiment apprecia'in my style,
ordered me TO he discharged, on the
skore that Good do the Coniedrisy more
good operntin with the dimocrisy NV the
North than Good carryin muskits in the
ranks NV her brave defenders. lie wuz
pleased to say that I wuznt worth DIN
cz n sojcr anyhow!
My second incarceration wuz NV more
tryin nacher. had been called to orgun-
izc and drill county witch he'd determined