The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-05-01
NJ SHY,

yrOseries, sitooated about sixty miles
rom here, and witness the reception
hat shood be given him. Wat trans
,ired thrilled me; in fact never
'elt sich q thrill Nv joy in my lie ez ]
lid when l saw this battle-scared
veteran heave in sight. He came,
proudly bearin aloft the Flag wich
when. the South he'd her rites and own
ed the niggers body and soul, in fee
simple, wuz RELY and trooly the Flag
Nv the Free, but wich now that, alars!
there amt slave under its shadder
and all are PERMITTED to do as they
please, is the symbol Nv the most op-
pessive and grindin tyranny wich the
world ever witnist.
But, nevertheless, the deyoshun to
the old flag, wich site NV it stirred
up in the breasts NV the people NV
Pettusville, RELY surprised me. New
er shell 1 forgit the site that met my
eyes. The Sergeant wuz met three
miles out NV town, by a perceshun
wich accompanied him in, marchin
in the followin order:
Band, playin "The Bonny Bloc
Flag"
Detachment of the Pettusille Aven-
gers made up NV sojers wich forme-
ly served in the 18th Virginia, wich
wuz employed for fourteen months a
guardin Andersonville.
Detachmtnt NV the Pettusville Ca
dets, made up Of sons Nv Confedrit
soljers who wuz killed in the servis,
with black banners, onto wich wuZ
inscribed, "We will avenge our slain
sires."
Quartermas- Sergeant Bates Commissa ry
late &C G. s 5. A. o.tryin Ra' ihs late c. s. A
Amerikin flag.
Four survivors NV the late late on.
pleasantnis, carryin each flag cap
chered from Wisconsin regiments.
Band playin "Dixie" melojously
Citizens on foot and hossback and
in carts.
On strikin the corporation, the
Mayor, Captain Badger, Nv For
rests Cavalry,) and the town clerk
(late Nv the lamentid John Morgan:
command, appeared, and the pro
cession stopped, while the iormali
ties wuz gone through with. TIL,
Mayor received the Sergeant in
these words:
"SERaEANT BATES, SIR:-Under
standin ez we do, that yOo cEival
rously made wager, wich is bet
with Wisconsin ablishnist that voc
Good walk from Vixbnrg to Wash
inton carryin the Amerikin flag un-
furled without being insulted mol
nothin, and hevin received testimo
nv from leadin Democrats NV Wis
consin, wich is entirely satisfactory
to US, that yoo are not in no sense
fnor never wuz' at any time, in sympa
thy with the Ablishen or ez they
falsely style themselves, the Republi
kin party, we extend too yoO tbs
hospitalities NV Pettusville. And e.
there are reporters present let me re
mark, sir, that yoor exyeaience he
showd how falsely we hev bin judges
by the crooel persekooters NV TIN
Northern States. Yoo hev bin me
on evry hand with nuthin but kind
ness. Southern hospitality NV th
broadest kind -bez bin extended t
700. Yoo hev he'd chaw off u
evry plug-yoo hey he'd yoor sue
out NV evry bottle, yoor nose show
that sence yoo entered the Sum
South you hev not bin allowed t
taste water, wich is our ldee Nv no:
! pitable treatment. Wat, my dec
, rbss--s~----~sus-.z -.z,--sS<..s.~~~S---VV.k
this prove? Eff Charles Sumner fo
instance, or Judge Kelley he'd bin 6
lpresumpshus, or any other Repnbl
, kim, ez to attempt sich feet, tn
: Outraged Southern hart wood he
billed over and he wood hev bin tore
to pieces. Wat does it prove?
Iproves that faint the Gag we Obje'
TO so much ez 1t is the men who he
bin in the habit Nv carryin it. In Il
hands NV a oonstitooshenel Dimocr'
Its the same old flag it allaz wuz.-
In sich hands, it's russle sounds
Iour eers like the crack NV the nigg'
whip, and the site whereofis soOthi
/ For when the flag wuz in them hand
, we hunted niggers under Its folds
the streets Nv Boston. Under tn
dag we shot Lovejoy in Alton, ar
, sunk Bailey's press in the Ohio |
Cincinnati Under the shadow ,
b that blessid flag we sold niggers
auction in Washinton, and that fla;
that symbol of Freedom, wood Ia,
flcated over the deck nv every sla'
, ship wich sailed from Africa, but f
the unjust and sooisidle laws wi,
forced the philanthropists in the bi
mis- to sale under other penants.
9 yoor hands, and the hands Nv sich
you, the flag is to US the old flag
wuz then, and its sacred to US bee
' under it we Good do all these thing
That's why we love 1t. and thai
why we tolerate it. He'd it remain,
6 sich we never wood hev raised o.
}, hands agin it. When sich ez Po
and Fillmore and Boakanon he'd 4
, CONTROL nv it We wuz satisfied wi
it and reverenced every stripe al
every star-the speer he'd that su
mounted it and the staff wich .uphe
it-for to us that flag meant suthi
X 1t meant freedom for us-free IL az
in niggers-it meant suthern so
premacy-it meant the rite to b,
niggers-sell niggers, import nj
gers-export niggers-flog nigge
hunt niggers. So long ez the q
wuz sich We loved it. But when t
North dispooted our control NV
and put it in the hands NV A. Link
J. an Ablishnnist. it wuz our flag
10 more. Then we felt it must cor
down-that its mission wnz end
and that to us it wuz nothin. / fir
onto that flag. raised my hal
: agin it and proud am. But bor
by a Democrht--a old style Dem
Icrat-a Democrat who stuck to |
N sfoorod of u;0Ua, ah.