The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-05-15
BIDDEFoRD, ME-, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1868.
NASBY.
Sergeant Bates IN Psttusrilis, Virginia-JMr.
.Nasby 70 Prsssnt phe,, he frrisss.

| Nasty.
Serc,anf Bates In Psttusriils, Virginia-Mr.
.Nasby u Prsssnt when he Arrisa.
WASHINGTON D. C., April 20, 1868.
Happcnin to be in Washinton at the time
Sergrnt Bates, that noblest Roman Nv all
the northern nen who took up arms agin
the sunny south, wuI to arrive, 1t okkured
to me that il would be payin investment
ef shood 20 to Pettusvill, wich is a beauti.
ful village containin one dry goods store and
l3 flooid grOserics, sitooated about sixty
miles from here, and witness the reception
that shood be given him. Wat transpired
thrilled me; in fact never felt sich thrill
NV joy in my life, ez did when saw this
battIe.scared veteran heare in sight. lie
came, proudly beann alolt tho flag wich,
when the south he'd her rites and owned
the niggers body and soul, In foe simple,
wus RELY aud irooly the flag NV the free,
but wich no,S. alars! there alnt slave un'
der its shadder, and all are permitted TO do
ez they please, is the symbol Nv the most
oppressive and grindin tyranny wich the
world ever wilnist.
but, nevertheless. the devoshun to the
old flag, wicli sight Nv il stirred up in the
breasts Nv the people Nv Pettusville, RELY
surprised mo. Never shei forgi the site
that met my eyes The Sergeant wuz met
three miles out Nv town, by perceshun
witch accompanied him In, Inarchin tu the
iollerin order: -.
Rand, playin The Bonny Bloc Flag"
Detachment Nv the Pettusyille Avengers
made up Nv soljers wich formerly served In
tho 18th Virginia, ,wich wuz employed Tor
fourteen months a gIar,lin Aniersonvillc.
Detachment Nv The Peitusville Cadets.
nlade up NV sons Nv coniedrit sollers who
wuz killed in the servis, with black ban.
hers, onto wich wuz inscribed, "We will
avenge our slain sires.'
Quartemas. Sergeant Bate. COm'sary
'g% proudly c.Hyin the ii. 10
late C.s. A. Amerkin nag. late " ~
Four survivors Nv the late onplcusanlnis,
carryin each battle flag capclcrcd from
Wisconsin regiments.
Band playin "Dixie's melojously.
Citizens ON foot and hossback and In
cnrts.
On strikin the corporation, the Mayor,
(Captin Badger Nv Forests Cayalry,) and
the town clerk, (iatc NV the lamentld John
Morgan's cominandJ appeared, and the
procession stopped, while the iormalit'es
WIZ gone through with. The Mayor re-
ceived the Sergeant in these words:
Sergeant Bates. Sir Sir:-Undcrstnndiu ez
we do. that yoo chivnlrously made wager
fwich is n brt) with Wisconsin ablishnist
lint VOC Good walk from Vixburg 10 Wash.
inton carryin the AInerikin flag uniurled
without l,cin insulted nor nolhin, and haVln
received testimony from leadin Democrats
nv Wisconsin, witch Is entirely satisfactory
10 us, that 700 are not In no sense, nor even
wuz at any time' in sympathy with the
AbIshen, or ez they falsely style thelrselves'
tho Republican party, we extend to 700 the
hospitalties Nv Pett,Isville. And ez there
are reporters present, let me remark, sir,
,lat yoor experience hez showed how false
" we l,ev hin Judged by the crooil perse-
HOOTERS NV tho nothern states. fo0 hev
bin met on evry hnnd with nuthin but kind
mesa. Southern hospitality Nv the broad.
est kind Ilez bin extended to yOO. Yoo hey
he'd cbaw off Nv eyry plug-yoo hev he'd
yoor suck out Nv evry bottle. yoor nose
shows illnt sence yoo entered the sunny
south yoo hev not bin allowed to taste wa.
ter, wich is our idee NV hospitable treat.
mcnt. Wat does this prove Ef Charles
Sumner, for instance, or Judge Kelley he'd
bin 30 presumpshus, or any other Repub.
ikin, ez to attempt sicll feet, the outrug.
ed southern hart wood hev billed over, and
he wood he'd bin tored TO pieces. Wa, does
il prove? Is proves that 'taint the flag we
object TO 10 much eI II Is the men who hev
hin in the habit Nv carryin il. In the hands
uv constitooshencl Dimocrat its the same
old flag il ulluz wuz. In sich hands, its
r,issle sounds in our GERS like the crack Nv
tho niggcr whip. and the site thereof is
soothin. For when the flag WIZ in them
hands we hunted niggers under its folds in
the streets Nv Boston. Under that flag we
shot Lovejoy in Alton. and sunk Baileys
press in the Ohio at Cincinnati. Under
tho shadder Nv That bIcssid flag wo sold
nicgcrs ut auction in Washington, and that
flag, that symbol Nv freedom, wood hev
floated over the deck Nv evry slave ship
wich sailed from Africa, but for the unjust
and sooisdle laws wich forced the philan.
thropists in the biznis to sale under other
pennnts. In yoor hands, and the hands Nv
sich ez yoo, the flag is to us the old flag 1t
WIZ then. and it's sacred to us becoz under
il we Good do all these things. That's
why we love il, and that's why we tolerate
VOC with it. He'd il remained sich we
never wood hev raised our hands agin II.
When SIGH ez Polk and Fillmore aud Book.
anon he'd tho CONTROL Nv il we wuz salts.
fed with Il and revcrenced evry stripe and
eyry siar-,l,e speer he'd that surmounted
il, and the staff wich upheld it-for TO us
the flag meant suihin. 1t meant lrccdom
for us-free trade in niggers-it meant sutii-
O, n snprcmacy-it meant the rite 10 buy
nicgcrs-sell niggers rs-import nggers-ex.
port niggcrs-flog nigyers-hunt nlggers.
So long 'z tho flag wuz sicll We loved It.:
But when the north dispooted our control
NV il, and put II in the hands Nv a. Linkin,
a nl,lisllnist, itwuz our flag no more. Then
wa felt It must come down-thnt its mis-
sion w,iz ended and that to us i wuz moth
in. I fire,l onto that Gag. | rniscd my
hand ngin it and proud am. But bourn
Inv Denocrat-a old style Democrat-a
Democrat who stuck to us becoz he wus
afeered Nv nigger ekaliiy, it is onst more
the same old flag and we reverence It.
WHY then, when yoo, curryin this EN-.
blem NV the nashun's grnnder, kin walk all
over tho south, where all Is peace anu 80
much nffcckshun is manifested for the nag,
why do they keep army to overawo us'
Why" ...,
A in,err,,ption here occurred. n shot
WIZ hearI, and the crowd rushed to see
wat il w,iz. They returned presently. a
funeral processh,,n Nv niggers wuz passin
thro ,I,e next street carryin TO tho nigger
graveyard a Niger soljer who bed jc-t died
NV iniooris rrcrevcd doorin the late on
pIca.antnis. aud ez they marched with a
flag at their he'd, tho excited and insulted
popuIis he'd cleaned cn out. Two Nv em
w,iz sl,o,, and the preechcr with en- VIE
LETT for dead. This over, they returned and
the Mayor went on: Sergeant Bates. I
weIco,ns you and with you the dag, to Pet.
tusvillc. ...f.-
Sergeant Bates replied briefly. Since he
como into The south he he'd been treated
k;ndlv In tI,e noornl deesfricka 0Dco or