The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-24
JOhnssOWn Letter.
WRITTEN By PETROLEUM V. NAsBY. JI

| with the Welsh Tanners and the "niggers"
| formin' a new nukleus in the Odd Fellows
Hall, old Arkade buiidin'. The reason we
fit was because we tried to eZpel ten diggers
for maxim rye faces at your Red Republican
Mayor, wnen they were up to Ebensourg
swingin' onto the circle. We sent them to
! fight Copperheads, and not to fight with our
own niger brethren. At first there was
| thirty-fve of US, and we expelled ten, leav!n,
! twenty-five to transact the hui bisness, and
| we fit about ''reconstructin' the ten rebels
/ One said they should not be expelled without
| a hearin'. Another said we took their week
/ ly docs, and expelIin' of them amounted 10
/ taxashun without representashun unless they
were admitted to seats and votes. The Ist
Lieutenant said, CHOW, 'sPOsln we leave the
matter tew the head center tew declhe
| They all gave their konsent by stlcklh OUT
| their tongues which is the secret sign t. a.
they have tew much Grant whisky ON board
| to vote with the voice. Sez l, 'InJun and
nigger brethren, Pm not as good centre
shot as Grant was among the digSersi ere
ferrin' them to Annie Dickerson,) but VIII
try my hand onto a square desshun." Sez
|, II will deside this question as Congress
| did the reconstrucshun OF the States IWen-
ty-five States voted ten States out OF the
Union and we will eXpel ten rebel members
out Of our tannery, without aSkln' them
why.' Sez |, "What the Rump can do the
head and quarters has power tew do Wi thout
represeutashun and with as much taXashun
as we please, and !hey shan't get back onto
this wigwam until every one is branded onto
| the hips with the letters A. K. s., which
are the inishals of "a Returned Sinner. y
| This settled the case, and the diggers LETT,
| ezhIbitin' all the sigus of penltenCe that Jo-
nah did when he swailereG the whale. We
went 10 the Arkads and reconstructed our
| selves,
! When order was restored | called on the
| committees to report. The Sd Lieutenant
| read report on the Progress Of Taunin'"
| tie reported two young coiored members who
/ had failed III the tannin' process for want Of
/ the proper juice or scnethin' else. The case
| had been taken teW Ebensburg, but was
| klandestingiy settled, and be therefore called
! it up. blr. BOggs said that the motto OF
Tanners was, I'VE know no such word
fail" Mr. Hunt endorsed the sentiment,
but bein' a chemist he said he had anal zed
the matter, and the failure was OWN to ply
sical causes entirely. He would therefore
move tnat they be restored to fraternal and
Conjugal fcllership, with all the other niggers.
/ black and white, which was accordingly
! done:
The next question that came up was the
tariff" That question was up tine mite we
! sanc,ifed tie new hail. as | sed in my frs;
! letter it would be. The boys seemed disap-
/ pinted that they didn't see it. They had
| been stretchin' their necks all mite when Mr..
| Kennedy was taIkin'. One young tanner
! sed, ''See, Gumbo, there it IS. It's for all
the world like a jiraff." But Gumbo couldn't
see it, aud the question was sprung in the
tanuery, but as none of US ever seed the Gre
tur, and didu't know what it was like, We
laid the question on the old table.
II. -
order, and Mr.. Boggs read the returns from
Maine with great persperashun and dignity.
/ He added, that's clear gain of eight thous-
and ov5r last year. But" sez l, elf you
! substract it, insted Of addiu' it, it proves
| clear loss of eight thousand from the year
! before" Boggs sed he knew that, but he
supposed it was the Tanners bisuess to add
and let the Copperhcads substract. | sed,
| that ''it's for no use tew crew over Maine,
| for Greeley's Almanac can't lie, while BUggs
can, and Greeley's Almanac says the Repub-
lican majority III 1866 was q ,O00." BogEs
| iarfed and seu nULhIu'.
Then come the committee on finances,
which reported on the "Reducshin of the
Nashunai Debt" They reported a reduc-
| shlu of six hundred millions Of dollars. But
as the head centre is sworn by Brick Ponae
| roy'S NOOSpGper not 10 lie, bad to correct
| them fggers again. Sez |, "The increase of
Of the debt is SIX hundred millions IN print
! in of bonds and notes that the clerks keep
no account of, besides the other increase Of
interest and the onliquidated debt, which
! amounts tew more than thousand millions"
/ Sez |, The debt now, all in all, is more
! than one hundred dollars piece for every
| man. woman and child, black and white, in
! the United States, and where there's teW or
| three parents, twelve children, two old grand
1 1 /. 4 l., !
! a niece onto one family. that famIly's share
of the debt would be two thousand dollars.
And as one half the people are children, it
would be tour thousand dollars for the adults.
| AnG, agen, as one half the rest are freedmen,
| or poor white men. it would make that fam
| ily's share OF the debt eight thousand dollars.
| And, sgeu, rs one half the people nearly are
| rebels, and not reconstructed yet, it will
double it agen. and make one rich fami;y's
share of the debt sixteen thousand dollars"
Sez Boggs, Then we'll have to repudiate."
SEE l, Never. so long u my names
Yours, in the wool,
Massey. JR."
P.S. Governor Geary has taken the stump
! n. Pennsylvania. He's a po1oelJW man, and
| when be first mounted the stand it produced
an earthquake in South Amurika. He was
| here on Saturday mite and talked ChOctdw.
| for ten minutes, to the bones and sinews OF
the ''loil" peple Of this town. Geary used
tew throw dice and play euchre and other
| games on the Old Portage Road, and he was
| so cute at the folks sed he must be a descend
ant of Poke hunt us. He was also Afcdtde
of the Chinese in California. and Postmaster
of the Camanche Iniuns. He is paper gen
eral, and was defeated at Suckers Gap
When young he lived on Snod-grass, which
so affected the umbiblical cord of his wind
/ f.N fa Ton in
especially when there's no .tloto nv ideas -
His speech was a fayure, and did our party
no good, but. as Grant used tew say when
he came onto contact with digger squaw
and got worsted, ''it's for no use tew cry
over split milk" He wouldn't come onto
the scafTold until they told him that there
was no soliurs of the Mexican war about
He's ufeard of even their ghosts.
The next speaker was one Pierce, whose