Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-30
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SERGEANT BATES IN rETTUsvILI, vA.-MR.
NAsBy Is PREsENT. wIIEN lie ARRIyEs.,-.


SERGEANT BATES IN rETTUsvILI., v.,.-MR.
! l.. Massey Is PRESENT WHEN LIE. ARRIyEs-
i WAsHINeToS,SD. G., sAr1uLe0, 1868.
Happenin to be in Washington at the
time Sergeant Bates, that noblest Roman
NV all the Northern menwho took upafms
agin the Sunny South, wuz to arrive il
Okkurcd to me that it would he a pawn
Investment eff shoed go out to Pettusville,
witch is beautiful village containin one
dry goods store and - tiooid groseries,
sitooated about sixty miles from here, and
witness the reception that .shood be given
him.. Wat transpired thrilled me; in fact,
/ never felt SIGH thrill NV ioy in nv life
ez did when Esaw this battle scared vet
ram heave i'm sight. He came, proudly
bearin aloft the Flag witch, when the South
he'd her rites and owned the niggers body
and soul, in fee simple, wuz RELY and
trooly the Flag Nv the Free, but wich now
| that, alars. there amt a. slave under its
shadder and all are permitted to do ez
they please. is the symbol o. the most OPP
pressive and grindin' :tyranny -wieh the
world eyer fwitnist. 10
But, nevertheless, the devoshun 10 theoM
! flag, witch a site NV it Stirred up In the
breasts uvthe people NV Pettusyiilee rccly
surprised me. Never shell 1 forgit the site
that met my eyes, The Sergeant wuz met
three miles out NV town, by perceshun
wich accompanied him in, in the followin
order: b., ri.
Band, ,playin "Bonny Bloc Flag -
Detachment of the Pettusville Avengers,
made mp NV soljers which formerly served
in the 18th. Virginia. witch yuz employed
for fourteen months gardiff Anderson
vile. 7E9ek miai3IsW hazigcftuA J,
Detachment NV the Pettusyill Cadets,
made up NV sons of Confedrit soljers
who wuz killed in the servis, with black
banners, onto wich wuz Inscribed, I'VE
will avenge our slain sres.' r-H
Qurtermaster Sergeant Bates Commi-sarry in
In proudly late
late Z. ). y. carryin the {. :. 4.
- tsa Amerikin nag. UNKNOWN
Four survivors NV the late onpleasantnis,
carrying each battlefiag capchered from
Wisconsin regiments. ...f-...-a ..--r.
Band playin Dixie mclojnsly..
Citizens on foot and horseback and in
carts. 80 -
On strikin the corporation, the Mayor
Captain Badger, NV Forests cavalry land
the town clerk 0ate wv the lamentid John
Morgan's command) appeared, and the
procession stopped, while the formalities
wuz gone through with. The Mayor re-
NNiNtO tnC III tHtSC WOiub
SERGEANT BATES, SIR: Understandin,
ez we do, that you chivalrously made a
wager witch is a bet) with Wisconsin alb
lishpist that ,yoo Good walk from Vixburg
to Washinton carryin the Amerikin flag
unfurled without bein insulted nor nothin,
and hevin received testimony from, leadin
Democrats nv Wisconsin, witch is entirely
satisfactory to Us, that 700 are not in no
sense, nor never wuZ at any time. in SYM
pathy with the Ablishen, or ez they false
ly style themselves, the Republican party,
We extend to 700 the ,hopitalities Nv Pet
tusville. And .ez there are reporters pres
ent let me remark, sir, that yoor expert
ence hez shOwd how falsely We hev bin
judged by the crooel persekooters NV the
Northern States. YOO hev bin met on ev-
~ hand with nuthin but kindness. South
ern hospitality Nv the. broadest kind hez
bin extended to yoo. 700 hev he'd chaw
of eyry plug-yoo hev he'd yoor suck out
NV eyry bottle, yoor nose shows that sence
700 entered the Sunny South you hey not
bin allowed TO taste water ych is our idea
NV hospftable treatment. ENVat, my dear
sir, does this go TO show. Wat does,this,
prove? Eff Charles Sumner, for instance
or Judge Kelley he'd bin so presun1pshRs,
or any other Republican, cz to attempt SIGH
feet, the outraged Southern hart wood
hev billed over and he wood hey bin tored
TO pieces. Wat does it prove y 1t proves
that faint the flag we object % so much
ez it is the men who .hey binriri he habit
NV carryin il. In the hands NV a consti-
tooshenel iDiniocrat Its the same old flag
it aliuz wuz Z, In SIGH hands, its russle
sounds in our GERS like the crack Nv the
niger whip, and the site thereof is sooth-
in. For when the flag wuz nthem hands,
we hunted nigeers <uRder-its, Folds in the
streets Nv Boston. Under that flag we
slot LoYejoy in Alton, and sunk BaileS's
press in the Ohio at Cincinnati. Under
the shadow NV that blessed flag We sold
niggers at auction in Washington, and
that flag, that symbol, NV freedom, wood
hev fioatcd over the DECK nv every slave
ship which sailed from Africa, but for the
unjust and sooisidle laws which forced the
philanthropists i'm the biznis to sail under !
other penants. In yoOr hands, and the 1
hands Nv SIGH ez you, the flag is to us the
old flag il wuZ then, and its sacred TO us
becoz underit,we Good do all these things.
That's why we love it, and that's why we
tolerate yoo5 With it,. He'd it remained
SIGH we never wood hev raised our hands
'aginit When SIGH ca Polk. and Fillmore
and Bookanon he'd the CONTROL nv it we !
wuz satisfied with IL and reverpnced. every
stripe and every star-the speer he'd that
surniounted it and the Naff wiel,l upheld
it-for to us that flag meant 'stithin. 1t
meant freedom for us-free trade in nig5l
gers-it meant Suthern soopre1nacy.Ait
meant the rite to buy niggers sell niggers
import niggers-expOrt niggers-fec. /
niggers--3lnnt aAiGgers- So long .ez the
flag wuz SIGH we loyed i.H But when the
North dispooted our control NV it and put
ii in the handsuSA Eimin a Ablishon-
list, it wuz our flag no more. Then we felt
thsa itpllst COME dqwn0that its missieni
fired onto that flag. / raised my hand
agin it, and proud 4 am. But ibofneby a
.Democrat-a old style Democrats Demo
crat who stuck tolus becoz he wnz s.sareA
of niger ekality, it is wunst more the
same old flag, and we reverence IT, Why
then, when voc. q carryin This emblm ny /.
the nashun's grander, kin walk all over
the South, Where all Is peece, ahdso much
affeckshun ismanifested for the flag, why
do they Keep an army to loverawe usg
Why"
A interrupaon here ScspFfedH A shot
wuz heard, and the crowd rushed to see
wat is wuz. They returned presently A
funeral procession Nv niggtTs wuz pas?in
thro the next street q carryin to the mig
ger grave yard a'niggefs solger' Who I'D
jest died ivy ,injooris received doorin fhe
late onpleasantnis, and ez they marched
with q Gag. at thers head, the c4cited and
msulted populis he'd cleaned EN- out. Two
NV EN- wuz shot aud TIE puserher witlten<
wuz left for dead This. over, thsx rri
turned and the Mayor went on. Ser-
geant, RatessI welcome. yoo. and With 700