Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-01-10
The Sumner Proposition Mr.. Nasby
Suggests Additions.
CoNFEDRlr X RoAUs
{Wich Is in the State NV kentucky,)
December Is, 1S-2

(Wich Is in the state NV kentuckS,) ~
December Is, 1879. " -
The sun goes down drearily over
my humble Kentucky home-it
slides down the cold western SKY
and sets under the darkest clouds.
How like our fate! The Dimocrat-
ic sun riz we'll enuff in the East, at
Baltimore, last summer, but its S..
tin in November wuz cold aras
cheerlcss. That cussid nigger N9
book is yet Postmaster at the Cor
ners, and ALIAS | am boardin y,
promises to pay, and am cxposed1o
the .jeers and .jibes wich alluz foller
impecuniosity.
One brite streak NV sunshine hez
fallen onto us-one only. The
proposishen NV that noblest Rongsn
nv all, Senator Srspner, to erase ElS
names NV the battles dv the ison as
pleasantness, frofS. tie batlies ii;is.
NV the Federal Regiments, and from
the Army Register ez well, that the
South may be no longer humiliated
by bcin reminded NV Of its defeat,
to my sensibilities and gives
me new faith in humanity. There
is yet balm in GiIead Kentucky is
not entirely deserted.
Ez good Ell Senator Summers
p"oposishcn is, it is not enufi'. Ken
lucky accepts it only ez step in
the rite direction, not cz a ultimate,
for with this proposishen the work
nv reconciliation is only half done.
We demand more NV him. We are
a sensitive. high-toned. proud and
hawty people.-Wc demand in adj
dition to the crasin NV names nv the
battles from the battle-fags and
Army Register, the follcrin:
|. That from this time hcncctor-
red and forever, no man, either in
print or speech, shell ever be allow
ed to menshcn the name uv any
battle in wich our fellow w-citizens Nv
the South wuz whaled, and any man
doin nv it, sh>l be arrested, taken
afore a nearest justis NV the peecc,
and, upon convickshen, shell be i'm
prisoned in the penitenshery nv the
State in which the offensc wuz com
mittcd for life.
2. That Lookout Mountin, South
Mountln, kencsaw Hitcs, Mishun
Ridge. and other eievashins on wich
our brave and shivclrus tellow-citi-
zens NV the South wuz whalcd shell
be levelcd off at the expense NV the
Government, and all valleys where
similcr struggles cnsood shell be fill
ed up.
3. That the monuments at Gettys-
burg, and all monuments III cities,
towns and villages ferpetuatin the
memory NV the struggle shell be i'm
ciitly blowed up.
4. That the names NV towns
where sich struggles wuz he'd, shell
be changed to sich pcace-suggestln
names cz Joncsvillc, Smithboro, ct
settry, and where the name NV a
river sejests unpleasant reckollcck-
shuns to our fellow-citizens NV the
South, the name Nv sich river shcl
be changed by special act of Con
grcss.
3. That the hcad-stoncs nv Fed
cral solgcrs in the so-called Nash
mel Cemeteries at Gettysburg and
elsewhere, shell be torn up, and the
graves plowed over to res orc the
ground to its normal smoothness,
and that no mother, father, son or
other relatives NV any Federal sol
ger who fell in these battles and
wuz therein bcrried, shell be allow
ed visit sed ground on any prctext
And cz scd ground is Government
property, that it shell be sold to the
highest bidder, and the proceeds
thereof paid into the Nashncl treas
ury.
&. That the Assylums for disabled
Federal solgers at Dayton, Ohio,
and elsewhere, and all State Asy-
lums for the children of Federal
solgcrs shell be immejetly closed,
the occupants turned out, the prop
erty sold, and the proceeds thereof
paid into the Treasury nv the Nash
mel Government.
:. That all cannon, flag, and sich
taken from our fellow-cltlzcns ny
the South in battle, and now kept
as trophies shell be townnst destroy
ed.
8. That pcnshuns now paid to
disabled Federal solgers shcl cease;
or eff they be continued, that ckal
penshuns shell be paid to the con
tedcrlt solgers. In case the latter
is did, that the penshuns shell be
paid "for services to the Govern
mcnt." (The latter course wood
SCOT me better ez | Good draw two
penshuns for service in both the
armies.)
Q. That no man allow hisself to
be called Captain" ""Maicr,'s "ker-
ncl' or cny other military title,
becoz NV partistpashen in the late
struggle; sed titles allowable only
to them who won EN- in milishy SER
Wis, or in wars prevus to 1861.
0. That all reunions ny regiments
or divisions, or eny other raspin
nonsense NV that kind be prohibited
by law.
10. That in the discussions in
Congress the word "rcbellion" shel
not be uttered: but when alooslon to
it is unavoidable, the term "late
misunderstanding" be yooscd.
IL. That all Federal sol gers who
lost legs or arms in the late war,
shell invariably swear that they wuz
taken off in tllrashing machines.
u. That Fourth of July orators
shcl draw all their illusions to our
military glory from the two wars
with Great Britain and the MeXikan
war.
l3. That no Federal officer or
solgcr shell be eligible to cny otfis;
his participashun therein bcin snth-
in NV wich he heZ no call to be
proud, on the contrary, quite the
reverse, and also ez it wood tend to
keep nlive a memory NV IN onpleas-
antneSs-tO us.
IA. That sich songs cz "framp,
tramp, tramp the boys is marchln,"
be prohibited, under the penalty NV