Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-23
Nasty.

Nasty.
! A LETTER THIRTEEN YEARS OLD, But FRESH
AS A DAIsY-How LOUISIANA AND TEAAS
+ REBELS RECEIVED THE HANCOCK okDEk-
| IT GAVE GENERAL sATIsFAkSHuN
/ Moo ORLEANS, December Ii, 1866.
| To His Eggleiicy 4. Johnson, Pfts'f'"
ne the YOonited States:
found Moo Orleans in tremeruv Joy.
The principal biznis citizens Is a-;oin
about the streets clappin their hands ana
hollerin "Hallelujier.' The order NV
the CRATE and good Hancock hez restored
contidenz i'll the bussums NV our trens
and consternashu in the brests Nv our
our enemies. Juries, thank God. are no
moro polluted with niggers onto en-
/ They are now drawd from the old citizens,
many Nv wich served under Boregari IN
the late onpleasantness BiZnis tlerfore
goes on without delay. Ez sample OF
how much biznis is fasillitated l may
menshun that in one court there WIZ II
cases in which niggers WIZ planetifs and
40 in which niggers WIZ defendants. The
tryin Nv all these cases okepied } hours
and 10 minutes The verdicts i'll the Al
cases being invariably fur the defendants
and in the 45 other cases being invaria-
bly, fur the planetifs. Wv the time spes-
sitied hours and % minutes WIZ con-
sumed by the niggers III payin the costs.
1t is singlar thing how wrongthe nlSger
alluz IT,
In addisnum to this boon the citizens
Nv Looisiany he'd, am happy to state,
got back their habis copuses General
Hancock, with courage wich ! cant too
highly commend, ashoored the people
that, SO long ez he he'd power here they
should never agin be deprived NV EN-.
In Texan affairs are goin on ez well ez
Good be expected. The Ginral's order
fur holdin' eleckshuns gives genral salts,
fackshun to our trends The eleckshuns
are to be held only at county seats. wich,
OWN to the size NV the counties, will prob
ably prevent CRATE menny NV the mig
gers from attendin. Then, whar Judge
NV eleckshun cant sit, the civil authori-
ties appint anuther in his sted, insted NV
the military commander, wich our trends
think will give us majority on the eleck-
shun bords, and finally, that wich per-
tickarly binds Ginral Hancock to us IL
that part NV hiz order wich prohibits the
HUN btiil i'oll5. IL Is
stremely probable that the Etheopeans
NV American descent will be genrally per-
swaded not to vote at ALL The citizens
NV Texas hev way NV perswadin the
niggers Wen they aint unconstitooshunal-
ly Interferred with, that will, think,
enshoor the triumph NV correct princi-
pies i'll that state 4 native Texan,
gentleman who is now in Moo Orleans
purchasin cartridges fur iinch revolvers,
to be used Ill reconsiructln The State,
gave me such informashun az preclooded
the necessity NV my going personally to
inspeck.
The landowners NV Texas, with an ar
dent desire to avoid distress in that State
mex Winter, both for themselves and the
cullard populashun, hev wisely deter
mined thet the niggers shell work wether
or no. and in sich way az to make their
labor profitable. They are goin to form
labor leagues, the obiec of wich is to ex-
track from the nigger the labor that is
layn dormant into him Mt about ST.
month. They have mootooally pledged
each uther to pay no more than Sl2
month fur able bodied niggers during the
workln seeson, deductin board and 30
forth for their families and further, that
no one Will employ a nigger from anuth-
Pr naberhood onlcss he kin show permis- |
shun from his last employer. They hev
uther roofs for the proper regulashun Nv |
this perverse people wich is hardly worth |
but probably it would be ez |
we'll.
One IL thet ef the wages Nv the nigger
IS more that ct up by the family expenses /
fla.Ar t,.11 81
son, and that the supplies upon wich they
liv shell be furnisht by the employers
upon slch terms as committy NV EN-
ployers i'll each deestrick shell agree.
To prevent mismanagement NV the soil .
by these undeveloped im:ellecks, and to
nnshoor their acceptance NV these laws, it |
S olso part NV the league that no land
De leesed or sold to any one NV Afrikan
blood, and thet ez much NV the wages ez
he employer considers proper be retain
ID in his hands.
They accep the situation and ncknowl- ,
AdSe the bindn force NV emansipashun,
but they must regulate labor themselves
1t is thot thet by livin faithfully to these
regulashens cheep cotton kin agin be per
loosed in Texas. Ef this Legislator IL
electld ez we hope it will be, this code
VIII be made law, and thank the Lord
wont meen nothin in Tex
rs cept as change NV name.
L wood suggest that You to wunst take
he last orders NV Gen. Hancock and
make it the subieck NV messige to Con-
griss. Detale i'll full the generals talk
acre and add to it ez only VOC kin. Tell
Congriss the general is agoin to make the
aw the rool NV his conduck and that he
proposes to uphold the courts and civil
authorities, and will only yoose his mill
ary to these ends agip the niggers. Sling
II here suthin to the effect that American
liberty (wich Ill this country, is peku-
yer variety of the artikleD is still an in
lerltance Nv the white people, and shall
llluz be. Tell EN- that when soljer hez
power in his hands, and refoos-
IS to yoos it for the purpos Of satisfyin
eltish ambishun, he presents Il hefty
ample NV virtoo under difficulties. 1t
wood be well at this pint to compare
Hancock with Washington. maxim the
Inference atween um merely nominal
Say that there may be officers III the army
besides Hancock who initiates Washing
on, but yoo hevn't sot eyes onto EN- eZ
ut. Assert that Hancock is the first off
er III command sence the close NV the
ate onpleasantness wat hez given utter
ms to sich sentimence in his orders, and
iemand that ConGriSs shell vote him
gold medil
l selest tina! this be done to wunst, for
'easons wich are ohvus. We desire Han
'ock TO continyoo III well dom, but ez
hat well dom III our behalf mite lead to
us noMinashen for the Presidency, it is
veil enuif to kill him off III that ,lireck-
hen 80 soon ez he is committed. Hence
write. Don't let Seward diloot it, or Ran
lall pollok it. Put in my naked i,iees,
'lothed in yoor terse and vigrus ian
.uidse, and yoo will hev done good
hing.
repeated them TO the lcadin officers
" the Lost Cos Club" and the idee
"nz rapcherously received. Wun mem
Der selosted ii want best, ez RELY the
hing WIZ too absurd but he voted ny on
he proposlshun, cpmprOmiZin with him
'alf by sayn that ef it WIZ received az
ie apozed 1t wood be it WIZ eazy enufr to
ware that hiz Eggslency WIZ drunk
when lie wrote it, wich woodent hurt him
With hlz party AT ALL
Another who il trooly II friend NV yoors
objected on the score that such settin up
wood give Hancock the nominashen, but
he wuz laft to skorn. Wat" sed an old
sray hcdded member, ''hez A. johnson
sver commended that he haint killed"
1t wnz yoonanimously resolved thet yoo
10 IT. In more heart than | have been
or months subscribe myself,
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, p. N.
tWich is Post Master,
hid old man sunc shall b,
Nj ag Is sixty-ive
~ cent four bUis of minc To ku,ir.t.
And stlll am aly.
Jon, the oldest, went To Yale
Mise Young man IL he
lie wars his hat on hiz left ear,
llz kloths Of cn"ks max three.
tharly went To Princeton Kollrg
shotgun he chute:
lie karres slungshUt In hiZ poLat
razor ia hiz butte.
''"prg went To kOlumbil.
He wears most pretty kuilS:
We rile- sarkastlk nrtirals.
Hes smiiicn on the girls.
Frank, The youngest OF ini boi.
~ Harry "A r..rT.