The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-01-17

shot in battle while leading a charge,
and accidentally, by one of his own
men,"
"Now, Jinerel Fry" continued
Woodford, with look of mild reproof,
''ye must not come down here and
strive to bamboozle our people becuz ye
come from Danville, where there 8 COL
lege and opry house. We are plain folks
here, and we don't aim to put on any
style; but, boys, when Jinerel Fry
comes here and seeks to pervert the facts
we call him down. We know that we
are not highly educated people here, but
next to liberty and the love we hold for
our homes we love the great big eter-
nal truth, and when Jinerel Fry, with
all his advantages, comes here to warp
our minds regardin the magnanimity of
the Republican party at the clothes of
the wah he should not be permitted to
do so.
''Now, gentlemen, what did they do
with Jinerel Robert E. Lee at the
clothes of the wah? Of co'se I did not
fully agree with Jiperel Lee regardin
the wah and fit on the other side; but,
gentlemen, Jinerel Lee was brave
man. / fit with him at Beuna Vista and
Risaccy when the pesky greasers rid
over him as eff he'd of bin a remains
but he lived to lead the glorious fight
for his people, loyal to old Virginny,
gentlemen, ruther she was right or
ruther she was wrong!
''And what did they do to old Jinerel
Robert E. Lee, with his blue blood and
educated at the expense of the United
States?
''Took him and tried him by drum
head cote martial, sab, and had him took
out behind camp and shot. sab, and his
body quartered, his poor body, SCARED
with Mexican l;alces 80 years ago and
with Federal bullets again, sab, in de-
fense of his country, and yet shot and
riddled by Republican bullets, sab: mag
unanimous Republican bullets, san, and
quartered like bullock, sab, to make a
Republican holiday!"
But" said General Fry, "Colonel
Woodford, you do not want to lead these
people into an error willfully. Every
child in the primary schools knows that
General Lee died ten years after the
war, honored alike by friend and foe,
the loved and respected president Of a
southern college,
Now, Jinarel Fry, said Woodford,
Eye must not come down here and try
10 mislead onr plain country people that
way, because ye come from the great
intellectual center at Danville, where
they can parse Paradise Lost with one
hand tied behind their backs and wear
open back shirts.
"Bill, what do ye say about the
death of Jinerel Robert E. Lee?''
Bill arose in the middle of the house,
paid his salivary respects to the exposed
foot of Lincoln hireling and said: II
wuz one Of the detail, colonel, fer tew
shoot Jinerel Lee, and my old heart
bleeds when think of it, boys, fer I was
from Kaintucky and belonged to the
Sons Of Temperance at Lexington, but
we done it, sab, we done it-shot him
and then drored and quartered him there
before his wife and children
Then he sobbed and sat down. "Now,
Jinerel Fry said Woodford, lone
more word, and am done. We do not
claim to be in advance of civilization
here. We are, in fact, as we know. away
yander in the rear of S;'ogress, but when
eloquent gentlemen ike Jinerel Fry
comes down here fer tew pervert and
mislead us as regards the conduck of the
wah, sab, and the magnanimity of the
Republicans at the clothes of the wah,
sab, I am heah to protest, sab, with my
dyin breth.
Let us see now, in conclusion, what
the white winged bird of peace brought
to po' old Jefferson Davisat the clothes
Of the wah. What about the justly cele-
brated olive branch which the Repub.
lican party had secured in carload lots
for jinerel distribution in the south?
''Mind ye, did not agree with MIR.
Davis regardin the conduck Of the wah
and fit agin him, but am Democrat,
and will not stand idly by to hear the
magnanimity Of the Republican party
bellered at ye by the silver tongued
orator from Danville. was at the wah,
sab, from A to lizard, sab, and I ask
ye to refresh yore memory, gentlemen,
regardin the jenerel nagnanimity
shown, sab, to Jefferson Davis. Mind
ye, ! did not agree with him, but fit
on the other side; yet, gentlemen, was
with Davis in the Mexican wah, sab,
and saw him fight with sword and bull
let after others had quit and laid down,
sab, fight on and on, sab. with dubbed
musket, then with rocks, sab, and fence
stakes and army crackers, sab, and
whatever he could git a-hold of, game
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