Year: 1865

''We Acknowledge the Corn"


We are subiugated It took four years to sub
iugate us. We made a strong resistance fish
woman's resistance. We earnestly exhorted
others to talk, write and vote; and we have been
subjugated in spite of our resistance We have
said and written harsh things against the'policy
ofour Government. We have done these things
ignorantly We never had the benefit of the
Boston system of education. We ignorantly
and enormously thought that in order to preserve
the rights of the people it was necessary that
there should be advocates of the people. We
mag ned that Government in a republic actually
required a check; that that check produced a
healthy condition of affairs; and, as we did not
like the Government policy, and being one of
the toilers and tax payers, our interests and in
clnations prompted us to oppose governmental
measures inmical to our interests and opinions.
But we were wrong in this; and we blame Boston
in not instructing us. She might have done this,
for she gives law and morality (?) to America,
and might have educated us and taught US our
duty.


We never loved a strong government. We
always thought as the strength of the govern
ment increased the people became proportion
atey weaker We never admired a rich gov
ernment, or an extravagant government. We
imagined that the government wealth was our
poverty. Butwe now recant We have even had
cherished love for liberty. Now we don't love
liberty We love strong government. We ad-
mire rich government. We don t complain Of
the government at Washington. That govern
ment has dealt as leniently with us as with 9th
er subjects We most devoutly pray that it may
take charge of us altogether But we are sub
jugated by the mob-by vagabonds who thirst
for our blood and banker after our spoons. We
wish the Washington government was rich
enough land we offer it our spoonsl, and strong
enough, aud willing enough, to trample on and
usurp the inaienabe rights Of the mob Of vaga-
bonds who annoy us-strong enOngh and will
ling enough to control its military and compel
its officers in command to suppress mobs and
protect property willing to court-martial and
shoot officers who encourage mobs to deeds Of
violence. We don't want liberty with law, or
liberty without law. Liberty with law as we
understand it, is the liberty of the mob to burn
our property, disturb the peace, endanger our
life; and our share Of liberty is the very liberal
share of submitting without murmur to save
our life.


As to religious matters, we are not Jew
we are no longer a Christian of any kind-much
less a Catholic. 1t is Christianity that has made
US unpopular. Had we renounced Christianity
years since and embraced Puritanism, we should
now be all right with the Puritan Gods. We
are now trying to hate all Christians, and most
of all Catholics. None of them ever did us any
harm-and we can't hate them very heartily in
our present unregenerated state-thOugh we
lean against Christianity and in favor of Puri-
tansm. The leaning is not much, however; lis
very ittle--we lean anyway 1t is not safe to be
upr ght and dangerous to lean AS 10 our rights
we renounce the doctrine of rights generally;
and more particularly our former heresies of
State Rights, rights of speech, press and of po-
lifical and rp1iUiOus OniniOn. and in fact avarv-
thing that is right. We uphold all the wrongs we
know of. We affirm that all wrongs are very
good things. We intend to have no opinions on
any subject. This intention we find exceedingly
difficult to practice. We are improving, howev-
er We are almost an imbecile, and GONZALES
cling to complete dementia. When we arrive at
this state Of beautitude we shall seek entrance in
to the Puritan Church. and would prefer that
we might be slowly reduced to beggary by tax
alton, and that in the declining years of our
penitence some magnificent niger may look
dawn on us and patronize his humble inferior.


We are unfortunately white, and correspond
ingy humble. We dive beneath the niger S
sculptured heel We grovel-we eat dirt. Spec
linens of white Puritan have been seen They re-
gret their color They may sympathize with
us.


Would not some Puritan priest please to skin
us. Our skin is what makes us feel mean. We
hope but few of our unfortunate color will be
hereafter born We are a miscegenationist. This
is not an opinion. 1t clearly proves the total
absence of the reflective organs No man who
has any opinion can be a miscegenationist.


Under the circumstances we most earnestly
hope General Grant may take charge of affairs
and that the sword shall be the certain, swift
and unerring law. That all violators ofthe pub
lie peace shall be promptly punished-that ir-
regular military license shall be restrained-th
we shall have one master and not million-that
he shall hold our lives and fortunes in his strong
grip-and that obedience to him shall be a full
and complete protection against all others


We hope to appease the wrath ftbe Puritan S
God, or deyil-or both-and Of their followers,
the Puritan Church military and hope and earn
estly pray for a good strong military des-
potism If our prayer is answered we shall sup
picate the aforesaid de.ties to make us love
them and their followers. Ifthey can make us
do this we shall believe them omnipotent. We
shall believe in miracles or anything else-in
short, we should give up thinking at all on any
subject.


We do think that it would be quite refreshing
to repose beneath the cool shadow of a military
despotism. We should. have no thought to dis
tract our mind-no ambition-no hope for the
future-no property-no nothing.


We should be ready to be shot or hung when
ever our turn came to be made an example of the
strength and stability of the government. And
with the example Of niger oficers-we would
cultivate such state of mind that we would on
ly wish for a free niger heaven; and we believe
that would not be denied us-for we always
deem ourselves no better than a nigger-aud we
think the companonship Of our nigger patrons
would soon convince us that the Puritan's heav-
en- would be Paradise indeed Horace Greely g