Year: 1868

hath hung,


The full noon of freedom shall beam round
Erin, oh Erin though long in tie shade,
Thy star shall shine out when others shall
. fade.


Unchill'd by the rain, and unwaked by the


The lily lies sleeping through winters cold


hour,


And daylight and liberty bless the young
Thus Erin, oh Erin, thy winter is past.


som at last
From a Soldier in the Regular


Army.


The following communications
were unavoidably delayed last week !;
some for want of room and others
because received too late


The letters of Grant and ColfaN
were received just in time to crowd
Them in our las paper, and of course
other matter had to give way to
make room.


HOLLY STRINGS, Miss,


May 30th, 1868.


Ed. PIONEER, Dear SIR: I have
been here long enough to know
what these fire eating rebels would
do if they had the chance. At the
present time they have organized
bands all through these States, call
ing themselves the Ku-Klux Klan.
They disguise themselves in petit
coats, as their leader jeff. Davis did
before them, and meet at night to
steal and murder. If this can be
called peaceable country at the
present time, it must have been a
pretty hot place for a Union man
during the war.


There was seven Ku-klux's ar
rested here recently and placed in
our guard house to await their trial,
and squad is cut to-day after more
of these internal rebels. The com
manding officer of this post was
notified by letter from some un-
known rebel, to release those mid
night sssassins, or he and his men
would be in danger, but we look
upon their threats with scorn and
only hope they will be foolish
enough to carry them into effect.
If they do, we will make them dance
Yankee Doodle, and curse their
commander as they did during the
war. The Democrats in the North
told me there was no need of hav-
ing soldiers in the South, that they
are peaceable, and want to do what
is right. They say this because they
know no better, or because they
want to favor the rebels.


The North has but little reliable
information as to the actual doings,
and real objects Of the rebel politi-
clans and rebel newspapers. They
are known as the most desperate of
all the played out, disappointed sons
of secession and rebellion: Some
of them are the fossil remains of
what were once the red nosed aris
tocrats of Mississippi, from whose
trembling hands the political pow
er has passed away forever. The
rebels say the negroes will not work
for them, and they want to get emf
grants. They want to get white
men from the North, or from some
other country, but first they should
look at their domestic affairs and
see if they are exactly ready to in-
vite company to their homes. They
had better make up their minds to
work themselves


AT the present time Union man
is not sure Of his life one day for
these disguised rebels will enter his
heaceable house and murder
him in cold blood, without any
cause, except for being a Union
man. While Sergeant Bates was
carrying Union flag through the
South unmolested, Union men were
being shot down in cold blood, in
different parts of the same region.
How do the Democracy explain
this?


There has been one million of
rebel voters absent from the polls
at all the elections since 1861. Most
of these have been employed in
taking the lives of Union soldiers,
destroying Union property. perse-
cutting Union citizens, and toiling7
with Satanic efforts to overthrow
the Government. They will be
rallied against General Grant in the
coming election, but their efforts
will be in vain as heretofore. The
sentiment of the North
is here in it's omnipotence. Its
fires are blazing in front Of a hun
dred thousand tents; it is already
in possession of their capital, and
It's mighty hosts Of freemen have
each ballot in hand and are re-
in the strength of God, to
regenerate them and their State.
The need is great.


Yours truly,


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