Year: 1866

i debt on your account. You see, Bill, cotton
was too cheap Tobacco was too cheap
Rice was too cheap. Sugar was too cheap.
Happiness was too cheap. Our national
/ debt wass too small It was costing too
much to keep that negro bparding-house Of


yours so we remedied that by killing your
nigEers or giving them the benefit of liberty
rags, old bones and Abolitionism. And We


made your cotton more valuable And Bill,
we enhanced the price ofeyerything for you
and madea demand sor carpenters and house
builders down there You forget how we
have benefited your wicked country, Bill or
you would not Arp so continually on imagi-
nary evils. ,,. 49,, g..f,..,t.-a..


And we did all this to keep. you in the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace to
his ashes fresh from stealing horses in
Kansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing ne
groes from your grasp in Virginia, And
didn' we throw some few iron into Charles
ton harbor? The waters of the Pool will
be good tonic for years, Bill And didn't
Curtis save your cotton? Didn't Butler
save your gold and protect your women2-
And didn't Banks save your Red River
property? And didn't two hundred and
eighteen generals get rich as mud from find
ing things you folks had lost? And is not
there houseful after houseful of keepsakes
up North, picked up in the woods and on
woodpiles by our army chaplains and our
moral boys, while you were trying to kill
those of our folks who wanted to visit you
to keep your souls from HELP j-


Bill, you are ungrateful And then didn't
we keep this war up, till the States were all
back In the Union? And didn't We go to
war and keep on going to warto keep your
dog goned States from going out of the
Union? And didn't you want to get out of
the Union? And didn't we act magnani-
nous, and as soon as the war was over, unite
in saying you were out of the Union? Re
ally, Bill, it seems as if you had it all your
own way This war has proved a success !
We were bound to push it through in nine
ty days, and we should but for your stub
borness All we wanted was your niggers,
and your cotton, mules, furniture, silver
ware, and such odd tricks which you folks
could buy better than we could, for you had
more money! 1t was wrong to keep slaves,
Bill, but it was not wrong to steal.


This war-was to preserve the Union
Everybody said so. The Union has been
p1cserved-so much for US. NoSc, brethren,
let us pray. tt 3s.5fs fsR


Your States are kept out of the Union
which is still preserved You want recon
struction. Well reconstruct you, You
folks are very wicked, Bill God Furnishes
wickedness. Cod agents live in the North
excicsively, Bill! And wen let you back in
the Union, which has been preserved, when
we get ready. First, you must hunt up the
balance of your property and give it to some
Of our great and good agents or generals =
Then you must move out of your houses,
that is, what are left, and let the niggers In
And you must give the niger your planta-
tons And. Bill, you must give them all
your property, and support the innocent
cause of the late war by manual labor. And
you must let the niggers vote, for they are
wanted for Republican Congressmen, Sena-
tors and such. And you must ignore all
your personal or war debts, and not pay them
even upon the basis of honor. And you
must help us for licking you And ere you
do this, you must have all your property
taken from you, SO it will be easy. We are
just and magnanimous peopleinthe North!
We are liberal and brotherly! We want
peace and harmony. We don't want you
folks to go to he'll, nor do we want you to
dress better than We do.


Personally, we know but little of your
country In eighteen hundred and sixty
three we left your country Immediately in
advance ola bayonet for saying that some of
our folks were stealing from some of your
folks, and for writing naughty letters to the
La Crosse Democrat, charging some of our
generals with robbing and cowardice. And
we have had very pleasant time Of it at
home for thinking much as you think, but
now we are convinced that the war for the
preservation of the Union was splendid
success-that the countrysis better of-that
negroes are happic---that people are IN
better circumstances, especially the thieves
and robbers who have fattened upon blood
and stolen their enemies poor that the way
to make one section of the country love
another sectionis to fight, rob steal and des-
olate them into happiness-that our taxes
are Eghter-that republican retrenchment
and reform is good thing for poor people
and taxpayers that the sure way to nation
al greatness is to quarrel with sections con-
tinually-that q people are apt to love per
secntors+thatit it is honorable and an evil
dence of manly Christianity to hammer a.
man after he is down-that it isa blessing
for poor men to pay interest on bonds the
rich hold not taxabIe-that the negroes are
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