19. XIX.
ADDRESSES THE SOLDIERS.
At a meetin uv the manejers uv the ginoowine
Dimokrasy, consistin uv the illustrious Vallandigum
and myself, it was resolved to ishoo a address
to the soljers uv the Cumberland. Vallandigum,
hevin failed in the habus corpus biznis, is
employin his spare time in amusin of hisself in
Fort Warin, wich is near Boston. The dooty,
there4, devolves upon me.
Soljers: Ez individooels hevin votes, I esteem
you; ez invaders of Dimekratik states, ez men engaged
in the slawtrin uv Dimekrats by the 1000,
ez bloo-koted tools uv a Abolishn despotism, I can
not smile on you approvinly.
Sum uv you wuz Dimekrats, who, without contemplatin
the konsekences to the party, volunteerd.
Faytle errer! incomprehensible stoopidity!
And I regret 2 lern that, notwithstandin we hev
told you over and over that it is a Abolishn war,
you laff at our sollum warnins, and menny uv you
hev turnd Abolishnists yureselves.
We warned yoo uv the evils that wood naterally
foller Abolishn victoris. To show you that we
proffeside correctly, I call yure attenshun to the
follerin strictly Dimekratik fact. Since the commensement
uv the war the addishn uv niggers to
Northern Ohio hez bin ez folloze:
| Hankok, |
28,000 |
| Wood, |
84,000 |
| Lorane, (wich is near Oberlin,) |
103,000 |
[All uv wich is studyin fer the ministry, drawin
cavelry captin's pay and rashens, till they gradoo8,
inclooding 2 white servants, each.]
And so on, ad infinytum. These niggers are
workin in sitooashens you wunst okepied. The
tailor shops, blacksmith shops, shoe shops, and
stores is all filld with these noosencis, fresh from
Suthrin plantashens. So yoo see that while they
hev seezed upon yure labor, you air taxt by a
nigger-luvin government to support them in idlenis.
But there is moar fax:
Number uv soljer's wives who died uv starvashen
in Hankok County last week, |
1,253 |
Besides 1 small wooman they did not count.
And all this time (my blud biles wen I think uv
it) the entire nigger popelashen is bein fed on
briled sirline stake stufft with oysters. 238 white
men hev marrid black femails, within 2 weeks,
also 803 white wimmin to black men, all in the
corporashen uv Wingert's Corners, the guverment
payin license, preecher's fee, and the bridle outfit,
incloodin furnytoor to start em howskeepin.
It is useless to multiply instances. You are
ecksposin yure lives and helth, just 2 set free a
army uv shiftlis niggers, who wont work, and who,
by takin yure plasis on the farms and in the workshops,
will prevent you from earnin a honist livin
wen yoo git back.
Soljers, remember these things wen yoo vote
this fall. Under Dimekratik rule, wen the Sowth
roold us percisely as they wantid 2, awl wuz peese.
We kin hev it agin on the saim terms, with perhaps
the payin uv the expensis they have incurred
in manetanin uv ther rites, payin penshuns 2 the
widders uv them yoo hev wikkidly slane, et settery.
Soljers! you kin emansipate yureselves. Shoot
yure orfisers, throw down yure arms, and cum
home. The old party is in danger, and without
you it 'll go to rooin a canterin. Shel any feelin
uv pride in yure country deter you frum comin
wen yure party is in peril? I can not believe it.
