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Drafted.BY GEORGE ARNOLD.I have boeo very badly treated; very bad* ly indeed, and I feel a powerful desire*© bare the finger of scorn pointed at certain persons whose full names I intend to expose in tbe public print.I am not wanting in courage; wben at school I licked several boys bigger than myself; but I have no especial fondness for tbe. life of a soldier. The idea of drilling six or eight hours a day is distasteful to me; 1 do not fancy having a thick coat buttoned up tightly in this weather, and as for camps they are dirty places at best.*Then, again, I am confident tbat there are men enough to fight out thie war without me. I know a great many who were crazy to go, when the Union uprising came off, but who haven’t been yet. X never thirsted for glory. It isn't in my line. I am in tbe tallow-chandlery and soap business.It takes a wiry, nervous, lean sort of man to make a good soldier. I am inclined to be stoutish; indeed, I have overheard strangers referring to me as “that fat mao.” My figure is good, I think, but unquestionably with a tendency to embonpoint, as tbe French c« ’1 it. [This is pronounced **ongbong-pwang” I am told.JTo sum up what I have been driving at all this time, I didn't want to enlist. I don't want to now. I like to take life easy, and accumulate a little money against the time when I am old. Martial lile doesn't suit me, and I always said I thought John Jacob Astor as great a man as Napoleon. That is my idea, at least. I went to the hospital the other day, aud saw a soldier with a mortified leg. Aghl All I ask is to be let alone.I don't know when I first heard about the drat ring business, but it produced a great excitement down town. The young men in my establishment went right off and enlisted—lots of them. They knew there was a big bounty then, and that when drafting began, they might have to go without any bounty; so off they went. It gave me a great deal of trouble, getting new bands, and at much higher wages. 1 lost over three hundred dollars by it; and would you believe? they had the hardihood—impudence, I call it—to ask me to give them something for extra outfit, or, at least, to give them their situation agaio if they came back! Uah! if one of the rascals dares to show bis face in my establishment again, I'll say somethiog that will make him feel very badly.As a rule, however, my employees are a worthless set. They don't seem to have any respect for me; so I'm not sorry to have got a new lot.I1cfacitti\Ihh1cthtat
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Columbia Spy
Columbia, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1862
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