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Scrawi.Uncle Jesse Lukenbill, a staunch old Democrat, who resides at Greenville, in this county, has four gallant sons who served honorably and right gallantly in the armies of the Union. Uncle Jesse was arguing, with his usual vehemence and ability, the Democratic side of the question to some old farmer, and among other things said : ,rI have been in thiscounty fifty-seven years. I’ve been always a Democrat. I'm a Democrat yet Where’d you find a Democrat President who would free the niggers ? Yet they call me a butternut because I am down on this nigger war. I did’nt like the way the war was carried on. I was more loyal than they who said I was a butternut Didn’t I sell powder9to the boys to fite John Morgan with. Didn’t I have four boys in the army a JightinY' “Yes, yon did, father,” interrupted one of his boys, (who couldn't stand it any longer) “ and if you’d had your way there wouldn’t a darned one of us have gone in, or staid in after we got in. Hurrah for Gresham and the Union I” “Didn’t I tell you this was a Republican nigger war, said old Jesse mournfully. “Every d—d one one of them boys 1b a wooly head.”
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New Albany Daily Commercial
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1866
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