Show the CoD conscripts scripts epistle to jeffi davis the following quaint epistle has been fur insured for publication by azember azember of the mounted rifles who picked it up in a deserted rebel camp on the chowan river about thirty rines from winton whilo while out on a scouting expedition last lait spring the letter was addressed in this wise read I 1 if you want to you thieving scalp khater kainber whoever youage you are and forward postpaid to the lord high chancellor of the devils devies e exchequer ethner ith ner 1 on earth v SCALP ITU HUNTERS T ERS 1 I 1 1 f camp cho chowan wan NO NC jan div n 11 NL alj tj v adavis it is ie with feelings of undeveloped pleasure tl affectionate conscript entrusts this sheet of f confiscated paper to the tender mercies of a confederate states mail carrier addressed as it shall be to yourself 0 jeff red jacket of the gulf and chief of the six na thois more mare or less he writes on the stump of a shivered monarch of the forest with the pine trees wa wailing ailing around him and 11 endy inions planet rising on the air to you 0 gear czar of all chivalry Oui valry and khan of cotton pitr abd he appeals for the privilege of df seeking on his own hook book a land less free a home among the hyenas of the north will you not awit your 11 brave columns and stay your georgeous gerge ous career for a thin space and while an admiring world takes a brief gaze at your glorious and god forsaken cause pen for the happy a furlough without end 2 do so and mail it if you please to that city the windy wandering wigfall winter in called for short A philadelphia ladelphia bi the winds sweeping L down the defiles of the old dominion and over the swamps of suffolk come moaning th through roligh the pines of the old state laden with the music and sigh themselves away into the sweet sounds of silence to the far off south your happy conscript would go to the faraway far flar away north whence the wind comes 7 and leave you to reap the whirlwind I 1 with no one but your father tho devil to rake and bind after you and hes going 14 I 1 its ie with intense and multifarious proud satisfaction that he gazes for the last time upon our holy flag that symbol and si sign an 0 of an adored trinity cotton biggers and ebi chivalry v aar he still sees it in the little camp on the chowan tied to the its il s palmetto pole and floating ove boundless confederacy the revived relic 0 of f ages gone banner of our king of few days and full of trouble and taftt pole ole in its tapering uprightness testifying I 1 ake grandest audest beauties of our nation aa I 1 awards the 7 C 11 M 4 71 and dmd its biggest end cud ru run a into the gr ground allind relic and pole good ceoil bye J tiff tie best the conscript goes his claim to chivalry has gone before him behind lie he leaves the legitimate chivalry of this unbounded nation centered irethe the illegitimate son of cf a ICen kentucky tucky horse thief but a felmore few more words illustrious president rent and he is done done gone elevated by their suffering and suffrages suf frages to the highest office in the gift of a great and exceeding free people peopled you have held geld your position without change chang e or of faed b ase or purpose of ahr through 4 h weary deaths of war and wan ind and woe e and though every conscript would unite with the thousands of loyal and true men in the south in a grand old grief at your downfall downfall so tao will they sink immler calamity of an exquisite joy wh on en you shall 11 have reached that emilei 0 wastian whence all progress is perpendicular and now bastard president of a political abortion farewell 1 I scalp sakip hunter bunter relic pole and confederates in crime good bye except it be in the army of the union you will not again a see the conscript NORM HARROLD i i of ashe county N NOI C I 1 |