There is a great deal of gas about these war meetin's. A war meetin', in fact, without gas, would be suthin' like the play of HAMLET with the part of OTHELLO omitted.
Still believin' that the Goddess of Liberty is about as well sot up with as any young lady in distress could expect to be, I am
| Yours more'n anybody else's, | |
| A. Ward |
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If I'm drafted I shall resign.
Deeply grateful for the onexpected honor thus confered upon me I shall feel compeld to resign the position in favor of sum more worthy person. Modesty is what ails me. That's what's kept me under.
I meanter-say, I shall hav to resign if I'm drafted everywheres I've bin inrold. I must now, furrinstuns, be inrold in upards of 200 different towns. If I'd kept on travelin' I should hav eventooaly becum a Brigade, in which case I could have held a meetin' and elected myself Brigadeer-ginral quite unanimiss. I hadn't no idea there was so many of me before. But, serisly, I concluded to stop exhibitin', and made tracks for Baldinsville.
My only daughter threw herself onto my boosum, and said, "It is me fayther! I thank the gods!"
She reads the Ledger.