The Conservatives from the Border States, my boy, look upon the Southern Confederacy as a brother, whom it is our duty to protect against the accursed designs of the fiendish Abolitionists, who would make this war one of bloodshed. They ignore all party feeling, support the Constitution as it was, in contra-distinction to what it is, and object to any Confiscation measure calculated to irritate our misguided brothers and sisters in that beautiful land where
The suitor he goes to the planter so grand,
And "Give me your daughter," says he,
"For each unto other we've plighted our loves—
I love her and so she loves me,"
Says he,
"And married we're wishing to be."
The planter was deeply affected indeed,
Such touching devotion to see;
"The giving I couldn't afford; but I'll sell