Harper's Weekly Editorials on Carl Schurz/“And, Mother! Draw it Mild!”

took the liberty of observing that the freedmen universally celebrated the last Fourth of July while the late rebels did not. Thereupon the Fayetteville Observer, in Lincoln Country, Kentucky, remarks:

&ldquo;Is that any of your business, you squash-headed, flop-eared, beer-swilling, garlic-eating, negro-loving, German convict? What do you know about the South, or the Fourth of July either? We loved our country, and always celebrated the anniversary of its independence in a becoming manner until it was overrun by several millions of foreign thieves and cut-throats like yourself, whose votes were bought up by Northern demagogues at a pint of lager beer each.&rdquo;

The gentle Observer is, of course, a warm friend of “conciliation” and “magnanimity,” and has no patience with an “unconstitutional Congress,” which suggests that rebellion shall not be rewarded with increased political power.