Life — December 7, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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(ce Platrear eal ro far~ Mickey (welih chattering teeth): COME ON IN, JIMMY, DR WATER'S VINE. ‘ rd Pick can eal no lean~ Do between Rem bok syou ber~ Chey lick te pla ler clean. A Letter. Cricaco, 1899. Dear Live: EFERRING tothe Transvaal war: You are, no doubt, quite familiar with England's course towards the American Colonics. In Boston they gave private theatricals, mimicking the un- couth boorish Yankee as they now belittle the Boers. In 1814 they burned down Washington City, Previous to our Civil War they denounced us for not abolishing slavery, because it was barbaric and unchristian. They alluded to our flag as the ‘‘flaunting lie,” ‘half slave, half free.” They pretended to bate slavery. Yet, when the war broke out to abolish slavery, they were found solidly on the Southern side. I was an officer in the Union army. They glorified in Bull Run and all other rebel victories, and minimized our success; They furnished all, or very nearly all, of the war implements and ammunition for the South, and every bullet fired at us bore their best wishes for its deathly success. Out of the fourteen hundred blockade runners captured by our navy, thirteen hundred and fifty were traced to English dock- yards, and fifty went down so fast that there was no one left to tell where they came from, but we knew that they came from the same yards. They preyed upon our commerce with