Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — His Reasons for Running Away. [ARTICLE]

His Reasons for Running Away.

“You gin at the flrat Are, did you?” laid the colonel of a colored regiment “Yea, sah,” was the unblushing reply, “an’ I would have run aoonah If 1 had Lnowed It was cornin’.’’ i “But have you no regard for youi deputation, Sam?” “Reputation is nuffln to me, sab, by the side of life.” “Well, if you lost your life you would have the satisfaction of knowing that you died for your country.” “What satisfaction would dat be to me, sah, when de power of feelin’ It was gone?” “Then patriotism is nothing to you. 18am?” ■ “Nuffln whateber, sah.” “If our soldiers were like you, trait ors might have broken up the government without resistance.” : "Yes, sah, dat’s so; dere would hab been no help for It. I wouldn’t put my life into de scales ’gainst any guberninent that eber existed, for no tment could replace de loss to me. I ’’spect, though, dat de gubernment 'would be safe, ’nuft it all de soldiers were like me, as den dere couldn’t be no fitln’.”