They're--jest--as -- different--as--a--lion in--a--menagerie--is--from--his--brother--in -- the woods--who--has--a--nigger--every day--for-dinner.

You--fellows -- will--go--into--a--circus--tent--and--throw--tobacco--quids in--the -- face--of--the--lion--in--the--cage--when--you--haven't--spunk enough -- to--look--a woodchuck--in--the--eye--if--you--met--him--alone.

It's -- lots--o'-- fun--to you--to--shoot--down--a--sick--and--starving-man -- in--the--Stockade, but--when--you--see--a--Yank with--a--gun--in--his -- hand--your--livers get--so--white--that--chalk--would--make--a--black -- mark--on--'em." A little later, a paper, which some one had gotten hold of, in some mysterious manner, was secretly passed to me.

I read it as I could find opportunity, and communicated its contents to the rest of the boys.
The most important of these was a flaming proclamation by Governor Joe Brown, setting forth that General Sherman was now traversing the State, committing all sorts of depredations; that he had prepared the way for his own destruction, and the Governor called upon all good citizens to rise en masse, and assist in crushing the audacious invader.

Bridges must be burned before and behind him, roads obstructed, and every inch of soil resolutely disputed.
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