WAR
mouth—spying and lying—taking no risk yourselves—eating our substance and then bringing the provost guard down on us—by the Lord, if I were Lincoln, I'd hang every one of you on sight—as he is entitled to do with spies. And, if I can bring it about, that's what's going to happen to you—and mighty soon! My advice to you is to go into the rebel army to save your lives! Though it's full of gentlemen—the rebel army—and God knows what they'd do with such as you! You'd be out of your class."
Well, I don't know if Kratz was fooling or not. But he certainly scared 'em some, like I never knowed 'em to be scared before. They didn't make so much noise after that nor show themselves so much; and some of 'em sneaked away. He had a much better chance to make his speech.
"What I was going to say, fellow citizens, was that though this is a Union and not a rebel place, and though we have about a hundred men in the Union army, they have gone to the
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