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The Chenango Telegraph, July 3, 1861
WOOL! WOOL! WOOL!
Wanted at the
MT. UPTON WOOLEN FACTORY,
in exchange for goods, or to manufacture by the yard.
A Large Stock of Cloths
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL!
Kept constantly on hand, consisting of
FULLER CLOTHS, CASSIMERS, SATINETTS,
TWEEDS, and FLANNELS
also
Rolls and Stocking-Yarn
WOOL CARDING AND CLOTH
DRESSING done at all times in the best manner,
Customers at a distance wishing to wait for their carding can
be accommodated if they will come at an early hour of the day.
Grateful to the public for a liberal patronage conferred
during the past twelve years, the undersigned takes pleasure
in announcing to his customers in Chenango, Otsego and
Delaware, "and the rest of mankind," that he now has facilities
for turning out
1000 YARDS PER WEEK
Having enlarged his mill greatly, improved his machinery,
employed an effective force, fully armed and equipped, and a
water power ample and unfailing.
Having been successful in the past, and having refitted,
CAPTAIN and CREW, are all aboard ready for a "General
Action," on the arrival of the
NEW CLIP,
We may not fight, but at such time can always
RUN,
So our friends will know what to expect. We hope that none will be disappointed.
I.
On Guilford's eastern boundary line,
Since eighteen hundred forty-nine
The Unadilla's ceaseless flow
Has pressed our wheels and made them go.
Now, in our Nation's trying hour,
Our patriotism awakes with power
II.
Our cards, revolving, can release
And straighten out a tangled fleece;
But never yet, could play nor sing
Secession's tune: "Cotton is King;"
They chime with strains of Seventy-Six,
No Cotton with their Wool they mix.
III.
Our spindles too, prolong the strain
When marching out and back again;
In two extensive lines they move,
Thus stretching out the wooly rove,
When marshalled on their iron track
They show the way "to freedom back."
IV.
Our looms of course for Union run,
On warps thus made, on woof thus spun,
And while the threads are passing there
Swift as an eagle cuts the air,
They form a fabric firm and strong,
Like Union men, assailed by wrong.
V.
What though success our effort crowns;
Though fortune smiles, or gold abounds
if o'er our land shall cease to wave
The banner of the free and brave;
Our Nation severed--rent in twain
By traitorous hands, by men insane.
VI.
Our constant prayer shall still ascend
That "treason planned," may quickly end,
For country, and for him who fights
"For freedom and for chartered rights,"
Our President and General Scott
While party names may be forgot.
Erastus Rockwell, Mt. Upon, June 1, 1861
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