The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-29
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WIT AND sENTIMEN T.
Isham G. Harris on the Rampage.

AsnaM ". uaFfS On the Rampage.
Our friend Mercer, of the Nashville
Union, has spiritual medium reporter,
through whose agency he obtained the
following speech of Ex-Governor Isham
@. Harris, at the Confederate muster at
Murfreesboro, on Wednesday, October
10, in advance Of all other papers, which
is no doubt all correct "in my minds
eye, Horatio:"
We arrived at Murfreesboro, accord
ing to promise, at 9 o'clock A. NJ, pre-
cisely, and being attired in full suit of
''butternut" with an old-fashioned seal
skin cap, took a seat on the stand with
out any molestation whatever. Cover
nor Harris appeared on the platform,
erected for that purpose, at half:past ten
o'clock He was welcomed by the crowd
which numbered about one thousand
persons Most of the audience belonged
to some military company, and the flags
were variously inscribed: "Possom Hol-
low Guards, Rutherford Jayhawkers,"
"Rattlesnake Invincibles," and the like
expressive and euphonious titles. Gov.
Harris wore splendid suit Of white lin
sey breeches good deal worn, adorned
with a patch of black cloth on the
left knee, and another of red flannel in
the rear, vest of green-curtain calico
lowered with pink, and graceful but
ternut roundabout, the right sleeve being
pieced out with blue linsey A pair of
cowhide shoes, without socks, leaving an
interval of six inches between their tops
and the hem of his pantaloons, COM
pleted his classic, graceful, and highly
picturesque costume. After a series of
bows he began:
Ladies and Gentlemen: In looking
over this mighty assemblage, announced
but few days by the public press to con-
vene at this place, my breast swells with
emotion which can find no adequate ex-
preston in words. AS we'll might at
tempt to describe in an address the wild
upheavings of a volcano, when the chain
ed Titan rises from his long agony of
three thousand years, and thrusts his
hand of flame through the crater of
Mount Etna, while Sicily trembles to its
centre, as to essay on this occasion to do
justice to the glorious enthusiasm in the
cause of independence which now fires
with noble rage the breasts of the South
ern people. Tremendous cheering, DUR
ing which the Governor took drink of
old Robertson from a gourd bottle in
the hands of Andrew Ewing. We are
going to recapture Tennessee and retake
Nashville.
That's sol This sort of percgrination
nvo hills In1lOxry ,.,fk ,bot /
pected it don't agree with my constitu-
ton, and by am not going to stand
It'll Shout of Bully for you, old fell
low! | want to get back to that SPLEEN
did Capital, and l am going to do it or
burst my boiler Loud applause ]
What if did take 100000 of the
School Fund? That's nothing. Many
a man has stolen more than that and died
respectable. | was out of funds and
bound to have the money, and I've spent
it, too, but I'll pay it back when L m Gov
ernor of Tennessee-won'tI Andy? Yes
yes, you WILL ashanti My friend, Andy
Ewing, says l will, and who knows bet
ter than he2 Many is the toddy we have
swallowed together, and often as we have
walked the streets, mutually supporting
each other, We have been forced to ex-
claim with the Psalmist, UNITED we
stand, divided zoe fall Tremendous
applause, and another swig from the
gourd.
My enemies are always accusing me
of making Midnight Treaty" Well,
wasn't | your Governor, and wasn't l
elected to protect your interests, and if l
believed it was to your interest to make
a treaty with jeff Davis, hadn't | a right
to do it? Answer me that. (Shouts of
" Yesl yesr' during which the Governor
took another heavy pull at the gourd.
Laze and gem men, (hic,) Andy johnson
says | made secret treaty (hic) d-n
Andy Johnsonl I'll make as many
Sc treaties as l want toI I'll make five
hun erd thousand If anybody says
shan't make se'treaties I'll shoot him
through the head. AT right, Andy Ew-
ing1 Amt | con st utional? Exactly
so. Andy Ewing says I'm right-who
says Andy Ewing's liar2 (Hic,) Any
body say it? Cries of Mol mol nor
Well, you'd better not say it, for I've got
five Alabama regiments to settle you if
you dare say it. I'm for free principles,
~ NiSNNoSiOiI iASC SISdllHS, lIcc Itllg-
ion, and free whisky I'm running my
constitution and health forever by ex-
posure to the weather and lying out Bill
Stokes jayhawkers keep me lodging like
"a didapper all the time Last night
slept in tobacco barn, the night before
that in sheep-pen, and three nights be
fore that among the hazel bushes. Your
folks are grumbling about loosing little
forage. What's that, I'd like to know, to
the loss of my salary, my position, my
rank, my official Importance, my wine
parties and whisky? l used to be drunk
all the time, and now think I'm lucky if
] can press whisky enough to get drunk
once a week. "My sufferings is intol-
cradle" as a great man once said. /
want to see Nashville want to see her
beer-shops, and groceries, and billiard
rooms, and Forests faro-bank, and the
race-track, and those jolly old cusses of
the Methodist Publishing House, who
offered to pnblisha Confederate Bible for
me that hadn't the Ten Commandments
in il.
They told me the Ten Commandments
were played out, ard behind the times.
want to see the stately palaces on the
Square, looking like big houses, which
had come out from Cincinnati on bust,
and then the little shops around them,
which look like DELEGATES that had come