The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-08
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Tnu following quaint epistle (says the
Void has been furnished for publioa.
tion by member Of The mounted rifles,
who picked II up in deserted rebel
camp on the ChownD river about ihiriy
miles firm Winton, while ont on scout
ing xpedton last spring.
The letter Was addressed ip this wise:
Read. il SOU want e., you thi, wing
scalp-hunler, whoever you are, aud for
wsrd, post paid, to the ford high chan
cellor Of the DEVILS cxchequer % on
earih.
jEFF DAVIS, Richmond, Va.
HEArocAarEas "ScALp HUNTEns'J
camp Chowan, N. C. Jan. H.
E5collacy Darts
Z is with feelings of undcveloged
pleasure that an afIectionato conscript
entrusts this sheet Of eonhscaied paper
90 the tender mercies Of Confederate
States mail-o carrier, addressed, rs il shall
be 20 yourself, O JEFF, Red Jacket Of tue
Gulf and chief Of the Six Nations
more or less. He writes outhe stump Of
"a sliveIod monarch Of the forest with
the "pinc trees wailing round him, and
"Endymion's planet rising on the ala
10 on, 0 Gear of oil Chivalry and Khan
Of Cotton Tartary, he appeals for The
privilege Of seeking, on his own hp0t, 4
land lcs9 free--a home among tho hyt-
mas Of the North. Wal you not halt
your "brave ctlumne' snd stay your
gorgeous career fer thin space9 and
while an admitting world takes p brief
gaze al your glorious and God iorsaken
cause, pen for ibo happy couscHpt a fur
Tough without enug DO So and mail IT,,
If ycu please, 20 that city the windy,
wandering Wigfall didn't winter in,
called for short Philsdt lphia.
The Etesian winds, sweeping down
the de1lss of the Old Dominion and over
the swsnps of Suffolk come moaning
| through the pines OF the old >tate, laden
with the music, and sigh themselves
away into eweet sounds OF silence TO the
far.of South Your happy consoiipt
would go 20 tho far away North, whence
toe wind comes, aud leave you 90 reap
the whirlwind, with no one but your
father, the Devil, TO rake and bind after
/ you Aud he's going
! II is with intense cad simultaneously
proud satisfaction that be gazes for the
last time upon our holy hag--that SYM
boil and sign Of an adored trinity--cOt-
ton, niggers, and chivslry. lie still sees
1t in the little camp on the Chowan, tied
to the peak OF its pamlet'o pole, and fioat-
ing out over the boundie.s Conlederacy,
the revived relic i ages gone, banner OF
our king of few days and full of trouble
And that pole, in its tapering upright
ness, typityiBg some OF the grandest
beauties of our nationality; its peak
pointing hopeful toward The tropical
stars, and its biggest end-run into the
ground Relic and pole, goodbye IT'S
best the consoript goes his claim TO chiv-
airy has gone before him. Behind him
he leaves the legitimate chiyalry of this
unbounded nation, centred in the ille-
gitimate son Of Kentucky horse thief
But few more words, illustrious
President, and be is done-done gone.
+ Elevated by their suffsrings aud
suffrages to the highest office in the gift
of great and exceeding free people
you have held your position without a
change of base, or purpose Of any sort
through weary months of waT, and want,
and woe; and though every conscript
would unite with the thousands of loyal
and true men in the South in a grand
old grief at your downfall, 30. too will
lh eysink under the calamity of an ex-
| quieite joy when you shall have reached
that eminent meridian whence all pro
gress is perpendicular an
And now, bastard President Of an
abortion, farewell
"Scalp hunters" relic, pole, aud Chi
valrous Confederates in crime, good bye
Except ii be in the army of the Union
you will not again see the conscFipt.
NORM. HAROLD,
Of Ashe county, n. 9.