The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-17
A Gallon of sack and a Penny
Worth OF dread.

VIZ. CAMERON CO., Publishers
A Gallon of sack and a Penny
Worth Of dread.
Jack Falsisff was something Of an
epicure, and be did not live exactly
according 10 the Laws Of health, which
admonish US, in various ways, that We
should drink little while eating; be used
q mix the fluid snd solid, At the rate Of
agallOn Of sack, 70 penny worth Of
bread and we are inclined 10 suspect
that some Of our contemporaries lave
tsken the fat knight IS a model, while
filing The measure Of their patriotism;
at least it sppears 70 be equally diluted
with the email loaf, after having absorb
ed the gallon Of hsid.
''Much Niger, and little UniODism,"
appears to be nicely dished up; and IS
Jack would have been exceedingly in
digDani, had any one suggested that his
dieiie proportions were rather unusual,
so these patriots grow furious at the least
hint that their loyalty is Of 3 very di-
luted character.
A night or two since, we carefully ez-
amined one or two Ct our chief ex-
changes Of this class, with = view TO as
pertaining, as nearly as possible, The reIa-
tive amount Of the two ingredients we
have mentioned-the niger and Union
ism-in the compound Of the editorial
mind and conld arrive at no other con-
cIusion than tina! these men were greatly
improving on their illustrious predececsor,
and that were j sck FAlstaf on the stage
we mean real character in the world
to-day, be would be compelled, that
be might keep pace, to ask for z barrel
of sack, and half hard cracker.
A correspondent from Cincinnati hap
pened to visit the carisal Of anoth-
err State, and crilicise the course Of
= legislator when oae Of those
modern Falstsfs cries ou', "un-
psralleled impudence; what right has
be to NEEDLE in our affairs? He wants
to steal our niggers?" In another para
graph the same editor discovers that the
manifestIy disloyal resolutions Of Gar
ret Davis are designed merely to pro-
tect Ssmbo; and that Senator Wilson,
in moving his expulsion for utteriug
views as tressOnble as those Of JEFF Davis
and which were designed to iDjure the
strength Of the government, while en-
gagged in a struggle with that individual
and his sstraps, was actuated by hostil-
ity TO The gentleman from Africa, and
nothing else.
Whenever anything is done, bis first
question is: "what eject will it have on
my mantle Diggeip Christopher
with the measles, never suffered half 60
much as he does; and there is no need
of calling on an East India Corporal to
establish the intensity of his misery /;
it is exhibited in every issue Of his
journal. The African follows him in
his daily walks is seen from the glass
from which be imbibas his cocktails !;
and late in the day, judging from the
agony displayed in bis editorials, be is
able TO see double-see two niggers
every time be raises any Of the "rosy"
to his lips; his bed chamber must be
hEunted by some citizen of Ethiopian
persuasion, aud thick lips, and shining
ivory without limit, appear il visions
of the night, when deep sleep fslleth up
on other men,
In the good old days Of water power
and Indian trails, man started to mill
on horseback, with a sack Of corn-the
sack being the property of q neighbOr.
Unluckily while riding along the edge
Of the pond, the horse took fright, and
threw bis rider and load into the deep
water; and as all efforts to rescue the
man were frnltless, it become the solemn
duty of . friend TO convey the sad in
telligence to his good wife. During a
journey of several miles, the messenger
continued to revolve in his mind the best
manner Of breaking the tidings TO
the lady, that her nerves might not b.
too suddenly and too severely shocked;
but being blunt man, he could devise
no method of preparing her, and he,
therefore, on arriving at the door, said:
"Msdsm, the horse on which your hus-
band was riding, threw him Off into the
mill pond, and as he could not be rescued,
he speedily drowned"
"wbat became of the sackg' inquired
the lady.
"It fell in the pond, too"
swell, please get it out, or I'll have the
sack TO pay fol" responded the dame.
Now we do not know but this woman
was the most affectionate Of wives; nor
will we attempt TO impeach the patriot
ism of the class Of editors, Of which the
one particularly specified is type, mere
" because, if aroused from his slumbers
Tomorrow morning, and informed that
during the preceding night the Union
armies had been, annihilated, aud JEFF
Davis was in Washington, bis only ques-
tiOn would certainly be, SIS tie niger
safer
The Result