The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1865-11-18
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"sseel land N Liberty of thee ! sing"
MOI much ! don ~ this time "
ihofes anything sweet about liberty
In this part Of The vineyard cant
see II, Tho Innds good cOuf and !
Wouldn / mind hcatin q lymo or tai
about tho dirt ! live on, but as ior
6ndin sugar and liberty Ia Georgy
soil, rs All a mistake. llowaumev
a., LIN hopefuL I'm much calmer
and scrccncr thop whsa icw months
ago. begin 70 feel kiudly 70 all
people except some. I'm now on.
dcaycrin TO be great national man
| 70 taken up amottcr Of no North,
no South, 40 East, no West; but let
me tell you, my friend, I'll bet on
Dixie a' loag as I've got dollar.
ltsno harm to run both skcdulcs.
II fact, it's mighty harmonious TO do
SO, I'm u good Uuiop rob, and my
batllo-cry are Dlxlo and the Union,
But you soc, my friend, We are gr'-
ting restless about some things. The
wal had Jccam nifty heavy on US, and
after the big collapse We thought ii
was over for good. We bad Killed
folks and killed folks until the novel
ty Of the thing had wore OF, and We
we're nifty nigh played out all over,
Children were increasing aud the sit.
tuls timinisi,ir. BY a close calcur.
lation IL was pcrseeved that We didn't
kill our enemies as fast rs they we're
imported, and about those times |
thort it was a pity that some mlraklc
ot grace hadn't cut Of the breed Of
furriners some eighteen or twenty
years ago. Then you would have
seed fair fight. Gen. Sherman
J wouldn't have walked over the track,
and Ulysses would have killed more
= meslhan he did-cf his ora 6ie.
I. have always thort that General
J ought to bc pcrtiklcr which side he
was sacrhsin.
Well, ifIhc war is iycE what's The
i use Of iilliu mp our towns and eiile'
with soldiers ony longer. Where
your rekonsUuktion that the papers
says is going on so rapidly Th'
mkt is, Gen. Sherman and his cater
pillars made such q clean sweep 0
everything, don't sec much to re
konstrukt. They took SO many lib
critics aroubd here, ths; there's mar!
liberty left. could have rckon
struked a thousand sieh States beior,
/, this. Anybody could. Thcr,
wasn't nu,hin TO do bat just to go Of
aud letus alone. We've g, plent.
of statesmeR--pleRty Of men 70
Governor. Joe. Brown amt dead-
he's waiting--standing q. the doc
II with his hat Of. Then what's th
soldiers Lere--iog-what good ar
they doin-who wants 10 see 'en nn,
longer. Everybody is tired OF th
war. and we don't want TO see an
more signs Of it. The nisgers don
want en-, and tho white men don
want EN-, and as for the ~imen-
whoopeel lgollyl Well, there's y
use taIkin'-whcn the stars fall agi
maybe the wimin WIN be harmoniEe'
That male business-thsl oath aboy
ccttin letters Gee tiger. They q
Ways was jealous about the wal'
ANYHOW, aud that order jest broke q
canels back. Wen must cOnfc'
THAI /, was a powerful small coucerl
IN would try to sortcr smooth !, over
. / | knowsd what 10 say. but don
}. II they was afeercd Of the wimen wi
diant they say sol II they WASH
wha. do they make 'cm swear 70
Just 20 asgrayatc emf Didn't thl
!, know that the bes, way 10 harmohi
a nan is to Iiarmonise bis wife fr'
What harm can the vimcn do by !
erivin their le,sers oath frsel tn
can, vote. nor shey can't preach, .
hold offs, nor play soldier, nor mi
= ter. nor wear .breeches, nor u
stradGle, nor ouss, nor chew tsrbac
er. nor do huthin hardly but talk a
rite letters | lheam that q salu
kernel made a wonsn put up her |
/. bokarse ithad a pik,er Of BorygH
non il. We'll she's harmenired.
Tcckoa. Nov the trOublc of all .
!. is ihat after these bayobets leave b.
and % homr. those pc,lieoat iyra