Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-06-01
Number SO.


4 BRck--Its my opinyon by this
time ther amt no Washington-Be-
hold the men who sot the life are alI
Ided men, Grant an all, an Sherman
is chief kook an bottle washer ov that
ar hull consarn. I say hurraw for
diplomacy!
Hrs EGsCELLENcY-rm so accus-
trmed tn bad news ov late that 1
cant allow myself tn indulge in yore
hopes, Mister Brekinrig Ifit turns
out IS you say, We've sekured our
rites, an hensforth will be let alone,
but if as l fear, the plan should tale,
or be only parshally successful, an
Andy should escape, wele find it q
fearful thing tu fall inter the hans of
livin Southern Yanky. Howsum
ever. yore diplomacy leves the back
dore wide opon, an so fur so guide,
an as sun as we heer from Washing
ton, if all isn't rite, wele skedaddle,
fur Grant ii be dowr on as like a
thousan lik l shouldn't be surprised
! if that formal Sheridan want close tn
our heels now. So hole yoursels IN
reddines tn depart any time.
But my frens, my opinyen is were
more tn fear from our frens than our
fose, we've humbugged um so long
an so terrible that when the spell is
broke an We start down hill theyle
Xix us tu the bottom bubble quik
without the benefit NV clergy. One
sed, "save me from my frens," an
that, it is my convicshun shud be our
prair purity sune.
Gentlemen how du you understan
that scriptur which says "make tn
yer soies frens of the mammon oy
unrighesnes that when ye fall they
msy rescu you inter ther houses?
line blever in scriptur an it seems tn
me that the time hes cum to try that.
BgNJAMIN-Among us jens man
mon ustter meme that which a feller
got by dankin anuthur in trade, an
movin upon his wurks frum the reere,
rollin him under the show ov deliaks;
but sense cum tn this ar county,
Ise larnt that mommon meanse
suthin big. In karntuckky ther ar
the Mommoth kaYe which is q big
kav or a kave whar big bones is
foun, and l furgits which, now 1
larnse from this that in this kountry
the mammon of unrighesnes mense
the big unrighesnes, an | konkludes
that His Egscellency is the big IN
righesnes, rs he has all the speshe,
an tharfore the mammon of unrighes
nes himself Floid fankt the War
Department, an got the arms, Cobb
hankt the Traishery, an got the
monys. Watts his name, 1ankt the
Knavy an got the ships an so on
every thing in the South vas got by
way ov a slant, tha. wus wurth get
tin--an then sll these mammons met
in kOnvenshun and made His Egs
ceilency the representative ov thar
| principles, on lade their games at his
fete to du with them as he seed fit;
now he say "right gentlemen" amt
he sumo all thar ask an amt he the
big Tanker, the mammon ov unrighes-
nes himself? an haint he hankt the
Richmon Shivirly an got all the COLE
and silver tukered away in them ale
kags like nales2 Here's the Inammon
oy unrighesnes shore. An now if
His Egscellency will shell out sum
five hundred thousan dollars among
the army hede make frens, and when
his moneys gone or he need sum Nv
it tn hide him frum the yankeys,
these men will secur him inter their
houses, an when he dise--as we all
will likely go tu the devil together
they will seizure him a warm korner
in his brImstone majesty's domin.
yons sumwhar. That's my vershuns.
HIS EGsCELLEHcY--I see! / see
Brekinrig, bring me one oy them
kags2
just Of this moment q tremendous
uproar wus herd in the camp of the
yankys; the shutin was herd afar off,
the kanen bumed and the muskits
rolled, an 10! Grant he'd cum down
among EN-; the work Of diplomacy
wus cut short in righesnes, Sher-
mans truce WITS broke up, His Egs-
cellency scatterd his silver right and
lef, an started like shot fur the
back dore, an in the scramble that
follerd awoke an lol it was dreme.
BUNYAN Jr.