The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1865-06-21

1t is we'll knone that thar aint another
sich skoundrel out side Of that orful
place we reds about, or inside ether, egs.
cept among the Yauky Kopperhead
gentry. Me frcns, I've reliable informa.
sbun that his Brimstun Majesty he'd
bokum alarmed at Jefs triks lest he
shood eklipse him in dcvcltry, an he'd
entered his protest asinithc starvin an
other horrible trctcment Of our solgers,
an that rcmemb bern the fine turn Nc.
Clelan took to put kwycatus on Pope
at the 2ud baltic Of Bull run, ho kon.
kludcd to sit up row in the shanty af.
ter the fashion of crate Gincrals, an allow
Lees army to be smashed up jist to
bring Jelly down peg or tcw. Oh !!
me frens, he's dredCul wicked, an sar.
tain!y desarTes to dy for his sins.
But to heng 'im wood be grosc in
suit to his pussoual dignity and an aw-
full reacckshun upon his family. Re-
spectacle men ar but seldom hung egs.
cept by mistake, an thar could DC no
mistake in this kase. IF he kood only
be hung BY mistake as a honest man,
yore beluved pasture wood fureyer hole
his piece, nay, wood glory in it, for tho
the result wood be much the same 10 the
" President" yit he wood game immor-
tality, wood be q more glorius marter
than NalIindiggun, an every Hopper.
he'd in the land wood houor him with
thar votes for the Presidency for the
mex twenty yarcs. But to be hung
without the gost Of an cgscusc is scrius
bizuis, an will be ugly relekshun on
his good name.
Me frens, a lellcr my git shot in the
back in battle, or in the mex in dog.
gcry-;ho yorc bcluvcd pasture never
goes thar-may sit kilt in dcwcl, or be
turned out Of oils for bciu 4 hopperhed,
or for swindlin the Government, or may
dy in the last dich with tho devils
trimLlcs, an it il soon be forgot and his
lreus will stan as strate an stiff in society
as ! liberty pole on the ,lth Of July, but
only let him git hung ever SO sliteiy, an
it souus bad. Me frcns, | believe it wood
be Plus akt cf the Lord wood take pity
on him an take him out Of the way be-
foro his time komcs. l wish to the
IIowly Virgin iustid Of takin the buket
an sneckiu Of like ole Mother Goose,
he'd kikcd it in good faith, he'd gone
down to poste.ity as one shlrelry, an
his cssamplc might hcv bin imutated BY
others Us it is he must ever stink IN our
nostrcls.
but to hang i'm wood be unwarrent'
able interference with his liberties, an
therefore uukonStituShunablc; for is it
not rit,cn 10 the Dcklarashun Of 1nde.
pcndcnts that life, liberty an the pur.
suite Of happens" are among the rites
rcsarvcd to all men? An now my larn'
ed, intelligent aud desarnin odicuce, L
pu, it to you, do, docs not hanGin as
siucral thing niger life? Docs it not
kirtail 4 mans liberties more or less ?
For my part l ken kousave Of nothin
that destroys him so eifcktually, or that
! Iiskwalifys him for bizuis in so short a
time. But docs it not cut short the
pursutc of kappincs? Ime thinkin that
but few 20 in pursutc of that artikle
with any show Of sugces from the gal
lus. Me frens, Inc not positivly in.
! formed as TO the aktual sentiments on
luther side Of Jurdcn tuchin Jcff's kase,
but I cnfer that as the konfcdcracy
woynt rekognizcd over thar, he'd hev a
tegus biznis Of it in sckin happincs in
that kwar,er, an if he shood be kom.
PEELED to turn tolc aud take luther end
Of the rode, as he'd mos. likely do, for
it is rittcn,
"Ashcs to ashes, an dust to dust,
T.: God wont hey YOU, the devil must;
! he'd stan a pore chance to fine much
. happircs among his freus in the lower
house. awfully fear that his ole mast
or, the devil, wood hold him response
bic for his peart tricks while on airth as
the President an wood keep him in
hot wartcr, if nuthing wus.
So you sec, me irens, haugin takes
away fellers resarvcd rites, an kant be
did without brakin the konstitushun, an
Ime purswaded that the Mcrican peple
will never submit to that. | knode q