Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04

hang them when you have you
big hangin, (and Jeff Davis ant
General Lee might object to beil
hung in sich company just appin
another day and do it. You init
take 'em all to Arnell's lanyard
have 'em hung, and sell him tn
hides. Eff you dent want to sill,
your hands with 'em, their kon
stituents, so called, will take th'
! job often your hands. There
one member of the House of Rep
resentatives that didn't have bu
two konstituents at the start, anc
one of them is ded, and he is now
a running on one wheel, but the
nay ybors Of the one that's a livir
will give any assistance he needs
Tell Arnell I'll sell him the hide
of my loyal sneak and take it in
Confederit money. But I'm told
Brownlow has elected Arnell to
Kongress, and is sgwine to send
him to Washington to represent
him. I-axed our kunstable how
it happened that the Governor had
a member of Kongress to repre-
sent him, and he sed as how it was
accordin to the amended konstitu-
ton. Arnell will hav q good time
a carrying out the will Of his kon-
stituent. Eff he don't mind he'll
be like the feller that killed him
self tryin to form a, holler square.
Ny son Jeems, that was in the
rebel army, was mighty mad when
he heard the kunstable say you
was agwine to hang General Lee.
He says you will play thunder
a hangin General Lee. He says
if you was to 90 a foolin round
General Lee with your rope, and
the ole General was to give you
one look, you'd jump clean outen
General Jackson's boots, and if the
boys didn't play marbles on your
coat tail it would be because they
couldn't keep up with you. He
says if you hate the rebels SO bad
and love the Union so we'll, why
didn't you go out and take hand
while the fite was agoin on. 1t
was free thing, and you coulder
had a chance to er killed any
amount NV 'em; but you tuck
darned good care not to come
anigh any of 'em when they had
guns in their hands; but now, at
ter other men hav done the fitin
ann saved the Union, and Gener-
al Grant aud General Sherman
says there has been blood enuf
split, and the rebels has laid their
guns down and tuck General
Grant and General Sherman at
their word, and aint got nuthin to
hurt anybody with, you gether up
a rope and come rarin and a charg-
in and aquoting General Jackson,
and llollerin-''whose ateard?
hang 'em!'' He says he's seen
men like you before-fellers that
slept in feather bed all the war
kept their loyalty in a bandbox
in their wife's room, or tuck it
away out back in the rear to trade
and make money on. He says he
would not give dern for such 10y
atty. Ef ennybody is to be killed,
let soldier kill 'em; but IA brave
rebel that faced the foe on the
field of battle ort not to be dis
graced by bein killed by any feller
that was afeerd 10 go whar he
mout er got hurt during the war.
But Jeems is hi-temperd and you
musent mind what he says
Frank Cheatham sent me word
thathe. got mad at Chickamorgey,
and it was as much as he could do
to keep him from chargin a bat
terry by himself.
Eff you are so much crowded that
nv sneak cant be entered in YOUR
hanging, we intend to tie him to
tree and employ Brownlow to cuss
him nour. We just want him
to tiptoe On him-we want him to
call him a God-forsaken, hell-de-
servin son Of b-h, and jist do
the thing up in his best style-well
pay him for it; and he's cussed
many a better man for the pew
ter.
Tell Mr.. Fletcher that the mag
istrate of our deestrick died
the other day, and we have elect
ed another in his place, and are
raisin subscription to buy him a
commission. Tell ole Doogan to