The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-10-20
Shreveport Correspondence.
sHREyEpoRr. La. Oct. 10. 1856.

DedT Cotonet What poor, weak,
frail and unfortunate creatures We be.
Major Jones, on the memorable occa-
sion that he undertook TO skin that
amiable cat, and thereby to show his
agility to the ladies, after his catastro-
phe, very wisely moralizes that, "there
is just such as going far enough, and
such another thing as going a leetEe
too far" Now | have this to say in
this connection-that peGrt letter I
wrote you last week-or something
else has done it, Things are bursted
generally. The Radicals have tri-
umphantly carried the States of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Iowa, and
can't tell you what all they have not
done; and as SUIT Lovengood expresses
it, " am jnbius" that '.peart" letter
of mine, or something else, has brought
all this about. It won't do to tempt
Providence and / am too miserable
to see any fun in it; and in the depth
of my distress, am reading "The Sor-
rows of Werter," and alternating with
an occasional dose of Seidletz powders
"a special prescription frora my ply
stefan who is himself a little gloomy.
Did you know that am a spiritual
list can call spirits from the
vasty-celler ? Iassure you it is so.
| have formed circle by myself, and
called again and again for the immor-
tai Mark Tarpley-who was always in
his highest jolly under the lowest
blus-black circumstances-but nary
Mark answered !; which I accounted
for by supposing that there are now
few thousand miserable democrats
calling for the same individual. But /
know he will come after awhile, and
with his jolly face open, with "your
turn next, sir"
While waiting for Mark, several
doleful old fellows began wrapping.
First. came Jerry, the Prophet, and
with graveyard voice-as deep as
from the bottom of the pit-hole of some
enthusiastic borer after the devine Pc
troleum-and delivered himself as
Josh Billings would express it.
''thusly :"
All thine enemies have opened
their mouths against thee; they hiss
and gnash their teeth they say we
have swallowed her up; certainly this
is the day we looked for; we have
found we have seen it." Lamen. ii, I6.
Next came Job, that patient old
stick, and expressed some very strong
desires that his enemy should write a
peart letter to some newspaper but
amiably admitted that he had never
been democrat, or printer; if he
had been it is probable he would have
lost his patience.
Then came frisky, fast trading
Jew, named Jo-the son of one Jacob
but remembering his mean and ungal-
liant conduct towards an amiable lady
named Mrs. Potipher, | refused to
hold any communication with him
and 10 ! then came Mark Tarpley--
with his beautiful sombrero in the
air gracefully gyrating on the top of
his everlasting walking cane; and let
me tell you, Colonel. the jolly sense he
did talk! I am convert to his Jolly
doctrine
Fudge man! be jolly! If tn e
RAIDS wish to smash the Government,
let them smash it; and as it is out of
your power to save it-help them
smash! Amend the Constitution
Why not !! They have kicked, spat
upon and befouled the old thing until
it is as weak and black as their con-
sciences, and you ought to see that it
needs all sorts of amendments The '
will never make it any better-no fear
of that The fact, the crazy, dirty
old thing as they have made it, ought
to be put away and burned, for it now
serves no purpose except for them to
swear lies upon, and the surest way to
kill it outright, is to give it the Sum-
ner Stephens pills, and work them off
with the Fred Douglass Brownlow oil
and it is gone forever
''Negro suffrage sticks in your craw ?
stuff man! If they propose to give
the negro one vote-you give him two
or dozen. He breathes the same air
of heaven as yourself--does that make
him your equal No more will his