The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-11

Iutt ulStory TekOrdS. Sumner, Satan
and Company are still fussin and
fuming about the everlastin nigger-
want him to vote and make laws, and
squat on jewry, and want to per-
hlblt us, the rebels, from doin the
same thing for 80 years TO cum!
Jerusalem! where is the cussin man?
They say its all right FOR nigeer not
to vote III Connecticut, bekaus there
amt but few of EN- thar; and its all
wrong for em not to vote in Georgy,
bekaus there's heap of EN- here, and
they talk Logik and Retorik amazin
to prove how it is. Well, I haint got
whole passel of sense like sum, but
as shore as I'm two foot high, Mig
ger is nigger, don't keer whar you
smell him, and vote is vote / don t
keer whar you drap it. l golly! they
can't git over that.
The truth is, my fellow-citizens, I
sometimes feel like we dident hav no
Government. I felt that way sorter
when Mr.. Gibson appinted me a
Committee on the State of the Re
publik. When the Secretary read
out my name all mixed up with the
Republik, felt that 1 was obleeged
to renig. Risin magestikully to my
feet, says I, ''Mr. President, I beg to
be respectfully exkused, sur, if you
please. If thar is any Republik on
this side of Jordan, I cant purseve it
at this time with these speks Thar
was a place in old Virginny called
Port Republik, but Mr., Rebel Gen
eral Stonewal jackson wiped out its
contents generally i'll 1868, and 1
haven't sinse heard of it in Northern
literature. 1 have heard of a skrnb
consarn over about Washington they
call Republik, but, sur, it are likely
to prove the grandest imposture that
ever existed on a continent of free
dom. L suppose, sur, it are to be
moved to Boston or the Internal
regions in few days and 1 want
nuthln to do with it. Exkuse me,
sur, but must insist on bein respek-
tably discharged.
took my seat amid the most pro-
foundest and tumultuous silence ever
seed, and Mr.. Gibson remarked that
he woudent impose the Republick on
no respectable man agin his~wishes.
de then transferd me to the Finants
Committee, and sed he hoped we
would take Immediate action, for the
State had no money, as well as him
self, and board was high and eat
seteras frequent. This may not hav
been his exal1tuai langwidge, but is
anglin toward it. 1 how'd my head
and said ''Ditto, exsep that i don't
eat seteras.' Forthwith 1 telegrafd
varyous gentlemen for temporary
loan, but they woudent lend a dollar
until Mr.. Jenkins wer norgorated,
for they wanted his name to the note
Think, says l, there's tap lost about
the wagin. If we are State, we can
borry money in Augusty. II we ain1't
a State, it's none of our bisness to
borry it all. If Andy wants to run
the machine his own way, let him pay
his own expenses.
What In the dickens Isl Provisional
Government for, if it amt to get up
provisions and provide for a feller
generally . 1 made up my mind that
perhaps we had been humorin Andy
about-long enuf. We had as MUCK
right to a Governor as Alabama or
South Callina. He wants us back
about as bad as we want to get back,
and little der, perhaps! and he
incident pu! on many unnecessary
airs about this Senator bisiness. ii
he fools with us much we won't elect
nobody-I golly We'll take the studs
and go backwards. 1 forthwith re-
turned to the Capitol, and stretchin
forth one of my arms, ses [, "NIr.
Gibson, sur-I'm your friend-I'm
the friend of your wife and children
but ef MI. jenkins amt norgerated
soon, the State will collapse bright
and glorious star viii be obliterated
from off the striped rag, and the
President will lose about nine sup
porters in the Federal Congress.
move, sur, that eff we can't git
our Governor at once like a sine 0alu
non, we break up in row and depart
for Mexico 1t took like the small
pox, and were carryed tumultuously.
These proceedins were telegrafd to
Washlnton before the ink was drv.
and received orders forthwith to
norgurate our Governor and rool or
our cart. Then the money came.
and we voted ourselves pocketful
apiece, and took furlo. My friends,
that wer proud and glorious day.
When that great and good man was
maxim his atfectin speech, we all felt
happy, and Capen Dodds, the emember
from Polk, remarked that he would
like to die then, for he never ex-
pected to feel as heavenly again.
Ihe tears run down his left eve like
rain. His other eva yar baot o,,+ bxr