Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-02-20
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SARCASTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

The following are among the latest
of the sort, from the Louisville Jo9r-
nal:
No one, with no previous knowl-
edge Of Senator Trumbull, could read
his late resolutions and speeches and
suspect that he had single drop of
white blood in him. Physically he
is a white man, politically he is q
nigger. g
II the radicals think that their
proposed measures are to the South
"blessings in disguise" the South
would no doubt thank them to make
their DISCUSSES a little less impene-
trable.
Somebody, calling himself "Per-a
simmon," sends us communication
in favor of black suffrage. We will
not bring him before the public lest
some coon make short work of him.
Gen. Buffers reply to Gen. Grant
is said to be nearly completed. But
Ter no doubt thinks, that, when his
reply is finished, Grant will be.
Tho wife Of Gen. Lee is applying
for the restoration Of the magnificent
Arlington estate. And why should
it not be restored? How has Gen.
Lee deserved, more than all the other
rebel officers, to be punished by con-
fscation z
Congress has provided a Bureau
for the poor negroes. Now let it
provide Bureau for the poor whites.
The Northern Generals, who fought
in the South, have a favorable opin-.
ion Of the disposition of the Southern
people. The Northern politicians,
who couldn't have been pricked BY
pitchforks into the fight, have most
unfavorable one. @ ~ .ltAa
Fred. Douglass feels outraged be-
cause President johnson told the
negroes to 60 home and go to work.
Perhaps the .halfnigger would have
been less indignant if the President
had told them to stay in Washington
and starvs or go home and starve.oaf
Sumner shows a disposition to
abuse the American flag. If justice
were done, he would exhibit more
stripes than ever the old flag did.
Thad. Stevens says that he has
little longer to live. The tears olive
in an onion" that will be shed when
he dies,
A radical editor in the interior Of
New York boasts that his paper
"pays." That's what he never did.
| Let those who are disposed to
break a lance for negro suffrage take
heed lest they be broken themselves.
The Radicals are in a rage at Pre-
sident Johnson. They scowL They
frown. They look as black as their
own dear niggers.
It is charged in an Eastern paper
that Boston is slow city. Of course
the circumference of a wheel must
move more rapidly than the "hub."
| A hundred and twenty-four women
of Kansas have petitioned Congress
for the right of suffrage. Well, isn't
a woman as good as nigger2
| Let not President Johnson spare
the veto. A well-used one-man power
| is better than an abused and per-
verted two hundred-man power.
They are trying in Congress to
get more than half hundred amend
ments of the Constitution. Pity the
amenders couldn't be amended.
This country did not really learn
the science of war till within the last
three years. It has not yet learned
the science of taxation. ..N
Five terrible steamboat explosions
upon our Western waters within
three weeks. Western steamboat ex-
plosions must be catching.
A letter-writer says that old Tbad.
Stevens "has not a long lease of life. "
His end and a ropes should come to-
gether.
The teeth are the last bones of the
body to decay after death, and the
first before it.
Soldiers in battle, like many peo.
pie out of battle, generally overshoot
the mark.
When you are looking for sins, let
your looks, like charity, begin at
home.
NT There 10 spot in Mexico to