Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-12-07
RAccooS HoLLow, Nov. 9. '6e.

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associations.-Nash Gazette.
RAccooS Hollow, Nov. 9. '66.
Nr. Jack Shipsrs, ....
DEAR DADDY-I hev not writ 10 you
since settled, an reckon yure gittin ashy
to hcer from me. I'D
Well, when left the creek, you know II
was jist about the time that guviner Brown
low and Arnell and Flstcher and Jon Trim
BILE and old Mullins and Doogan tuck on ther
big skeer about Andy Jonson's removin the
standin army from around them, and when
Fletcher got up his memorial with all them
Abraham men sined to it--a beggin and a
pleadin with Andy Jonson not tu take them
till after squire Trimble's big hangin tuck
place that war tn cum off purity soon.
You know what pashun got into about
squire Trimble's goin to hang JEFF Davis and
ole Gineral Lee, and how war agwine tu
print the pictur Of a big shoe rite on the seat
OF squire Trimbles britches, and wood nv
dun 1t of 1t hadent bin fur the everlastin
standin army---hewsnmdeve | spilled his
hangin, SO you see jist konkluded tn take
up my bed and walk tn parts onbeknown,
whar thar war not q radekil tu be found, and
arter many days hard marchin on short rash
uns, settled rite here In this holler On thort
war outen the rech nv Brownlow and his
nigger wushuppin squad, an begun tu feel
happy like, an wasent keerin a cuss for no
body nor nuthin, when l seed a moovin OBJ
jec cummin rite tord me, an jewhilikins!
it war Thing tu be seedi How my har got
upan huttered my breth got short and my
pulls got quick an felt as streeked as did
at the battle Nv Chickamorga. II war about
AZ foot high an lookt fur the wurl like big
jug kivered mp in brodcloth, all but the stop
per--it drew itself rite up afor me an squard
itself an SEE "howdy dew nabur," an as soon
as heerd this / noed war dug up, fur IL
war ole Wines--hede bin round lexineerin
with the niggers in my beet fur Congriss.
Arter akin bout you an all the foxes on the
creek, --hopin they war all well an harty
an maxim out well an had razed good kraps
an had no hog colery an sich like palarvcrin,
he sed ort tn jine the raderkils as they war
a giten stronger evry day. lie sed the big
fte atwixt ole Thad s evens an Andy Jonson
had cum off an 1t war cler tn evry BODY that
Andy war whipt-he sed Brownlow an the
legislator NV Tennessee had past law stop
pin honest whites from votin an forbddin
smart men frum holdin orfce, an this seshun
they war agwine tn pass law givin the mig
ger the rite tu vote, sit on jewrys an hole
orhce an in this way the radekils mout keep
all the orfices in the State tell the last day In
the evenin--he sed he war agwine tn run fur
Congress next summer, an he thort he mout
be lected as no war in favor NV nigger rites,
sich as votin, settin on jewrys, holdin Office an
miIinginerashuns, as Ann Dickinson sed when
she tuck on spell of carnipshuns an war
a cavortin rom In sarch Nv nigger husband
He sed he 0rt tu be lected fur he had bin
workin fur q long time fur it, an had dun as
much dirty work as any man could boste NV
fur the place. Here he begun iu look pitiful
an sez he, Jeemes, Tine q gwine to live eco
nomical this session, as Andy johnson had
got in huff becase he tuck sides with Ole
Thad, and had turned his unofendin son out
en- the post-oflice, and war afeerd him and
his ares war dun livin eazy. He sed Ole
Doogan war agwine to rent house in Nash
vile this scsshun, and git Ole "Diner" TO
keep 1t so he could live cheap and respectable.
an he was agwine pardner with him in his
new enterprze ef he didn't git Jealous for ses
he, Doognn is enterprizin man in his way
Here he looked at me outen the corner NV his
eye, and SEE: Jeemes, SEE be, guess you
don't noe what the word enterprise comes
from nor what il means, as you never ken
school. Well, sez he, Jeemes, I've got a al
nifty site of school larnin, hev KEEP school the
big end NV my life an the word enterprize
Gums from too latin words--entcr and prize
an means you must fust enter an then prize
and U see Doogan haz alpres acted on that
principle, an haz got on putty well in the
world. But he sed Doogan had got nifty
peticlar about who he TUX fur boarders, sense
he was cotch with the wool in his teeth last
sesshun after him an "Dmer' had bin .Mir-
He sed must rite TO you
AN git You to give him liz fur Congriss as
he war afeerd 1t would be nifty tite fit fur
him to make the trip as il war up hill all the
way an he war carryin big wait Here ole
Wines TUX time tu blow, an | axt him ef he
thort 1t war rite fur him an his sqwad To be
a passn laws stoppin the honest whites from
votin an furbiddin smart meu trum holdin
office an givin niggers an raderkils the rite
tn vote when thar is sich alfred majority
agin III Here he jist drawd in his head like
a tarapin an then showed it out agin an blode
like porpus, an SEE, now this Is all "bosk
Jeemes, the times cum when sumbodys got
tn 60 under an ef we don't put them down
they will poot us down, that's all. Now
Jeemes, yon can see, sez he, we ar actin in
self deiense--he sed him an biz sqwad war
all agwine to Congriss jist as soon US they got
things tied up here SO the niggers and the
balance Of the raderkils could hold them
straight, an as soon as Thad Stevens could
make room fur them in Washngton--he sed
Guvenur Brownlow war a gwine on 10 sea
Thad an hurry him up, as all the legislator
is calculatin too emagrate in body too Con-
gress jist as soon as Ole Thad can make room
fur them.
Now daddy, want you tn rite letter rite
quick an hav il published, an tell everybody
whether you're in favor NV Gineral jackson
Il the Constertution or not, an tax in sides
with the whites.
So no moore tell deth,
Yore loyin Son
JKEMRs SBIvERs.
N. B.-Let ms know when you rite what
you think Nv Brownlow's 'Minute Men," he
seq huze gwine to make hiz legislator git
up fur hinl--l reckon its rite good thing,
fur heze gittin ole an childish, an haz 10 hey
sumthin 10 amuse himself with--an If you
to give Ole Wines lift, an reck-
on you mout ms well--far no respectable man
in our distric would hey the cussed Office