The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-08-04
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All over the Hand the Radical papers call
as dog. Thank you gentlemen. # we nav
be allowed the expression. There is ne
more faithful creature IN the world than a
dog, the universal ILLUSTRATION and TYNE of
fidelity. IN Pompei as IN other countries
the dog was worshiped for his fidelity and
left in charge of vast treasures. We see
him in pictures today, guarding safes-and
guarding women and children-rescuing
snow-bOund pilgrims from Alpine heights
saving drowning men and proving his de-
votlon TO mankind. on may call as a doc
be particular 10 let it be known that we are
a dog-a democratic dog. with pluck enough
to guard the interests given to our care by
the people. The dog does not desert his
master when he IS left by robbers bleeding.
wounded and impoverished, as some men do
their party, and their friends and the people
The dog shares the fate Of his master in
want and IN p0verty-he dares fasten his
fangs deep into the throat of the tyrans and
the assassin. Call as a dog Certainly
The dog guards the treasures and does not
steal them, as abolitionists and republicans
have, nor does he fOrsake his post in time Of
riot, palentings, and darkness as renegade
Democrats have done, for a few years past
Cali Us a dog. Certainly The dog is a
faithful creature. He sticks By his friend
He does not steal cotton, mules silver-ware
teaspoons, family relics etc. He does not
steal from his master who sleeps You NAV
call US a dog Not dog in the land but IS
better than an abOlitiOnist or q Lincoln
hireling, who was only brave when mobbing
the defenceless-OF a Lincoln thief who
went to war in order to steal from private
bouses-or a general who had a commission
given him to steal silver-ware, cotton, and
mules on shares-or Lincoln minion who
cringed and stabbed innocence at the nod
Of a Stanton or any other tyrant's tool
And they say we have been a dirty dog
ever since the war begun So we have
We have been spewed over by enough abo-
lition editors and stump speakers in the
North to dirty even thousand dogs? In
al this time we have been dirty-for we
have not forsoOk our post or our principles
70 wash in the blood Of our bTOthers-to
become purified by commissions offered US
in LincOln's army, bones thrown US by those
who would coax US from our duty-we have
not rolled in the clover of stay-at-home-
official patriotism GIVE have not sneaked
through rose bushes to eavesdrop under
windows for Porvost marshais, and thereby
scrape the filth from our backs five had
left our gate post to be washed as some men
have done, we should be clean now-clean
as any abolition, stay at home, Undertaking
traitor in the land. And we might have
been a fat, sleek, lazy dog, like the pampered
protected Bond Holder-or cur of dog
running away from his post swapping and
snarling at all who passed by as political
preachers have so long done
But if we are a dirty dog, we are a dog
with good teeth They are not rotten; but
clean, white teeth and we intend to stand
guard by the Goddess Of Liberty and snap
them into the throat of the next tyrant who
shall dare lay his nigger-seented hand on
her--shall guard the Constitution given us
by statesmen, and snap our teeth into the
radical traitors who are perforating it with
amendments; we shall keep watch by the
pillar of Democracy that you do not gnaw
it down while the people sleep--we shall
stand between the people and their robbers,
and bark both loud and long, till the sleep
ers are awakened, and can protect them
selves
And dirty dog that we are-you cannot
coax us away from our post nor can you
stop our barking or prevent our biting
And we tell all your traitors, Union-haters,
tyrants, minion thieves, towards, assassins,
ieeches, bond holders, niger worshippers,
fanatics, bigots and Abolition despoilers,
TO keep away from the Democratic mansion
If you don't wish to be bit, and not to desc
crate the graves of Washington, jackson
and other statesmen, by spreading Scotch
plaids over them, on which to sit and tell
smutty stories, and call it craftsmanship, if
you don't want to hear our music
We thank you for the name. Dog. Net
a thieving, wOoi-chasing cur, but Demo-
cratic watch dog, always at his postl--La
Crosse Democrat