Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04

General Lee and ole Buchanan
and you was agwine to do it. Ht
says you are gwine to put on the
boots of General jackson and the
coat he wore at New Orleans, and
tie the rope. A rural artist on
this creek has drawd your pictul
on the door of a blacksmith shop.
in General Jackson's boots and
coat, and a rope in your rite hand
and ole man Higgins swars its
more like General Jackson than
anything he's seed since old Hicko-
ry died. Thare aint nothin else
talked about on the creek but
Squire Trimble's big hangin.
The niggers are more excited
over it than they wur over the
sirkus, and are all gittin ready to
go to it, They have quit work
and can't talk about nuthin else.
You'll have a whalin crowd. An
ole niger says, 'Dat man looks
like he jest as soon hang a man as
not" He seed your pictur on the
door of the blacksmith shop. 1t
does look fierce. The kunstable
| says the Senate aint fixed the day
for the hangin yet, but it wont be
long fust. | axed the kunstable
what you were goin to hang ole
Buchanan for, and he said there
were a member of the Senate by
the name of Keeth that said ole
Buchanan had deceived him, and
he wanted him hung for it, and
you told him if he wanted it done
you'd have it done, and put ole
Buchanan in to commodate Mr.
Keeth. / axed the kunstable
what ole Buchanan had deceived
Mr.. Keeth about, and if he reck-
oned it was so. lie said he didn't
kno what it was about, but he
wouldn't be surprised if it was SO,
for Mr.. Keeth looked like he
wouldn't be hard to fool; but he
said he don't believe ole Buchanan
ever seed Keeth in his life. John,
if | was you, | wouldn't hang ole
Buchanan; he's gettin ole, and
haint got long to live, and I'd jest
let him 60 off in the material way.
The ole democrats on the creek ar
gettin up petition to you to spar
his life, and will waite on you in a
body next to present their petition.
A good many of the ole wings
have sined it too.
As you seem to be accommoda-
tin in this hangin busidess, there's
a feller down on our creek that |
want hung, and, if you've no OBJ
lection, I'll bring him to your
hangin and put him in. He was
q roarin secessionist VIXEN the
thing fust broke loose, and jes
swore that. very young man that
dident shoulder his gun and ce-
fend his kuntry ort to be drest in
winners close. / heerd him say
it. Well, you think that sneak
amt agwine about talking loyalty
and persecutin his naybors, and
maxim a fortune? | want you to
hang him, durn his everlastin
soul. He refused tother day to
subscribe to a poor widder, whose
husband was killed in the rebel
army. He says he was deceived
too, but he's liar; and if he
comes tc you to get you to hav
any body hung fol deceevin him,
don't you believe word he says,
for it kan be pruved that he was
the fnst secession on the creek
He thinks your hangin one NV the
grandest things out. Now, | re-
spec the man that fit the thing out
squar; don't care a dnrn what line
he fout it out on; but if | had my
way with these loyal sne AXIS and
deserters, I'd kill the last one NV
'em and stopthe breed. I've heerd
you had rite smart sprinklin OF
such cattle in the Legislator, OK
ems that knowed their masters
krib. l hope it aint SO, but if it
is, hang 'em all. They amt no
akkount. If they hadder bin with
the Savior they woulder betrayed
him, and the difference between
them and Judas woulder bin that
they woulder axed a higher price
and KEEP the money, One rebel
that stood squar-footed, lost all he
Lad fur his principles, and tout it
out, and now confesses the corn, Is
worth more Of sich men than it
would take to ELL the Penitentiary.