Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-24
VOLUME XXXIII.


Correspondence Of the Union and Americana
CoBwKB ATrIc. March 10th. 1s6s.-WM. Arr,
ESa.-MY DEAR Sra: Knowing you to be friend
Of down trodden humanity. with soul as full Of
sympathy ss a Southern soldiers heart fused to)
was full CT honor, ! address you these few lines
with the intention Of opening my bosom to you.
AID making clean breast Of ali my suHerings. I
have never yet had the pleasure Of meeting with
you. although once passed near your residence.
You were not at home. however, for the Feds were
a coming. have felt. though. that we were kim
bred spirsts--probably our fve(5)fathers were
rocked together in the crsdle OF Liberty-or a
sugar trough it appears to me have heard my
mother speak Of it. At any rate a woman named
Mcguire was my wet nurse and my wife's brother
! in-law's name is Smith. This quasi relationship
goes for the kiaared-we1l speak Of the spirits
when we newt
But TO my theme.
"Unhurt amidst the war
The wreck Of matter and the crush Of worlds"
I emerged int an existence. shortly after the
surrender, which was a Hades when compared to
the darkest days Of Confederate tyranny and scar
4 city. During my absence from my native cline,
(for be it known. dear William. / was for four
years. prior to g. in North Carolina, as an over
/ seer in a turpentine Orchard.) as it were. HI
spcwed forth upon our State a conglomerated mass
! Of political tricksters, who had washed them
selves in the filth of all parties and came out
without any principles" These pimps of loyal
deceney. scarcely Of whom could trace his 10y
atty back TO a farther date than 80. when Fort
Donelson fell. breathing vile anathemas
against the respectable portion Of the State and
appearing to the Radicals. up North, as if they
had been whistlng Yankee Doodle when they
were ' a borning." All this was Barnumism-a
IL. r A. =
prove themselves Puritans Of the longest faced
type. This Disguised me. and because / would in
voluntarily elevate my probosis on the appear
ance of one of this cass--which. assure
you was but a spasmodic action of the leDa-
tor ia6ii sUperioris aliQde nGsi muscle-and In
ono time and two motions slap my hands
upon my stomach. / was arrested and lodged in
an ice box at Strawberry Plains. Tennessee where
remained under the kind protection Of nitrate |
of silver colored Federal soldier for the space of
some limit. One phlosopher(D who has the nome |
de 0uerre Of Judge lit will leave him so soon rs
peace is declared man who was agent under |
the Confederate Sequestration Act. the first Of |
the war, man who first swung himself into pub |
lie notice and decent society by being the tail end
Of law firm, the senior and respectable partner |
Of which was prominent member of the Senate |
in the South this man the loudest in his |
abuse of gentlemen. He is afraid now TO venture |
out at night. believing that he is next tc Abraham
Lincoln, the greatest man that ever turned a /
somersault or harangued jury, and consequently |
that violent death awaits him. The plot for his l
assassination is conceived and Matched in his own |
mind, like Governor BrownlOw's pla-at. nan /
who would even think of hurting hair of the old /
embeeiles head deserves to be hung up by the heels
and nibbled 10 death by ducks. Our Legislature, |
too is composed Of the poorest lot Of wisdom that
was ever bartered off in any age or any cline. /
We are aware from what the learned critic said /
in olden time that
Amidst sedtious waves.
The worst Of mOrtals may emerge to honor"
But we did not think that the whirlpool of war
could throw such a set of one-eyed lampreys, bob
tailed halbut paralyzed wiggletails. snagIe tooth
sharks and broken backed sardines to the surface
as are now congregated at the capitol. We have
fisherman in the shape Of Andy johnson. the
friend of American Liberty; the man for the times,
who will soon throw his net into this pool and |
cleanse it Of all its putrid fish. God speed the
day.
Well, William do not think me wrathy. I am
quite karin" and "docile" Such thoughts as
have written will come uppermost in the mind
of one shut up in this misgoyerned State, with
rights than bob tailed dog in summer
time. deprived Of said rights too. for the reason
that he did or he didn't 20 out with his State,
blamed If he knows which. It's hard for him to |
tell. He belonged to the crowd who were
fighting for four years TO prove that they ,oere
out, against the party of the second part, who
were fighting just as hard to prove that they were
in. Well. he comes back. acknowledging the corn, |
and he's told that he out all the time and that
the party of the second part :were only joking. |
Then quarrel as long land much like it, too) as
the "katydid's" begins No. / says, State it
didn't Ego OUT No. says, State it did" En-
corel Da capo! Come back Do il again Re-
peatl State it did" State it didn't !" iand so
od iafniB,. State it did I" State it didn't"
In the language of Baron Won Humbug:
Vat coundryl Vat peoples as
Vas live in der coundry."
Crowded with such foul atmosphere as has
surrounded me, | could do nothing as n solace |
dear William. but follow the footsteps of my illus
trious predecessor. John Happy Esq, and get
married. This did, and now I am shining light
amongst the hen-pecked throng. The petticoat
government is the best the light Of Heaven ever
shone upon-although il has its troubles too. To
cite case Mrs. John Halifax Gent, has been
laboring under the delusion that look younger
than herself. and in order to correct IT, she man
aged last Sunday. whilst l was blowing up a
chunk, TO very dexterously pour a pint of hot
water my head-thus in the twinkling Of an
eye removing many of my hyperion curls." and
making me as bald as your miserable self 1t is
improving to my looks. rs | now look venerable
and command the respect of the whole Juvenile
neighborhood.
Come and me, dear VIII. Be sure to bring
Mrs. Arp and all the little Arps. We haven't any
littldIIaifaxes. but can borrow some from our nu-
merous kin for the occasion.
Mrs. Halifax sends her regards to Mrs. Arp and
desires to know whether she must trim her organ
dy with yellow or green and-and-and have |
forgotten the rest of the message, as am not quite
mp to wOmens trimmings yet
Good bye! Name your next boy after me an |
write soon to
Your sympathetic friend,