Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-13
LETTER FROM JACK SHIvERS.
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Sun-Supposin that you hardly ever heat
the truth, as the men you sociate with are
not in the habit of telling NV 1t, perpose To
give Jon piece NV my mind, and TO let a
little fresh ar into your den. You keep a
growlin and snapin and bowln and a
gwinie on In sich q way that think you ort
to be talked to.
You have bin actin Gavornor now for nigh
on TO year or more, pretty mutch in the
same way that Sut Livingood's daddy acted
boss, only a good deal more so. Natur did
dent make Spts daddy hoss, nor did natur
make you a Guverner, nor cut you out for
any sich perpose. You wos made Guver-
ner by a set that never had mutch hand in
sich bisness before and consequently yo,,
want half made at fust--the material was
bad and the workmen onoquaintcd with the
bisness, and the job ives bound 10 be ruff
one. Ef you was really intended fur show
nuff Guverner you was split Ia the niakin.
Your fort is basphemin, and natur cut
Wing and Rebel Ventilatur. Our Circuit
Rider says that them old tipes in you printin
Office at Noxv lille, got so used TO it, that they
could Re heard NV nights, cussin ole Pryne
and the abolitionists, when no boldly want a
nigh 'em. They have done more ruff cussiu
than all the tipes in all the printin offices In
the State. Jestis compels me to say that as
the ingineerer Nv cussin meersheen you
have few superiors and nary equal this side
Of the place for which you seem 10 have been
a practisin all your life. When you used to
run that koncern in Noxvlle and take in
cussin, you was at the he'd ofyour profession
but eff you have ever been found fit fur any.
thing else, il has never yit been heard from.
And when they tuck you from that bisness
and put you to runnin the kemplercated
mersheen Of State, they overkrapped you.
You ondertuck to run her jest like you did
the old meersheen you had bin used to--you
piled on the wood and crowded on the steam,
but neglected to open the safety valves and
keep her prop-rly lied and creased, the fust
thing you knowed whole passel of kogs
was noekea outen 'ne Wheels fhe bands
ousteu ana 'ne whoie meersheen kerhum-
muSed-aii oekase she want run on the
rignt principe anu tne engineerer that had
nol' NV ner diddent know now 10 manage
ner' ana now aiter you nave busted her
up ana go' tue meersheeu oaten TX and don't
know now 10 mend her, ana would, in all
Prooaoiaty oust her agin u she was mended'
you go aprootin ronno' ike an Old men Win
a nawk aiter ner ch'ckens. ana cnssin and
swearih .hat tn's man. that man and tother
nah uone i'' ou. you uohe u yourseli. lou
am got tne ao'iity 70 run her. fou was
agwne great deal laser than the law al
o"eu' w"eu Tue s'"aSn up 'uck place. lou
was to!u over ana over agin that you was
krowu'n ner 100 hard' ana want runnin on
.ne skeduie, out yon wouidnt listen 10 no
nody that knowed' out busted right on till
.ne iust tnihg you Khowed, you diddent
know nothin. fou neednt Ter Try TO lay 1t
on NOBODY else. Read the llth chapter and
'he iust part OF the 'tn verse OF "a Samuel,
ana that WIZ snow VINO aone H. and when
you read u expect IL VIII pe the lust scrip
uure you nave req, sense you proved rum
'he nioie, IN your ueoan WIN ole rryne that
slavery was ordaineu Oh 0od.
There aint no use er trying to keep It a
secret no longer. You're ded failure as
Guverner. There aint IL blind nigger in the
State that don't see that plain as day light
now. And if you had er bin equal to the
junctur you mout hav immortalized your
self. The war had Just ended and great
many men as good by natur and far better
by practice than ever you dare to be, was
returnn TO thur homes, poor war-broken
soldiers, that axed nuthin but to be permit
ted to return to the homes Nv thur childhood
and live the remainder NV thur days in quiet
and die in peace, and be buried in thur ole
family graveyards. Eff you had bin any
part Nv a statesman you would er seen at
once that the best interests NV the State re-
quired that these hi sould men that had faced
deth, disease and famine fur what they be-
lieved to be right, ort to be made the frens of
the government, and to be met in a sperit of
kindness and generosity. Look at the course
NV Andy Johnson and then look at your
course, and you will see the difference be-
politishian, with tuberlar bilcrs that's always
a BLOWN up, and scaldin somebody. Now
thur wur no man that the Tennessee rebels
hated like they hated Andy ohnson, and
Andy johnson knowd it as well MS anybody,
and he hated them too, and when the war
was agoin on he used to give EN- the words
with Che bark on and they give him the
same sort NV an artickle The war wus a
ragin high and thur blood wus up. But no
sooner wus the war over and the smoke
kleared away than Andy johnson seed
that them rebels was as true grit as ever
pulled trigger or made track on battle.
field, and be sot about to make them frens Of
the government. He treated 'em kind and
magnanimous, and told en- he wont afraid
to trust 'em. They met him IN the same
sperit-they were disarmed NV thur hate and
he has done more to wipe out the bitterness
NV the war than all other men. You seem
to think it strange that rebels, as you call
'em, should support Andy Johnson--you
don't seem to see that in that very thing the
wisdom of his policy shines bright. You are