The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-11-30

trust, again bring out the old mans views
upon the present stale of Tennessee poll
tics.
It will be seen that Jeems is chip of
the old block; but ne is young and inexPe
rienced, and, from some passage in his let
ter, we fear, is liable to be seduced into
some Radical ways. His daddy should
look sharply into Jeems' associations.
RAoCooN Hollow, Nov 9, '66.
mr.. Jack .ShiUers:
DEAR DADDY-I hey not writ to you
since settled, and I reckon you're a gitin
ashy to heer frum me.
Well, when l left the ''oFeek' you know
it was jist about the time that guvinur
Brownlow & Arnell & Fletcher g. Jon
Trimble & ole Mullins q Doogan tuck on
thar big skeer about Andy Jonson's remov-
in the ztandn army frum around them, &
when Fletcher got up his memorial with
all them Abraham men sined to it-a beg
gin and a pleadin with Andy Jonson not tu
take them till after squire Trimble's big
hangin tuck place that war to cum off pur-
ty soon.
You know what a FASHION I got into
about Squire Trimbles goin to hang JEFF
Davis and Ole Gineral Lee, and how war
agwine too print the pictur of big Shoe
rite on the seat of Squire trimbe's britches
and wood Nv dun il eff it hadn't bin fur the
everlastin Standin my-howsumdever I
/ l., 7 ,i-t
kluded to take up my bed and walk tn parts
oDbeknown whar thar wuz not a radikil tu
be found q arter many dais hard msrchine
on short rashuns l settled rite here in this
holler d l thot 1 war outen the rech of
Brownlow an his niggerworshippin Squad,
and begun to feel happy like and wasent a
/ keerin cuss fur nobody nor nuthin, when
seed movin objec cummin rite tOrde
me, & the jewhilikins it war thing tu be
seed-how my har got up an futtered-my
! breth got short an my pulse got quick, an
/ felt as streaked as l did at the battle of
Chickamorga--it war about q J foot
high an Iookt fur all the world like a big
Jug kivered up in broad cloth all but the
stopper-it drawed itself rite up afore me
an squard itself an sez
"Howdy dew naber."
an as soon as 1 heerd this I noed 1 ware
dug up, fur it ware ole Wins-hede binn
round lexioneerin with the niggers in my
beet fur Congris.
After akin about you an all the foxes on
the "Creek''-hopIn thay war all well an
harty an maxim out well an had razed good
kraps an had no hog colery an sich like pa
laverin, be sed ort 10 jne the raderkils as
they war almity strong now an gitin more
stronger every dav. He sed the big fte
atwixt ole Thad S;evees an Andy Jonsou
had come off an it war clere to every body
that Andy war whipt-he sed Brownlow &
the legislator of Tennessee had past a law
stoppin the honest whites frum votin an for
biddin smart men frum holdin Office, an this
sesshun they war a gwine to pass Law
gvin the nigger the rite tn vote, set on jew
rvs an hold Office an in this wa the radekiI'
mout keep all the offices in the State tell The
last dav in the eveniu-he sed he war goiI
too run fur Congris next sumner, an he tho
he mOut be alected as he war in favor uI
niggers rites, such as votin, seti7 on jew
rvs an holdin office an "mixin ginerashuns,
+ as Miss Anna Dickinson sed when she tucl
on a spell of the carripshuns an ware ca
, vortin round in surch ov a niger husba1
, an he sed he ort to be alected fur he hnt
bin workin fur long time fur it, hat
f dun as much dirty work as any man koo
r bOste NV fur the place.
Here he begun to look pitifull, an sez he
, Jeemes, I'm agwine to live economical thi
sesshun, as Andy Jonson had got in hui
becase he tuck sides with ole Thad, an ha
turned his unofendin son outen the posi-
Office, and war Altered him an his ares wa
dune livin eazy. He sed ole Doogan wa
agwine to rent a house in Nashville TIN
sesshun an git ole Dinar to keep it so b
q kood liv cheap and respectable, an he wa
g agwine pardner with him in his enterPris
: eff he dident git jealous, fur, ses he, Dooga
q is a enterprsin man in his way.
d Here he looked at me outeu the corner u
St his eye an ses
Jeemes. ses he. CESS you don't no VIII
II the word enterprise comes frum nor what
j. means, as you never kept skool, Well, s.
a he, Jeemes, I've got a almity site OF sko
- larnIn-hev KEEP skool the big eend Nv n
y life-an the word enterprise Gums frum tc
latin words--enter an prise-an means yc
D. must fust enter and then prize-an you s.
Doogan has alers acted on that PrinsiPu
: and has got on purity we'll in the world
- But he sed DoOgan had got nifty particki
y about who be tuck fur boarders, sense
to o..t, ,-;,t, oI = ~. ,..,t last "a
le shun. He sed I must rite to you an G
as you to Civ him lift fur Congris as he W
10 afeerG it wood be a nifty tite fit fur him