The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-04-06
From the Nashville Gazette.l

From the Nashville Gazotte.l
Letter From Jack shivers.
. Jack shivers, accompanied by his son
James and his neie hbor, Sim Jones, was in
town ON Saturday. It is the first visit he
has made to the city. since 1861 de
s.ubbornly refused to leave the Greek,
while it was necessary for him to carry
pass. The news of the discontinuance of
passes for white folks has lately reached his
neiphborhood, and he Immediately set out,
under the impression that the days of 'Old
Hickory had been restored, when only
niggers carried passes.
His letter to Gov. Brownlow, which we
give belew, will show very plainly that
Jack is not Fup to the times" We tried
to convince the old fellow that his notions
of things was out Of date; but he soon con
vineed US that only one more drink Of Ro-
bertson was needed to insure US broken
head. So we publish the letter just as it
is written-the dictation being by Jack and
the spelling by Sim:
TO OUR RIP sEoRTIN- GUVERNER EX-PARsoN
BRowNLow:
SUR-Supposin that you hardly ever hear
the truth, as the men you sociate With are
not in the habit of tellin Nv it, perpose to
give you a piece NV my mind and to let
little fresh ar into your den. You keep
growEn and snappin and a howlin and
gwine on in sich a way that think you ort
to be talked TO-.
You have bin actin Guverner now for nigh
on to a year or more, pretty much in the
same way that Sut Luvingood's daddy acted
boss, only good deal more so. Nature
didn't make SUITS daddy hoss, nor did
nature make you a Guyerner, nor cut you
out for any sich purpose. You was made
/ Guverner by a set that never had much
hand in sieh bizness before and konsequent-
| ly you want half made at fust-the material
was bad and the workmen onaquainted with
the bizness, and the job was bound to be a
ruff one Eff you was raley intended for a
show nuf Guyerner, you was split in the
maxim.
Your fort is blasphemin, and natur cut
! you out to run cussin mersheen ike the
Noxville Whig and Rebel Venhlator. Our
Circuit Rider says that them old tipes in
your printin Office at Noxyille, get SO used
to it, that they could be heerd Nv nights,
cussin ole Pryne and the abolitionists, when
nobody want a nigh 'em. They have done
more ruff cussin than all the tipes in all the
printiu Offices in the State. Jestice com
pels me to say that as the engineer nv a
cussin mersheen you have few superiors
and nary equal this side of the place for
which you seem TO have been practisin
all Nv your life. When you used to run the
koncern in Noxville and take in cussin, you
was at the head of your profession, but eff
you have ever teen found fit fur anything
else, it has never yit been heered from.
And when they tuck you from that bisness
and put you to runnin the kemplercated
mersheen of State, they over krapped you.
You ondertuek TO run her jest like you did
the old mersheen you had bin used to-yOu
piled on the wood and crowded on the steam
but neglected to open the salty valves and
keep her properly lied and creased, the
fust thing you knowed a whole passel the
kogs was nocEed outen the wheels, the
bands busted and the whole mersheen ker-
dummuxed-all bekase she want run on the
right principle and the ingineer that had
holt NV her diddent know how to manage
her. and now after you have busted hsI
up and got the mersheen oulen fix and don,
know how to mend her and would, in al
probability bust her agin il she was mend.
ed, you go pirootin round, like the old her
with hawk after her chickens, and a Gus
sin and swearin that this man, that mar
and tolher man done it, but you done i
yourself You aint got the ability ts2ar
her. You waRa gwine good deal fastet
than the law allowed when the smash-uI
tuck place. You was told over ard owe
agin that you was krowdin hertoo hard
and want a runnin on the skedule, but yo'
wouldn't listen TO nobody that knOwd, bu
n busted right on til the fust thing you know
ed, you dida't know nuthin, You needn'
to try to lay it on nobody else. Read tn
Iilh chapter and the fast part Of the 7tl
, verse Of Cd Samuel, aud that viii show VIII
done it, aud when you read it expect
will. be the fust scripture you have red sens
you proved from the Bible, in your debal
with old Pryne, that slavery was Ordaine'
at by God.
There amt no use Nv tryin to keep 1t
As secret no longer. You're ded failure
Guverner. There amt a blind niger in tn
State that don't see that plain as dayligr
now And if you had NV bin equal to tn