The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-17
thoughts naturally have downward
tendency. ] cant help it, Tammany.

tendency. cant help it, Tammany.
i But maybe wen get over sicl feelins
My wife says she viii dtterphile. W.
are all right towards you, old Hall, anc
our Legislature have been tryin fol
about two months to harmonize things
generally, and any reasonable man
ought to be satisfde with the efforts
they have made. But we cant satisfy
them Radicals, don't care what we do.
| We elected Mr.. Stevens and Hershell
johnson to the Senate, and they are
mad about that They wanted Josh
Hill and Jeems Johnsin because thev
was Cnion. Well now, Mr.. Tammany,
its better always to take men who have
done sumtin than men who have done
nuthin. Mr.. Hill delivered his farewell
address before he was beet, and he sed
he you'd like to know why we sing ho-
sannas to Andy Johnsin who fout agin
us, and yet we wont elekt HIM who
dident. That's what's the matter Josh
ua, if I may be allowed to apostrofze
you, you didn't take no side at ALL
You say You can take the test oath and
git in. Well I don't see how exacktly.
You run for Guvner in sixty-three, and
you writ a letter agin rekonstrukshun;
and compared the old Union to por-
celain ease that acaS broke, and couldent
be meDded agin-no never.
/ And don't you know if you'd been
elected you would have had to take the
oath of Office, but he swore to support
the Constitution of the Confederate
States SO called, now deceased. But
you are smart Joshua, and it was funny
what you said to the General that
night, when he axed you if you would
have taken that oath. You pausd
Joshua for nearly minet. 1t was.s
nifty tite question, considerin the porcee
lain vase that was broke. 1 don't
blame you for pausin, my friend. Fin
ally says you, "Well-General-I-I
dident-lnuch --oxpect- -to-be-elek-
ted" Bully for yoa, Joshua. But
now about that see saw bisiness YOU
spoke of, you said in your speech that
you was playin see saw in politix, and
if your end of the plank went down in
Georgy it would go up in Washington,
BY which l suppose you meant that
you was ready to swap eends just to
suit your pekuliar circumstances; and
that's what's the matter agin Joshua.
You have been see sawin too long and
changin eends too often. Twasent
no time to be swappin hosses my
friend.
But see here, Joshua, Mr.. Marshall
may be clever reporter, but he treat
cd You badly Hes left ont heap OF
your speech. He amt had printed that
see saw fgsr, and it was [ assure
you most beautiful mctafor of speech.
And has left out them little sparks of
Southern patriotism which you emit
ted. Howsomeyer, may be these things
would have been in the way of Wash
I9gton and of the see saw. I'll tell
you my friend, where you wasted time
in your remarks. 1ou said that if we
dident elect you no1D we Nigh want
you hereafter, and then we coludn't
git you. Don't worry yourself on our
skkount. Don't cross the bridge before
you git to it. 1t will be time enuf,
Joshua, for you to refuse when we OK
you. We haven't been runnin you
down to give you offs, and we amt a
goin to. Do you see saw away on
your plank, and take care that you
don't fall of. Your speech was sorter
spiteful Joshua, and if reduced to its
gum would read about thus: "Boys
I'm a whale, l am, and I'm a prophet,
and if you don't elect me to the Sen
ate, III go to Washington and give you
the devil"
/ Well, we didn't elect him, Mr.. Tam
many, and the devil may come. In
the langdwage of Patrick Henry, e'let
him come'--I repeat it, sur. "let him
come. There was another candidate
Mr. Hall, whose name was Jeems John
sin. Well, I like Jeems purity well.
He diden't run nobody down, nor put
on airs. l mout have voted for him il
he had lived in the State, and I hadn't t
] liked Hershel better The truth is,
Was partial to Jeems for his @auld lang
sine. He was powerful war-horse
in sixty-one. How gloriously he fig
cred OF the Columbus war meetings
He encouraged the boys amazin, and
he beat anybody gitin volunteers. How
proud We was of him that night, wher
: he and Colonel Sims made friends or
: the stand and the Colonel Dinned s