The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-06-02

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slime 'cm and slobbcr EN- about right
and it will stick, for the pores are opel
and their morals spongy, ia like tt
stand Off about ten rods and hear hin
spread himself. Ii would he wOrs
than n squirt-gun full Of COW slop, AM
| have no doubt would give genera
satisfaction.
"That's sufficient, sir" says ole
Boutwell,. "Ef it was in their powe
to do so, would your people enew tn
tightT
mot unless they could fight tn
Radicals all alone, and all the world
would agree to hand off, Even slel
there wouldn't be no fight, for W.
couldn't cotch you"
"What do your people say upon thu
subject Of negro equality"
"Tlley say it's n lie, sir--it don
exist in nature and never can in prac
tice. Folks were not created free anc
equal. That may be theoretical truth
but it's always been a practical lie
There's grades in society everywhere
There's men | give the sidewalk to
and there's men that gives it to me
There's men that | vote, and there's
men that vote me, and the grades &c
up, up, up, step by step, from my sort
to Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Stephens, and
Gen. Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben
Hill, and their sort for they are the
highest in the nation and then again
it goes from me down, down, down to
the niggers, and the Republicans and
the Radicals, and that's as low as they
run. There amt no equality, and you
can't make one. Wen vote the mig.
gers, certain. I'll vote Tip, and Tip is
Il head centre He'll vote about forty,
and the first thing you know we'll
elect sever big, black, greasy niggers
to Congress. Wen do it certain
seven of 'cm, l8 carats strong, with AZ
rican musk. The other rebel States
will do the same thing, and you'll have
about fifty Of 'rm to draw seats with
and you q all stick your legs upon
your desks together, and swap lies and
vcrmin, and be shampoocd ut the same
shop, and the fair sexes can set to-
gether in the galleries and mix odors,
and fan their scent about promiscuous.
Wen give youa full benefit Of your
Civil Rights bill, see if we don't. You
go on-pIay your cards. Wearc biden
our time.
1--WE are payin your taxes, and your
duties and back rations for 1864, and
licenses, and your Internal revenue, and
obeyin your laws without havin any
hand in maxim EN-, and we are cut off
from pensions and public lands; and
you sold a poor mans still in my coun-
ty the other day because he couldn't
pay your tax on some peach brandy he
stillcd two years ago; and soon you'll
be scllin the land for the land tax, and
you're tryin your very best to play the
devil generally, but you'll cetch it in
the long run. See fyou don't. Talk
about fcnians. When the good peo-
pie Of the North and Of the South all
get together, they'll walk over the track
so fast that You wont have time to get
out of the way. You'll subside into
obscurity, and your children will deny
that their daddies ever belonged to such
a party. Excuse me, gentlemen, but !
am u little excited. Five cents a pound
on cotton will excite any man who
makes it. Tax on industry-on sweat
and toll. Protective tariffs for Penn
svlvania and five cents a pound tax on
cOtton-halfits average worth
and your folks will manage some
way or other to steal the other half.
My advice to you is to quit this fool
ishncss and begin to travel the only
road to peace
Old Blow couldn't keep up with his
garblcd extracts.
"Wha makes the President so pop
ular at the South :"
Contrast, sir-contrast. The more
he amt like your party, the more pop
ular he is. lie would treat us about
right, | reckon, if you would let him
but you bedcvil him so, that
sometimes he don't understand him
self. | don't think he knew for a while
whether his Peace Proclamation res
torcd the writ of hoJeos corpus or not.
But do you go on and impeach him,
and that will bring matters to q focus.
I'll bet you'd be in Fort Delaware in a
week, and the Southern members be
here in their seats, and they'll look
round ut the political wreck and ruin
and plumber and stealagc that's been
going on, and they might cxclaim in the
language of the poet
"Who's pin here since 1'sh pin gone"
"Mr. Arp, suppose we should have
a war with England or France, what
would the rebels do y
They'd follow Cen. Lee, and Gen.
Johnston, and Longstreet and Bragg
and Bory. My opinion is, that Gen.
Lee would head the Union Army, and
Gen. Grant would be his chief Of stall,
and Gen. Buell. would rank mighty
high. and
"What would they do with Day, the
Memphis photographic
eff he was one of your sort, they
would make him take the Chairman,
Thad's picture, condemn him to hang
it owe his bed post, so he might dream
of devils, and see monkeys and have
delirium triangles."
"Do you think, Mr.. Arp, that If the
South should ever hold the balance of
power, they would demand pay for
their negroes"
can't say, sir. But I don't think
the South has lost anything that way.
We got their labor before the war for
their victuals and clothes and doctors
bills, and We get it now for about the
same. It's all settled down that way,
and your bureau couldn't help it. The