The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-01-27

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~ the imagination, and I thought .
mag be yon might asaIsf ms IN my .
.f5abIed feeling. ! have always I.
Nh Happy, ehdeaymed ~ aee ihe /
bright side II every pikter i Il had
any. but there u one " two uhIoks
about which | had mighty nigh nin
itun.
I want you to tell me n yon cnn
about what time nrc the Black Ic-
publicana goin' 10 quit persecutin'
our people? What nrc they ~ ever.
lastin mad with us abom2 Old
Skewball says it4 for treason that
we've gone aud done, and that ! am
the sIowest pcrccivin man he ever
seed not to have found Il out
Now trecs1n il unity bad thing,
and any man found guilty Of treeson
ought to be talked to by preacher
right under a gallus, and then be al
lowed to stand on nothn for few
hours by the clock. Shore onuf
trecson | mean. Trecson where q
man slips around on the sly in time
of war, and takes sides agin his
country. jest MS though for instance
| | should have worked agin my suyrin
State after she had seeded, and had
stole her powder or deserted her in
time of peril, while she was defendin
herself agin the combined assaults Of
the world, the flesh and the devil. |
wouldn't have blamed nobody for
hangin me for the like, would you?
But Skewball SAYS we ain't got no
suyrcen States--that the war hay
settled the question agin us on that
pint; | don't think so my frend. |
admit that we aint nuthin in partick-
Ter, but we did hav suvreen States
before the war, and the sword aint
settled nor unsettled no great princi-
pies. There aint no trial of right or
wrong by wages Of battle now days.
For mighty nigh hundred years
this country hav been big debatin
society on these questions. From the
time Of Hamilton and Jefferson down
to 1861, the right of a State to dis
solve her own partnership hav been
argued by powerful minded men, and
there has been more for il than agin
il. More Presidents, more Senators,
more statesmen, more judges, more
people. MASSACHUSETTS and Cunnee-
ticut were fur il at one time, and bel
Tered round and paved dirt amazir
to git out, but they found ont Barcu'
was willin and they didn't 90.
believe, however, that old Nutmeg
did stay out about two hours and |
half
We'll, the South went out nifty un
willingly, Mr.. Happy, as YOU know
She had been nifty nigh kicked on
for long time, and there was a BIZ
party that wanted us TO 90 out an'
stay out. Everybody knows that W
dident Git along in peace, so We con
cluded to do like Abrcham and hi
brother-in-law; to sepcrate our house
holds. What they waited us for
never could see, and can't see yit.
wouldent have n niger or a dog I
stay round me that | didcnt want 4
Some say they wanted us to strength
en- EN- agin their enemies in case Of
furrin war. Does any man in h
senses expect us to help the Blac
Republican whip any bodyy HaS
we got any worse enemies than the
are? They can't make us fight
reckon If we don't want 10. We''
fout and made nuthin by itbut glor
ind we amt n going to gine in Al
other war to crafty other peopl
Doods says before he'd pull a.irigg
for Thad. Stevens, he'd have his 80
transmiprated to bench leg'd fc
and bark at his daddy's mules I,
thousand years. | wonder if I
experience Of the last four years nj
satisfied these fellows that our bo
are a dangerous set to be turn
i loose in time of war. Woulde
you think that as a matter Of poll
they would soft solder us a lit
and quit their aanderin. II we
fight for EN-, there will be one CON
ton certain. They meut be
where David put Uriah, and
BOYS mout consent to make cha
or two behind en- at the pint of
bagnet. 3
But | want you to tell me, 10
if / am right about the history
this bsviness. Il amt a long sts
and I'Irtcll 1t the way | sec It.
pewrytan went OF one day v
some ships, and took a few beads
juce-harps and bought up a lot
captured niggers from the Hoten
or some other tots, and stole a
more on the coast Of Afriky
brought en- over and educated CT
work in the field, and cut wood,
skcer bars and so forth, but moi
clndin votin nor musterin nor
j, iury business nor 81 forth.
Well, after while they found
the cold winds, and Goldfish AIR
New England dident agree with
Niger, and so they begun to
en- down South as fast as poss
Aisr they had sold EN- and got