Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-01-13

cy IN NOlnc 20 DUllu " HlpHcT VHuIcil
/ than they did In Bostown, The
papers say that ailcr goln round for
/ three weeks, the Boston Christians
raised thirty.sevcn dollars TO build
a miggcr church in Savannah. They
are powerful on theory, but dcvilish
scace in practice.
But it's no use talkin, Every
body will know by wait'in who's
been fooled.
Mr.. Johnson says he's gwinc to
experiment; that's all he can do
now-its all anybody can do. Mr..
Johnson's head'slevel, I'm for him,
and every body ought to be for him
only he's powerful slow on sum
things. ! amt a worshippin him,
He never made me. | hear the
folks hollcrin hurraw for Andy
Johnson, aud the papers say, oh !
he is for us, he's all right, he's our
friend. Well, spose he is, hadn't he
ought to be? Did you expekt him
to be Il dog or a Black Republican
pup. Bckaus he amt n hangin us,
is it necessary to be playin hypocrit
around the iootstool Of power, and
maxim out that he was the greatest
man in the world, and we the great
est sinners? Who's sorry? Who's
repcntin? Who amt proud Of our
f0aks? Who loves our enemies p
Nobody but burned cuss. / say
let EN- hang and be hanged to en-
before Id beg EN- for grace
Whar's Sokrates, whar's Cato?
But if Andy holds his own, the
country's safe, provided these gen.
eral assembly, and sinods, and bish-
ops konventions will keep the devil
and Brownlow tied. Here's u pas
sci Of stink hearted fellers who
played tory jest to dogo bullets or
save property, now howlin for Of
fs-want everything bekaus they
was for Union. They was for
themselves, that's all they was for,
and they amt II goin to git the OFF
scs neither.
Mr.. johnson amt got any more
respect for en- than have. We
want to trade EN- off. By hoky,
we'll give you two Of EN- for one
coppcrhcad, and AK nothing to boot.
Let 'em shiny on their own side,
and get over among the foaks who
don want us reconstructed.
There's them newspaper skrib-
blers who slip down to the edge Of
Dixie every q hours and peep over
at us on tiptoc. Then they run back
putin and BLOWN with strate cote
tail, and hollcrin out, "He amt
dead, he amt dead !; look out every
body. I'm jest from thar, seed his
toe move, heerd him grunt; he's
goin to raise agin. Don't withdraw
the soicrs, but send down more
troops immejitly." And here's your
Harper's Weekly, a headin all SIGH;
n gassin lies and ISLANDERS in every
issue, maxim insultin pikters in
every sheet, breedin cverlastin dis
kord, and chawin bigger ever since
we got licked. Wish old Stonewall
had kotch these Harpers at their
ferry, and we boys had knowed they
was going to keep up their devil
ment so long. We'd q made bap-
lists Of en- sertain, payroll or no
payroll.
Huraw for a brave Soldier, I say,
rcb or no reb, yank or no yank, hu-
raw for manly foe and a generous
victor-huraw for our side too. l
golly, excuse me, but such express
sions will work their way out, some
times, brakes or no brakes.
But I'm for Johnson. I'm for all
the Johnson's-its a bully name.
There's our Governor, who amt
goin at discount-and there's Andy,
who is doin powerful well, consid-
crin'-and there's the hero of Shi-
lob, peace to his noble ashes!
And there's Joe-my bully Joe
wouldn't | walk ten miles of a
rainy night to see them hazel eyes
and feel the grip of his soldier hand.
Didn't my rooster always clap his
wings and crow whenever he passed
our quarters? "Instinct told him
that he was true prince" and it
would make anybody brave to be
nigh him.
l like all the Johnsons, oven to
Sam-L. C. lie never levied on
me if he could git around it. For
twenty years me and Sam have been
working together in the Justices
court. / was an cvcrlastin defend
ant, and Sam the Constable; but he
never sold my property nor skeered
Mrs. Arp. Hurraw for the John.
sons!
Well, on the whole, there's heap
of things to be thankful for. I'm
thankful thcwar is over-that's the
big thing. Then I'm thankful that
l amt a Black Republican pup. I'm
thankful that Thad Stevens, and
Sumner, and Phillips, nor none of
their kin amt no kin to me. I'm
fhon l,fnl fnr tho h;ob nr;x-ilaro of