The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-29
The Daily N ews.
TuEsDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1866.

TUEsDAY MORNING. MAY %, 1856.
IFro,. a. Lacrosse tVisoonsis) De~ooratl
a polttieai Gener ais Soliloquy.
HOW Ike rocket went up, terrifying the in
nooent
How like stick falling in the mud did come
When the rebellion began, did not amount to
enough to add up and give one to carry. was
eort Of secondrate loafer, Begging Tobacco s.an he
treated BY liberal. strangers. had mo oean 81
stockings-no neat h0me-no money saVedmnV 10
s,a5;tSno fine food, aud but little coarse DuS
raddenly g star arose |" Brave men were wanseu gu
II had peddled whiskey at the polls TO eieos men
On the God-and: morality, retrenchment- snG-re. y.
Srm. .ticket~I could tell : bigger lie and stlok 70
II closer than any hungry politician IN tne coGn
nv and the late atiuu-noDie somin
trstion-gave me rich reward. 1 vas nau1 a
captain and like blue-talled posNe-ny "'t u'''N
about my native town: ,, sna
Guess I wasn't old style, IN white gloves, aha
etT;nes mn INV legs Guess didn't support tne ~.
Goyertneut. Reckon didn't get Tusteo 70 ns
: Uc things at stores, aud when man "ouiuu
t-nst me. euess / wouldn't incite mobs on snoa
ConDerleSds AndI was put III command ~ ~ =
hnnslred men. Egad thst wss]a (oKs. Why,
lord bless you I didn't know ss fnuon aoout .%
as . dog knows Il his grest grandfather -ous :
had pOEticxl ilduenoe-oOuh absoro vsst quausE
ties of whiskey, and could stesi VI nAI ,,aa vUna
Srovn. Or like Buties. Or Like any other mouse
Ind went to war. Aud hired correspondence
10 mention my brave exploits in kepuohosn pa
pers And stole wines from hospitals ana o,, sLsa
al nav frleuds Aud I read the army letters whch
Ihirsd written and which poor. fools printed for
ooliticsl friends. And kept out of the way o. Q,
knlieta and such-and etole piles OF household
Foods, from r.t-traps to pianos, from silk elasao
"a linen intended for infsnts yet unborn, ana 30
o., Ia the eyes ut the late administration proved
nv fitness for higher position.
And Was made Brigadier General. Big
ching. yearly every fool In the army was Brigs-
6ier General While brave men fought stole
SPOONS and such. While other men were at war,
- uunishing Democrats, iasaing petty orders,
atsking tolr' from Union farmers, and sending
canes. chairs, tables, beds and bedding, pictures,
r books. spoons, knives and ferks, nns-oraekers,
giass and silver2are, mirrurs, sideboards. psrior
ornaments, lsdies SILKS and iadles sunaeroiotnee
stolen from private drawers, trunks and bareaus,
up North ut Government EXPENSE 70 let people
know that wss SAVING nv satsry so'beaut,ty my
home. 1l B {GfE :,'i-i[
. Cunning cussi s;lSait:5it 1.}-i.;.i
And Senounoed Democrats, thereby winning
promoton and rood opinions from Republican
Eapess. And spent my ssiary FOR whiskey, ex-
ceps what went for-nOthing Row, not much at
Grst. sAndf went on raids, captured imsginery
bsnds Of sneniesr reported By the papers as
real And, being an ahscrppnlo1s kn.ye, intent saN
ST or sEa ' 5sgented 10 ID un and down the ooun.
~ for and in behalf Of f-negr0es- and Abolition
isis S.io5iB frnArxsA. 4 !. =, - lSi
Ald IL sent Democrats % the font and they
~ III disin Hospitals. Of swear allegiance TO Abra-
%syT And Z st,,ffei alection raturIsL stole
eottnu wherever i9 could bs fund; puies ditto;
Goyernmsnt stores ditto; and other thinge, ditto;
6il became; ;tifR Ard ehat ~ lot OF men who
- ii a IL IuA L. z11ys~
ahSf WA Eood joES{ RfWSsE merely apIeassnt
NttjS jSrnSrdeSOus crJlsads sbr oott0rsnd heeroes-
tie cotts Tor the rich, the negroes for tie poor
tHx.esysrs 10 support -
me var Wss 8 send 10 me-, II took me
ANN he gutter. or Q stool In sumo saloon, and
mSde . = rcst man of ms. ft~Hftsd ma ty the
sSsirslsxsnis riahr ue slonraids OF fWelireton Nn-
nosoon- AleSslder, Washington. jackson, Grant,
hsrsaaa, and other greet men, And didn't I
s..u.l And didn't { tslI b.pk onny agpitye And
sa nnntr snk Of every sansihle man I'm The lAndf
~ NnSs Sro jESii inl ioyp with Dtet
Hrsf disfnst kseu abaudoncd Eoren st hes sdou N
frsS On i,,usv atoie irouo my bleoding oountryf
m IA laseeT Tdi6r1qN.kwrr sher rnnnoe OF sqogaley"
T5,se Sss ksorw a. IJncSin pntriotisml That
a. styse Il, nil SatNtvie u,ade maj
xsts - sSy 1hrit;o,,jetas "a. Xnma Ana
%Era 49, ~ So,,tierc roosters from Tstohipe
sSe ne.a -Asd didnsI 40 into, THAI business for
9AnS didaT Teo iSito tte. pakent blsa ching
S,sines. On ioint scoounh haN for myself and half
S"~ Ia T,ovsrSInsIIf =,
y sphsYa SssW Ioni6 good men ID t6s ssrmy, some
IA thsv vsf n hSSd lnoS ed tcok lower seats..
Amd didr,eIx get psomotedsfor being osught one'at
nipf pfta. f0sinhe over thS aoountry, poaohing on
come negro or viii Q mans domain In behalf of
nv Goyerpraentf And wson'sI sorry when We
Eta EetdItq che Son Gp9os Isrd Spgs obliged 10
resarnea nome reSp,s 40 esI nSs IA @a man
Sc |ssE! ss :: Z: s:.s: s;s:s
M, thaE ~ poii-
al GsrSyxi. whose, fRzik hold was stealing aud