Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-04-12

man, and tother man done it, but
you done it yourself. You
was agwine a good deal faster than
the law allowed when the smash
up tuck place. You was told over
and over agin that you was krowd-
In her too hard, and want a runnin
on the skedule, but you wouldn't
listen to nobody that knowed, but
busted rightson till the fust thing
you sknowed, you didn't know
nuthin.. You needn't ter try to
lay it on. nobody else. Read the
18th chapter and the fust part of
the 7th verse of I'd Samuel, and
that, will show who. done. it, and
when you read it | expect it will
be the fust scripture you have red,
sense you proved frum the Bible,
in your debait with ole Pryne that
slavery was ordained by God.
There aint no use er tryin to
keep it a secret no longer. You're
a ded failure as Guverner,S There
Amt. a blind niger in the State
that don't see that plain as day
light now. And if You had er
bin equal to the junctur, you mout
have immortalized yourself. The
war had just ended and great
many men as good by natur and
far better by practice than ever
you dare to be, was a returnln to
thur homes, poor war-broken sol
diers, that axed nuthiu but to be
permitted to return to- the homes
NV thur childhood and live the
remainder Nv thur days in quiet,
and die in peace, and be. buried in
thur ole family graveyards. Ef
you had erbin any part NV a states
man you would er, seen at once
that these hi souM men that has
faced death, disease and famine fur
what they believed to be right,
ort to be made; the rfrens of the
government and to be met IN q
sperit of kindness and generosity
| Look at the course Nv Andy John.
son, and then look at your course
and you will see the dlfrence be
tween a statesman and, a llttle
stern wheel politishian with tubu
lar biler that's always q BLOWN III
and a scaldin sombody.s Now
thur was no man that. the sTennes
see rebils hated like they did An
dy johnson, and Andy johnson
knowed it well as any body, ane
Ehe hated them too, and when the
war was agoin on he used to giN
'em the wurds with the bark OF
and they give him the same sorI or
uvEan artikles, The war was q a ra "a
gin high and thur blood was up
But no sooner was the war Owe
! aud the smoke klered. away thar
| Andy Johnson seed that the reb
|, els was as true grit as ever pullet
a trigger Or made a track on tn
, battle field, and he sot- about T.
, make them frens Of the government
, He treated 'em kind and mag
unanimous, and told 'em he wan
, afraid to, trust 'em, They. me
, him in the, same sperit- the,
, were disarmed Nv thur hate ami
he has done more to wipe out tn
, bitterness NV the war than all 9th
ler men. You seem to think !
!, strange that rebels, as you call 'en
! should support Andy Johnson
5 YOU don't seem to see that in tina
very thing the wisdom of his pol
t ey shines bright. You are lncaps
& bic NV understanding 1T. Bu
!. whatwas your course? Aboutth
|. first thing you done after the wa
j closed was to issue aproclamashu
j signifyin to your blood suckl
d frens in East Tennessee, ct To
!. kourts of the kountry didn't d'
I eide to suitr'em, to take the la
d inter therown hands and murde
! the rebels themselves. Yes, 81
: YOU done that in an official dolS
q ment. And how many poor re-
r. ell soldiers, with the solemn plede
q uvothe United States Guverl
!. ment in their pockets that the
4 should not be hurt eff they cul
! home, has been murdered IN CO.
e blood, under that prok laI,asfiu
r. God only knows. And whef
VI Judge Trigg sent the Marsh u
il|uy the United States to pat yt
e out III, possession w some rebel
4 property that you was about
+ take in souten the,wet and namb
n among your sacrJ!fi Jficesfur the Unio
It YOU got a squad NY soldiers al