The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-22


We like him Because he is just. The peo-
pie like him because he is generous and
statesmanlike.
We have been having some little trouble
up this way, Bill The revelers who lately
sat in our banquet hall were scullions, but
they are going home very soon. And
when they have all gone, we shall have
very nice party there. Time is lessning the
ice in the river. Some of US know how
you folks have been treated, and we are tell
ing others.
Not long since we told the people that
our people, when fighting your people.
were stealing themselves rich; they said we
were disloyal and put US in prison. And
they pulled down our printing Offices. They
threw our type into rivers. They mobbed
us in our places of business. They shot at
and wounded US on the street. They with
held our business from US. They sought
to array the people of the North against
those who believed in doing fair. They
did all these things in the name of God and
the great moral party. But spring fash
ions are now coming on, Bill, and in aelit-
tie while you and I win meet somewhere
and be good friends, and your boys and our
boys after a while viii be loving the same
girls and riding down the same lane to-
gether.
Tt is hard to sit behind the stump. Bill,
and see the fighting going on. It may be
hard for your folks to work on the planta-
tions, to rebuild their cities and bleach out
their mourning goods, while there is tremor
of war yet on the air. Bill, you can do it.
Do you be true and brave-we viii answer
for the rest. You have more witnesses in
the North than you know Of There are
skeletons in many families hereway; and
they are skeletons that some people would
be doggOned glad to get rid of-gladi if they
never had taken them in.
There are pianos, silver sugar bowls,
silver cream pitchers, silver sugar tongs,
gold watches, beautiful paintings, valuable
books, important documents, rings, breast
pins, lockets. laces. silk goods, fast horses.
marble-top bureaus, rosewood furniture,
guitars, photographs, keepsakes and me.
mentoes of gold and silver and other wit
nesses here from your district; witnesses
in the Convention against the thieves who
overrun your country in the name of loyalty
and stole from you while their comrades
were fighting, And these witnesses are
having weigh ~. Their testimony is
becoming mo pore important. Mo-
sraOre in your Bill, than against the
and towards whc
to fill their pockets more than to subdue the
rebellion, so called.
We have got sick of this kind of foolish
ness. We sent for Maginnis, and be is nov
at the other end of the avenue with a CUR
in his hand, ready to enforce further en-
croachment on our domain. It is hard
Bill, to forget the insultsRzS the past, bu
wehust do it. We b ht well. W,
hurt you and you hurt US! We are boil
Americans, and you know, Bill, that il
good stock. Up here in the North, tn
people are sick of feasting on blood, and W,
will have no more OF 1t, except IN defenc'
of law, order and the Constitution. Th
mask is being stripped from the highway
men who lately patrolled our mountain
paths, and all is coming out well. So be o
good cheer. Do you stand close by th
flag, Bill, and we'll stand close by it. Th
war is past. The bloody curtain is roIlet
up. You take hold of one end and we vii
take hold of the other, and carry it far away
The scenes of the past shall never be re
enacted, Bill, and if youns will be brave
weuns will stand by you and ne will sool
be happy together.
"BRICK' PoMERoY.
Liquid Eloquence.
r Paul Denton, a Methodist preacher in Tex