The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-01-19
No.. q
For the BoZirar BnlLetin.

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To THE EDIToR No. .
OF THE "NATIoNAL STAR GOODMAN, Miss.
Dear Damon ! IuY the name of your
/ paper minus the NashunaI l luv stars
have dun so ever since You told me about
you and your gal-or your gal and her feller
! t7aciR the conSteZlatioifs. After traein them
| for sum time, she undertook to count them,
but became so intensely excited with their
great beauty and magnitude, that she forgot
the numbers and could only say Star, star,
/ star All Damon, fear that YOU taught her
but little about Astronomy But, dearly as
/ luv the name Of " Star" luv the Sun E"
better. Itwas glorious sheet-the 'Vicks-
burg Southern Sun was-always bright;
, always racy, always expansive, ike unto
/ krinOine. 1t was q tiIter too, only it tilted
everything opposed to the South and Dimoc-
racy; never tilted itself; never showed its
heels to its enemies, and was always decor
Gus with its friends 1t sunk amid the rat
tle Of musketry and the roar of artillery in
ill-lated Ficksburg and you sunk about the
same time at Chickamauga, Damon, and !
cum mitey nigh sheddin sum Of the briuy
deep when heerd of it l told you all
the time that you ought to be at VickshUrs
takin keer of yoae Son, but you wouldn't
Well, you ris agin, thanks to your skull bein
so thick that the Yankee bullet couldn pene-
trate it. and the Sun ought to have ris like
wise. How comes it that it sank a South
ern Sun, and rose a National Star? The
Star is too small. You say, Damon, that
you intend to drop a part of your name
leave out the Nashunal Well I dent kno
the way you change names down thare but
if you were heer in my "bully McNairy,"
bein a male man, you would have to 60 to
the County Court. They sumtimes legita-
mise Confederate ille- gality and change
names only I'm afeerd when you proposed
the change they would drop the Star and
leave the NashunaL Our female women are
never bothered with courts, when they want
to change, they simply refer you to the
preacher, and thare IS a po1Oer Of them doin
i'll Whatever you do in regard to your
name, spread y0ur sheet; spread yourself;
erpandI I want some of your racy items,
will copy them and give you credit far half
pom honor | will.
Did you read Quartz's last2 He's i'm
proved, hasn't he says he's been associatin
with a Mr.. Lucias Level since he last writ
Wonder if Lucias learned that Irish anec-
dote about the rabbits
How are the Freedmen gettin on down
in your country2 They are as beautiful as
ever, and equally as interestin up here. They
work at least one-third of their time, which
is doiu pretty well, considerin. The other
day one of the aforesaid, who had hired
himself to one of our prominent citizens,
remarked that he had "hired himself to
Gen'l --, for - dollars per year, and
that the Gen'l was very judgmaticaI, rip
toricaL kind of man, and he would live
with him for fifty dollars less on that ac-
count The Freedman had bin goin to school
and his eloquence gained the Gen'l three or
four more good hands. But am extendin
this letter too far, I only started out to talk
with you about your change of names Let
the Sun rise up agin, in all its glorious ma
jesty; but if you aoiU cling to your young
love, do so, [ shant quarrel; I'm fond of
stars myself love star singers, star beauties,
star bellies in fact, l zl,r stars, and as gaze
up, love to watch them in their quiet and
rapid march to the soft but glorious drapery
of the AiIE-a-l0ay Let US hear from you
Yours dispashonately,
NOLIN VIOLIN.
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