The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-02-15

"Now, BY me jabbsrs, wen try our hand,
The games for tso to play at"
The Greene William Skunk

II was the venerable Bishop Doane who
said "a gentleman is gentle a gentle
man is modest a gentleman Is courtsous 8
gentleman is generous; a gentleman is slow
to take offence; q gentleman is slow To sur
mise evil,p 1t is evident that when the
Bishop uttered these noble words he had no
reference TO that class Of hated and miser-
able nondescriPtS which hang upon society
as blighting and blasting fang, As is repre-
scented in the individual il becomes our duty
to disseCt.
Some weeks ago we published a short ar
ticle in the Fldg, in which the Andy Johnson
Rebel sheet published at Greeneville, known
under the false cognOmeR Of National Union,
was,deSignated "a eoRp0hsad paper" truth
fully, AS every honest person knows, who
has ever read "a line Of the dirty Sheet
Th's being the bead and fr0nto Of our offending.
The simple mention CogBerA'ad,7 has
thrown the officiating skunk Of thai, filthy
concern into spasms, and be is likely to drive
oil decent people from the town from the eff
feet Of his obnoxious a6isria
Now, as we have had occasion to remark,
heretofore, we nave no desire, whatever, to
get into q personal controversy with any one
and more especially with a quAdrupsd Of
this kind and character, but when assailed,
ne in the case abovs mentioned, in an ungea-
hsnanig and rholiy uncaAsd for manner ait
becomes HscesslTy, in the course Of human
events" to deiend ourselves As the occasion
requires.
Had this tguGsh-Aesdei understrappsr Of
Andy Johnson have had a spark Of GENTLE
manly principle about him, he would have
called attention to the grave offence, which
he considers We committed in calling bis a
" Copperhead paper" in an impsssiOned and
gentlemanly manner. But alas! poor Yoriek
Mature has endowed him otherwise-An
such a thing is foreign to his composition.
We have said that every Aon,if p,,5on who
has read a line OF this Greeneyille rebel sym.
pathiIiBg eoneerD, knoES il to be most noto,
riously just what We termed it-uay, more
that il Is a MISERABLY MEAN COPPER
HEAD ORGAN That It Is nspluI riira by.
brid- Rebel Conservative in its prOmulga
lions and senselesS and Tituperous in its tone
That the editor is a Sretehed, covering
trucking l~iek-spittle aud sudsrstrappe
Of. one Of the creates. traitors that ever de
eeived the American people. That the ofie
Of bis paper was bought aud sent to Greene
vile 70 be conducted BY said undsrStrap2e
and. spit:oon-hOldsT and though be is in
eOmpeteAi even for this dirty work, be ia cal
ryiag sut bis Instructions to the best Of hi
ability" In his physiological dsVelOP'
msnis, the bump Of alimsutiTsueSs, (vhie
means SsifihHeB) largely prsdominAtss, Will
the rsmAindsrof bic impeAstrAtle skull stick
a. close 10 his eurdled brain ~ = rotton e
eonut-Ihsll 10 is rancid milk
This pinkAninsy IayS DO HdsSiStS froi
giving further hotoristy' to our PsPer!-
What q " goakr r. Ne give Hotorisy 70 Ii
Unioa Fag! Why, the nag numbers 4
thousands Of readers vhsrs this ~liek.Spitt
sheet has bat On,. A paper With I'M sal
teribers giving Aoioriay 70 the Uaioa FIsg
> What sabine inpudsnesi Tia. 10 worth
Of = JuPitsri-th 9 Aolg
The "s7s11AesS' becomes exceeding
s~la,aesi, and spsuts Latin likss ~Asla Nos
We dOn't profess 70 be a. proficient 10 Lat
a. We are In some other languages. We wi
give him = quosstion, ihsfsfors, which len
I. Latin, via;
"Hasna GrseasFaiaa itunha tiroaiw
= &ryua jobaa, lsldVnul igusslsaP
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