The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-12

toi tLe IbDs4S HuiAe Luey were at camps
Cheatham AID Trousdale? Why did YOU
voluntarily propose to head and lead
squad of citizens to force them from their
masters and into the Rebel camps? Did
you do this.to aid the Federal cause, or to
aid the negro? We can bring up the evil
dence that you did these things, and that
others of your ak, who, doubtless, aided
you in perpetrating this deleetable little
epistle to the Press e Times. were guilty
of similar REASONABLE acts, such as hunting
on Sunday for lead mines to manufacture
bullets, with which to kill the "nasty yam
kees," &c.
J. p c. continues Gas to the other
two gentlemen (Messrs. Towner and Jack
SOM being IN the field, trying to put it
down, . know not. But it IS clear they
are now allied with those who did. and are
now doing their utmost to set it up again.
They arc the standard bearers of those
whe say 'sitis to be done over again It
seems equally clear that these two gentle
men were virtually imported here by the
very men who now compose the so-called
Conservative party; for they it was that
imported the whole Federal army to the
South"
Now there is style and grammar for you!
"But it is clear that they are now allied
with those who did, &c, il the first part
of the paragraph, is particularly rich, es-
pecially as It comes from such an able
critic; ard the bubble in the latter part is
simple nonsense.
We give our readers the benefit of few
more of the most Ineligible extracts from
this rich communication:
"Who ever thought that deyotee at the
J. Davis shrine would laud Federal sol
der for coming to subdue the South? On
the other hand, who ever thought FEEDER
al soldier would become ''cat's paw" to
those who regard him no more than dead
dog?"
at is hard to say which is the most con
temtible, the deceptous and time-seying
party who run an apostate Federal soldier,
or the apostate soldier who is so void of
lfpride as to become the mere tool of his
enemies Does not every sane man
know that three lourths of the Conserva-
tive party regard Yankee as the embOdi-
ment OF all that is mean and crminal?--
| Why, Citizen, do not all the Southern re-
cords, specially newspapers, for the past
five years, show that the whole Yankee ma
ton and all their friends are Jail birds, cut
Threats and Williams? Then do you want
one of these elected to Office here in Ten
nesses? Oh. degenerate times and people!
We are swift to destruction.
Again, the little paper says: IF we had
been a colored Radical we certainly would
have Withdrawn from the League on that
day" l do not know how that would have
been, but will take the liberty of asking its
little editors a question. Suppose you had
been a true member Of the x. G. G. or X.
X, and there had been no troops in the u.
S, nor any militia in Tennessee, and had
caught Union man out that night, what
awould you have done to him?"
An able critic, trGe thou art;
Some folks (yoursdf) do think are
smart.
''JoHN p. Q Reed
"P 81 omitted to say that several
gentlemen are comparing the Citizen and
/ Jayne's and Hostetter's Almanaes, for the
purpose Of selecting a family paper for the
winter Therefore we suggest that the ed
itors DO their best for few issues, and, if
possible, make their paper better than these
almanacs, at least till these Subscribers are
secured, if it do afJerward fall below
them J. p. G. r"
Judas Perfdious Catalina argues from
the Same false stand point assumed by all
radical shreakeIs: that because a man once
fought against the. Government he can
never be true to it again, alI on the other
hand, because a man fought against the
South duriug the war, he is an ''apostate
soldier" and "cat's paw" to the rebels,
unless he continues the warfare two years
after the war has ended.
Now, we are not the champions or apollo
cists of Messrs TowNER aud Jackson, but
J.P. C. can rest assured that we, together
with ell other honest men in the South,
would rather be represented by an honest,
open, avowed enemy, who fought US gal
Iantly during the way, and now that we are
PROSTATE in the dust from the effects Of his
blows, generously offers US his hand and
proposes to lift US to our feei again, than by
a man, native or foreign born, who is still
our enemy-and who lifts his hand against
US with more brotish ferocity, and stamps
his feet upon US with more bitter hatred
the more helpless we become
Jack Reed says he was never a rebel
and now he hates and proscribes his broth
ers, neIghbors. sehoolmates aud friends O