The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-01-31


renee And it is to be hoped that subsequent dis
turbances of ike character may not occur.
We now eonsign the peace Of your county, and
your social and civil interests, far as we have
held them, to other hands. We leave the Office,
soon to be filed by others. And whoever they may
be, trust they wiz serve you as faithfully as we
have endeavored to do and for the common vel
fare, we hope that they may prove to be good and
competent men, and willing to do impartial justice
to all.
Under disinterested and just administration
Of our Executive, legislative and judicial affairs the
present incumbents would have been gratifed to
remain il their positions but under the existing
state-oligarchy and its sub-departments,-they
have no disposition to continue in Office And if
they did, it could not be For it would be mpos-
sbe for the Sheriff be reelected under the existing
franchise law, which deprives at least nine-tenths
ofEis friends and eountynen Of their elective pri-
vilege. And if he could be reelected he would
disdain accept the Office at tho hands of the pre-
sent voting population ofthe county. When better
times return-when better men control the State,
and administer civil affairs with integrity JUS
tce and mercy, and when you shall have been re-
stored to your rights and prerogatives, he might
again be proud to serve the good people of Giles
County, who have so often honored him with their
confidence and entrusted him with their interests.
And for winch, 1 return YOU IN his name, sincere
and fervent thanks
Thus fa- have been talking to the good people of
Giles County. And as I have been, during the past
year, the subject of assaults and aspersions by the
Loyal League sc-called, I have word separately
for that institution And yet feel that it is a con-
descension to mention them at all, and that by
doing, I win vulgarize and undignify this commu-
nication, for my subject them is without dignity,
honor, purity.
But nevertheless, that you God-forsaken, and devil
beloved creatures may not conceive yourselves in
cluded in the foregoing, and that may not be mis-
/ understood, will give you a short advertisement
separately. And while I address you, know that
1 sm dealing with filth, more disgusting than the
| purifying carcass of a Yankee-Goyernment horse,
that has died with the CHAMBERS. A corroded har-
rfdan, after prostitution of forty years. is pn
rer theme for moral contemplation than YOU and
bastard tick at the root a bull's tail, presents
more beautiful aspect to the mental vision. sore
eyed Niger, in the days of slavery, knock-kneed
| hump-baeked, crooked-shanked, and rheumatic,
| represented loftier idea of tho gentleman than
you do. To you illiberal ungratef1l and pusiIian-
imous wretches, thank God, I have no acknowI-
Judgements to make for favoTs rendered but
| crations to return you (not officer but a
private individually for your disfavor and for the
injuries you would have done me. No, 1 owe you
nothing but hatred, curses and contempt. These
tender you in countless measure, and yet you are
almost too degraded to be despsed But you know
better and could do better. You are to-day the
/ basest, BLACKLIST, and meanest organization that
| exists in the known world. In times past we re-
ljoieed together Il mean you so-called white Lea
guers, for it is to you that am speaking) in the
blessings and glories of free and magnanimous
| government. But when danger threatened, and
misfortune afflicted u.s. you deserted wish vlest per-
fdity, and when tyranny placed it chains upon US,
tJ,o GraF 4 ~ fbar,
there forever You are traitors ngrates, and apos-
tates. You have taken sides against your own
seetion-your own hcmes-and against the great
mass of your own race in the State, and Hence,
against the State ITSELF for what is the State but
the peopIeg The once proud Commonwealth of
Tennessee is to-day enslaved, fallen, chained. And
her true sons are in tears and on their knees, who
you, her degenerate and ungrateful offspring, re-
jcce in her enthrallment and with parricidal in
gratitude would strike the fatal blow at the heart
of the mother that gave you eexistence. As the
nlnions of tyrants with the hopes of benefcidries
you now rob her corpse off jewels-sing p@ans of
triumph at her death, and rever in orgies upon her
political tomb. Thisis the elimination of infamy.
You are now the vipers that crawl into dark and
oathsOme holes, to de wise schemes for the oppres
zion of your countrymen, and to prepare poison for
their destruction. In midnight conclaves you as
senble for the accom- plshment of your unholy Pur-
poses. Why do you not meet in the light of day
and of heaven, where good and honest men are not
ashamed to be seen :? Because crime covets secre-
cy, and seeks the cover Of darkness for the more
effectuaI preparation fits deeds.
You have robbed US of our liberties. usurped
our proprietary rights, and along with yourselves
would make an ignorant and prejLdiced race our
masters. But in truth, race more honorable than
yourselves. One which you have vitiated and
poisoned, defrauded and victmIzed, and whose off
] N, bove md
hybridized But for you and your infamy, this
class would never have been so disafeced and NAL
| contented as they now are, and would never have
aspired to the powers and immunities they now
seek to achieve, and which goa know they ale hei-
ther competent to exercise or prepared to enjoy
You infatuate and delude Thorn with hopes and ex-
pectations, which you well know can never be re-
allied. Eut yoa do it, to efectuate your selfish
and mercenary ends. This accomplished, you
satisfied. You get the Offices and their emoluments
-.hey get the privilege of voting for you. Mag
unanimous division of the spoils of which you have
robbed nobler and better men .
My curses are upon you, and shall remain with
you, just long you persist in your detestable
and ignouiuious course.
! To call you Williams would be iattery. Monsters,
fends and helIions, would be better designations
for you. You are looked at by honest Ilen only to
be osthed-thoGght of but to be cursed, and will
be remembered but to be despised They feel it a
duty to vituPerate and late you they do the
devil. You associated in their minds with the
name of Werner, that darkest Of italian bandits,
who wore upon his breast silver plate with the in
scription upon it, Enemy to God, to Pity AMI to
Mercy Your designs are darker than his, and
ike his, your souls are already maeulated and
stamped with the stains Of perdition. With an
other curse deeper, longer and hotter than all the
rest bid youadieu, and be damned to you And
may your PATHS in the future be as far from mine
as hell from heaven, for principles are wide
apart ss sunbeam can travel in fifty millions Of