The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-04
The CONTEMPORARIES Dream,


1t had been raining over the whole
face of the country for a week, and he
had been reigning over the street cor
ners for the same length of time wait
ing TOR job, until he was as weak as
the length of time he had been waiting.
A nd all this time was occasionally re-
lieved by learned ''scussions OBJ de cibil
rights bill' by some of his hungry bred
rem, until he got cOFn-bread and civil
rights all mixed around through his
mind so that he felt constrained to rub
his head against the brick wall to col
lect his ideas, and the scratching felt so
good he fell asleep,-and softly sleep
ing, he sweetly dreamed:
He was sitting astraddle a log OF corn
bread with a skillet of gravy in one
hand, and he would pour the gravy on
the bread and gouge and eat, and he had
gouged and eat out a hole into which he
disappeared, and he had Just stopped Il
minute To think what a fool the man
was that said - he would not live al
ways" when be heard some one calling
| the ''guvner." He climbed TO the top
and peeped over, and was told that - de
cibn rights train am bout TO start to
| glory" He hustled down and boarded
the train, and found that it comprised
huge carpet-bag run by steam, and float
| ing in canal of mOlasses, and the white
! folks were all at the bottom and the
niggers on top. And behold, it came to
pass that they floated swiftly norf h.
wards-whiie smothered walls came
| from the bottom of the bag, which made
| che niggers shout in Joy and sweat from
the exercise it gave them. And 10 a
voice from the depths prayed that a buzz
Zard might blow his breath in there that
they might have a morsel of fresh air.
eel
of Washington City arose before them,
and soon they halted. The train was
| stopped over a cavern, and the bottom
of the carpet-bag was uncovered and
smOthered whites allowed TO drop into
/ the dark depths, but as the niggers came
| skinning out they were caught in the
arms of loving friends and borne to re-
| freshing bowers. The hero of this DER
true tale found himself in the noble
Beasts shirt-bOsOm, nesting sweetly in
wrinkle of his pOrtly, belli-cose bust.
He was transported thus to the White
House and placed upon a pedestal in the
grandest parlOr, and soon around him
knelt the magnates of the land of lib
erty, each swearing eternal fealty. Then
| a committee of beautiful maidens lifted
him gently and transplanted him to a
throne at the festive board of King Uly,
and Senators of the Realm gathered
themselves, and their wives, and daugh-
tiers, about him, and tempted him with
sweetmeats and costly Yiands, and he did
eat, and lacked darned sight of being
full. Lot a sound caught his ear, as the
clanking of chains, and looking he be-
held a chain-gang of men of stately,
though detected mein, each labeled
Democrat" appearing in double open
file, and on the shoulders of these men
was borne monster sweet potato, one
end in view and the other remotely dis
tant, all dripping with ham gravy, and
painted on every side in glittering char
acters was g CIVIL RIGHTs!" A gentle
hint caused our Afric hero to open his
lovely mouth, when with drawn sword
and with much menace, as backed by
bayOnets and brains, the well-tried hero
of spoon fame commanded the enslaYed
gang to hist the later in. Meekly they
obeyed, and ceased not showing until
the last end disappeared, then dispersed
at the kingly nod. And now the hero
felt himself inflated with this honorable
token of a nations loving care, which,
with such pOmp and ceremony was
conferred into him, which, coupled with
the estimation of himself which it had
male to swell within him to such won
drOus magnitude, proved all too streng
for niger skin-and so he busted.
o, blissful dreami o, sad reality
o, wOeful transition! The dreamer
walked just as a board flew to splinters
which had been busted over his rumbil-
fcus by the tenant on whose friendly
doorstep he had seen such glory, and he
was recalled to life and labor when his
ears caught the words, 'git out you
black sOn-Of-a-pOle-cat! -