Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-01-27
RATHER MIXED.

WeiI!! VINO tnOuSnI u VIC
can't be Bate" the key" didn't un-
lock the situation worth a cent;
neither do we hedge" with-nOr On
'White-thorne. Our legislators have
demonstrated to an immoral certainty
their more -than-Saisey- Gamp-ish de-
votion to the immortal name of Harris;
and then wound themselves to the
pitch of choosing him "yoke-fellow
in equity" whose fitness for the place
was so notorious that we outside bar
barians quite feared it incapacitated
him for election. I can't understand
it. How, without miracle-Whlch
the same are confessedly played out
should our misrepresentation prefer
to any of the noble army Of martyrs
who stood ready. and more 'willin'e ell"
than Barkis, to make a sacrifice of
their State, by accepting to her Sena-
torship one who IN so doing would
make a sacrifice for her? The conun-
drum is quite too tough for my poor
mind, wherefore I'll no further wrestle
with it, but shout at the top of my
pen, GLORY Hallelujah! Amen
Well done, good un-faithful servants
For this relief much thanks" and by
way of proving how much, I'll spare
you my views" on the dog law, ten per
cent, etc, etc, merely remarking that
by simply resolving yourselves into
Committee Of the Hole"-the one
where-through our State revenue be-
comes a sinking fund of unexampled
celerity-and stopping that, you may
have grateful remembrance for your
virtues of mission, as we'll as for giving
us a Senator betwixt whom and his
place honors are easy; a man whose
character and way of life pre-eminently
entitle him to bear without abuse the
grand old name ofgentleman' and his
other name is James E. Bailey. En-
thusiastie, am L? Why. of course.
Were MT [ and some one else the very
first men to nominate him three years
ago? Besides I've been taught from
my youth upward that Jim Bailey S
lust as near an honest man as lawyer
can be''-the which, | steadfastly be-
lieve, without taking upon me to decide
the knotty possibilities of legal hon
esty. No, l don't congratulate him.
That were altogether too common
place-but certainly the body which
! honored itself in his selection ought to
feel over it as the Arkansas girl did
over her baptism-that is, Bully"
Here's bit of reminisence that may
not be out of place None of US have
forgotten Fort Donelson, and the fall
thereof. and how for days after the
country swarmed with Mississippians
and Texans, each with his story more
marvellous than the last, of having
"cut his way out remember the
blood was variously estimated from
shoe. mouth to eye-lash deep
the friends and kinsmen of the 49th
/ Tennessee grew crestfallen In thinking
"our boys must a been too chicken
hearted to get away" but when "ouI
boys got away from prison, thing;
took a slightly different complexion.
Escape" they said, was ridiculously
easy. As to cutting your way out
why whoever would might walk away
But Colonel Bailey told US it would
be dishonorable after we were surren'
dered prisoners of war" Gradgrind
ifhe likes, may sneer at this as OUR
otism;" call it the heroism of honor
Can anybody tell me if the old wo'
man who kissed her COW in exemplih'
cation of each to his taste, had not
large family? l think she had-elst
how account for the race of country
editors whose oculatory experiences o.
their milk beast, the dear public
must be of somewhat varied, not tC
say contradictory nature. Witness