Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-15
Curt Blist Writes Another Letter to
His Son John Out West.
For the Standard.

For the Standard,
Dear John: You say that you are
afraid to bite at the bait thrown out
by editors to come to the table land
of the Cumberland, but ask the bene-
fit of the experience of one who has
lost breeches leg in the business. /
was surprised at Some of your ques-
tons and assertions. Viz. "Can
man vote his politics out there, teach
a colored school and say what he
pleases about the administration with
out being kukluXed?" The asser-
ti6ns were: "That the democrats
were killing were kicking up hell
out there" and "that a natural born
lady Of this bl0od-stained republic
could not reach as high a persimon
out there as Canada lady less
worthy" This lady question, l sus-
pect, could be solved on the principal
of bangs, anything else is not looked
on as an accomplishment out here,
and guess the Canadian lady out
banged her; hence the modification
of the good Western lady. We have
rule out here that republicans must
not vote the democratic ticket, which
is the only suffrage restriction we
have, but have never had to force the
rule yet. If you soldiered out here in
the war and incurred the displeas-
ure Of the old women unthoughtfully,
by payingthem more than they asked
for their poultry, don't let that deter
you from coming, for the twenty
long years that have since elapsed
have laid many Of them in their
graves, and Others behind their spec
tacles, and probably have brought
many a wrinkle to your pleasant face
that you would not be recognized and
brought under the broOmstick reign.
am sorry that your Democrats did
wrong; they kicked up heaven out
here last November, and may be yet
through their influence you may get
a dram and pipe of tobacco. You
could safely come here and learn the
colored mind how to shoot, if your
former record is perfectly clear; but
if you were teacher out here during
the carpet-bag reign, and showed a
disrespect for the female grown-uI
students ofyOur school, thereby tread.
ing on the spring that brought dead
rebels from their graves, and took
you to your native country to bark
back at us like the canine that return
ed to his own shuckpen from an un
popular nocturnal mission, you would
be troubled to get position. | CUES:
if you were here you might say what
you pleased about the administration
they all do, but endorse it every time
praising the president for what HI
liked to have done in spite of TIT
dickens, and for what we want hin
to do that there is no probability 0
: him doing. If ne appoints Repub
lican to an Office we say it is the hes
, appointment he could have made, bu
at the same time we don't believe it
. Now if / have cleared the pOlitica
r and social way for you | will sa!
2 something of the inducements Offered
l on the plateau of the Cumberland t
= the nickle farmer. Men who pull u
D stakes to come here mustn't thin
t they've started to heaven without re
}, pentance and baptism, but must &c
n the consent of their minds to live o
e buttermilk and lettuce for the frs
e twenty years, and use about one ha
of his family for fertilizing purpose
d and the rest to work on publicwOrk
y l wouldn't mislead you, for m
l. mountain farm that | was as proud (
n when / first bought it as SOut
o Georgia is of its evangelical blaz
vet remains to me as pleasant an
" remunerative as old decrepit paren
walking through the evening of Ii
at our expense. The deserted cOloni
j; here that lie in ruin only tell the SO
story of an age behind in agricultur
knowledge and implements. No
III with the use of the improved plO
and skill you can clean the run dow
e. farm of filth, ard geta beautiful star
of the red-headed briar that willkeC
all filth out despite the ravages of Il
IN billy goat, and will watch the ri
and fall of rations till the end of tin
!, when they will stubbornly retil
:: Your mother says to come out al
" see her.
CURT BLIST.
,r Daughters Wives and Mother
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