Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-02-23
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer-)
Jolifie & Co. Badly SOld----b!
Themselyes---Letter from a Ut
izen Of Alabama.
Mr.. EpIroa:--I ana aot partial to
s,anp phrases; am not in the habit oI
using them. The use OF the term
sell or sold as indicating rld'c.
nlous blunder, or as descriptive ol
tbs case Of. some one who has been
| fooled. or who has made simpleton
of himself and become q laughing
stock. has, however, found its way
into respectable circles, both literary
and social. Adopting, therefore, the
use Of words as thus employed, ! beg
leave to present by the aid OF the
opportune literary Coin, to your
many readers, case which occurred
in this city, few days since oe.
tween myself and the agents Of Of the
Uade,oround Railroad for the Cinc'n'
natl depot-one Mr.. Joliife, ESQ,
resident engineer, at their head. l
had never dreamed that in this north
ern latitude, in mid-winter, there
could be found anything so green
as these men. Though the patrl'
archal millionaire of your noble city
has greenhouse, filled with exoties'
and though this Joliffe is said TO nave
been imported-fIOm Southern
State, too-yet l am sure that Long
worth. the venerable hero OF rare
shrubs and plants, Of fine wines and
real estate. never gave room IN his
floral sanctum, TO a botanic nuisance;
p weed 80 destructive of health and
happipess-so ruinous to the moral
social and commercial interests o
this great city, as this Abolition law
ver and the miserable clan that fel'
low him. No, they bave been nour
ished by the poisonous gases OF the
Underground Depot, and warmed
into life by strange fire from the
sltars of Wendell Phillips 4 Go.
The visest and best of men has
said. .Hs that diggeth a pit shall
fall into it, So has it happened tc
these hypocritical philanthrorsts.-
That their conduct in this affair was
very reprebeusibls. is attestedb by the
intelligent thousands Of the Cincinnati
populatisn. That they we're badl..
.soid.' and that they sold themselves,
is loudly proclaimed by the laugh
ing community.
| fACTs In THE CASE.
On Saturday, the 7th instant, a
10 o'clock P. NJ, / arrived in thu
city by railway, with fourteen ne
groes. beIoug to the estate OF Samue
Townsend, deceased, and who, ey hi
last will and testament were des
tined TO be mapumitted and settles
in some free State o. Territory, tn
location to be selected by his ezecu
tors. These gentlemen incllning t
nIace the negroes temporarily at ieas
in Ohio, employed and empowere'
me as their attorney 10 fact, to con
summate the designs Of the testato'
] stopped with my servants, ;, q
Tho Spencer House, with whose gentle
manly proprietors | had been a. az
ouainted for years, and whose nobl
bearing and princely hospitality vi
make any gentleman, Northern :. :
Southern, who may be their gaest'
easy and happy. 80,
My negroes we're kindly c, care ?
for. a thing unknown in any Abol
ton establishment. They had
GOOD room, fire, and whatever WI
needed for their comfort. Thus
verify thought ! was acting suihe!en n! !,
lv Abolition for a States 'if;9n
Democrat from Alobama' enough !,
st least to be let alone by these "
foreground gentry, If not to 90 'e'
dered an appointments on some
their branch roads But not SO.
AT 8 o'clock on Monday mcrn'"
the 9th inst, was aroused by II
at my door, and a note banded b., ed IN IN
informing me that the SAsrv 10. 10
|bslo,c, and wished to see me a. on ou'
ness. ] invited him up, We 10,
a good laugh over the affair; ;I ana !,
liei5 me to my dreams: ae %
been served with a writ oil maze
eorprs. for myself and NINE nos 5
This Joliife and bis associates d
sued out the writ, including IN IT. v VI
myself, my landlords, PEatt . s Ms
cali, as parties te the cause col