The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-04-10
A Spicy Correspondence.


In the COURIER Of March both, we published Sc.
we're article JEFF. Davis, the "bogus" President OF
the Southern Confederacy, from the pen of Parson
Brownlow, of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Wig. We now
publish Davis answer, through friend, with the
Parsons reply.
CAHABA, Alabama, Feb. %, 1861.
Mr.. w. G. BRowNLow Sir, you may
exult as much as you please over the elect
ion in Tennessee. In this part of the coun-
try we are not much disappointed, because
we know how your State was settled. 1t
was by the Hoosiers from North Carolina,
the Tory State of the Revolution, which, we
expect, will follow suit We can do without
either both are occupied by class of peo-
pie of a low order, without one spark ofhon-
or or chivalry about them. Let them sub
NIT to Lincoln I; they are towards, and from
the way Virginia and Kentucky and Arkan-
sas are behaving, do not believe they are
any better.
Virginia and Kentucky are well enough
descended, but do not expect there is a
family of high connection or noble descent
in the whole of North Carolina, Tennessee,
or Arkansas.
Now this crisis is upon us, their Hoosier
blood shows itself but let them go we do
not want them-we would be degraded by
the association.
As something has been said in the papers
Of your State about North Alabama, in this
revolution, guing off with Tennessee, 1, and
all here, say we would like to see her try it.
We can bring her right at the point of the
bayonet, and if Tennessee synpathizes with
her, we can conquer her too. Such people
as yours could not stand moment against
the chivalrous ard braye population of South
Alabama and Mississippi. More than this !:
if any of your Tennesseeans come down
here expressing their Union sentiments, we
intend to treat them to dress of tar, orna-
mented with feathers, to go home in. If
our country did not furnish you market
for your meat, your hog raising State would
be reduced to starvation and bankruptcy in
less than twelve months. We were willing
to sustain you, and trade with you, but your
own action has reduced you to the lowest
pitch of degradation, and forbds our coun-
tenancing you any longer. After all, it is
happy riddance, and we are well quit of
you, L. B. MANNING.
KNOXVILLE, March 8, 1861.
Mr.. Z. & Naming Your insolent
letter has been before me for several days,
counterpart of which see you have sent to
Union paper in Nashville. You are seek
ing notoriety by your letters to Union editors,
and am not unwilling to have you disap-
pointed. ! have no idea that yoa ever per-
formed an act in your life that would entitle
you to the favorable consideration Of clever
persons, or that any of your ancestors were,
in the least degree, meritorious. Certainly
no man bearing your name in Alabama ever
distinguished himself by his superior pow
ers of fintellect, by the exhibition of his viz
tues, by acts of benevolence, or by deeds of
noble daring. There was man of your name
(Manning,) in the Pen.teItiary of Alabama,
at one time, as tie records ft,at institution
will show, but whether you both sprang
from the same noble blood or not, am not
advised.
You regard Tennesseeans and North Car
olinians as coaoards, and me of low order Of
character. They are not low enough in the
scale of honor, to abandon the flag of their
eountry-to ingloriously flee from the Union
cemented by the blood Of their fathers, and
like set of white-livered dastards and per
jured scoundrels, seek to destroy Consti-
tuition and Government they have sworn to
support. Tennesseeans ana North Carroll
mans have never been cowardly enough to
forsake the flag of their country, and unite
with band Of Cotton State pirates, in steal
Ing Government Forts, AIsenals, munitions
of war, and other property. And Tennes-
seeans especially, are too 5rare and honora-
bic, to turn traitors to their country for the
sake Of finding market for few surplus
hogs they may raise! And so far as ability
and courage Of Kentucky, Tennessee, and
North Carolina is concerned, they can whip
out the entire Southern Confederacy and
for my part, would be willing to see these
States contract for the job, with our General
Government
tha fr,,fh
have fought not only the battles of Alabama,
ever since she was Territory, but they have
fought the battles of all the dastardly States
that have eraw .Jished out of the Union. We
sent from Tennessee, to yolr relief, when
the British and Indians had you scared to
death, and hiding in caves and hollow trees,
such old coroards as Andrew Jackson, Gen.
Coffee, Gen. Carroll, Gen. White, Gen.
Cooke, Coils. Gideon Morgan, Ed. Boothe,
Sam. Houston, Sam Bunch, John Williams,
the SEWERS, Tptons, Nelson's, Browns, Bay;
less, Lowrys, and host of others too tedious
to name in this brief rejoinder
From Fast Tennessee, the most hatef ii
part of the State, in the estimation of the
traitors of the Southern Confederacy, we
sent into the Gulf States the following gallant
Captains, some of whom lost their lives in
fighting yoar battles-Rufus Morgan, Reu-
ben Upton, John Bayless, John Childs, w.
D. Nelson, James Stewart, Samuel Bowmon
Joseph Galloway, Nicholas Gibbs, and Vance
Conway, Marshall, Lewis, and hosts of brave