Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-07
For the Knoxville Wing,
The Printer and !.
By QuIzzIcAL q, QuoG,
No, l. FIRST SERIES,


spoke gbly in u score of tongues ancient and mod
ern, has told m anecdote that will serve for an in
troductory 10 this series II was Of man, himself
perhaps who stepped for the first time into print
ing office and saw asolomn-looking boy setting type,
"Boy what ARE thoso2 asked the visitor "Theso
are types answered the lad. And what are
types persisted the man, "Why types, sir an
swored the boy types uro-well, let me see, types
are hochs for thoughts 10 trord mr
Ever since reading that story away back yonder
in my boyhood, have rcveronccd the Printer, !
touch my hat and bow to him, MS does the Russian
peasant when the emperor passes by, Yes, ! rev.
orcnce the Printer God made the physical world,
and filled ii with living men and women-the Prin-
ter moulds and fashions the moral social and pot-
ical worlds-that is, ro-creates them daily, Yes,
hope that the Printer and will always prove good
friends, for he is rich mark you Rich2 Yes lie
owns the press, and the press owns the world, He
has established home here in this battle-blasted
city, and sends forth every week, TO every State
whore freedom has an abiding place. his thousands
of A,nihitators Annihilator, is it, or pcahiator2
Well, either will do. But of this more anon
! Confidence, in its lower stage, commands respect
in higher stage it becomes the heart of friendship
In It's INST ana highest curIly stag, II Uuuvncs tu
soul Of love. In its highest stage it is the celestial
chair that binds angels in alteration to the great
white throne and Him that sitteth thereon" Gen
erous Tom Hood has told us in his own quaint way
that public opinion is the average prejudice of man
kind As | hope to win the readers respect, ask
] NJ at f,rh pIubi, and 1 bnn
combat some of the prejudiccs of mankind, l shall
pay but little heed to public opinion,
| If any one asks woman why she loves, her
proper answer should be, IL love because | cannot
help tit is my nature" If any one asks me why
! write answer, II write because am in the mood
for tit is my habit'-that is, Second nature"
If |, taking my walks about city, small or large,
certain phases of life that stamp themselves on
my memory, if certain impressions are left there
which | wish to retain, may not call the Printer
to my aid? and if these impressions are deemed
worthy by him to be locked up in form and then
thrown out to the gaping world as food for talk or
reflection, shall l not write? Yea, verify. The
Printer is my co-laborer. If he prints, | writc-il
he prints not, can still write, and keep what
write and there is no chance for quarrel between
us.
And, of what shall / write? To blend my walks
and talks about Knoxville with anecdotes of travel
and adyentureto snatch idle gossip us it falls from
the lips of rumor, and sift from thence words OF
truth-to speak of men as | find them, whether clad
in rebel or Union garb or in citizens dress-to min
gle business with literature prosac facts with polite
fecling-to criticse With mpartiaty the wrong
and defend the right with earnest vigor-to walk
amid business throngs quaint observer-to sepa-
rate the chat of pretended loyalty from the full
grained wheat-to bid the bold soldier boy "God
speed on his mission of freedom, and shout aclu-
las of thanksgiving victory Won for liberty and
Union--to wander at will through camp and city,
| and note whatever may attract attention any or
all these may well engage my pen, and enable the
! D;....- and . a - - ~oHy NioV sees
cease during these stern winter months, here in
East Tennessee, while the storms are knocking at
the door for admttancc.
You will say truly, that "Quog has laid out large
grounds to occupy. Well, is itnota everyday oc-
currencc that men purchase more ground than they
can expect to cultivate They buy largely, and
select which pieces to plant, am doing SO. If
have business at the bank, where greenbacks hold
sway; at Fort Saunders, where iron lips are ever
ready open to speak death to unbiddcn rebel guests
at the hospital yonder to dabbe in literary dispute
with r., who insists on 'maling elisions where they
exist and where, too, alas thousand brave boys
more or less are daily watching some one of theil
number going toward the silent land where battle
RACES not, and where the fierce thirst is quenchcd in
the waters of the river of life; if l go daychcrc
and see oaytt6g shall not write? Yea verify.
And a word more for the pen still fingers. L
aught that | see here reminds me of what / have
seen elsewhere, if some Renaissance of the past il
called up by some chance encounter of the present
may | not trust it, too, to the Priater? Already
have ! in contemplation to tell you strange story
of Il Police Detective whom met no matter where
and of one high in the ranks of social and business
life who imagnes himself hero while he is only
spy, and who, while he is too open to pretent
to loyalty, is too much traitor to concea
judicously the footprints he leaves in his dark path
Men must icatk IL ,cater i they 'coutd ledre no track
Jehiadl
And now, . gentle or ungentle reader, be my
critic you, Printer, will be my counselor and ad
visor; for the rest God will be my Judge. If h,
wills it, we may meet Il week hence. What part o
the field shall occupy when we meet again, | know
not. If you are loyal and true we are friends ant
you can afford to watt if you are traitor, you arr
my enemy, and may well wait. In the meantime
remember Judas.
Funeral of q Refugee Mother,