Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-29
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responded. MIR. Dfau5cOmp 10 umuii
seedy looking, sheep faced individual
with beautiful crop Of facial hair an,
a mushy sort of articulation, as If hi
mouth were halfflled with some sof
and nasty substance. He had something
TO saw about the ''few-cha." but we didn'
exactly catch the drift of his remarks.
Jack Hamilton, the big gun of thu
show, then took the stand. Jack is {
large, solid looking cut-throat with I
rough, red face, high cheek bones, sen
suaT mouth, around which plays the
ghost of a sinister smile; murderou'
blue or steel grey eyes, and large nose
He is grossly animal and brutal in tenn
permanent, and repulsive in appearance
| He used to have some brains before he
was SO completely whiskey sodden and
shattered by licentious debauchery, and
some years ago won some renown as
debater in discussion with General
Ward. He spoke little over an hour,
drinking a great deal Of water, which
seemed to hiss as it passed down his fiery
throat, and saying little worthy OF notice.
His speech was of the heavy, argumen-
tative pattern. He contended that the
States are out of the Union, and subject
to the dictation of Congress, until an
enabling act shall bring them in as new
States-that even the old State lines
might be oblitered and the territory cut
up into lots to suit purchasers. he
darkly limited that President johnson
knew more about the assassination OF
Lincoln than he chose to tell, and intl-
mated that he kept JEFF. Davis in prison
because he feared in him he would find
formidable rival.
Hon. Mr.. Fowler, Tennessee Senator,
then favored the audience with solo.
He is a small, clearly shaved, rather we'll
dressed man, with weak, rheumy eyes,
and vacant countenance. Fowler Is
evidently weak brother, and didn't
make any considerable sensation.
General Davis, of Texas, is a tall,
slender man, with long face, shaded
by ginger colored whiskers, light hair, a
little bald in front, nervous, sanguine in
temperament He might readily be mis-
taken for gentleman, were it not for
the company in which he is found, and
is, as the counterfeit detecters used to
phrase it, well calculated to deceive.
He was opposed to the admission Of even
loyal men from the Southern States, until
matters are fixed up.
Rev. Mr. Hunnicutt is a preacher and
editor of niger paper in Richmond,
Va. He is a gaunt, grizzly specimen of
concrete fanaticism, evidently out of
place in the society Of white men, even
such as those who compose the loyal
delegation of Southern pilgrims now on
their way to crocodile at the tomb of
Lincoln. Hunnicut is an lend man
of the show, and perfect Guy Fawkes
He is blood and thunder cuss, who is
determined on the regeneration of the
South at all hazards. AT the outset of
his speech he narrowly avoided the rock
on which he split in the Philadelphia
Convention-personal biography = but
sheered off in time and proceeded to
draw graphic and striking picture Of
matters and things in Virginia. The
people of that Internal commonwealth
are thousand per cent. more devilish,
nhuman, bloodthirsty, disloyal, damn
able, ungodly and hell deserving than at
any time during the rebellion. A loyal
man cannot live there. The foul atmos-
phere of treason would choke one like
fire damp. The hell hounds would tear
him limb from limb, on the faintest sus-
picion of loyalty, drink his blood and |
grind his bones. Blood cocktails,
lrterial punches and venous sangarees,
made of the vital fluid of loyal men, are
he most fashionable drinks at the Rich |
nond saloons. In the next breath he |
old US that he published the most radi-
,al paper in the world right in the midst |
If these horrible man eaters, said what |
lie pleased, and was not molested.
Mr.. Hunnicutt laid down his programme |
or the regeneration of the South. He |
demanded of Congress an army of bay !
,nets, to be quartered in Richmond, |
until he could revolutionize the govern
nent, turn the rebels out of Office, and |
place loyal negroes in their places. He |
proposed 10 raise an army Of white and |
lack loyalists, and if rebel even dared
o crook his finger, he would be dead 4
ebel He did not propose to disfranchise \
ebels for five years simply, but for fif- \
cen thousand nine hundred and ninety
ears After he had succeeded in all |
his, with the ballot and bayonet in the
lands of the loyal negroes, the millennium
you'd come, and he invited his Indiana
riends to come down and see him in his \
PARADISE. They had tried to get up a
mob when he established the Nep Nation |
t Richmond Pollard had published in |
is paper that the white men who pat /
onized his paper were already ID,
nd that the negroes who encouraged it \
hould be expelled from the community |
let he walked the streets Of Richmond 1
ay and night, and had never been mo-
ested. He knew the Southern people !
live way to them and they we're domi- |
eering, overbearing and murderous. |
,ut stand for the right and they were \
owards. He himself was a man of
eace. He didn't want to kill anybody, /
or to be killed, but if anybody attacked |
i'm, by the God who made him, he 4
Tould slay his antagonist-irom all of
hitch we draw the inference that Hunni-
ut is fighting cuss. He said that if
yer Pollard laid the weight of his finger l
pom him, from that moment he was a
goner." Another element of strength |
ras in the ten thousand loyal blacks, |
tho would wade through blood to their
rmpits for him. Let them harm him or
is printing office, and Richmond would
e in ashes within twenty-fonr hours.
We were not much surprised at the
razy, demoniac spirit which pervaded
he harangue of this white niger, but
re must confess that the hearty manner
n which it was received by the audience
ook us somewhat aback. We never saw
UGH wild enthusiasm before The au-
fence shouted and yelled in the most
ranticslly delightful manner for FIVE
r ten minutes at time, swinging their
ats in the air, and hugging each other
a the frenzy Of the moment. The prin-
iples of God and humanity have pro-