The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-04
The Radical Road the Broad Road

| NAN, ABOUT the middle OF the nlgnL {
Thursday. Upon being taken theme
to police headquarters, he plesde
drunkenness, and that he did not knov
whether his bedfellow was black o
white, male or female. The Recorde
took the testimony Of the sable nymph
who stated that Duggan came to he
house duly sober and offered her
princely compensation for her poo
lodgings, herself included, which sh,
could not resist-and the bargain wa
struck with the above result Duggal
! submitted the case, and was let of viii
a line amounting to two or three day
Of his per dism We trust this is th'
very last one of "Duqgzl's bills" eithe,
as legislator or as an amateur Lotha
RIO, and law breaker, in this city. Dug
gan is about sixty years old, and should
now so home, ask pardon of his con.
stituents, and prepare himself for a bet
ter life.
From the Republican Banner, 81 inst.
A Latent modicum of chivalry lurk
ing about the point of this prosy quill
would ever prompt its pause before
striking a man when he is down
Duggan is down, and We spare
him. Duggan is of the radical, radi
cally. Even Forney-dead as that un.
fortunate duck is universally pro-
nounced, is not Gn a Forney-cating
sense, more emphatically down than
our elegant friend Duggan. "Dug" il
the radical leader of the Radicals oi
the Tennessee General Assembly. We
humby ask Dugs pardon for mention.
ing them in the same connection.
Ironically speaking "Duggy" is q
handsome man. If a reconstructed,
false swearing, throatcutting, unfortu-
nate "Reb' didn't care what he was say.
ing, and was to say Dug was an
Apollo BelYidere, the world would be
excusable for laughing down the as
sertion as a wicked joke. We shall not
indulge in imaginative disgression, in
Dugs case, TO iniure him with his
church going acquaintances. We dc
not propose to be satrically discursive
on the Honorable Dug's degeneracy
We have only to deal with melancholy
facts, connected with that illustrious
public servant, which his well earned
prominence demands should be given
to posterity as matter of history.
For some time, many of the more
observing of our fellow-men may have
obeTserved, lounging leisurely about
the more fashionable Of the negro sa-
looms of the city, upon terms Of affec-
tionate intimacy with the strongest
favored "man and brother" of our
sable population that CHANGED along,
8 venerable dignitary, frightfully sober
-heroioally "miscegenatiVe = brim.
ming over with a feeling of equality, and
indulging occasionally in a congeuial
libation. 1t was Dug "Here' to you
boys-confusion to Andrew johnson,
Acknowledgement to poor white folks,
and freedmen's rights to our colored
brethren But this toast would be
wrong in sentiment, so far as the latter
expression is concerned, in the case OF
the distinguished subject Of this his.
tory. 1t is less to the brethren than
the "sistren" that DUggan has 'tender
drawings" IN other words, Dug. has
been caught in f1grants dehcto { The
old fox was uuearthed in 3 negro house
on on cr@"aJr2 street by the police. on
Thursday night, who tracked him upon
his taVorite haunt, and revealed him
next morning in the City Police Court
IN his true cOloTs, which, TO say the
least of them, were--dark. 1t was q
bad case of Othello reversed, in which
Dug loved not wisely, but too Well''
and was not as discreet as usual in
covering up the tracks. The unfortu.
nate colored object of his ill-timed de
votion, is ruined forever, and her char.
acter is now almost IS spotless as Dug s
which is an entire spot of itself Dug,
with these licentiouB procliviiies, give1
as he is to embracing the freedman S
persuasion too eagerly, and without
regard to sex or age, is likely to prove,
if he continues, more efficient than
ever as leader of the Radicals. Those
that follow in his wake will have no
difficulty in keeping up the trail by the
scent of the animal His Offence was
rank. 1t smells to Heaven" The Re.
corder fined him severely. Hailing
from Sewer, we presume he Is able to
stand it The penalty should have
been heavier in token of the fact that
Dug once voted against the Negro Tes.
timopy Bill The reason why he did
that extraordinary thing is obvious TO
our benighted intellectual vision now.
His recently revealed bad habits show
why the testimony of negroes might be
embarrassing if they should be invited,
upon oath, to tell all they knew about
him. We can imagine this imaculate
patriot ii the gloomy corridors of the
city Jail, on that fatal Thursday night,
endeaVoring in his eccentrically maud
lin way, to persuade his fellow-prisoners
that "Anry johnson sd unk when-he-
made speech (hic) Freedmen's Bureau
We can imagine the emotion of the
Radical Representatives, when they dis
cover from the police dockets the fright
ful immortality Of their leader But
we can imagine above all, the mortif-
cation of the unhappy victim to the
passionate folly of Duggan, when her
fall is heralded 10 the world. The
mere mention CT it won't hurt Duggy,
for ne is as shamelessly invuinerable
as that old topper who was bitten by the
mad dog:
The man recovered Of the bite,
The DOG it was, that died.