Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-15
Didn't that Man Suffer.

The Knoxville correspondent of the
Nashville Banner gets off the following
good thing on BrownloW:
KNOXVILLE, January 9, lS66.-There
are few East Tennesseeans who do not
know John Fleming, of this county, law.
yer of much sharpness, with good practice,
and, as far as I can learn, of undoubted
loyalty. Well, John tells most amusing
aneedote of our Reverend Governor, which
is too good to be lost, and, what is more to
the point, he gives it as coming from Andy
Knott, who is also well known citizen,
and one who bears good record for con.
sistent loyalty. The pith of the matter is
contained in description Of Browulow's
terrible sufferings and martyrdom, of which
the world has heard so much for the past
two years.
A few months ago Browplow sued Sneed,
Crozier and Reynolds for damages, and re
covered $4,000, in the Circuit Court at
Knoxville, causing the property of those
gentlemen to be sold out, and buying it in
at his own price; property that would, in
all probability, in peaceable times, have
brought twice the amount of the judgment.
After all this had occurred, Squire Knott
meets Fleming, who was one of the Cover
nor's lawyers (by the way they are all COL
onel Heiskilrs constituents,) on Gay street,
and accosts him thus:
well, Fleming, I suppose you succeeded
in recovering $4,000 damages for Cover.
nor Brownlow, for and on account of his
suferings as Union man?'
Fleming-'Yes, Andy, we had no trou.
Bile, and could have recovered $4,000 just
as easy, if we had laid it,
Knott-Well, John, there's no telling
how much that man has suffered. When.
be was put in Jail at Knoxville, l was in
there for my Unionism also, with about one
hundred others. We ate bull beef and
sour bread, and slept on the muddy floor
without cover, whilst Brownlow had fcath
ther bed to sleep on, and had chicken, cof
fee, warm biscuit, anything his family and
friends desired to send him. Great God !!
Fleming, didn't he suffer! Directly we
were all sent to Mobile and Tuscaloosa, and
treated worse than damaged dogs, while
Brownlow was furnished with guard to
protect him from rebels, and sent safely
through the lines to Abraham's BOSOM
Great God /! Fleming, didn't that man suf.
fer
Well, we lay in prison and came darned
nigh starving and being eat up with vermin,
itch, etc., while BrownIow collected half a
dozen East Tennesseans in Yankee land,
organized travelling menagerie and show
ed at so cents night, children and mig
gers half price, and made lots of money and
kept it all himself and never fed his animals
at all. Fleming, Great God, did you ever
hear of such suffering? Then he wrote a
book-an abolition book-and sold an in.
terest in the copyright for SIC, 900, in cash,
and the damned rebels then sent bis faml-
ly through the lines to him, where they
were all feted, toasted and lionized. Elem
ing, how could mortal man endure such
suffering? No sooner had old Burnside
taken East Tennessee than he and his fam
ily we're sent back home, the United States
Government furnishing ambulaDces, teams,
and guards. for them. When Brownlow
reached Knoxville, he took possession of
the custom house as special Treasury agent,
at salary, and appointed a set Of "revenue
aids" and he soon collected about $50, 900
worth of abandoned rebel property, which
has never been accounted for to this day !!
Great God Fleming, didn't that man suf-
fer. ..