The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-03-01
didn't that Man Suffer.

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good thing on Brownlow:
KNOXVILLE, JAN 8, 1S66.-There are
few East Tennesseeans who do not know
John Fleming, OF this county, lawyer
of much sharpness, with a good practice:
and, as far as I can learn, of undoubted
loyalty. Well, John tells a most amusing
anecdotc 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 a well.
known citizen, and one who bears good
record for consistent loyalty The pith
of the matter is contained in a descrip-
ton of Brownlow's terrible sufferings and
martyrdom, of which the world has heard
So much for the past two years.
A few months ago Brownlow sued
sneed, Crozicr and Reynolds for DANA
ges, and recovered $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 peacea-
BILE times, have brought twice the amount
of the Judgment. After all this had oc-
Cured, Squire Knott meets Fleming, who
was one of tie Governors lawyers (by
the way they are all Colonel Heiskills
constituents,) on Gay street, and accosts
him thus
"Wcll, Fleming, Isuppose you succeed
ed in recovering s25, 900 damages for Gov.
Brownlow, for and on account of his suf-
ferings as Union man ~
Fleming-"Ycs, Andy, we had no trou-
bles and could have recovered $50, ,0O0just
as easy, if we had laid it,"
Knott-"Well, John, there's no telling
how much that man has suffered. When
he was put in Jail at Knoxville, 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
feather bed to sleep on, and had chick
en-, coffee, warm biscuit, and anything
his family and friends desired to send
him. Great God, Fleming, didn't he suf-
fer! Directly we were all sent to Mobile
and Tuscaloosa, and treated worse than
damaged dogs, while Brownlow was fur
nished with a guard to protect him from
rebels, and sent safely through the lines
to Abraham's bosom. Great God /! Flcm-
ing, didn't that man suffer
Well, we lay in prison and came darn
ed nigh starving and being cat up with
vermin, itch, etc., while Brownlow collec-
ted half dozen East Tenncsccans in
Yankee land, organized travelling me-
nagerie and showed at so cents q night,
children and niggers 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 book-an
Abolition book-and sold an interest in
the copyright for $4,000 in cash, and the
damned rebels then sent his family
through the lines to him, where they
were all feted, toasted and lienizcd
Fleming, how could mortal man endure
such suffering? No sooner bad old Burn
side taken East Tennessee than he and
his family were sent back home, the Uni
ted States government furnishing ambu,
lances, teams, and guards for them. When
Brownlow reached Knoxville, he tool;
possession of the custom house, as special
Treasury agent, at a salary, and appoint
ed set of "rcvcnuc aids" and he soon
collected about $4,000 worth of aban
donened rebel property, which has never
been accounted for to this day! Great
God Fleming, didn't that man suffer-
GEN. BUTLER COMPELLED TO DIsGoRGF
THE FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD
1t will be remembered by our readers that
among the many high handed acts o.
speculation and confscation which Gen
Butler was guilty of in his reign at New
Orleans in 1862 and 1868, was his break
ing open n bank vault in that city and
taking from il fifty thousand dollars in
gold, belonging, we believe, to the firm o.
Smith & Brother-a sum which never
found its way, as it was alledgcd, into
the Treasury Department, but remained
in the capacious pockets of the General
Time passed on, and it so happened tho
returned merchant caught the General ir
New York two years afterwards and in
stituted legal proceedings to recover his