The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-11
From the Indianapolis Herald, September 26M.
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BRowNLow's Observation-Disclosures AT
MASONIC HALL-A CROWDED HOUSE.
Brownlow's troupe of negro minstrels
gave an exhibition at Masonic Hall last
night. Notwithstanding the beastley
weather there was good house, many
ladies having stood the "test of loyalty"
by wading early through the mud to Sc
cure front seats. The venerable clip,
Hip" was monster of ceremonies. After
prayer by Dr. Bowman, of Greencastle,
irrevercntly interrupted by a voice far
back in the rear crying, louder" Mr..
Fishback, in the absence of Gov. Morton,
safely delivered himself of the the well
come address, which contained nothing
startling.
On behalf of the Southern loyalists,
Mr.. Charles Fl. Brancomb, of Missouri,
responded. Mr.. Brancomb is small,
scedy looking, sheep faced individual, with
bountiful crop Of facial hair, and a
mushy sort of articulation, as if his mouth
were half filled with some soft and nasty
substance. He had something to say
about the "few-cha," but we didn't exactly
catch the drift ofhis remarks.
Jack Hamilton, the big gun of the show,
then took the stand. Jack is large,
solid looking cutthroat, with rough, red
face, high cheek bones, sensual mouth,
around which plays the ghost of a sinis-
ter smile; murderous blue, or steel-gray
eyes, and large nose He is grossly ami
NAL and brutal in temperament, and re-
pulsive in appearance. He used to have
some brains before he was so whiskey-
sodden and shattered by icentious de-
bauchery, and some years ago won some
renown as debater, in a discussion with
Gen. Ward. He spoke little over an
hour, drinking q 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
argumentative 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 tho old State lines
might be obliterated and the territory cut
ND into lots to suit purchasers. He dark
ly limited that President Johnson knew
more about the assassination of Lincoln
than he chose to tell, and intimated that
he kept Davis in prison only because he
feared in him he would find formidable
rival
Hon. Mr.. Fowler, Tennessee Senator,
then favored the audience with solo,
He is small, cleanly shaved, rather we'll
dressed man, with weak rheumy eyes, and
o vacant countenance Fowler is evil
IDENTIFY weak brother, and didn't make
any considerable sensation.
General Davis, of Texas, is TALL slen-
der man, with long face, shaded by GIN
ger colored whiskers, light hair, little
bald in front, nervous, sanguine in tenn
perament. BE might readily be mistaken
for gentleman, were it not for the CON-
pany in which he is found, and is, as the
counterfeit detectors used to phrase it,
"well calculated to deceive" He was
opposed to the admission of even loyal
men from the Southern States, until mat
ters arc fixed up.
Rev. Mr.. Hunnicut is preacher and
editor of a niger paper in Richmond,
Virginia. He is gaunt, grizzly speci-
men of concrete fanaticism, evidently out
of place in the society of white men, even
such as those who compose the loyal dele
CATION of Southern pilgrims, now on their
way to crocodile at tho tomb of Lincoln.
Hunnicut is an "endman" of the show,
and perfect Guy Fawkes. He is blood
and thunder cuss, who is determined on
the regeneration of the South at all haz-
ards. In the outset of his speech he mar
rowly 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 a thousand per cent. more devilish,
inhuman, blood-thirsty, disloyal, damna-
BILE, 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, arterial
punches and venous sangarees, made Of
the vital fluid of loyal men, are most
fashionable drinks at the Richmond sa
looms. In the next breath he told us he
published the most radical paper in the
world right in the midst OF these horrible
man-eaters, said what he pleased, and was
not molested.
Mr.. Hunnicut laid down hisprogramme
for the regeneration of the South. de
demanded of Congress an army OF bayo
nets, to be quartered in Richmond, unit
he could revolutionize the Government
turn the rebels out of Office, and place
! loyal negroes in their places. He pro