Tri-weekly union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-186?, 1866-09-29


BRowNLow's troupe of negro minstrels
gave an exhibition at Masonic Hall last
night. Notwithstanding the beastley wealth
er there was a good house, many ladies
having stood the "test of loyalty" by wading
early through the mud to secure front seats
The venerable :" Hip, Hip" was monster Of
ceremonies. After prayer by DIR. Bow
MAN, of Greencastle, irreverently interrupted
by voice far back in the rear crying,
"lOuder," Mr.. FIsHBACK, in the absence of
Gov. MORTON, safely delivered himself of
the welcome address, which contained moth
ing startling.
MR.. CHARLES II. BRANsCoMB.
Or behalf of the Southern loyalists, Mr..
CHARLES II. BRANsCoMB, of Missouri, re-
sponded. Mr.. BRANscoMB is a small, seedy
looking, sheep faced individual, with a
bountiful crop of facial hair, and a mushy
sort of articulation, as if his mouth were
half filled with some soft and nasty sub
stance. He had something to say about the
"few-cha," but we didn't exactly catch the
drift of his remarks.
JACK HAMILTON,
The big gun of the show, then took the
stand. JACK is a large, solid looking cut
throat, with a rough, red face, high cheek
bones, sensual mouth, around which plays
the ghost Of a sinister smile; murderous
blue, or steel-gray eyes, and large nose. He
is grossly animal and brutal in tempera-
ment, and repulsive in appearance. He
used to have some brains before he was so
whisky-sodden and shattered by licentious
debauchery, and some years ago won some
renOwn as debater, in q discussion with
l., .gsl
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 argumentative
pattern. He contended that the States are
out Of the Union, and subject to the dicta-
ton Of Congress, until an enabling act shall
bring them in as new States-that even the
old state lines might be obliterated and the
territory cut up into lots to suit purchasers.
He darkly limited that President JOHNSON
knew more about the assassination of LIN
COLIN 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.
A Tennessee Senator then favored the au-
dience with a solo. He is a small, cleanly
shaved, rather well dressed man, with weak
rheumy eyes, and n vacant cOuntenance.
FOWLER is evidently weak brother, and
didn't make any considerable sensation.
GENERAL DAVIS,
OF Texas, is a tall, slender man, with a bong
face, shaded by ginger colored whiskers,
light hair little bald in front, nervous, san
guine in temperament. He might readily
be mistaken for gentleman, were it not for
the company in which he is found, and is, as
the counterfeit detectors used to phrase it,
''well calculated to deceive" He was OPP
posed to the admission of even loyal men
from the Southern States, until matters are
fixed up.
REV. MR.. HUNNICUT
Is preacher and editor Of niger paper
in Richmond, Virginia. He is a gaunt,
grizzly specimen Of concrete fanaticism, evil
IDENTIFY 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 an is "endman" Of the
show, and perfect GUY FAwKEs, lie is a
blood und 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 BIZ
sheered off in time and pro-
ceeded to draw graphic and striking pic
ture Of matters and things in Virginia. The
people OF that internal commonwealth are
thousand per cent. more devilish, inhuman,
disloyal, damnable ungodly
and hell-deserving than at any time during
the rebellion. A loyal man cannot live
there. The foul atmosphere Of treason
would choke one like fire damp. The hell
hounds would tear him limb from limb on
the faintest suspicion 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 the most
fashionable drinks at the Richmond saloons
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.. HUNNICUTr laid down his programme
for the regeneration OF the South. lie de-
manded of Congress an army of bayonets,
70 be quartered in Richmond, until he could
revolutlonize the Government, turn the re-
bells out Of Office, and place loyal negroes
in their places He proposed TO raise an
army OF white aud black loyalists, and il a |
rebel even dared to crook his finger, he |
would be dead rebel He did not pro
pose 10 disfranohise rebels for five years |
simply, bat for hileen thousand nine hun |
dred and ninety years. After he had sue |
oeeded in all this, with the ballot and the |
bayonet in the hands OF the loyal negroes.
the millennium would come and he invited |
his Indiana friends 10 come down and see |
him in his paradise. They had tried to get |
up mob when he established the Nas No |
ton Of Richmond. POLLARD had published |
in his paper that the white men who |
patronized his paper were already id, |
and that the negroes who encouraged II |
should be expelled nom the community. |
Yet he walked the streets Of Richmond dav |
and night and had never been molested. /
He knew the Southern people. Give way /
70 them and they were domineering, over |
bearing and numerous. But stand for the /
right and they were towards. He himself +
was . man OF peace. lie didn't wantto kill /
nor 70 be killed, but II anybody
attacked him, BY the God who made him.
be would slay his antagonist-from all Of !