Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-03-08
Another Letter from Jack
ShiVerS.

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Shivers.
| To Mr.. ANDREW JACKSON fetch
er-Brownlow's man, Friday
Sur: l.
Altho hav the pleasure Nv not
bein personally acquainted with
you, take the liberty Nv drappin
you a few lines. / red tother day
a big memorial got up and sined
by you and a Mr.. Thurneck, and
a Mr.. Weitmuller, and a Mr..
Shimmler, and a Mr.. Sender, and
a Mr.. Ferdinan Kuhn, and several
other unbeknown persons, in
which it appears that you hav ta-
ken on a big scare, and are calm
on the military to stay here in
Tennesse and protect you.
! suppose from the names, that
the fellers sined with you is Dutch
Jews or children NV Abraham. /
never heerd Nv emmy Nv EN- before
don't know whar they cum
frum or how long they expec to
stay, and | hav bin livin in this
State nigh on to forty year. Old
Higgins was in Nashville las week,
and he says that you and your
Abraham trens made sich ter do
in your memorial about your sacri-
fees for the Union, that Matt.
Brown, the Mayor, had a commit
ty appinted to examine all Nv you,
to see how menny skars, received
in defense Of the old flag, was on
your bodies or elsewhar. He says
they told him when you was ex-
amined. The only skar found was
whar you was vaxinated when
you was boy, and when they
stript the children of Abraham
they found nothin at all but whar
they were circumsised when they
was babies. Ole Miss Loggins,
nifty sharp fierce talkin ole woman,
here interrupted us by sayin she
wished 10 the Lord she had er had
the circumsisine NV em, shed be
bound they never would er prop
ergated thur specie after she got
thro with EN-. ! told ole Higgins
| reconed he must shorely be mis-
taken, that sum NV them devilish
boys about Nashville was tryin
to quiz him; but he said it was SO,
fur niger soldier that was a
standin guard at Brownlow's door,
and protectin the Governor, told
him about it, and the niger sed
he lik to er laffed hisself to death
when they examined the Abra.
ham men. The niger had been
in the war and fit, and seemed to
think it was a fine joke on you
and your flens.
Now, Mr.. Fletcher, you know
nobody aint agwine to hurt any
NV them Dutchmen-nobody don't
know em, and nobody would er
knowed that they were in the
State eff you haddent er roped em
in to sinin that memorial. Ell
you amt got nothin else to do, but
to be a playin sich tricks on poor
ignorant furriners that aint ac-
quainted with our people, l think
YOU orter to be furnished with
some employment. Eff they are
still laborin under thur big scare,
would say to 'em that in the
opinion Nv CRATE .menny, Israel
is about to be restored, and all NV
thur corntrymen is goin back to
Palisteen, and eff they cant live
easy here, they had better go to
Jerooselam and be restored along
with the balance Nv thur people.
On the subjec nv keepin a big
standin army here to protect you
and Brownlow, and few sich, |
would like to ak you eff you think
it would pay the government to du
it? NV sun Jeems, who ac'u
speak his mind free, says that you
and Brownlow, and the few others
that belong to your denomination,
amt wurth as much to emmy guv-
ernment on urth, as it would take
to feed a regiment of soldiers one
day; and he says eff the guvern-
ment has to take care Nv you, he
thinks it would be better to
gather your little squad all up to-
gether and set apart a trac Nv cum
try about the size NV our civil dee
strict, in Liberia or some other
place and kolonize you, and let
Brownlow be the guvurner OF the
kolony, and you be his Secretary