Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
their quota wuz instantly dismisse,

VI 70 LHSlT quOtd NuD ncbaLtl1 OlcnlSscu
for disloyalty.
! At last we started, and must say we wuz gotup
i'll highly conciiatory style. Every wun NV the
civyuns the party wore buzzum pins, ct settery,
which wuZ presented to EN- by the Southern dele
gates to the Philadelphia Convention, witch wuz
made Nv the bones Nv Federal soldiers wich he'd
fallen in the various battles
Sum Nv EN- were partikerly valuable e1 anteeks,
hevin been made from the lust soldiers who fell at
Bull Run.
The Moo York recepshun gay affair. L
never saw His Imperial Highness in better spirits,
and he delivered his speech TO better advantage
than j ever heard him do il before, and bleeye
I've heard it hundred times. We left Moo York
sadly Even now ez / write the remembrance Nv
that percesshun-the recollection that banquet
fingers around me, and the taste Nv them wines is
/ still in my mouth. But we had to so. We had
mishun to perform, and we put ourselves on steam
boat and started
ALBANY.-There wuz a immense crowd, but the
Gar of all the Amerkss didn't get orff his speech
here. The Governor welcomed him, but he well
coined him ez the Chief Magistrate Nv the ma
sben, and happened to drop in Lineolns name
That struck chill over the party and the President
got out Nv it ez soon possible. Ben reserved as
Cheef Magistrate and not ez the great Pacifcator,
amt his Eggslency's best holt. 1t wuz unkind of
| Gov. Fenton to do e. If he takes the papers he
must know that his mghtness amt got but one
speech and he ought to hev made sch reception
ez would hev enabled him TO hev got it of. We
shook the dust off NV feet and left Albany in
disgust
| tie village wuz awake when the imperial train ar
rived. The changes haven't been made in the off
ces here, and consekently there was splendid re-
! cepshun. l didn't suppose there wuz so many pa
triots along the Mohawk. l wuz pinted out by sum
| one ez the Presidents private advisers sort Nv
private Secretary State and after the train start
ed found Jest 2ll petitions for the Post Office in
Skenaktedy in my side coat pocket wich the patri-
OTIS who he'd hurrshed vociferousy had deterously
| deposited there. The insident wuz a movin one
" Thank God" thought /. " So long ez we hev the
post offices to give, we kin alluz hev party. The
Sultan swung around the cirkle wunst here and
| leaving the constooshun in their hands the train
moved off.
| RoME.-Here we he'd splendid recepshun, and L
never heard his majesty speak more felicitiously-
| He menshuned to the audience that he had swung
around the Southern side of the circle and now
swinging around the Northern side Nv it, and that
he was ghtn traitors on all sides. He left the Con-
stitooshun in their hands and bid cm good bye. l
received at this pint only l30 petitions for the post
Office, wich l took ez bad omen for the coming
election.
| UTIcA.-The President spoke here with greater
warmth and jerked more originality than l he'd be-
fore observed. He introdoost here the remark that
he didn't come to make speech--that he was goin
| to shed tear over the tomb Nv Douglas-that in
swinging around the cirke he he'd fought traitors
all sides it. but that he felt safe. Heshood leave
! the Constitooshun in their hands, and ef martyr
wuz wanted he wuz ready to die with neetness and
/ dispatch
| LocKPoRr-Th President is improvin wonder
fully. He rises with the occasion. At this pint he
menshuned that he wuz sot savin the country
| wich he'd honored him. Ez for himself his ambi-
! tion wuz more than satisfied. He had been Alder
man, member of the Legislature, Congressman,
! Senator, Military Governor, Vice President and
President. He he'd swung around the circle OF OIL
ces, and all he wanted wuz to heel the woonds
NV the nashun. He felt safe in leavin the Constitu
shun in their hands. ES he swung around the cir
Gle
At this pint interrupted him. told him that
he he'd swung around the circle wunst in this town,
and yoosetul ez the phrase wu1 it might spile by
too much yoose.
At Cleveland we begun to get into hot water
Here is the post TO which the devil of Abshnsm is
| chained, and his chain is long enough to let him
| range over nearly the whole State l am panied to
state that the President wuznt treated here with the
| respect due his station. He commenced deliverin
his speech, but made the subject Of ribald laf
ture. Skasely he'd he got to the pint of swinging
around the cirkle, when foul mothed Niger lover
| yelled Veto" and another vociferatcd Moo Or
/ ieans," aud another remarked Memphis" and one
after another interruption occurred until His High
ness wuz completely turned off the track and got
wild.
He forgot his speech and struck out crazy but the
starch wuz out of him and he WIZ worsted. Grant,
which he he'd taken along to draw the crowds play
ed dirt on us here, and stepped onto boat for De-
trot leaving us only Farragut cz attraction, who
tried twice to git away ditto, but wuz timely pre-
vented. The President recovered his ekanimity and
swung around the circle wunst, and leavjn the con-
stooshin in their hands, retired.
| At the next pint we wuz astonished at Seein but
one man at the station. He wuz dressed with sash
over his shoulder, and wuz wavin flag with wun
hand, frin saloot with revolver with the other,
and playin Hail to the Chief on a mouth organ,
lal 10 unct q hn ara m Flo
sez L. I'm the newly apinted Postmaster sir" sez
he. I'm perceshun waitin here to do honor. to
our Cheef Magistrate all alone sir. There wuz
twenty Johnsonians in this hamlet sir but when the
commishun came for me- the other nineteen wuz
soured, and sed they didn't keer d-m fur him nor
his policy, sir. Where is the President" Androo
wuz going to swing around the crkle for this wun
| man and leave the constooshun in his hands, but
| Seward checked him.
At Fremont we he'd handsome recepshun, for
the ofises hevnt bin changed there, but Toledo
didn't dc so we'll. The crowd didn't cheer Andrew
much, but when Farragut wuz trotted out they gave
him a rouser, wich anything but pleasin to the
Cheef Magistrate Nv this nashun who bleeves in
being respected.
| Finally we reached Detroit. This bein Demo-
kratic city, the President wuz hisself agin. His
speech here wuz one Nv rare merit. He gathered
together in one quiver all the sparklin arrows he
he'd used from Washington to this pint and shot EN-
one bv one. He swung around the crce--he didn't
come to make speech-he he'd been Alderman NV
his native town-he mite hev been Dicktater, but
woodn't-and ended with pOetical cotashun wich
l coodnt ketch but wich ez neer ez l Good under
stand wuz
"Kum wun-kum all-ths rock shall fly From
its firm base in a pigs eye"
Here we repose for the mite. Tomorrow we tart
onward, and shel continue swingin around the cir
ckle till we reeeh Chicago
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, Z. Nj
iwich is Postmaster