Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-30
LETTER FROM JACK SHIvERS.

LETTER FROM JACK SHlvERS.
To Mr.. ANDREW JACKSON fetcher-Brownlow s
man, Friday
SUR:--Altho hav the pleasure NV not being
personally acquainted with ou, take the liberty
Nv drappin you few lines. | red tother day a
big memorial got up and sined by you and Mr..
Thurneek, and Mr.. Weitmuer and Mr.. Shim-
mler, and Mr.. Sender, and Mr. Ferdinan Kuhn,
and several other unbeknown persons in which it
appears that you hav taken on big scare, and are
q callin on the military to stay here in Tennessee
and protect you.
suppose from the names, that the fellers sined
with you is Dutch Jews or children NV Abraham.
never heerd NV any nv EN- before--dont know
whar they cum from or how long they expect to
stay, and hav bin a livin in this State nigh on to
forty year. Old Higgins was in Nashville last
week, aud he says that you and your Abraham
frens made sich ter do in your memorial about
your sacrafces for the Union, that Matt Brown the
Mayor, had a committee app'neted to examine all
OF you, to see how many scars received in defense
of the ole flag, was on your bodies or elswhar He
says they told when you was examined, 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
was circumcised when they was babies. Old Miss
Loggins, NIFTY sharp fierce talkin ole woman, here
interrupted us by sayin she wished to the Lord she
had er bad the circumssin NV EN-, shed be bound
they never would er propagated thur specie after
she got thro with EN-. told ole Higgins | reconed
he must shorely be mistaken, that sum Nv them
devilish boys about Nashville was a tryin to quiz
him; but he said it was so, fur a ngger soldier
that was a standin guard at Brownlow's door, and
protectin the Governor, told him about it, and the
ngger sed he lik to er laifed hssel to death when
they examined the Abraham men. The ngger
had been in the war and fit. and seemed to think
it was file joke on you and your frens.
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 roped EN- in to snin
that memorial. Ef you aint got nothin else to do,
but to be playin sich tricks on poor ignorant fur
riners that aint acquainted with our people,
think you orter be furnished with some employ
ment. Eff they are still laborn under thur big
scare, would say to em that in the opinion Nv a
CRATE menny Israel is about to be restored and all
Nv thur countrymen is goin back TO Palesteen,
and eff they cant live easy here they he'd better go
to Jeroosaam and be restored along with the bal
ance Nv thur people.
On the subject NV keepn big standln army
here to protect you and Brownlow, and few sch,
would like to ak you eff you think it would pay
the government to du it? NV sun Jeemes, who
,clI speak his mind free says that you and Brown
low and the few Others that belong to your de-
nomination, ant wurth as much to emmy guvern-
ment 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 togeth-
er and set apart trac NV country about the size
NV our civil deesirict in Liberia or some other
place, and koonize you, and let Brownlow be the
guvurner of the kolony, and you be his Secretary
NV State. He says they could give Brownlow a
regiment of nggers, and he could send 'em out in
the surroundin kountry and hev 8 few natives kill
cd every day, bv way Nv afordin pleasure to his
declinin years. But he says thur Is so few Nv you,
and you are SO scattered over the State, that il
would he very expensive to put troops all over the
State to protect a man or two in a kounty, that
amt wuth kuss after he's protected. Jeems is
hotheaded Mr.. Fletcher confess that, but don't
you think there is some right sound reason in what
he says upon the subject? Don't understand me
as thinkin that you and Brow wnlow amt entitled to
nuthin fur your sacrifices for the Union I'm a
jest man, Mr. Fletcher, and really think you and
3rownlow deserves to have sumihin done for you
by the Government fur your great sacr6ces.--
For instance you went all the way to lndanny OF
the Eellinoy and staid thar all the war, and was
forced to be poor exile of Erin, and to tell your
sad and melonkoly story to the heartbroken wim-
min and children in the nayberhood of whar you
settled And Brownlow put his sacrifices in a
book, and went peddln NV EN- thru the North
and when be got back home he sacr6sed Mr. Sneed
and Mr.. Crosiers property--all NV which come "a
about three times as much as he was wuth before
he engaged in the sacrfsin bisness; but what was
money to his bleedn heart and his anxiety fol
the ole flag. And then he sacriflsed his private
feelins and consented to be Guverner, and you sa
crifsed yourn and consented to be Secretary o
State. You and the Guverner has done heavy
bisness in this line and you ort to have your re
ward from the Gineral Government. What YOU
Abraham men sacrifsced | don't know, but ex
pect they worked early and late to sell the Guv
ernment all the old clothes they could lay the
hands on durin the war. People is latin ant