Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-04-12

Letter from Jack Shivers.

Letter from Jack Shivers.
Jack Shivers, accompanied by
his son James and his neighber,l
Sim Jones, was in town on Satur-
day. 1t is the first visit he has
made to the city, since 1861. lie
stubbornly refused to leave the
sCreak, while it was necessary
for him to carry a pass. The
news of the discontinuance Of
passes for white folks has lately
reached his neighborhood, and he
Immediately set out, under the lm-
preston that the days of "Old
Hickory" had been restored, when
only niggers carried passes. lo -
-uIIis letter to Gov. Brownlow,.
which we give below, will show
very plainly that Jack is not sup
to the times. We tried to con-
vince the old fellow, that his no
tions of things were out OF date;
but he soon convinced US that only
one more drink of Robertson was
needed to insnre us a broken head.
So we publish the letter just as 1T
is written--the dictation being by
Jack, and the spelling by Sim;
To our Rip Snortin Guvernor Ex-
Parson Brownlow:
SUR-Supposin that you hardly
ever hear the truth, as the men
you sociate with are. not in the
habit of tellin Nv it, | perpose to
give you piece NV my mind and
to let a little fresh ar into your
den. You keep a growlin, and a a
snappin and q howIin and a gwine
on in sich way that | think
you ort to be talked to. sei Tse.
You have been actin Guyener
now for nigh on to q year or more,
pretty mulch in the same way
that Sut Luvingoods daddy act
ed boss, only good deal moreso.
Nature diden't make SUITS daddy
a boss, nor did natur make you a
Guverner, nor cut YOU out for any
sich perpose. You was made g
Guyerner by q set that never had
mutch hand in sich biziness before,
and consequently you want half
made at fust- the material was
| bad and the workmen onacquain.
ted with the biziness, and the job
was bound to be ruff one. Ell
YOU was raally intended fur q show
nuf Gnverner, you was split IN
the maxim.
Your fort is blasphemin, and ma.
tur cut you out to run a cussin mer
sheen like the Noxyille Wing and
Rebel Yentilator. Our Circuii
Rider says that them old tipes ii
your printin Office at Noxvilie, go1
50 used to it, that they could be
heerd NV nights, cussin old Prynt
and the abolitionists, when nobody
want anigh 'em. They have done
more ruff eussin than all the tipe'
in all the printin Offices in the
State. Jestice cempels me to say
that as the engineer NV a cusslI
mersheen you have few superior
and nary equal this side Of tn
place for which you seem to hav'
been a practisin all Nv your life
When YOU used to run the koncerl
: In Noxville and take in cussln
you was. at the head Of your pre-
fession, but eff you have ever bee
found fit fur anything else, it ha
never yet been heerd from. An
when they. tuck you from tha
bisiness aud put you to runnlnt ia
kemplercated mersheen of State
they over krapped you. You OF
dertook to run her jest as you di
the old mersheen you had bin use
!, to-you piled on the wood an
! crowded on the steam, but nel
E Elected to open the safety valve
! and keep her properly lied an
: creased, and the fust thing yo
knowed a whole passel of the kos
was nockeo outen the wheels, til
q bands busted and the whole me
sIsheen kerHummuxed-all beka'
u she want run on the right prime
Eple and the engineer that had no
4 NV her diden't know how to mai
. age her. And now after you ha,
!. busted her up and got the me
!. sheen, outen fix and don't kno
how to mend her, and would, IN 9 9
p proberbility bust her agin, 1t 81
e was mended, you go plroot
$ round, like an old hen with ahaM
le after her chickens, and a cuss
and q swearin that this man, tn