Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-04
TO John Trimble, Senator,
so-called, from David
son County.

w OSsAA~, - O>~ 49,
son County.
| hope you will excuse an oil
fren, that use to like you putty
well, before you got SO loyal yo,
. don't know your old frens, fol
, drappin you a line. When a mar
5 gets so that he turns his back OF
the frens of his youth and wont
have nuthin to do with folks thai
that stuc to him and built him up
if he don't examine right close
he'll find there's something rong
about him. The people Of Davi.
son county amt never dun nuthin
to you to make you 60 on the way
you are goin on. Tha wont forgit
you fur 1t; lis your put now-it
will be thorn after awhile. You
can vote fur law that keeps ole
gray-headed men, whose fathers
tout in the old Revolution, from
votin, and tell them they amt got
nigh as much rite to vote as a mig
ger, but you'll wish sum day you
had been doin sumthin else when
you was tryin to make a white
man outen niger. You ort to
know better than this. You'll
find out by waitin, what all this
foolishness comes to. Suppose a
niger is free-he's a Niger still,
always was, and always will be.
Every body knows he's free-you
can see that stickin out plain
wharever you see niger. You
may call them freedmen, or what
ever you please, but does take the
stink outen 'em2 Will that un-
kurl the kinks outen their wool?
Will that make their skulls any
thinner? Will that put brains in
them? Will that take the white
outen their eyes, or keep the hol-
Ter of their foot from making a
hole in the ground? Its sich ev-
Ierlastin nonsense as this that has
made the niger too proud to
work. The devil will have a gay
time when he begins to roast all
them abolitionists for fuolin and
betrayin the niggers, and enticin
them away from their homes. Ina
told you have jined the raderkals
in the Legislature, and are one Of
Brownlow's men; and as them tel-
lers kno that no white folks will
vote for um, they have konkluded
to make fair weather with the mig
gers, but they'll be SO low in the es-
tlmation Of the people before long,
that | Lelieve the nlgger will have
too much selt-respect to vote for
them, if they was allowed to
vote.
I'm told a mgger IN knoxVllie,
not long ago, horned Brownlow
off the pavement. The niger
had been readin Brownlows de
bait with Prime, where the parson
proves that slavery is ordained of
God, and that nobody can oppose
slavery without opposln the will
of God. The niger knowd
rownlow had made money outen
the book, and then he had turned
abolition and made money outen
that, and he felt such contempt
for the old cuss that he couldn't
help giving him ashuv. If l ever
meet that nigger III pass a resolu-
tion of thanks to him. I'm told
old Prize has committed suicide.
Our surkit rider says the reason
of it was that Prime become SO
disguised with the depravity OF
human natur, when Browniow
turned abolitionist, that he didn't
want to nve any longer and just
killed hisself. Eff that was all the
blood that was On his skeerts, he
wood feel easier than he does, and
afford to ride somewhere else than
on a railroad.
Tasked naybor of mine, not
long since, if you was still a liv-
in, and he said he was sorry to
say you was, and that you was
there in Nashvill, aswearln and a
rippin and cussin round, and most
people thort you ort to be confined.
The kunstable Of our distric says
you are wus agin the rebels than
any body. He told us you was
agwine to have one OF the orfuil.
est hangings on record. He sed
yon got a communication through
the medium of spirits from the
spirit of General Jackson, applnt-