Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-03

NASHVILLE, TENS., February ~, 1867.
"Kurnel Bob" says his highness to
me last night, as we a before the fire
after office hours, "have you read my
proclamation"
Well 1 have, Old Hurricane says I,
''and it suits me exactly, but I don't see
as it proclaiIIs anything ,"
mot proclaim anything ~ says he,
"dOn't il tell the people Of Tennessee that
Pm going to punish such internal, on
easy, sassy, cantankerOus, Oath-breaking,
contemplate, sHeaking, rebel vagabonds,
as keep on robbing and numbering union
men? Don't il say woe to the supreme
court, and that the setting aside OF the
franchise law will not be tolerated >"
AYES, governor" says l, for [ saw he
was getting riled, III says all that, and
l know you mean it but this prOelama-
ton don't seem as if it was loaded with
ball, at all.n
He thought a minute rtwo, his hands
shaking as they DO most always, and
then, says he, " May be you're right,
Bob but wait until I get the militia or
ganized and proclaim martial law in
some county, and send the troops all
there to quarter on the people, and sus-
pend the courts, and stop all business and
travel, and l guess the people will think
the judgment day is coming, and wont
complain that I fire blank cartridges"
every true, governor" says I, a" but
don't you think that that viii be about
as hard on the U~niOnists as on anybody
else? and won't the bushwhackers you
are after 90 10 some other county until
the militia leRve2 The commander of
your militia may take it into his head to
hunt down the union men that amt
radical enough to suit him. heard fell
lows in the state convention denOunce as
meaner than the meanest rebels men
who fought bravely for four years ia the
union army. Besides, amt there some
danger that the fellows who are clamor-
ing for a law to take the property Of
those who were rebels and give it to
union men TO make good their losses will
Join your militia for the sake OF carrying
cut their notions 2"
The governor said it might all be so,
but he would bet high as he could,
under the gospel dispensatiOn, that there
wouldn't be militia long until every
body would desire peace and quiet.
The conversation turned IN military
men, and 1 suggested that if the state
didn't keep up the Memphis police then
he should give an appointment in the
militia to Col. Beaumont, who had
some experience in a
as he brave ?'' said the governor.
"Brave 4" said /. Why he Is as
brave as Julius Caesar. He is actually
bursting with bravery. Why, do y0u
know, governor, when the Memphis
delegation to the state convention was
coming up here last week he actually, on
the cars, bantered q little, old, deerepid,
sore-eyed, drunken ex-rebel TO fight him :
The old fellow wanted to fight with
pistols, but Beaumont hadn't time, and
so he fell on the little, old, deerePid, sore
eyed, drunken ex-Febel, and knocked him
down, and would have beaten him to
death if the passengers hadn'tinterferred,
and some fellows with rebel sympathies
hadn't called ont that it was a shame.
His friends wanted TO put 4 piece in the
Press and Times headed, "AtrOcious
attack by a gigantic rebel desperate on
a union delegate to the state conven-
ton - but they couldn't find Mercer,
who had gone home, As he had been told
by a physician that a wash would do
him good.
The governor listened attentively, and
then said he had his doubts, but he
guessed Beaumont would do.
Yours still. o DODs.