Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-08

June ler 1865.
The selecsin uv delegates TO the Moo York Goa
vensbEn hez bin bothsrin us in several ways for
sew Al weeks past. No one wantid 10 60 snd Il
yoonaninlouslT decided By all that ef the Corners
wuz represented 81 all must be the man. ! OBJ
sected for Their amt profit Ia seh trips. OFdina
rily, Good cheek my expenses. Hotel keepers are
bat human, and hev never yet failed TO stick EN-,
but with Democratic conYenshen Ia full blast IL
wood be hopeless enterprise. With ten thousand
Ike me- al agoif on their chsek, wat wood ther be
for NET With ten thousand hungry, thirsty.
empty ockited soies wat Good do Therefore ]
ieis that Good not 60. ] wrote 70 A. j.. TO know
ef be wood allcv per diem, transportashen and
mileage 70 delegates, 20 wich he ansered
Sir, for wick candidates do your delegates per
pose 20 voteg"
This erooel epistle settled me- / couldnt go there
pledged 20 lin, tecoz ef he sboooent be nominated
wat wood become Nv my PostofisI Wood bis sue
cessor ccnfinyoo me in place who he'd bln active in
support Nv another
Finflly the day for oas eonvenshun came and
we assembled. BasooU WIZ nominated, but be de-
clined. Deekin Pogram wuz offered the honor, and
he declined and 50 did McPelter. Isssker Gavitt.
Podbamnef andfb rest Nv EN-. We passed ali the
first DAY in tying % get ono who wood stick, but
All IN vain Mite cafne--We adjourned till nine the
next fnorniu, when we reaoomed our unsuccessful
endeavors % persuade sach other 10 60 10 New
York Another dsy WIZ shuE fraitlessly spent and
still another and another-the last leavin 10 no
nearer our bavM than the Grst. And 60 q week
r,aased We met every mornin, coaxed, begged and
svgore Al each other gill nite only 70 meet and 90
through the same formula the next day. feel that
onless suihin done, the Corners wood 60 unrep-
resented.
On the eighth day, at shout ten IN the mornin.
Dsekin Pograma youngest boy, a fair haired lad Of
fourteen SUNNI srs who resembles the Deskin TO a
degree quite complementary TO his mother came in
with the Moo York Day Book, wich the Deskin
takes but never reads. The Deekin tost IL over to
Baseom, who opened it, and red a mint when his
face changed instantly
Mr. Cbeermanp sed be, 10 this improbable
session, would say that hey reconsdered my de-
termination. ] will go 70 Moo York I"
The Convenshen wuz thunder struck Wat did
Il mean The Deekin seized the paper, and CLAN
Gin over is columns, read painfully mint and sed
that be wuz surprised at Mr.. Baseom's ashoorence.
shell be a delegate myself sed be.
BY this time McPeltor read IL, aud got IL and
road this paragraph
Let The Western Depocrisy beware. They
aust come on The Fourth, prepared to encounter
bribery and corrupshen. Belmont and the Wall
street clique hev raised 81 coo 600 10 be yoosed ia
the purchase NV delegates TO defeat Pendlston.'
The Deekin protested agin Bascoms goin "Yoo
can't be spared shrieked be Who viii run the
biznis 10 yocr absence Is there man in the
Corners you dare trust inside yoor bar mint? No,
will GO"
mot So shrieked MePelter, s. will 60 ez dele
gate. ! hev borne the heat and burden of the day
II wuz with Forrest, and now that there is
chance 10 make suthin-tha. is now that there is q
persishen nv prof-wich is to say honor, want IT,"
Isaker Gavitt with face pale With disappoint-
ment that he hadn't taken it when it wuz offered
him, swore that q The Gavit family to be over
looked Why, tbs sooner Dcnocrisy wuz buried the
better
Somewhere IN the course NV my readin, cum
across an account Nv the trouble that perdoost
in my theological heaven by some cuss who tost in
golden apple, labelled I" 20 the fairest" or words
% that effect. The announcement that Belmont
bad million ard half "a invest in delegates wuz
the golden apple witch set us in an uproar. Every
cuss 10 the convention wented TO be delegate inn
mediatey and the result wuz the entire bilin come
70 blows. | he'd the NORTHEASTERN ov seein Bascum
with his fingers cutched in the neck Tie the ven
cradle Pogram, Issakor Gavitt and MoPeltsr was
similarly engaged while WIZ doing my level best
10 restrain Poobammer froIa massacreein me. Had
not joe Bgler and Pollock arrived opportunity,
the entire DemOcrisy Nv the Corners wood hev bin
wiped cut on the spot
Il wuz finally settled by THROWN dice for it, wich
rooi ought, BY the way, to be adopted by ali Demo
evorywhere. Randall and McOulloch
hev practst e with distinguished success in maxim
their appointments Say tber are twenty applicants,
or 10 get neerer the trooth, three hundred for any
given place. Very coed The head of the depart
inent asceriains aFst Of shoy are al Dimocrats.-
Then three hunSfud clerks are detailed-each clerk
representa- q aYpiiaant-and they throw dice, the
lowest retirin evrfy slow, onti one is victorious
snd the man represented by him gifts the place. 1t
saveB q vast amount NV labor in the eggsaminashen
Nv certihkts carakter and 1tnis, &C. and, be-
sides, its imparshel. All the appointments are now
made IN that way at Washington.
We adopted this device and I wuz made delegate
and Pogram alternate, the agreement bein that
whatever we got over expenses wuz 70 be divided
ekally. Then holy calm succeeded the storm NV
pashen wich he'd ragged We got, NV coorse, unin-
structed, fer obyus reasons Ef we wuz instructed
oh odd n oh f,1r In IL az
sich that Belmont viii 90 fur.
The uncertainty Nv the result Nv the convenshun
II say uncertainty, for who kin tell wich candidate
bez the most money % hez occasioued me vast
amount uv trouble. I hev bin laborin Rssidyusly TO
git our people into frame Nv mind 70 be enthoosi
ssiic ever the nominee matter who il Is or wat
platform be is pat onto To bring this about hev
bed them ia front Nv Bascom every mite for week
training Nv om. l ranged them in a row and TAX
ing my pOsishen in front. give the word like me-
lishy o1iser.
aAttenshen q sea J. Ror Tor Chase and Nor
risey Together e.
aSRor for Cha Sut there they broke ,iown
Parson /" sel Deokin Pogram, II cant Give
me 3 week or two 20 practs alone by myself and
possibly lin make IT, The spirit s wllEn but the
flesh Is weak
Issaker Gavitt portessid. - k:n sed he, ''pos.
sibly 90 Chase; but spozn they put Sumner on the
tikkit with him Sumner ] wont 60
at won't do sed /, sternly 'Bor for Chase and
Amerlky Tor white men
"iRorr
a'ROr for Chase Brick Pomoroy and cka suf
SiRor r shouted they commercially.
'Ror FOR Chase, A. johnson and Mayor Mon
reel"
a'Ror."
a'Ror for Chase and Republication.
win that be She slogan Il Chase is nominsted'
asked the Deein.
at will-down here Ror.
"'Rorw yelled they ali.
90 Ror for Chase Fernando Wood and death
niggssra,r
iROr for Chase snd Fred Douglass
a'RorT
aRor for Chase, Pondleton and no tazashen fO
A uncOn8tooshnel debt
a,Ror for Chase, Hancock snd restorashsn on GU
s0Rorm
a'ROr for Hendricks, Chase and general am
nestyr
"very goodio sed i encoursgngy Very good
your fexibility is more so than / sposed Remem
ber nv brethren eff Chase does stick in your throat
Al tbe beginnin, that the Chase your hollerin 70
Amt the Chase VOC yoost 10 DID. Remember ths
that partikeler Chase died some time since. 81
vent out and heznt bin hesrd Nv since. he va
rnetamorphosed like grub. BE shed bis Ablish
pisu ana the noshens wich impelled 700 10 bat
him, and e. be Genes % rs, be is Nv us We be
bin recrooie1 in that way FOR some time. Tier ain
but one Presidency, and were tollably certain Z
git sooner or later, al them who get theg ere ne
on that plaza but enable to put any other par
Nv their bodies ther.
ELet ae accustom ourselves 70 all, that ma
en.hnse 81 the beginning and strike terror 10 th
harts Nv our foes And ] dismist EN- with N
blAssin.
70 wuist vent home and burned All my oil
nSeochsa and sermons on the niger destroyed n
naorselsssly al the banners and notices wich he
any referenee e the Ethiopian, and othergi.
cleared ihe deeks Tor ackshen. We may hev 10 G