Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-26
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The Corners RebeI-.-BepudlatfOn OF
johnson by the SlOuchy Democracy
OF that Democratic Locality,


OF that Democratic Locality.
Posi- Offs, CoNFEDRIr X ROADS, }
! (Which is in the Staff Nv Kentucky.
January %, 1868.
The Corners met last night to consider
the situashen Nv the country and in view
Nv the impendin crisis, it wuz voted that
be instructed to pen q address to A. Johnson
settin forth the troubles to witch he hez brot
us, and sejestin remedies. The Corners
meets frekently. In fact when cash runs
low and Bascom retoozes to trust, we hold
politilzle meetin. 1t acts as a stimulent
and takes the place of our material sus-
tenance. Very comfortable Thus en-
powed, / wrote ez follows witch will, l
doubt not, make a sensashen when it reaches
| Washington:
To 4. johnson, Pret L. S.
The Democracy NV Confedrit X Roads,
which is in the State NV Kentucky, repre-
sentin the Democracy nv the rest NV the
State, and nv the country ez well, cannot
hold their peace no longer. They must
speak or bust. They heard the news, and
Their hez bin nothin but weepin at the Cor
ners since. Bascom, that sterlin patriot, is
sheddin pearls by the bucket full, Deekin
Pogram weeps not in drops, but in streems,
and eS for me, you wooden't believe the
amount Nv pockit handkerchers l hev con-
sumed Never hez Their bin SIGH moist
| time at the Corners, never hey we lived in
SIGH an atmosphere nv dampnis.
shell sneek plainly. l am not Altered to
speek 700 can't remove me. The tenur
NV offs act pertects me and 700 can't rn-
move me- phereforAI Fl
= urA.o co1 noIs FEELS itself outraged. When
the Corners took stock in you, the Corners
sposed 700 he'd nerve enuff to run the Ad-
ministrashen yoorsef The Corners felt
that her intrests wuz safe in yoor hands.
We TO wunst commenct operatin from that
stand pint, Deekin Pogram got his niggers
together sieh NV EN- ez hedn't bin sacrifst
at difrent times, and commenst wallupin ov
ON ez ov yoor, and the others in this visini-
ty give ther'n the opshen ov quietly sub
mittin to ther inevitable fate or bein shot.
Wat wuz the result? The Freedmen s
Burrow come III, and them niggers, instid
ov being made servants unto their brethren
hev bin permitted to accumulate property
and live in all respeeks jist oz tho they wuz
white men Nv the dominant race. Agin
this injustice we held up our hands, and
700 hev made many passes towards recti-
fyin it, but to what avail? Slch week.-Mrs.
never before disgraced the histry Nv Amer
kin politiks. 700 KEEP Stanton in place
ontil the voice nv an indignant Democrisy
demanded his removal Then wuz yoor
opportunity. Their wuz Dimocrats who
wood hev took it. Ginral Steedman or
Ginral Rosso wood either NV EN- hev bin
glad to serve the country in that capasity,
but blindly 700 rushed upon fate by putin
in that place Grant Grant, whose hands
is stained with Southern blood, which he
haint washed off, Grant; the Ablishen can
didate for the Presidency Grant, who by
economisin at the rate Nv about s25 900, 900
per annum, demonstrated to the country
the stealth that wuz goin on in the other
departments. Grant, who is ez much worse
than Stanton ez a head lite to locomotive
is superior TO taller candle? Oh, wot
lunacy! Oh, wot weakness
Then agin. The people Nv the Third
Deestrick groaned under the expressions
nv Pope-that is, the white people did. He
wuz carryin out with ruthlis severity the
laws nv a usurpin Congris. He wuz a
persekootin the saints-he wuz a guardin
and pertectin the pie bald Conversion wich
is wrestin from us one Nv our best States.
Alabama cried out in agony and 700 heerd
00ls now! 1OO IGuONSu OJC anu pun
in his place Meade. We felt relieved; not
but that Meade's antecedents were agin US,
but we did spose that 700 wood not agin
fall into that same old trap. But 700 did.
The first act NV the cursed Meade wuz to
tremove the Govnor and Treasurer, who
woodent pay the expenses NV the uncon-
stooshnel Conversion, and to-day the peo-
pie who trembled at the name Nv Pope
] 4. 81, I,
But yoor disgrace does not end here.
Forthwith an uncOnstooshnel SENT, from
witch ten states are excluded, turns in and
replaces Stanton, givin him agin the posi-
shen Nv witch you attempted to deprive him
and 700 take it mild ez milk and ez a lamb
Then agin. 700 hev instruktid yoor
Origins to spred the report that Gen. Grant
wuz in the constant habit NV bein intoxica-
ted Miserable error Mistaken policy
700 may possibly make some Ablishnist
bleeve it and detaeh en- from him, but 700
also attach the entire Democrisy to him
with hooks of steel Fasten that charge
upon him-make Kentucky bleeve it, and
Kentucky wood to-morrer give him her
electoral vote. Don't 700 remember that
the Democrisy took no stock in 700 till
after the 22d of Febrooary speech and
didn't they support 700 corjelly from that
time out
hev no pashence too add more In
dignantly l close this epistle. hev stood
by 700 throo thick and thin. l WIZ at
yoor side on two toors North and the one
South; apologzed for yoor short comins,
| CLOSED over yoor faults aud explained away
yoor week.-Mrs. At Cleveland, for instance,
l told EN-, after 700 he'd made yoor speech,
that 700 were drunk, when 700 wash I, and
hundreds NV other times / hev explained
away yoor excentrissities similarly.
And further, it wuz me that prokoored
on yoor first trip the only endorsement 700
ever got from Grant All along the road
west 700 and Seward he'd bin endeaverin
ia vain 10 git some expression from Grant
IL. Llllal-L 81