Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-16
Mr.. Nasty Suggests Haven Of Rest for the
Distressed Souls who are in Danger of Los
ing their Places.

Mr. Kasby Suggests Haven Of Rest for the
Distressed Souls who are in Danger of Los
ing their Places,
WAsHIEoToE, Nov. IS, 1868.
We he'd meetin in Washinton last mite TO consider
things. There many things to consider jest now,
and il wuz deemed proper to consider en-. II wuz
faint gliInrins Nv hope into the kountenances Wv
q fow uv those present but nuthin NV sertinty-
nothin nv sshoOranee. Sekretary Randall remarkt
that so far es he wuz cOnserned, be he'd made up
bis mind. lie shood not take ofis under tho incom-
in aaministrashun. He mite yield in other mat
ters (for he wuz nv a yieldin nacher,) but on this
he guz in1exible McCulloch and Browning were
also determined but Sooard ned other idees. He
ehirped in thet the Oldest man coodent tell wat 60
days wood bring forth.
e Wat shin we do sskt postmaster from Ohio
q I fcSest for President Johnson said Randall
q thet he apply for the Spanish throne. lie wood
be acceptibe to the Spanish people, for he he1 all
his life Tin puttinsthe Bourbon down."
Randall hez no longer any feer nv the President.
aGentemen," renarINt l. al hev an idee, wich, If
actd onto, will put Us out Nv sea NV trubbes."
"Speekl" exclaimed they all with one breath,
qspeekp
~AIy idee is Cuba Cuba, the gem NV the An
tilles-the brilliant jewel in the crown Nv SPAIN
Let Sekretary Sooard, who hez talent for real es
tate, buy il now before the government hez its
internal revenoo system establisht, and while it is
hard up for money. Let Cuba be the potikle Bot
any Bay Nv this country Lot it be bought by
SooArd and then LET the President 60 TO work to
wunst fllin ofTisis for its government, while he
still hez the the power NV aDpntment BE must
not wait to hev EN- hold elecsauns Wat heaven
SEQ open before usI hev bin readR Cuba up,
and find that island pays the homo government
S25 0000 900 per annum. If the Spanish Govern
ment kin git $25 100000 out NV en-, we kin double
Il with our experience. Give Randall place cor
respondin with the one he now holds; make Ben
Wood superintendent Nv the Havana lotteries
make Frank p. suthin else wat it don't matter, ez
he'll take ennything; mako good places for Ross,
Fullerton, Binkley Mrs Cobb, Vallandigham,
Brite, Mrs. Perry, John Quincy Adams, Jr7 Frank
Peerce Ginral Forrest, jim Steedman, Rosso, Doc
little Cowan Dixon, Sekretary Wells, and all w
that unnumbtred throng NV hungry soles who bev
lived on pap long that any other dict sours on
their stumnicks And then--"
"But sposin Congress when it meets refooses to
ratify tho purchis by maxim an appropriashen2" 2"
sskt a doubter.
HRefooze to make The appropriasheni Refoozel
Hal Put before Ginral Grant the prospeck Nv
never agin seein the Blair faInily-put afore Con-
gress and the Amerikin peopls the hope NV never
seein agin the faces Nv emmy uV the men heV mem
sbund, with the thousands Nv uthers NV similar
tastes habits and necessities, and wat wood twenty
or thirty millions more OF esib be TO em NOthin
Congress wood vote It nstantsneously, and the peo
pie wood say Amen y Lord, how quick the bill
wood go through, and how quick Grant wood sine
i'll
But sposin Congress shOod refoose, wat them
Jest ez well. The Blairs wood hev their posshuns-
and the Cuban officials ef they arc verst in Ameri
kin potikle history, know Of they know anything
that when the Bairs git into place, nothin but
deth loosens EN-. We shood hist the banner Nv in
dependence-we shood paint onto that banner the
inscripshen 'Ofisis for All, in Country where
Likker is not Taxed and in weeks time an army
NV Dimekrats, big enuf TO clpeher Spain himself
wood be on them shores And who Good stand
afore emf Whisper Post offs in their ears, and
they'd wade knee deep in blood. Lord, how the
Spanish soljery wood 60 down afore em How
Frank Blair wood go for Lersundi how all the
traind cohorts NV Dimokrisy 'Eich hev bin abstanin
from offs for 50 many years, wood risk their al for
ataste NV the sweets uv posisleni
"Ohi the delishyusnis nv the prospeck Think
NV an island with enuf niggers onto it TO do our
labor and enuE white Ouhlns who kant resd to
vote for u.s. Why, it wood recall recollecshuns Nv
them happy days afore the war, when the Dimok
risy wuz thus constitoOted hunger and thirst for
sich.
"Roll swiftly round, 70 wheels Of time,
And bring the happy day"
uTben Ginral Grant Good hev peece. Then he
wood only hev the ablishnists on bis hands. Then
the nggers NV the the YooIitd States mite hov sui
frige, for it wood make no difference to u.s. We
wood hev offsis 10 live cato, and pure niggers to
look down upon, and wat more Good we want Ihe
only difference wood be ve wood hev TO aecustom
our stummix TO Sanity KrIlz rum in place NV whis-
KEY, but that we o0od do The effect upon the bow
els is the same--it differs only in taste and am
told that when both there amt much dlfier-
ence in that"
The segestion wuz fayoTaby received, and hev
no doubt il will be actid upon. Ef it is--but why
this U if7n Il must be done--it shill be
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