Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-29

IF he'd knowd wat ! he'd &c 90 thru with,
never wood fggered for the posishen now okkepy
He'd I knowd the trubblcS wieh sas 70 beset me
the Corners mite hey gone onrepresentedi ana the
Democrisy mite hev nominated a candidate with
out nv help / am at a cheep boardn house wich
il sAloohrusly sitooated alley, the lsndlady
bein one Nv the anshent kings ireland, wich her
name Is oShaughnessy. ] coodent get rooms 81
the Aster nor the St Nicholas, e. j coodent get
clerk 70 look st me fof an hour, and when dad sue
coed IN irwin The attanshun one he few into
pashun and ordered me 30 move on with the on
feelin remark that he bed no room FOR sichi And
that insult mite be added 20 injoorys the unleeIh
woman who presides over the manshun inhablt,
peremptorily refoozed 70 reserve me ongi pala IN
advance. / tried several places, bat e. hednt no
baggage the pervailin opinyun seemed 70 ne thAt
advance payment wood Be better, and ! WIZ ioFst
10 return 10 her.
Ny advenchcrs On the route were noomerous, II
not pleasant.
AZ some pint in Ingany, wher We changed cars,
found the trane bed 20 take iull Nv delegates
In lo0kin around for q sect dlekivered but one
that hednt two in it, and that one he'd IN u DIS
gugtin Niger who he'd the Impotence % be well
drest and he'd a carpet sack beside him. Ny Dem
ikratic blud III 10 wunst Foelin that in car filed
with DemicrAtic delegates, anything shood DO TO
niger wood be safe, 1 stawSt proudly up 70 him,
holdin my nose
aGood Lord q sed !, wat a smell"
aGood Lord ekoee the delegates wich got on at
that steshen swat terrible smell"
my gentle Afrikin friend, sod l. soezin him by
the collar Il regret the necessity Of sayin disagree
able thing ard still nv doin en-, but the fact
il yoor impotence in gittn iato a white gen
tlcmen with tie disgustin odor insepsrable from
and part nv the Afrikin race, is ruther 200 much.
And more especially do ] wonder at yoor kecpin
yoor sect, while 1 and these other white gentlemen
sthndin.
Out Witf The niggeri yelled The la.ely arrived
delegate, "hustle the stinkin cuss.'
"Morciiul hovens, vat smoll sung out Others
AZ en-, phist hint aha him"
Goein myself thus backed and feelin that little
zeal would be safe ez niggers can't vote, l knoked
his bat out NV the winder, and foerd up that DEM
unstrashun with serious attempt at lftin him out
uy he sect ] wood hev succeeded, but the Niger
resisted, and resisted vigorously, % wit be knockt
three Nv my front teeth down my throtc pulled
out wat little there Wuz left the hair that hangs
IN scsaty fcstoous about my venrable temples, and
blackt both ny eyes. WIZ lyin my back in the
passage, somewbst sstonished, the niger a standu
over me with bis boot heel raised over my face
when some gentlemen came IN from another CAT
End restrained him.
"Nr williams" sod they Get him up Her
poor white trash, and not worth wastn your indg
nssbun onto. Let him Up, Mr., Williams, let hin
up
"5irs" ed J. risin 20 my feet, tremulous with
rage SIS this the treatment / am 10 expect all the
way 70 Moo York; An 70 be pounded 20 jelly
by nigeer-a stinkiE Niger, sirs, whose odor even
now makes The car Ontenable 20 gentlemen nv re-
lined scnsibilities-and 10 bear the niger address
Mister after that, instid Nv bein tored to pieces
By The iniuristed lpectators Oh shame, where il
thy bushY
'.Yoo uizablc cuss,n sed one uv these gentlemen
aapologise 10 wunst 10 this gentleman for yoor in
aulun roodns or we'll chuck you out Nv the cars
Apologize, sir, 10 Aahayosef Williams, Delegate a
Large from be STATE ilU Tennessee
1 almost tainted. This niger, then was dele
gate he regler delegate, armed and equip
with regler credensbels 10 a DemikrRtic Nashne
Convenient and he'd bin gilty in my zeel NV as
thultin NV him Gladly apologsed, and further
1 humhly begged permission 20 sit beGide him
witch be ACCORDED with grashusnees ! never saw
exalted.
II was sstonishin the change that crept over tb,
lujeany delegates. They crowded around anC
shook him by the hand-they didn't smell any odo
at al any more; on the contrary, they seemed &,
like him. They addrest him ez Mister, and sew
raj NV cm in intorducn him TO Their trends who 60
on at various stashens yoosed the prefix "Honor
able It's wonderful wat difference IL make
with niger 90 hov vote and also how no votes
He'd that Williams bin infected with ahlishnism,
,sal-s no doubt that The stencil witch 1 RELY fancieC
smelt when | fust Undertook 90 su5joogate him
wood hoy continyood 10 tho end NV the trip. Ii
oldcn time t was observed that slave uiggors didn'
fmcll-l only the free ones. IL Is settled fac
now that Dimekratic niggers are inodorous
mite hev known, however, that the niger was
free nigges By the way he pitcbt into me. No mig
ger in 4 state uv servtood wood ever hev did sicl
thing. That much they owe 20 the war, anyhow
My principal objick in goin TO Moo York WIZ &
do wat / Good 70 ward secoorin the nomnashen u1
JEruRo L, KIrPINs. / found the delegates badll
tore un Tho offers made for votes wuz so redeU
lously low that there wuz much disgust manifested
The trouble WIZ that the marbit wuz overstock5.-
He'd iho Conversation bin pretty ekaly dividid, anC
The balance NV power held By few Clost moutheC
souls, they Good hev made good thing Of II. Bu
,shere "A whole Convenshcn is In the mGrklt and nj
their iunoocrshe friends candidate kin afford e
buy ] withdrew Mr.. Kippns to-wunst for ez b.
be- but q small farm, and that mortgaged 10 a gro
Gerry keeper, the delegates l approacht Taft me t
szorn.
I waz on the Committee on Besolooshens, o.
ruthor wuz in the room oz a sort uy advisory com
mitlee while the resolooshens wuz bein draftid
Gen. Forrest, NV Tennessee wuz paruHery anX
shus that a resoooshoa sbood De adopted denounelT
the Radicals who WIZ with unhoiy hands, strlVlT
10 DESTROY the best government the sun ever shont
iipon and one the destruction NV wich wood be
calamity wich unborn millions wood shed teors over
lie desired s. rcsolooshen pledgin the Dimocrisy e
stan by tho old Stars and Stripes, wch lag heC
braved thousand breezes, and wuz synonymous
et scttry Mr. Woolley Mr.. Cobb, Mrs. COBB
husbaudA and Perry Fuller, pertikeery desired {
rosolushon demandn the turnin out NV ohs NV cor
rupt men, that the government mite be administers
ed with suthin like the purity wich disungusheC
"a doorin the administration Nv the late lamentiC
Bookannof al the men shun uv whose name every
y
Eve consecutive minits ez tho CRATE greer ned Ia
len onto him.
Yallsndygum insistid that plank DO inserted
witch recognized niger suffrage, bat that wo1 with
held ontil Il Good be definitely assertained whether
Mississippi wuz RELY carried by niger votes or not
Ef majority NV the niggers dad RELY vote th
Demokratic ticket Il wug desidcd that they shoo'
De recognized ez eur eksls-ei not wed see en-
id fust
Uheof Justis Chase wuz espeshelly angus TOR
looell un a IN then
onprineipled fanatikal Radikels who for years be-
bin nbouu 10 subvcrt the government by lnterleril
with the persuns and property uv citizens, and ais
pledgin the Convenshen 10 that wise CONSERVATISM
without wich Their ooed be no permAnence IN on
government
dropi into the Sellers and Sailers Convensheu
but / didn't stay long. Them whose noses wuzn
red All wanted 10 be either President or cabinet or
hserg and the balance NV en- the leasiest SCI
the better. Ny sole indignated l saw seate
among EN- the very sutler who retoOsed me credi
when 1 wuz servin a drafted man in 1862 AM
also u claim agent who got $40 CIV me on the prom
ise Nv gettin my bounty, which when he got It b
absorbed IN fees costs and commissions. There wa
Nv coerse some troo men. Their wuz soliers the
Wieh resigned early In The war on akkount Nv IL
bcin id Abiishn war, aad others who lelt beco
Liukin wuznt rapid enuf in maxim uv en- Majo
Generals There wuz no limit 10 their speekin.-
Every wun bed The speech wich he delivered at th
Cleveland Conyenshen in l866 carfuIly preserved
and they al insisted delircrin em, wich e. j JEFF
they were dom, al 20 themselves. 81 they kin stai
it sm wlllin. We are agoin to hev Soors Con
Venshen IN Riohm9nd to ratify the nominashens
wich VIII amount 10 suthin. We she'll hev Fore
there, and boregard and Breckenridge, and The
speeches viii count We will hev the Gags NV Ga
two governments eutwned and we viii hey Oh
moosle nT both seckshcns played Sch "a Conven
shen viii amount 30 suihin
Wat the platform will be or who the candidate
viii be- the Lord only knows. I am prepared 70
anything, and 30 aTe al the delegates. IL its Pen
dleton, on 2 repoodiaahen platform well and goo,