Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-25
Nashr on lhe Future Of Demoeraer

The unparalleled postmaster Of Confed-
crate Cross Coad indulges in the following
doIorous strain over the terrible result Of
November 3D.:
The people viii be deprived Nv their in
nocent amoosements. This Grant will send
on armed hirelins, clothed in oius bloc.
with muskets and sieh, who will prevent
our shootin niggers, and who viii perfect
on ther farms and in ther shops the 0 ius
Northerners who hev settled in our midst.
We shell see the gellorious Southern system
decline stidily and shoorly. The whippin-
posts will rot and the stox will decay-the
yeip Nv dorgs will no more be heerd, and
the cheerful crack nv the pistul and the
shreek nv the man wat has got his Cruel
wSll no more be heerdl in all the land. Bas-
cum, after he hez the few farms still un-
mortgaged in the visinty, will close, and 90
to Louisville and embark into a wholesale
grocery trade and iine the church, and
give ibrally to Sundy-skools his grosery
will fall into decay and the sine viii hang
by one hinge. We shell see churches and
skool-houses, factrys and villages every
where The Program place nv 1000 akers
viii be divided ub into twenty farms, and
onto them farms viii be the bustlin Moo
Yorker, the cool, caleulatin Yankee, the
stlddy, hark-workin German-who win
display his grovelin nacher by werkin him
self ur forcin niggers to do it for him. We
shel be run over with skool marms, deluged
with academies, plastered over with moose
papers, stunned machinery, drove crazy by
the whirr, crash and clash NV mowin ma
chimes and reapers. And there Will be
cheese made at the Corners. Penniback-
er's distillery will be turned into a cheese
faetry, and weak they will run wher now
the geHrous high-wines fash along the
trough, Ther iFill be no reetifyin at the
CorneFs the pons viii be abolished and
ia ther sted will be skool-houses. And me-
thinks L see in my minds eye, Horasho,
the sperit, the ghost NV the departed Po-
gram (for he wont survive it long,) a how
erin over the scene, ez Hamlick's father
did. The blessed shade will look in vain
for his house-on the spot wher it stood
there will be an academy. He will turn to
Bascom's, but ther he will find a deestriet
skule. "To Pennibacker' he viii gasp
in a sperit whisper, and with speritooal
smack nv his spiritual lips we will hover
over it, but the smell ov cheese in the place
nv the strengthnin odors in which he de
lites, will send a spiritooal shudder thro
him. A gost Nv O tear will run down his
speeritooal nose, Iinger for a minnit at the
Zip like dew drop on the rose, and fall
Then will the dissatisfied COST demand to
be taken back to purgatory, a place less
irwin to his nerves.
Deekin Pogram has only britened up
wunst. A thot flashed over his mind which |
gave him comfort for minnit. "Isn,t ther |
> Booth for Grant cz ther wuz for Linzin?
askt he.
fAh" sed /, in alarm, "wood you kill
Grant to hev Colfax in his place? We |
mite kill Colfax, say you. Alars sposn
lhey'd elect Sumner ez President Nv the |
Senit! Kill Sumner? Good Lord, no |
They'd then elect Butler Speaker Nv the
House. and he can't be killed. No No (! |
We he'd better bear the ills we hev than fly /
10 them we know not nv.