Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-09
From,iao Toledo Blade
NASBY.
Corners, Addresses an Epistle to General
Grant, in which he Suggests Many Things.
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDBIT Y ROADS, witch
is in tho Stait NV Kentucky Nov 10Th, 1868.

Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDBTT Y ROADS, witch
is in the Staff uv Kentucky) Nov. oh, 1868
To tIyssss s. Grant, General and Presideat elect:
SIR The elocshun is DER The die is kast Nv
wich die the Demokrisy hev the most NV it Frank
", we are beaten l studied the eecshun returns
carefully, and hev cum TO that conclusion. He'd
we carried Ohio, Pennsylvania Iniyany, Illinoy
Connecticut Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri Kansas
aud Californy, and he'd Vrginny, Texas and Mis-
sssippi bin allowed TO vote, the result would hev
bin different. But we didn't, therefore we submit
We mite resist but, es we hewitt the strength to do
H. we bow cheorfully TO the will nv the people, and
rccopiZe Won Is our Cheef Magistrate in the place
Of A johnson, deceest.
Now the question witch agitates Us is wat do you
Intend 20 do? That's wat l want TO know, and
thBts what Deekin Pogram, Capt. McPeter and
Issaker Gsvitt is demsndin in thunder torres. Wat
do you intend 70 do? Are you agon to adopt the
mcrsless policy NV the extreme Radicals or are 700
agoin u adopt consihatory policy
l proseonl thot 700 don't understand the sitooa-
shen in the South. also presoOm thet shood 700
visit the Corners 700 wood find here two classes Nv
people, whose tastes habits iucireshens and inter
ests vary widely. On the one hand are the original
kentuckians NV wich Bascom, Deekin Pogram
Captain McPelter and Issaker GaJitt are brite and
shinin specimens and on the Other there is Pollock
the Ilnoy store keeper, Joe BiglGr, who WIZ con-
feirit sOHer but who hez backsid into ablishinism
ten OF twenty families NV Northerners who bought
land heTeabOuts, ard the pIggers Wlch were freed
by Linkin and the Constooshnel Amendment.
These two autagonistic elements are perpetually
at war and the result is chronic onpleassntHiss
wich hes seriously retarded the growth this seek
shun The fault is NV course with Pollock, BIglcr
the Northern farmers and the uigger-. The orE
nal Kentuckians desire pcace-they long and hun
ger and thirst for it. But these other casses won't
let Us hev IT, Tho Northern farmers wood come
here aud buy and coRiinooaly irritate as with their
presenco they won't sdOpt 0nr habits aud customs
bat persist in keepin Up their own end ez we know
en- to be Republicans the site nv one on our streets
perd1osos Rspesses Nv frenzy on our citizens wich
hes nj limes resulted seriously 10 them They hold
prayer mectins az each others houses they take
Northern newspapers, wch wood pizln The minds
NV our people hat for the blessed fact that our pco-
ple don't read lgauv a'ar4in' extent, and they Ec7
established skoo's among tho niger children and
s-c tsaaLn EN- O. De abgv the sTccr De- Wirh nacher
suI our ae5lagy assigned ..m. b.ze1m told me
Che. lHay he'd mower spent a- ~ lars oil -.ll a. DIS
1.- 2.- E.a h- i've +. ls#.a N.-" Sch t-t
ri.ser won. work ag Us .a.e5 we q.y en-, aa-
De -ss-l. is cur farms ar. -uDrir down 8a. 1850
IS ue--.o=rl tr as and taa original Ner.ge.,y s'"ss
IS git.ir 'a Pre- sat r- yra- tes eyer rested
onto.
Eow a -.--r. % ss, WA. are y.4 -o.a TO do .
Are goo o -a.u 20 perfect us ot them are 700 a
Eoiu 90 bring your power 90 boar On their side OF
og-u Is Dsaldu Pcgrgm's sigger5 % be perfected
H tll.. Iusg.cut reioosa o. submit 20 as guidance
and direction. or ara they Go he le.l % him 60 be
deal. ui,h rs lo chooses Is Size citizens nv the
Corner g. hav Tho rite wiea IS theirs, Go chaztise
these beings ia their own way-.0 redooso ON to
their nal. ID level os they Zee Ill., or are they to be