Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-12
Mock Sympathy.

The inimitable Parson Nasty satarizes
the maudlin sympathy of the Democratic
newspapers for the negroes with exquisite
humor, whose sting lies in It's truth. The
following letter is in bis best vein
PosToFFIs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS
(Which is in the Staff Nv Kentucky !
January 18th, 1868.
Last mite the body nv a niger WIZ found
dead at the end NV Boregard avenue-the
main street Nv the Cross Roads The poor
cuss WIZ rolled up agin the fence lyin en-
his face CO dead ez Joolius Ceezer dis
kivered him. At fust thot the Teller wuz
drunk, ez I didn't see his face, it bein a
common occurrence 10 find our citizens in
that sitooashen, but on turnin the color Nv
his complexion, knowd that wuz not what
allied him. He he'd died NV starvashen, and
cold and SIGH.
I knowd that Niger He wuz wunst the
property NV Elder Gavit, now deceest, ard
wuz altogether too soOperior niger 10
quietly take wot wuz his nCrmel condishen,
and settle down to his fate. He resembled
the Elder very much. His mother wuz a
mulatto woman, and ez her son developed
Il wuz observed that he had the Gavit pc
koolyarites NV feecher in n striker degree.
Mrs Gavit raised a ruckshen about It, but
the Elder convinst her that 1t wuz all
right. lie cited her TO the physiological
fact that the resemblance okkured coz nv
the mothers seein the Deel1in so often be-
fore the birth Nv the child It's my opinion
that that was the case. AT all event, he
he'd very much NV the enterprise NV the
Gavitts. Wunst afore the war he run away
1 na,f,t,a nrlF ffa1s
a desprit chase, and that chase by the entire
Democratic marshals NV that State He
wnz finally run down and sent back in
triumph.
The mint the war broke out, this cussed
e-fourth niger run away agln. lie made
the camp near the Cross Roads, but glory !
the Fedral usurpers bed yet little shame
left into en-, and the Kernal to whose regi-
ment he made his way sent him back to
the Elder under guard, with his compli-
ments accompanied by note, stain that
the Fedral armies wuz fitin for the Hoon-
vun ez Il wuz, and that it was proposed not
10 interfere with property IN any way
The Elder wuz so effected by this generosi-
tv that that mite and the next he only bush
whacked three NV the Fedral pickets, instid
Of lvin out all mite for EN- ez he he'd bin ac-
ogstomed TO do.
But finally the Emancipation Proclama-
shen come. and then the niger run agn.
The Elder heerd NV him frekently. He
iined a niger regiment fought doorln the
war wuz woundid in several spots, and mar
rowiv escaped the Just retribooshon inflicted
onto en- Mt Fort Piller At the close Nv
the war he went to Ohio with his wife and
two children, but he did not remain there
II. F,-
wuz n suddin coolin towards the niger, and
he felt it. Ez they didn't need any more
10 FIJI quotas and save EN- from the drafts
and SIGH the colored brother was the same
id Niger he alluz wux. Somewhat dis
gusted, pertikerly ez when he enlisted, he
wuz credited to Ohio, he returned TO Ken
lucky, determined TO tite II out here Inc
Cross Roads received him quietly. He
saved little money out nv the serVls ana
bought some land up toards Garretstown,
and built onto il a cabin. Somehow the
world didn't 20 smooth with him. One
mite his fences wuE torn down and his grown
crops wuz destroyed Immedjitly there
after he wuE arrested for havin no visible
means Nv support, his crops bein all gone,
and it took his mule and a part NV bis house
hold furnitoor to git out Nv that FoIowln
this misforchoon came another he wuz at
the Corners one day, when lssaker 6avltt,
In a playful mood, shot at him with re-
volver witch the niger resented, chokln
lssaker severely. The blood Nv the Cor
ners riE. a niger had raised his impious
hand agin a white man. Immejitly the
Corners became indignated, and the Niger
wuz kept under the town pump two hours
A severe cold rcsultin, he WIZ confined to
his bed month with fever, durln wlch
time he got into other trouble. his out
houses were burned TO the ground, his hogs
wuz killed, and even chickens wuz mas
sacred he wuz skarsaly recovered from
his At NV sicknis, when his wife wuz met by
Issakor Savitt az the corners. where she
bad gone TO get medicine for him. IssakCr,
smartin under the chockin her husband had
given him, organized raid onto her. and ]
must confess she was yoosed ruther rough.
The young men NV the Corners are excon-
trio. The women wuz found the next
nornin in barn.
From this blow he never recovered he
he'd laid long time, and he owed quite a
number NV bills at the Corners. witch he
Good no. attachments wuz rot out
agin his property and il wuz sold from I'M
der him. and ez he wuz not able 20 work,
wat wuz over wuz held by the trustees Of.
the township, ez bail agin his becoming
township charge. Capt. McPeter bot the
mace and ez II wuz hizzen he wanted il.
The niger wuz turned out, and he wander
cd about few days apparently not in his
right mind, and finally WIZ found ez J hev
described. Dead he wuz, and wrappin hlm
IN The blo5 cote into WITCH we found him,
hole wuz ding, and he WIZ bid from mortal
site.
sieh Is the iroots Nv emancipation When
tnat Niger wuz dug under, 81 800 worth
w Elder Gavitt's estate wuz put out nv the