Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-04

am sometimes gloomy and desp0ndet and never
more 90 than now. To me the skies is dark 70 me
The clouds Is owrin, and the prospsz gloomy First
thc crops ls asIu us. Wat we wautid to make RshoO
rance doubly shoor wuz jolly failyOor uv crops
He'd the wheat failed In Ohio Iuianny and In0y
he'd their potatoes rotted in their fields and the
corn come 20 usuEht, we Good hev carried them
States easyi for ts tho nacher Nv men % charge
up every thoovl postmaster 90 tho iailyoor uv corn
-tbe fret tho most ,riaiu, and the latter iin view
uy It's claCk oH the price us lIkkor) the most stu
pcA1us evils Wlch kin etccl man ukind-thrv charges
everything this kind up 90 the account NV the
party IN power, and they yotc agin en- When
mEiorcho0n waves her red asg in their faces, they
charge agln it liEc the bull, never thinking NV the
arawd stee. WcL Is behind t3 receive en-. Ny Of
lsdel existence IS the lrawJ 5tsa.
Bat Providence is sgin Us now, cz IN the past -
Providence hez most agravatin knack Nv comm
% jest in time for the Rcpublikin party. Here was
A pressure ln money matters, in consequence of
short crop for ycgrs-we stepped In and offered a
cure IN the shspe Of q unlimited sh0o NV greenbax,
but alas Jest ez the dose wuz bejn swallered the
crops intcrercd, givjn everybody all the grcenbax
they wanted and making IL 20 Che interest every
body not 10 hov eny more al5st for fear twOJd de
pre- hate them whigh they he'd, and at one stroke
this plank was kHOcst out from under Us.
l. Is my opinion We he'd better drop our dnanshel
policy. At an events we bed better let the Pendlo-
ton ijoe die out ia the West, and substtoot See.
mores for it In that sc-hun. r. don't make much
difference wat we do In Che Esi Cz ther amt Rouo
NV us there anyhow, WigB is lorchnit, a it mite
cymplicatc matter. Its my up5nyua that Peudie-
ton isn't much uY statesman anyhow.
Another thing that's W0rkiu agln as Is BaTe. His
rednis Of face and cheerful eonyivaliLy does much
for as IN Kentucky whar wa don't want help bat
good HcvIn5 how lJ tells agIu u the close States
wncr we don't noud help. his BrJihed letter suits
us uv Kentucky; bat in Now York wher our pc0-
PIE hes basIniz and wan. peace l hcz made them
skecry.
Il Is my opluyua taal we'd better l-1p BIare.
E. 90 reconstruction, chat isn't Jest 60 good
kecri cZ we thought It woufI be. Watts the use Nv
hOWliu that the RadlSc,s don want "a rCstOrashcn
uv the states, when they an NV them but two or
thrco2 Watts thc use uy whiatlin n the face nv
such north WiHI2
It is my opinyun that we'd better drop rceon-
struchon
Tac cz,raya-a -aucc gy Che Elli6cs wuz q keosd
wigh 1 he'd hopes uv, but it didn't amount o. moth
ing. somehow the people wood ask gs wich Nv our
leaders We proposed 20 put IN the place az the Alb
lishuiss and when we ansc9rgd Nallandghum, Fer
mandy Wood and his brother, Dan voorhees, and
jesse ID. Brte, thoyl lGU darisye,y, and say
Lord save RS, Of these hungry and thirsty thieves
get ther jaws unto Che Nashnel clrkis We'd ruther
keep them wigh We h5v.'
It's my opinion we'd better drop cXtravlgancc.
Taxes he'd joccy look but good Lord, the peo-
pie answered US saying Et the debt Is to be paid,
won't We hcv to be taxed to pay it It's payin the
taxes that hgrts-Hgt tho politics nv the party wich
tszcs Us-and ez people don't pay taxes as "a r0olr
they don't thrill much over taxes.
Ekal taxashun was rather hcfty at the begin
King. till the poor mon and farmers dskiVerci that
they were paying scarcely l0,AIu on their houses,
wagons and cows while The rich cusses wuZ cSrTyin
the load Ez soon ez they made this discovery they
concluded they didn't want ekal tsxashun 50 much,
s-,a thay taraod s=in
1t is my opinion ws had better drop el,al taxa
tion.
Repudiashun looked we'll cnuG, but that wasn't
no 60 We started out with IT. but alars, we found
most everybody he'd bonds, and everybody he'd
greenbsx. Tho bondholders wouldn't consent to
rcpudiatin the bonds and the greenbaZ holders sod
" Ef We commence at bonds, why shOod we not
come 70 greenbax?7 And so that split.
It's my opinion we he'd better drop rcpudiashen.
But scz one Dimocul et we drop all these
wat viii We Ley lels
nv ingenious friend, we hov ag left that we ever
he'd. We Loy the niger, and from him VIC never
ought 10 heV departid. Tho mint We let 60 Nv
him, that mint we lost strength On all these other
questions there may be some difference nv opinion
on Niger ther kin be none. The Dim1cTisy are
grounded IN this. He is their Alpha aud Omega,
their beginning and end. We don't mono Nv us
wan. 90 marry uiggers, no matter how near We may
come 20 i.; We don't none Nv u5 want 60 sleep with
en-, cat with en-, l0nless they pay for the ikkcr,)
and we won't. So long ez We hcv the uigger VIC
hey q r8llyin pint.
fhyee'1 LHcieiy4ef s"H1 "o 1lNi A'i 'li@.0 o'-0'
c5mplcatin isboos, wch are TO helty f0r us anyhow
and fsll back, for the November eleckshen, on the
nigger-one and indivisiblc. IF We cant win on
him we cant win on anything and may ez well
throw up the sponge, When the Democratic heart
won't thrill a niger, our coz is lost. kentucky
ken send two hundred 70 the North ez Frteful
Examples cf they needed, for we hov jest about
that number in this visinity that we hev he'd In
training for q wear, and bev gotten down 80 our
level They sre pizenin themselves reserly and
hang about the groceries jest ez We DO, wich in
Niger is too awful to be endoorcd. Whether We
use them or not tho nigge- is our only holt and on
him we must ChCeay depend.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, z. NJ
(wich is Postmaster