Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-15

periences since / wrote you last, and
then ask your advice as to whether it
would be better to blow out my brains,
or try once more to make live of it.
When | wrote you last | was doing
well and earning money. Since then,
such woes have come over me a. few
lives are doomed to see. | lost my sit
uation in the underwriters agency 10y
the usual means. They ascertained
through "A meddlesome clerk that |
was the Iowa PTeacheI and discharg-
ed ME last May Dist. | was disheart-
ened aud tempted to give up, but held
on and started for East Tennessee at
once-had about twenty. eight dollars
left after | got there. Al once went t.
work to secure employment rs cores
pendent for some OF the newspapers,
and in the meantime set to work to
brush up my knowledge of law. Was
examined by "A committee and admit
ted to the bar, as attorney aud
counselor Business was fair in lower
courts aud | was just making living
out of my practice and something
more out of my correspondence, hav-
ing secured an engagement with the
Chicago Times.
Here he details how Gin an evil
hour he went to Greeneville to write
up the funeral of President Johnson
and how some singing remarks
about the Ex-Presidenrs moral char
acter, set the rebel press bowling
at him, and how after the publication
of the Baltimore Ga7euo's article in
the Press and Horald the devil was
to pay," aud adds
was accused of every crime i'm the
category was mobbed in the streets ::
a pail full of coal tar thrown in my
face, knocked down with the butt of a
revolver aud being unarmed myself,
was helpless. The Mayor of the town
detailed a guard for me who saw me
of on the train. | had when left
Knoxville, $3.50 due me from the Times
and sent on for it before | was
mobbed, but it did not get to hand
soon enough, so | left il in the hands of
a friend. | was robbed of my splendid
gold watch. My clothes were ruined
and but for the kindness of friend,
who loaned me 500 | do not know
what l should have done. AS it is |
hadsmOney enough to get here, and
here / am without cent, trying to
hear from Chicago and to get enough
to get to Winchester, where | shall be
safe.
l have a copy of the article and will
send it to you in this so that you can
see how | am saddled with the sins of
at least dozen men. Some fellows
have assumed the same alias in part,
but as God is judge, except the Iowa,
Massachusetts, Wilmington and Cons
ton parties, | am not the man. The
Baltimore affair occurred when / was
at New Orleans, and the rest I know
nothing about. 1 was doing well
enough in Knoxville if left alone. l
was discreet and moral.
| tried to lie out of the scrape by say
ing / had another brother (Charles) ,
who did the things referred to. L trust
you will not deny the statement.
AS to the future, don't know what
next. If / can get North l know |
will never set foot in rebeldom again.
| find | am all right as lawyer, and
can soon do well if / can find a loca~
ton. l also find that ] am safe from
prosecution in Milwaukee, as Mayor
Staub telegraphed there and they re.
piled that they would not prosecute me
and did not want me arrested. | am
cast down but not yet dead, and shall
fight for living still. Now, Ned, |
don't know what stories are in your
ear, but | swear l want to live an hon
est, true life. l feel sad that the name
is disgraced by me, but shall try still
to redeem it.
He then begs his brother to send
him ten dollars and promises to pay
him within thirty days, and closes as
follows:
am safe from arrest in Milwaukee,
l. gI Nl,t e. 4, A., a
which has been over me, I hope 10
stay where / go next. My endeavors
to establish myself as a lawyer have
resulted in getting license, and can
be admitted anywhere. will add
that L wrote some articles about the
low state of civilization in East Ten
nessee which incensed the lower classes
and led to the mobbing, doubtless,
quite as much as the Johnson articles,
not thinking it would be known who
wrote them. L think ! can make
much money this winter out of this
outrage by lecturing. Now, Ned, l
beg you to write me at least, and if
possible loan me ten dollars. / have
not heard a word from Dele in months.
Wrote her two letters without getting
an answer, and don't know but she
may be dead. Good bye. God bless
you!
Your erring brother
Lutte.
Address Lucius Copeland, Winches-
ter, Va.
His brother did not address him,
perhaps. The dele" referred to is
doubtless his first wife, He may be in
Winchester, Virginia, now, and think
ing this may be the case, we will mail
him a copy of this issue of the CHRoN-
ICLE. Pass him around, and give the
scoundrel no rest for the sole of his
foot until he brings forth fruits of a
genuine repentance.
A MIR OERER CAUGHT