The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-08-21
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70 the Editor OF the Aorristown Gazette:
Now that the election II over, and the
First Judicial Circuit has rejected Hon.
John A. Mckinney, who has been the
ablest, most efficient and impartial Judge
this Circuit has had since the war, we
know that many Of your intelligent
readers are puzzled to know by what
methods his defeat was effected.
Without any fiourishes or literary
pretentions, we think we can easily
solve the problem
In the first place, be it known, that
the radical newspapers of East Tennes-
see are mostly edited and controlled by
fraternity of the most accomplished
professional mud-slinging liars that
blacken the editorial profession in this
coed nineteenth century; which asser-
ton we viii prove by a few extracts
from their recent electioneering circu-
lars.
Among the unadulterated, messy
backed, bloody shirt radicals, who still
keep bear traps set around their smoke
houses for stray rebels, Mckinney was
represented as old JEFF Davis in disguise;
that he wore shirt made of rebel flag,
and that he had killed and ate, without
salt, several thousand union men, wo-
men and children.
Negroes were told that if Mckinney
was elected Judge, slavery would be re-
stored, and all able-bodied darkeys
would be sent to the cotton fields of
Louisiana and Alabama. while all the
old fat, real black mokes would be run
through cider mills to squeeze the ink
out of them, and then be worked up in
to cheap soft soap; also, that he was the
identical man who killed Abe Lincoln,
and tied the rope around the neck of
Saint John Brown, and that he was GO
ing to hang an innocent niger up in
Greeneville. As this circular was back
ed up by an AFFIDAVIT, of course NICK. lost
the bulk of the African vote.
Many of the pizepeSt old gray-backed
rebels in Sullivan county were turned
by reading circular to the effect that
Mckinney was the man who betrayed
the Southern Confederacy, turned
States evidence against Mrs. Surratt
and Wilkes Booth, snapped the democ-
racy of the First Congressional District
to Rod Butler for one vote, was a strong
temperance man, did not know one card
from another, and had recently, while
he was Judge, bushwhacked and killed
Sheriff Nichols of Hancock county, as
good rebel as ever chawed mule beef.
These are only few of the. lies sprung
against Judge Mckinney in the late
election, and as they were Invariably
sustained by aftidayits. it is not to be
wondered at that he was defeated.
Capt. G. G. Spears, gallant ex-rebel
officer of note was elected Circuit Court
Clerk of Hawkins county in the late
election by a matrimonial alliance with
the radical minority of the county; the
wedding contract enables the radicals
to elect renegade rebel or Democrat to
county office once in a while;-a bril-
liant thing for the RAIDS.
Some orthodox Republicans, who shut
their eyes and made WY faces when
compelled to vote for the "Congression-
al Ram" two years ago, are getting quite
sick again over the prospect that his
| ''Muttonic Honor threatens to butt his
way back to Washington over the pros
trate forms of "the talented Pettibone"
and the gifted little ALT"
Now, Mr.. Editor, if this letter is pub
lished, somebody may look for ID OF
quillmauling in the dreaded col
umns" of the Jonesboro' II. Dc r., and,
as we can think of no better qualified to
face such radical music, than your
QuOndona correspondent from beyond the
mountains, we suggest that the author
ship of this letter be laid on
CLINCH