The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

Colonel C. w. Charlton, of Knoxville,
has had his sympathetic organs lascerat-
| ed and his patience and equanimity of
temper shamefuiiy worried by hearing
and reading such abominably objection
able adiectives is Michigander" used
| in connection with the name of the pu-
issant, learned and chivalrous Major A.
H. Pettibone, Radical candidate for Con-
gress in this district, an active aud
influential member of the Custom House
Ring and an officer of the Revenue
Brigade. Colonel Charlton makes his
feelings known through the columns OF
tue Knoxville Chronicle, in letter that
has been honored with two insertions in
that paper. We hate that-Rot the two in
sertions, for we take it for true that Col,
Charlton's letter was written as an adj
vertisemcnt, is paid for as such, and IS
to be kept standing t,d.e.-but we hate
that anything should occur to disturb or
ruffle the placidity of Colonel CharitoR's
amiable and phlegmatic temperament.
If we didn't know Colonel Charlton so
intimately and thoroughly, we might
hate the preparation of his wounds the
less. The use of offensive adjectiVeg is
generally to be deplored. We have no
excuse or apology to offer ourselves, for
we never indulge in that style, But
when Petitioners leading Radical organ
scoffed and derided young Bob Taylor
as {. a clown and gut scraper." we were
not surprised that-intellect and honesty
being equal in both men-many others
than Democrats proclaimed determine
ton to cast their votes for native Ten
nessean rather than q native Michigander
to represent their interests in Congress.
We know Col Charlton to be full to the
running over with generous and noble
impulses. We know that his sympathies
are easily aroused and-ss easily allayed.
His gushing, credulous heart, ready to
penetrate the unfamiliar recesses of his
kitchen safe at the first appeal of the
detected and tamished tramp, is as sud-
denly restrained and made calm and de-
iant by the simple suggestion that his
charity is being bestowed upen an inn
poster. If Colonel Charlton should hap
pen to drop in at one of. Mr.. Pettibone's
appointments, and it should happen to
be Mr.. Pettibone's day to pull out that
ensanguined shirt which he always car
ries with him to particular places, and |
in pressing upon his hearers with all the
pathetic and patriotic eloquence which |
he wonderfully possesses in painting the
terrible deviltry and devastation brought |
upon the people of the country by the
blood-thirsty, ire-eating Democratic Sc
cessionists of The South, Maj. Pettibone |
should cite among other ubiquitous and
outrages that perpetrated by |
a Rebel postmaster in taking possession
of the private correspondence of Andrew |
Johnson and making such exposure of
its contents as led to that great states
man being bounded from his home and
in the solemn silence that
follows Pettibone's pathetic peroratiOn,
we can imagine the one-armed rebel sit
ting by his side, turning to Colonel
Charlton and, with assnod toward where
Pettibone stands, whisper soto voce-
lam OOAOAOA |
Charlton deliberately elects a mouthful
Of tobacco juice, throws back his raven
locks and with lips compressed and fea-
lures radiant with a discovery, mods in
! smiling reply" plagued f he amt
And looks like an officer of the 10th
Michigan regiment, at that I" But after
III, Colonel Charlton viii have failed to
10 entire justice short of public asso-
citation of the names of Horace May
lard and Capt. A. J. RicSs with those
# Mr.. Pettibone and the other men
lie enumerates. To Captain Kicks,
is this due, as it has been
more than once intimated that Colonel
JharIeton's acute and sensitive con-
cience is not well satisfied that it was
ot his own powerful and prolific pen
hat hurled Kicks from the editorial tri-
cd Of the Chronicle and hurried his de-
arturo beyond the limits of State he
more to build up. enrich
nd make prosperous than any man who
yer before left 1t. We presume Mr..
Iaynard is a reader of the Chronicle. We
an imagine how that 'shalf-starved yam
ZEE" and only surviving ''Narragansett"