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Letter to Editor
February 18, 1873
Knoxville Daily Chronicle
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
What is this article about?
Newspaper excerpt of a private letter from Joshua B. Frierson of Columbia, Tennessee, to Senator Brownlow, expressing desire to attend Ulysses S. Grant's second inauguration and reflecting on the triumph of former Radical Republicans who are now 'tolerable respectable.'
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"Tolerable Respectable Now."
We have seen a private letter from our distinguished fellow-citizen Joshua B. Frierson, of Columbia, Tennessee, to Senator Brownlow, from which we make the following extract:
I have a particular wish to attend the second inauguration of Gen. President Grant. If I shall be so fortunate, I hope to meet all, or many of my old Republican friends, who with me bore the name "Radical" high aloft when many truckled and succumbed to the outside pressure.
We have become tolerable respectable now.
Have we not had a glorious triumph?
We have seen a private letter from our distinguished fellow-citizen Joshua B. Frierson, of Columbia, Tennessee, to Senator Brownlow, from which we make the following extract:
I have a particular wish to attend the second inauguration of Gen. President Grant. If I shall be so fortunate, I hope to meet all, or many of my old Republican friends, who with me bore the name "Radical" high aloft when many truckled and succumbed to the outside pressure.
We have become tolerable respectable now.
Have we not had a glorious triumph?
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Reflective
What themes does it cover?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Grant Inauguration
Radical Republicans
Political Triumph
Respectability
Joshua Frierson
What entities or persons were involved?
Joshua B. Frierson
Senator Brownlow
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Joshua B. Frierson
Recipient
Senator Brownlow
Main Argument
expresses wish to attend grant's second inauguration to reunite with old radical republican friends and celebrates their current respectability and glorious triumph after past pressures.
Notable Details
Bore The Name 'Radical' High Aloft
Truckled And Succumbed To The Outside Pressure
Glorious Triumph