| Show 1 speech among the famous men of vicksburg before the war one of the most prominent waa was a mr mcnutt two qualities marked him out as an individual type T the h 8 first was lila ills personal cowardice still more individual was his power of setting aside in liis his own favor those prejudices of the public mind which would have crushed any other man lie ile was at one time a cardl dato alato for united states senator the op 01 dosine candidate was general quitman nan in III a speech mcnutt eaid said fellow citizens bens I 1 understand that general Qui quitman is now in the eastern counties reviewing bis his militia and that heays he says when he meets me ho he intends to whip me now I 1 tell him at this far off distance that it he whips me it will be because he can outrun me for I 1 have a great horror borror for the barbarous practice of pets personal onal violence such a speech from any other man would have won him the contempt of his ills listeners but it was mcnutt and arid people laughed and arid applauded recollections of mississippi 01 |
