, 1861-08-31


spies and informers; and that some steps
must be taken to weed them out, else we
shall enlist men, organize armies and fight
bat.les in vain.
SOUTHERN PATRIOTS.
It il 1ot strange that traitors who began
rebellion with theft, perjury and the BE-
trayal of confidence should be guilty Of the
petty meanness Of ilehing the good names
Of honest patriots and brave men It will
be,< strange, Lowever, If their lying ISLANDERS
shall meet with any credence.
The fate of East Tennessee patriots is
tco instructive and too recent to be passed
by IN silence. It is not long since the
Knoxville WAsg Of ;Parson Brownlow
was suppressed By an order emanating
frvm Richmond. In his last issue the
brave old man published, with prescience
which oily a knowledge Of the character
Of the Williams he had to deal with could
have given him, " We shall refuse, most OBJ
' stinately refuse to the day Of our death
?" TO think OF speak favorably Of such
" ccnfederaey as this. We beg
" all who may come after us and our pa
"per to credit TO secession falaehood that
"may represent US as having changed our
principles from those Of an exalted de-
"Tction to the old American Union and |
of undying hostility to those who would |
"perpetran it's dissolution
1T ;e eti1J r,,oyo reeapf +hot Joeerc Na]
sen sEd Bridges, members Of Congress
elected from districts in East Tennessee,
were arrested when On their way to Wash
ington- Mr. Bridges was captured by
species Of Judas treachery that ought to
baniEh his fapsors from the society Of
civilized men- Mr. Nelson was taken to
Richmond, and thrown into a prison on
the charge Of treason. We are now told
that all these men have recanted and are
loyal subjects Of the confederacy. Nelson
has issuen an address to the electors Of
East Tennessee advising submission.
Bridges is to take service in the Rebel ar.
my, and the PaIson is to advocate, heart
and soul, the cause his energetic pen 80 re-
Gently consigned to the lowest depths.
There is singular unanimity about
these reports. It is, to say the least
strange that men who SO recently, when
speaking and acting for themselves, not on.
" took their lives in their hands and in
great personal peril avowed their undy.
ing love Of their country. but bade thei1
fellow citizens not to believe any stories
their enemies might invent to the effect
that they had changed their views, should
so suddenly have gone over to the rebels
tits too much like the holy Inquisidot
and its short method Of bringing men to rea
son. We prefer that they should speak 70
themselves; and until they shall so speak
when out Of danger and unintimidated b,
threats, We shal decline to believe in thei
detection. We pronounce all statement
10 that effect deliberately coined false
hoods; 3 part Of that grand scheme c
tyranny and suppression, by means {
which this wicked rebellion has been cal
ried on. We have No doubt whatever tbs
those loyal men whose names we hav
cited are Us good patriots to-day as the
ever were, and we shall not change OF
opinion till We have better authority tha
JEFF. Davis or the Richmond and Memph
newspapers.
From The unmistakable evidences
rebel policy in East Tennessee, We gath
hopes for the rest Of the South. We G
no longer doubt that throughout the Sout
not only in the mountain regions Of Georg
and North Carolina, but in the large citi
there arc many loyal patriots. We pla
no reliance in the vehement protests Of Il
Southern prints, that there is no diversi
of sentiment there. Where threats al
violence lave failed to intimidate, the rebe
have resorted to misrepresentation, an
through the repetition Of such fal=ehood
the North has cause to believe that, er.
# the rebel States are cvenun, the Go
eminent will find no loyal nucleus arou1
which to 1e~o7gani2e.
The loyal spirit now existing in Sout
e1n States viii disclose itself Whenev
Government shall assure its protectie
snd not till then; and when We rememt
that the nucleus Of loyalty is the OF
source through which the Federal pow
can re-establish its authority over the re
States after they shall have been conquer
back. we feel that too much time and
much ground have been lost already.
is indeed time the Government began
do its duty by It's loyal citizens We 7