The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-13
CREFy MOUNTAIN FREEMAN NOV ID, 1861

to keep from the people OF East tennessee Viz
facts which are duly TRANSPORTING in the Coun-
try. After the Hon. jeff Davis had stated III
Richmond in conversation relative to my paper;
that he would not live in Government tia'
did not tolerate freedom of the Press alter
the Judges, Attorneys, Jurors and all others
filling positions of honor and trust, under the
g Permanent Constitution" which guarantees
FREEDOM OF THE Pass, and after the entire
Press of the South had come down in thunder
tones upon the Federal Government for sup
pressing the Louisville Courier. and the New
York Day Book and other secession journals
[ did expect the utmost liberty to be allowed to
one small sheet, whose errors could be combat
ted by the entire Southern Press 1t is not
enough that my paper has been denied clrcu-
lation through tie channels Of conveyance In
the country, but it must be discontinued alto
gether, or it's editor must write or select only
such artie es as meet the approvalof scoundrels
in Knoxville when their superiors IN all the
qualities that adorn human nature, are In the
P>nitentiary Of our State And this is the
boasted liberty of the Press in the Southern
Confederacy?
81 shall in no degree feel humbled by being
cast into prison, whenever it shall be the will
and pleasure of this august Government to put
me there but on the contrary, shall feel proud
of my confinement. shall 60 to Jail, as John
Rogers went to the stakc-for my principles. |
shall 60 because have failed to recognize the
hand of God in the work Of breaking up the
American Government, and the inauguration OF
the most wicked, cruel, unnatural and unca!led
for war ever enacted in history. 90, because
| have refused to laud to the skies the acts OF
tyranny usurpation and oppression, inflicted
upon the people Of Eaat Tennessee, because OF
their devotion to the Constitution and Laws Of
the Government, handed down to them by their
fathers, and the liberties secured to them by
war of seven long years of gloom, poverty and
trial repeat, am proud of my position, and
of my principles, and shall leave them to my
children as q legacy, far more valuable than
prncely fortune, had | the latter to bestow.
I" With me. life has lost some of it's energy
having passed six annual posts OH the Western
Of youth is cxtasuted--but stand forth with
the eloquence and energy Of right to sustain
and stimulate me, in the maintenance Of my
principles ON encouraged to Grmncss, when
| look back to the fate of Him whose power
was righteousness, while the Infatuated mob
cried out cruelty him, cruelty him?
81 owe to my numerous list Of sibscri>cr,
the filling out of their respective terms for
which they have made advance payments, and
if circumstances ever place it i'll my power to
discharge these obligations, | will 60 it most
certainly. But if am denied the liberty OF do
ing SO, they must regard their small losses as 60
many contributions to the cause in which have
fallen feel that | can, with confidence, rely
upon the magnanimity and forbcarancc % many
patrons, under this state Of things. They will
bear me witness that have held out as long as
am allowed to, and that I have yielded to
military despotism that could not avert the
horrors Of. nor successfully oppose.
will only say, in conclusion-for ain
not allowed The privilege to write the pco-
pie Of this country have been unaccustoncd to
such wrongs they can yet scarcely realize them
They are astonishcd for the time being. with
the quick succession Of outraGcs that have come
upon them. and they stand hQrror-ptricken, like
men expecting ruff and annihilntio,,. / may
not live t. sce the day bat thousands Of my
readers VIII, aocn the people Of this once pros
porous country, will zee that they axe march
ing, b. double quick time from. freedom 70
bondage.
They will then look these Nanton outrage
upon right and liberty iull in the face and nv
opinion is, they will % stir the stones Of Rome
to rice and mutiny.' Wrongs lcep wantrn and
outrageous, Erccj plated the French revolution.
Citizens cast into dungeons without charges of
crime against them and without the fDrmal-
tics Of trial by Jury, private property confis-
crted at the beck Of those in POWER: the Press
humbled, muzzled and suppressed, or prosccu-
ted to serve the ends Of tyranny, The crimes
Of LoHis XIV, fell short of all this vet he lost
lis lead The people Of this county, down
trodden and oppressed, still have the resolution
OF their illustrons forefathcrs, who asserted
their rights ut Lexington and Bunker Hill.
Exchanging, with proud satisfaction, the Cd
ltorial chair and the sweet cndearments of home
Tor cell III tie prison. or TIC lot Of an exile.
have the honor to be, &C.,
WILLIAM G. BRowNLow,
49,, Editor of the Knoxville Why.
October oath, 1861
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