The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-30
A Spicy Correspondence.
From Brownlow's Knoxville CTenn. Wing. ]

OAHABA, hlhodud, FeU. Il, AoOA.
Mr.. w. G. BHowNLow Sir, you may exult
as much as you please over the election i'll Ten
nessee. In this part of the country we are not
much disappointed, because we know how your
State was settled. 1t was by the Hoosiers from
North Carolina, the Tory State of the Revolu-
ton, which, We expect, will follow suit. We
can do without either; both are occupied by
class of people of low order, without one
spark of honor or chivarly about them. Let
them submit to Lincoln; they are towards, and
from the way Virginia and Kentucky and Ar
kansas are behaving, do not believe they are
any better.
Virginia and Kentucky are well enough de-
scended but do not expect there is a family of
of North Carolina, Tennessee, or Arkansas.
Now this crisis is upon US, their Hoosier blood
shows itself; but let them go; we do not want
them-we would be degraded by the association.
As something has been said in the papers of
your State about North Alabama, in this revolu-
ton, going off with Tennessee, l, and all here,
say we wond like to see her try it. We can
bring her right at the point of the bayonet, and
il Tennessee sympathizes with her, We can con-
yquer her too. Such people as yours could not
stand moment against the chivalr0us and brave
population of South Alabama and Mississippi.
More than this: il any of your Tennesseea1s
ments, we intend to treat them to q dress Ct tar,
ornamented with feathers, to go home in. If
our country did not furnish you market
for your meat. your hog-raising State would
be reduced TO starvation and bankruptcy in less
than twelve months. We were willing to sus
tain YOU, and trade with you, but your own ac-
ton has reduced you to the lowest pitch of de-
graduation, and forbids our countenancing you
aay longer After all, it is happy radiance,
and we are we'll quit of you. L. B. MANNING.
$3.50. KsoxvILLE, March 8, 1861.
3r. L. b. Manning Your insolent letter
has been before me for several days, counter
part Of which I see you have sent to q Union
paper in Nashville. You are seeking notoriety
by your letters to Union editors. and | am not
willing to have you disappointed. l have no
idea that you ever performed All act in your life
that would entitle you to the favorable consider
alton of clever persons, or that any of your
cestors were, in the least degree, meritorious.
Certainly no man bearing your name in Alabama
ever distinguished himself By his superior pow
ers Of intellect, by the exhibition Of his virtues,
by acts of benevolence, or by deeds of noble
daring. There was man of your name MAN
ning) in the Penitentiary of Alabama, at one
time, as the records Of that institution will
show, but whether you both sprang from the
same soble blood or not, l am not advised.
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ans as corards, and men of lop order of char
acter. They are not low enough down in the
scale of honor, to abandon the flag of their
country-to ingloriously fee from the Union
cemented by the blood eff their fathers, and like
a set of whitc-iivered dastards and perjured
scoundrels, seek to destroy a Constitution and
Government they have sworn to support. Ten
pesseeans and North Carolinians have never been
cowurdIy enough to forsake the flag of their
country, and unite with q band of Cotton State
pirates, in stealing Government Forts, Arsenals,
munitions Of war, and other property. And
Tennesseeans especially, are too 6rd,s and honor
able. to turn traitors to their country for the
sake of finding market for few surplus hogs
they may raise And so far as the ability and
courage Of kentucky, Tennessee, and North Car
DINA is concerned, they can whip out the entire
Southern Contsderaoy; and for my part, would
be willing to see these States contract for the jo6
with our General Government!
The truth il, Tennessee and Kentucky have
fought not only the battles of Alabama, ever
since she was Territory, but they have fought
the battles of oil the dastardly States that have
crae tslsed out Of the Union. We sent from Ten.
nessee, to your relief, when the British and In.
dams had you scored to death, and hiding in
caves and hollow trees, such old c0wards as An
drew Jackson, Gen. Coffee. Gen. Carroll Gen.
White, Gen. Cooke, Coils. Gideon Morgan, Ed.
Boothe, Sam. Houston. sam. Bunch John VIII.
Iiams, the Seviers, Tiptons, Nelson's, Browns.
Bayless, Lowrya, and . host Of Others too tedi.
Gus to name in this brief rejolnder 8
From East Tennessee, the most hateful part Of
the State, in the estimation Of the traitors of the
Southern Confederacy, We sent into the Gulf
States the following gallant Captains, some of