, 1861-07-09

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LoyA2 EAST TENNESSEE.
We publish in another column the De-
c'aration Of Grievances, and the substance
of the Resolutions adopted by the Green
vile Convention held in Eastern Tenn
essee, June 18th. Tie Declaration pre-
sents most formidable Indictment Of the
traitors, in the other sections of the State,
charging them with tyranny, persecution
and outrage, on the loyal men whose only
offence is adherence to the Union. It
charges the insurgents with being guilty Of
treason and Of initiating civil war with a
design to abolish free institutions and es-
tablish monarchy; with destroying the
freedom Of the press and OF staining the
statute book with disgraceful reputation
Of dcbts. It charges the secessionists with
involving the Southern States in war
whose success is hopeless and which must
iead 10 inevitable ruin.
This Bill Of Grisvanccs is destined to be-
c1mc historical and Will be referred to in
future, lis damning testimony against the
T. hels: showing that they had neither just
cause OF provocation for the crimes they
arc com1n1l11ng nsainpt *ha peace Of the
people and integrity Of the Nation.
This movement in Eastern Tennessee ia
OF vital Importance to the National cause.
II plants the banner Of the Union in the
very heart and centre Of the slave States.
1t hoists the starry flag four hundred miles
south of Cincinnati. Here is a COM
pact community Of thirty-three counties
with 100000 population, hundreds Of
miles distant from the nearest free State,
loyal to tie Onion and the Constitution.
These people live among the Cumberland
AID Iron mountains The pure breezes
which plays about their tops are inimical
to treason and slavery. In thu. whole re-
g;on Of fifteen thousand square miles, there
are not as many bondmen as can be found
in single county Of cotton growing Wes-
tern Tennessee. A free labor people dwell
slong the waters Of the Tennessee river,
which flows between those mountain
ranges for 500 miles. From the sources
ofthe Tennessee far up in Virginia, to the
GEeat Bend in Alabama, that stream wa-
'ers valleys cultivated by Union loving
men.
Eastern Tennessee and Western Vir-
ginia are ia1thtul to the Union because they
hold comparatively few SLAVES, while the
rest Of those States in which slaves
abound, act with the traitors. So true is
it that, wherever a man is kept in bondage
his keeper will be found traitor. Where
slaves are few loyal men are numerous.
Where slaves are plenty, true men are fen.
Where all are free all are 1oyal.
The holders ofslaves believe that Repul,-
1ican institutions are hostile to their sys-
TEN. Slavery is despotism, and slave mas
ters long for government as despotic as
the system itself A dictator, an arristo-
cracy and standing army constitute the
elements Of political system suited 10 the
tastes and desires Of the slaveocracy. Let
Us not attempt to deceive ourselves US to
the nature and cause Of this contest. The
North IS bound by every tie Of interest,
honor and humanity, to support the gallant
mountalneers Of Tennessee in there M
equal struggle with an implacable foe.
The slave holders who surround them on
three eides, must not be allowed to subiu-
gate these brave sons Of Freedom and
Union. a column Of the Grand Army
MARCHED to Knoxville, would strike terror
Into the rebels. 1t would be fire in the
rear Of their 1ines.which would cause the
regiments in Virginia from the cotton
States, to ecamper home. It would cut off
the great Railroad line Of connections be-
tween Richmond and the Southwest
Place division Of 10000 men IN East
Tennessee, and furnish arms in abundance
TO the loyul Home Guards who would be
speedily organized, aud the standard Of
Union would soon be unfurled in Northern
Alabama with Huntsville for its centre ::
among the mountains Of Northern Georgia
and Western North Carolina, and in South
western Virginia- Here is region as
large as Illinois, with million of whites
and lees than one-tenth as many slaves,
where the sentiment Of love and devotion
to the old Union cause is strong and en-
during in the hearts of the people.
However this struggle with slayery may
terminate, whether in the complete OF par
tial suhjugaton Of the rebellion, all that
moubtain country, with Kentucky to the
Northwest Of it, must be saved to freedom.
When this war is over. the eregion we have
described will hardly hesitate to abolish
slavery and become absolutely free,
Slavery would thus be expelled from the
heart Of the United States, and driven
towards the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
The Union Convention at Greenyille
took the in:tatory steps to carve q new
State out Of the old one. The delegates to
be elected for that purpose will meet al
Klngston- We shall watch the progress ot
events there with the deepest solicitude,
The OosEa1dry Atxemur 70 R,,, s.,.
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The public has long siuee cea.aa r., ha ..
ton1ahed At any crime committed n, 49, -.
terest Of the Southern rebellion, but tha -,,.s.
Tenzesseo to excite hostility against tbat IT, - ~
conquerab1e Union man, Andrew Jobnsnn
andAt the came time to rob aistineu1.he1
Boeton phnanthroplst, IL one Of the darkest
exhibition Of Secession depravity. The,