Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-08-22
Secession Outrages in East Ten
neSSee.

Parson BrOaonloo's Loyal Declarations.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig of the 10th,
which will probably be the last issue fsr
some time, observes of Nelson's arrest:
The treason of Mr.. Nelson consists in his
having advocate the cause of the Union, and
the Stars and Stripes Of his country, in oppo
sition to the heresy of Secession. To this
grlevous ofense he has added the unpardon-
able sin of permitting his fellow citizens to
elect him to Congress. To be consistent,
and to carry out their principles, they ought
now to arrest and send on to Richmond,
every man In the district who voted for Nel-
son.
We have but little to say, now, respecting
this arrest, and the hot haste with which the
gallant and patriotic Nelson has been hurri-
ed off to Richmond. We shall await the
action of the authorities there, with some de-.
gree of interest, as will the thousands of
Union men in East Tennessee. Before dis
missing the subject, however, we will take
occasion to congratulate the people of Rich.
mond in this, that when they cast into their
filthy city prison Thomas A. R. Nelson. they
will have more brains, patriotism, honor and
chlvalry in their prison, than can be found
in their Rump Congress.
ABUSE OF POWER BY THE SOUTH GROSS OUT
RACES ON THE PRESS.
For weeks past, with our large list of SUBJ
scribers, Cur weekly expenses have exceeded
our income, and hence our paper has been
carried on at pecuniary sacrifice. Our exs
change papers are kept back and not allow
ed to come to Knoxville, Our letters are
broken open and robbed in all directions
and our newspaper packages are laid aside
or destroyed, so as to keep them out of the
hands of our subscribers.
At Cumberland Gap, or the ofice near
there, we are Informed upon reliable authors
ity there is d large pile of letters, to say
nothing of papers, addressed to us. which
seoessionists will not allow to come forward.
These letters no doubt. mostly from Ken
lucky, contain several hnndred dollars for
subscriptions. At Bristol, we are informed,
Our paper is thrown aside, and not allowed
to 90 further east.
One contemblible puppy, who fills the dig
nihed position of routs agent on the railroad,
boasted in this city, that he intended to de-
stroy the papers sent out by him, because
they were incendiary kbects. Similar act of
perfdy are committed all over the country,
by set of unprineipled Williams, who handle
and mail matter, and whose only title to,
public favor and confidence is, that they
have the honor 10 wear around their necks a
collar, having upon it this inscription /
AM JEFF. DAVIS DOG-WHOSE DOG
AREY U,
In addition to all this, the fact has come to
our knowledge, and from different reliable
sources, that tn, confederate authorities at
Richmond have ordered that our Knoxville
Whig must no longer be published, or trans-
mitted through the mails to subscribers.-
The order has not yet been given, but we are
in daily expectation of it, unless it be rescin-
ded, and it Of Course closes US in business
We presume that those who are destroying
our mails, ana eur packages sent off, are
acting under this order.
| Is this the boasled freedom of the press, Of
| speech, and of conscience, we hear of in the
new Southern Confederacy? And does th o
T freedom, guaranteed by the constitution of
Tennessee. unrepealed as yet, enter into this
war for Southern Rights and Independence
If SO. may God deliver as, and our Union
countrymen from such freedom, and the en-
joyment of such rightsT
PERSECUTION OF UNION MEN.
Leading men of the Union party, of unblem
ished character, must be rudeIy seized by an
armed band of men, to crafty the malice Of
leading secessioDists in Knoxville. torn from
their families, and rushed off upon ths cars
to Richmond, and there thrown into loath-
some prison The only press they have
must be muzzled, its batteries sileneed, and
its readers and friends required to take the
false statements of secession papers for the
news of the day! Large bodies of armed
- - eL a.-4l.k \
put in possession of all the principal towns,
and throughfares of the country, but no
wrongs are to be inflicted upon the people
of east Tennessee, nor are they to- be deprived
of any of their rights
Can all this mean anything less than
declaration ofwar against East Tennessee
Is it not opening the ball, and inviting blood
shed in East Tennessee? What the effect of
all this will be are wholly unable to say. It
will either depress the Union forces of this
end of the State, and cause them to cover
like dogs, or it will make them frantic in
defense of their gallant leaders, down-trod-
den because of their principles, and arouse
thirst for vengeance and brave deeds! What
Union leader after all this. can any longer
meet bis friends, and urge them to peace,
and moderation, as we know they have been
doing?
PARsoN BRowNLow's DECLARATIONS.
Parson Brownlow publishes the annexed
card
So far as we are concerned, we can sus.
pend our publication. in obedience to the
dictates Of tyranny and intolerance-we will
yield to the demands of an armed mcb-turn
over to them our office and what little prop
erty we have-deprive ourselves and help
less family of small children of the necessary
means support-and beg our bread from
door to door among Union men who are able
to give-but we shall refuse, most obstinately
refuse, to the day of our death, to think or
speak favorably of such Confederacy as
this, or to agree that honor, patriotism, or
love of country, have Influenced the men at
its head, who have plunged the country into
this revolution
And whether our humble voice is hushed
in death-whether our press is muzzled by
the spirit of intolerance at Richmond, maxi
ing this our last issue of journal we have
edited for almost quarter of a century, We
beg all who may come after Us and our pa.
per, to credit no Secession falsehoOd that
may represent US as having changed our
principles from those of an exalted devoti
to the old AMERICAN UNION, and of undying
hostility to those who would pepetaate its
dissolution!
THE PRESIDENT ENDORSED By CoNGREss.-
There are those who still try to arouse parts
zan prejudices by quibbling at the acts of
the President Why don't they picture the