Brownlow's weekly Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1861-1861, 1861-09-07
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Having stea he faise statements In the NsN
Yerk iraaiS, and New York Tsmes, 70 The Fl
feet that have turned eeeessisulsssapA hass
been laakisg speeches ia the camps a thls
place, TO vsleateers, praposiag - yoiantsss
and urging them to fight aad hAsiag seceived
several letters, aud verbal messages, from
friends, complaining Of my sAasgs, and some
from secessIsnisss eengrAsuiasing me. deem
il proper to state my posities, e can. Ia sn-
mistaksable terms. | do this because DO
DOT wish 70 pass with nay old Union friends
and co-lahorers, for lsas than an, aor With
the Seesssioaists FOR mere shAs iHm.
have the sans opinion n sc the hssesy
Of Secession, and Of che ~. : mea whe
etengi.t ehoat dissnlas' S Ct 1s enssst
and Of TIE motives that pro, hem, that
have entertained fot thz iEs ;femonths.
aad expressed ID thousand forHs never
can sanction the one, or eontids ID tiie other.
I have never visited any military snrlmpment
since toe war opened, nor have ! made any
speech, Of any sers, to any company Of Vol
unteers.
As am not candidate for msFtyrdOm, or
Imprisonment during the war, and Is have
been oyerpowered, FIRST, ~ the action Of the
State at the ballot-bOx; and next by the
military power Of the State, have deter
mined TO moderate in my toue, TO cease the
course of warfare have waged, aud to yield
to the necessity upon us--a necessity noas Of
us can avert. have resolved 10 gire ny
readers the news, as get il from the papers,
and let them draw their own inference. |
fought editOrially, as long as could accom-
Plish anything by sighting, and in my retire.
nent to q position Of neutrality, carry with
me, Nj UNCHANGED PRINCIPLES, and shall cher
ish them to my latest hoHrs In iifsi
East Tennessee, with her Union majority Of
10000 voters, having failed to declare her..
self the State, when she could and ought to
have done so +; aad the Federal Government
having failed to sustain the Union sentiment
Of East Tennessee, when il could and should
have been done, it is now too late to attempt
either. So far as lam individually coneerced,
will no, be a party TO any mad scheme Of
Rebellion, gotten up at this late day, or TO
any insane attempt to invade this end Of the
State with Federal troops. And any portion
OF the Union men Of Rest Tennessee, who
may be crazy enough to embark in either en-
terprise, and sufret utter ruin as they ere
bound to do, shall not, when the times of
these ealamities be oEerpast, reflect on me
for having advised snoh course
have many old friends and co-laborers in
the Onion cause, dispersed throughout East
Tennessee, who think that oagb, weekly to
pitch into the State and Confederate Gov
ernments, andinto everything, aud every body
with Secession, regardless Of con-
sequences; and The more so, as conduct the
only Union paper len in the Southern Con-
federacy. Not being impressed with any such
sense Of duty, most respectfully decline the
hoaors and hazards Of so brave and inae.
pendent course. And if there is any gen.
tlemaR in the Onion ranks, In this end Of the |
State, who is DESTROYS TO try bis hand In II, !
VIII ebeerfnliy yield him nay position Bat |
before he ernbarks, as "A new-beglnpsT, viii |
apprise him OF the fact that we are In the |
midst OF fearful Rsyolution and Rebellion J.
that The Civil Law has given way to Military !
rule-and that if be is fool enough TO attempt |
such a course, the Military authorities In the |
South, are not fool enough to tolerate i'll |
come down from my tztrsms position, not of /
eAoiet, but Of necessity, and frankly confess
that have not the courage 10 meet, in open |
combat, unarmed as ] am, eleven States in
arms, sDd in foil uniform
II am not now understood, am wholly
Incapable Of expressing myself, upon this
question. W. q. BRowSEow.
Sept. 5tb, 1861.