Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-08-22
From East Tennessee !
The Congressional Elections.
Maynard and Bridges gone TO
Washington.
ARREST OFTROs. A.R.NELsON
Orders from Richmond to Suppress
the Publication Of the
Knoxville Whig.
LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE IN
THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY
MOCISEIIY.
The Ball Opened I'm East Tennessee.



The Ball Opened I'm East Tennessee.
From Brownlow's Wing, Saturday, Aug. 10.l
In the First Congressional District, Mr..
Nelson has been selected to Congress by a
majority of FIVE or six thousand votes. In
the Second District, Mr.. Maynard has been
elected by majority Of about six thousand
votes. And in the Third District, Mr..
Bridges has been elected by majority of
| from one to two thousand votes. Messrs.
Bridges and Maynard it is said, have both
crossed the mountains into Kentucky, and
may be said, as to the propriety OF these
gentlemen going to Washington to take their
seats, it is due to them to say they became
candidates for the Congress of the United
States, and were elected to go there, their con-
stituents desiring to be represented in the
Federal Congress, and not in the Congress
of the Southern Coniederacy. They were so
announced in this paper, as candidates be-
fore the people. Their competitors SO stated
| to the people, and no one was deceived in
their running the race for Congress-
| Mr. Nelson, who announced himself a
candidate for the United States Congress,
was elected by an overwhelming vote, and
| by constituency who desired to be represent
ed at Washington. In crossing from Rogers
vile to Kentucky, on Saturday last, he was
arrested in the corner Of Lee county, Va,
by an armed military force of thirty men,
and taken as prisoner to Abingdon, from
which point it is said he will be taken to
Richmond, to be incarcerated until he can
be tried for treason against the Southern
Confederacy by Secession Judges, before
Secession Jurors, and upon the testimony of
Secession witnesses. That he will be con-
victed, no sensible man can doubt for mo-
ment His son David, and some two or three
other gentlemen, were with him, and all were
arrested, and the presumption is they are all
together in Richmond as prisoners. The ex-
plot was one ofa daring and grand military
thirty armed mounted men, taking
fouror five civilians prisoners, who were arm
ed with pocket pistols Those who led in the
charge ought to be promoted in the Con
federate army! ...
The treason Of Mr.. Nelson consists in his
having advocated the cause of the Union,
and the Stars and Stripes of his country, in
opposition to the heresy Of Secession. To
this grievous offense, he has added the un-
pardonable sin of permitting his tellowciti'
zens to elect him to Congress To be con
sistent, and to carry out their principles,
tney ouSuI Nv" W "tiooe anu ocuu VII u
i Richmond, every man in the district who
voted for Nelson.
Il We have but little to say now respecting
this arrest, and the hot haste with which the
gallant and patriotic Nelson has been hur
ried off to Richmond We shall await the
action of the authorities there, with some
degree 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 thei
filthy city prison, Thomas A. X. Nelson, the!
will have more brains, patriotism, honor anc
chivalry, in their prison, than can be fount
in the Rump Congress
Col Baxter, of this city, has gone to Rich
mond, or such other point as they ma.
> choose to stop and try Nelson, to act as hi
friend and counsel He goes as volunteer
having no intercourse with Nelson since hi
arrest. We doubt whether he will be allow
= ed showing.
For weeks past, with our large list of sui
scribers, our weekly expenses have exceed
ed our income, and hence our paper ha
/, been carried on at a pecuniaIy sacrifice. Ou
10 exchange papers are kept back and not a
r. lowed to come to Knoxville. Our letter
): are broken open and robbed, in all direction,
al and our newspaper packages are laid asid
lc or destroyed so as to keep them out of tn
hands of our subscribers. AT Cumberlan
, Gap, or the office near there, we are inform
y ed upon reliable authority, there is larg
s pile of letters, to say nothing of papers at
dressed to us, which Secessionists will not a
low to come forward These letters, no doul
mostly from Kentucky, contain sever
hundred dollars for subscriptions. At Bri
J, tol, we are informed, our paper is throw
aside, and not allowed to go further Eas
IL One contemplate puppy, who fills the di!
IS nifed position of Route Agent, on the Raj
IS road, boasied in this city, that he intende
to destroy the papers sent out by him, b
: cause they were incendiary sheets. Simili
acts of perfdy are committed all over Il
r. country, by set of unprincipled villain
Y who handle mail matter, and whose on
title to public favor and confidence is, tn
they have the honor to wear around the
necks collar, having upon it this inscri
ton: | AM JEFF. DAVIS DOG
WHOSE DOG ARE YOUP
ng ,S In addition to all this, the fact has con
rs, to our knowledge, and from different rei
, BILE sources, that the Confederate autho
= ties at Richmond have ordered that o
, Knoxville Wing must no longer be publis
=, ed or transmitted through the mails to gu
- scribers. The order has not yet been give
but We are in daily expectation of it, unle
it be rescinded, and it ofcourse closes us 0
in business. We presume that those W
are destroying our mails, and our packag
sent off, are acting under this order. Is Il
the boasted freedom Of the press, OF speec
and of conscience, we hear Of in the nj
= Southern Confederacy And does this trt
dom, guaranteed by the Constitution ofTee
war for Southern Rights and independence
!" If SO, may God deliver us, and our Uni
\ countrymen from such freedom, and frt
IL the enjoyment of such rights
Il The Usurper and Tyrant Lincoln, SO mu
4 abused for invading the soil, and perso
4 rights of others, tolerates the publication
journals in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, N
York, Connecticut, and New Hampshi
red which oppose him in all his measures, a