The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-05

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rounding number and took the entire com,
pany save one man who escaped.
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PA RsoN BROwNLOw IN CINCINNATI.
His straight Out Union speech.
Parson Brownlow, Of East Tennessee, accom-
named by his son, arrived in this city yesterday,
and took quarters at the Gibson House. At
o'clock tho Union Committee met him in the
ladies' parlor, and he was welcomed by Pollock
Wilson. ESQ.,, who alluded with emotion to the
services of Brownlow in the cause Of the Union,
and his heroic endurance Of persecution. The
Parson was much moved by the cerdiality OF his
reception, and commenced speaking with STAN
mering voice, and eyes filed with tears. He
gave some outlines Of bis political record. He
had been for Clay in 1888, for Harrison in lS4O,
for Webster in 1856, for Bell and Everett in
1860. Speaking of Bell always reminded him
of pity the sorrows Of poor old man." He
(the Parson) had never bad any sympathy with
secessonists He had been offered large brides
to sustain the rebellion; but though he was
poor man be was not for sale. He gave an &C
count Of his correspondence with Judah r. Ben
iamin, all of which he had preserved and would
publish in his forthcoming book. He could not
express the Joy he felt in finding the old Union
flag at Nashville. When the army went to East
Tennessee re wanted to 60 along. II was in
Fremonts Department and he was glad Of it.
Fremont WIS his sort of man, and he wanted
to go with him to East Tennessee. There had
been great deal Of hanging on one side, and
he wished to superin:eud it on the other He
could say, and without profanity, that the Fed.
eral army in East Tennessee would be hailed
with Joy only eQualled by the hosannahs Of the
angels when Christ was born.
He never had any sympathy with Disunionists,
Secessionists or Abolitionists He was born in
Virginia, and his parents before him. He is
shareholder, bat he had no hesitancy IN saying that
scaen the questioncomes, as it acW ''he Union and
no slavery" against Slavery and no Union," he
aeas for tie Union and let saue,y go to The dogs, or
,phere else IL may be sent He acds for the Union,
a6ooe that or any Other institution
The wicked rebellion, he felt confident, was
on its last legs. 1t is almost played out When
the rebel Crittenden's army passed him, the men
werel literally barefooted and almost naked.
The blockade has played sad havoc with them.
They were preparing to make a desperate fight.
at Corinth. If whipped there, their cause was
gone. He hoped they would be pursued through
the cotton States to the peninsula, and then
driven into the sea, as were the devils driven
from the hogs into the sea Of Gal!ilee.
The niger never was in this rebellion. He
was never intended to be. Other causes had
produced it, but the guilty were reaping their
reward.
After the reception the Parson took an airing
with some gentlemen, driving through Clifton
and other attractive suburbs of the city.
He visited the Merchants Exchange, where
he was introduced to the merchants by President
Butler and spoke for perhaps half an hour. He
| showed plainly the marks of the hard times
through which he has passed. He is very thin,
and his face is haggard, bloodless and deeply
| marked with suffering and anxiety. He is, how
| ever, one of that race of tall, hardy, swarthy,
black haired East TenDesseans, who gave Ten
nessee her old time glory as the Volunteer State,
| and were foremost in the battles of Andrew
jackson, and with proper care he will soon re-
cover his health.
He gave touching narrative of his suherings
in prison, ofhis illness, and the care With which
the guards placed over him were doubled, when
NE was so sick he could not turn in bed without
assistance. The Jail was crowded with Union
men. Many sckened and persisted miserably in
| it, and others were taken out and hung. Gen.
Carroll, of the Confederate army, who was at one
time great friend Of his, being Union man
until late period, visited him in Jail, and said
to him: "Brownlow, you ought not to be here"
| 80 think, the parson responded, "but here
am" The General said the Confederate Court
| was sitting within hundred yards of the Jail,
| and if be would take the oath of allegiance, he
should be Immediately liberated. "Sir," said
the parson, looking him steadily in the eye, "be.
| fore I will take the oath Of allegiance to your
| bogus Government, will rot in jail or die here
of old age. I don't acknowledge you have a
Court. don't acknowledge you have Gov.
eminent 1t has never been acknowledged by
| any power on earth and never will be. Before
| I would take the oath l would see the whole
| Southern Confederacy in the Internal regions,
and you on top of i'll"
The General Indignantly left the jail, remark.
| ing 'that is id plain talk" Eyes, sr-ee,"
said the Parson, 81 am plain man, and them's
my sentiments Frequently men were taken
out of the Jail and hung, and the secesh rabble
would howl at him and tell him as he looked out
from the Jail windows that he was to be hung
next. He told them from those windows that
he was ready to 60 to the gallows, and all he
asked was one hours talk to the people before
he was swung off, that he might give them his
opinion of the mob called the Southern Confed-
eracy. The Parson said he expected to be
hanged. He had made up his mind to it. At
one time he was tried by court martial, and in
the decision of his case he was within one vote
OF being sentenced to hang. There was nothing
between him and the gallows but the will of one
| man, and him q. secessionist. Great God. on
The jails in East Tennessee and North Alabama
| were overful Of Union men. The Union men
| there had never hinched They stood firm now.
The Government whatt yer else it did, should
Immediately relieve them from the grinding and
destroying oppression of secession.
He related an instance of young man. named
John O. Hurd, an exemplary citizen and church
member, with q wife and two little children, who
was convicted Of bridge burning He was mott.
Go.l but ho,, hnc<a l.
| was to be executed. He asked for a minister of
the Gospel to come and sing and pray with him,
but was told that praying would not do traitors
| to the South any good, and he was thus issult.
| ingly refused his dying request. But the rebels
sent with him to the gallows miserable, drunk
en-, and demoralized Chaplain of one of their
| regiments, who stood on the gallows and told
| the crowd assembled to see the hanging. that
the young man about 10 be executed hsd been
led into the commission Of the crimes for which
he was to suffer, by designing men, and was sor
ry for what he had done. The man about to be
hung sprang to bis feet and called out that every
word the Chaplain had uttered was false. He
was the identical man who had burned the New
Greek bridge. He knew what he was about when
he did it, and would do il again il he had a
chance. They might 60 on with their hanging
tie was ready for it. And they hung him forth.
with The Parson told Of an inoifensive citizen,
who was pointed out to party of struggling sol
dlers, while at work in field, as "a d. Union.
ist" He was at once fred upon, and SO mangled
that he died within few hours
The Parson said it might astonish them, but
the greatest negro thieves In the world were the
Confederate soldiers He spoke feelingly on this
subject. They had stolen from him likely ne.
gro boy, fourteen years old, and worth thou
sand dollars. He had never heard from the how
since he was taken away, and never expected TO
see him again or to get cent for him. 1t was
solemn fact that the Confederate soldiers had
stolen more negroes during this war, than all the
Abolitionists had stolen for forty years These