Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-19

| knOXVllc was Iull Ol OulOu utu' ""0
there in JUL when they took my compan-
ions out aud hung them. l did not see
them hung, because this was done over Tue
hill but saw them go out, with tue olack
poplar coffins, and the soldier would turn
round, and pointing to Brownlow, would
say. You will swing next My reply was,
am ready to be hung, and all l want is
one hour under the gallows, TO give me
pedigree Of these men.
expected to be hung, aud had made up
my mind TO it, was told that the
drum.hcad court martial lacked but one
vote of confirming my doom, and that was
the vote of Secessionist No man ever
came SO near being hung aud was not. One
of my companions, A. G. lIawn-lhe gal
liant Hawn, one Of the most moral and up
right men in Knoxville, with a wife aud
two small children, was sentenced to be
; hung by this court.marlial and be had 0ut
! one hours notice TO prepare hlm'eH. lie
asked for a minister Of one of the churches
in Knoxville to be sent for, but the reply OF
the taller was, "No id traitor in the
South has the right to be prayed for, and
God does not hear such prayers" Poor
Hawu was placed on the seuffOld, aud
miserable drunken chaplain Of one of the
Southern regiments was sent TO attend
him.
Just as they were about 10 launch Hawn
into eternity, the chaplain said This poor
unfortunate man desires to say that he was
!, led iuto committing acts for which he is now
TO atone with his life, 10y the UuiOn men /,
and he is really au object Of pity.
Hawu rose, and in StcntOrian voice re-
, piled, / desire to say that every word that
this man has said is false. am the identi.
o cal man that put the torch to timbers OF
that bridge, aud | ain ready to swing for
a it, Hang me as soon as you can. lie said
:, he would do it again if he knew this was to
;, he his late for it,
= No Que can tell Of the Suilerings and
+. hard,hips that the Union men Of Eastern
/ Tennessee have had To undergo, nor how
:. many innocent men, without hearing or trial
:. have bCcn put to death, Squads OF caYaI-
:, ry arc rowing about the country, comm.I
!, ing all manner Of crimes, and shooting down
!, all Suspected of treason to the Southern
Confederacy 1t was ouly necessary to
=, have finger pointed to man aud some
=, one was ready to shoot him down. This
Il was the case With poor Pierce. lie had
>, committed no act of treason, but was sup
posed to sympathize with the Union m,n
is Walking across one OF his heids one day
;, some one said there goes traitor, when
, QUO of squad Of ciguIry fired, aud be was
- struck with a Minnie ball
? The jIils in the South are literally full
!. of Union men, many Of them taken fruu
n East Tennessee. Never was people ST
h broken down. The government owes it tc
4 the people, if they never go anywhere else
p to take care Of East Tennessee. They baV
n stood firm.
n There are no Union presses left in tn
# South, and not a Union editor but Que, aut
that is myself They have all been bought
y up. They offered me large sums of money
o bat my reply was, Thy money perish Will
thee | will see you 10 the deyIl first.
,. They took my paper, my press and m
l.. type, and gave me uoi.o that | shou
O publish no moro papers. took the adyic
;. OF my friends and family, and stopped til
q Hig. 1t was the only time in my HE tha
: ever gave in, for like COllin,' ram | al
Il ways had head Of my own. Laughter.
= They took my building, viii was sixll
r feet long and two stories high, and trans
formed 1t into an arsenal 10 repair the guns
which Floyd stole from the U. S. Govern
ment.
Aud this was not all Al Alabama
j regiment came along ono day and stole from
q me my only nigger, young mau OF whom
q | thought very much. might have expeC
I ted this from the Northern army if | hu
believed all that was said Of il, but d
Y not expect that the chlvalry aud flower c
/. the South would be guilty Of such al ac
5 after all their boasting.
II / tell you to-day, upon the honor of
Y man, that The Southern army and its hang
r. crs.on have stole more negroes in Virgins
Il Tennessee aud Kentucky during the past
Al mouths than the AboliIionists have cntice
.. or aided away in the last 40 years, aud tC
Il day, SO help me God, Que hal! the soldier
in he South never owned slave or wcr
r. ever related by the ties Of con'anguinit
m with any one that ever did. Cheers.
n They aie the offscourings of the lowest ol
in der of society, the meanest set OF coward
II on the face Of the earth. Look how the
ne fed at Fishing Greek, aud everywhere eI:
IA. when the Union army got after then
N. When they started cut they said ''UI
he Soulherner could whip five blue belle
of Yankees" and let me here relate aud inc
nd dent that happened in Knoxville few weel
Is. since
A Union lady met on the sidewalk, OIL
as day, Colonel of q regiment stationed
for Knoxville, and she said 10 him "Colont
ied how is il that notice that the Norlber
hey els have been getting the better of Us
AL Fert DOnelson and Fishing CIeek.
ned thought one SouIhcrucr could whip Ii
INV Yankees" oh" replied the Colonel, y
and see the troops were f ON Indiana, Ohio a
rent Illinois. They are the decendents Of X
: all tuckiaus aud Tennesseans, who remol
0 be from these States across the Ohio ye
rnee ago. They are Of our own stock, aud
,ded as good lighters as our own soldiers
and well, then, how is it about BurnsiC
,rry. victory at Roanoke Island? Were th
.nit. Indiana, Ohio and Illinois soldiers, tOol
To this inierrogatOry the Colonel repl
O at that be did rot know, and hastily bidd
Trhe the lady good day, left her
ybat This is my first ,nOrt in speaking in