The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-05-14

roucnue ArrEAL voR EAsr rrxNsssIE.
10 the Editor of the rAiaAelphia Inquirer.
Sir: srite to psblish in your widely circul-
ted Journal, briet card, which request your
other city papers 20 copy. l consider that the
Petersburg Erpvsss, in announcing the arrival
in that city Of my wife and children, and the wife
and children Of the Hon. Horace Maynard. he's
mendaciously assaled the reputation and patri.
otism Of these ladies' in stating 'thas though the
husbands have evinced IN unacccuntable hostili.
~ TO the South and in cause, they (she ladise)
are firmly attached to the Couied~rscyi
There 10 not one word Of truth in shis state.
ment, unless IL is alleged that the homes and rs-
eides Of these ladies, in Knoxville. from which
they have been upceremoniously expelled by An
insoIent order Of the Comnanding General, con.
stitstes the Coufederacy. The order sas issued
70 these families BY wu. NJ. Churchvel, Provost
Marshal At KnoxviIle. giving them Sc hours in
which 70 leave the Coniederacy, leaving their
houses asd furniture behind, and escaping With
portion OF their wearing apparel. Churchusli.
Who issued the meGdacious order, no doubt took
great pleasure in doing SO; the hatred Of Mr..
Asynards family grows out Of Maynards having
beaten him 40 votes in that District In con.
test Tor the United States Congress; the hatred
for my wife and Eve helpless children gross out
o. having convicted him Of faisehood ssS d,s-
hoRssfy. In Q court OF justice, in q certain bank
suis and huge swindle brought against him.
He ought nov TO drive out OF the Confederacy
I'VE oticers in hs rebel regiment, who preferred
the grave charge against him at Richnoad OF
trying 70 draw from the Paymaste OF the Army
upoa false papers. forty bhovsand dollars more
than be was entitled to! A fit representative Of
the morality, virtue, and integrity OF the bogus
Confederscy! Ny family are up in the vicinity
OF Bordentown, n. j., and feel that to have e.
capped With their lives, and part Of their clothes.
great blessing. and that they can sing in good
faith.
''God Of my life, whose gracious power,
Through various deatks my soul hath lea
Has shone upon the darkened hour,
Has lifted up my sinking head"
Every member Of my family, old enough 10
appreciate the horrors Of this Internal rebellion,
desPise the 20 called Coutedency, and the un.
Priscipled villains who inaugurated it TIE on
~ difference between me and them ID. that I
claim to be capable Of despising the wicked con.
cern and all connected With originating il, With
more imfewss hatred than they can But then,
l have trained then up 'in the nurture and ID.
nonition Of the Lord" which implies obedience
to Law AID order, and an uadying hatred oi Se-
| cessien and its guilty authors.
The work Of murder, arrests aud imprison-
ment gsss braveIy on ia East Tennessee, 40 my
family inform me, who left Knoxville the latter
part Of Last week, They we're shooting Union
men dowa in the streets. arresiing hundreds aud
shooting down City or sixty in one instauce, after
they had surrendered and we're under arrest
They marched between 800 and 900 through tho
street. With some Of them barefooted, and their
feet bleeding. taking them TO the depot and ship
ping then to Atlanta, Ga. 10 work upoa their
forti6cations These men, denied water, would
| lift out Of the mud pMddies in the streets With
their hands. after . rain, what they could -
quench their thirst.
In Gods name call upon President Lincoln,
and upon his C0binet and army officers, to asy
how long they will suffer Q loyal people, true to
the Uaion and to the Government of their fa.
thers, 70 suffer In this way The Union men Of
Eass Tennessee are largely in tho msjority-ssy
| three to one, but they have no srms-tbsy are
| in the jas OF the country-they are working on
rebel Notifications like slaves under the LASH and
| no Union force has ever yet been marched into
that oppressed and down trodden country. Let
the Government, if it has any regard Tor is oh.
Igatons, redeem that couatry at once, and libe.
rate the people, no matter at what cost Of blood
and treasure.
| They have suffered these outrages for shs last
twelve oonths, and are now desp0ndine, nay de.
speiriog OF any rehet. Let an army-''a terrible
army with bsnnen"-go at once into East Ten
sessee. and back up the loyal citizens, while the
latter shoot and hang their prosecutors, wherev.
er they can find them. want the army to servo
tor me - . forerunper-a sort Of John the Bap.
tist 10 the vildeIness, SO that may 20 back with
new press. type. and paper, and resurrect ny
Union Journal. and tell one hundred thousand
subscribers weekly What 10 going on upon the
borders Of civilization.
i In conclusion. return nv most sincere
thanks, and thanks aud gratitude Of INV persecu.
ted family, to Lieutenant Speed, the rebel Officer
who had them in charge. for the kind. courteous
and gentlemanlke treatment they received a
bic hands. in protecting them against the insulti
Of secession blackgusrds, seeing after their bag
gage, and turning them over to General Wool
ss Fortress Monroe. The ge0tlemanly instinct,
of q Whig and a Methodist have not beer
crushed out in this true hearted Virginian by ths
incurable disease Of Secession. And wbaieve,
may betide him in the ups and downs Of this IN
holy var, he wiIl have my good wishes and III.
coed wishes u my family. sm, &c,
i w. G. BROwNLOw.
!, Crossvieks, ~ j., Nay 8, 1862