The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-04-10


army went 10 East Tennessee no wanted
10 go along. |; was in Fremont's De-
neportmeut he was glad Gift Fro.
mont was his sort of man, and he
wanted to so with him 10 east Tenn0s-
see. There had been a great deal Of
hanging ou one side, and he wished to
superintend It on The oiher lie could
say aud without pfofanity that the Fed
eral army would be hailed with a Joy
only cqullIed by the hosaunahs of the
angels when Christ was born.
He never had any sympathy with
disunonisis. .sccessionists rabolitionists.
/ He was BON IN Virginia and, his pa
rents before him. Hois STAKEHOLDER,
but ho hadn hesitancy in saying that
when the question come, as it will. "tbe
Union and no slavery" against slavery
aud no Union, he was fortho Union aud
let slavery 80 to the dogs, or where else
II may be sent. He was for the Union
above that or any other institution.
The wicked rebellion, he felt conf lent
was on ITS last legs. Il is almost played
out. When the rebel Critcndin's army
passed him, the men were literally bare.
footed and almost naked.
The blockade has played sad havoc
with them. They were preparing TO
make a desperate fight at Corinlh. II
whipped there, then their cause was
gone. He hoped they would be pursu-
ed through the cotton States to the pen
insula, and then driven into the sea, as
we're the devils driven from the hogs
into the sea Of Galilso.
The niger never was in this rebcll-
ion. He was never intended to be-
Other causes bad produced it, but the
guilty were reaping their reward,
After the reception the pOrson took.
an airing with some gentlemen, driving
through Clifton and other attractive su.
berbs OF the city
He visited the Merchants Exchange,
where he WAS Introduced to the meroh
aats by President Butler and sopke for
perhaps haitian hour lie showed plain
ly the marks OF the hard times through
which he had passed. He Is very thin
aud his face is haegered, bloodless an.l
deeply marked with suffering and anxiety.
He is, however, one of that race Of tall.
hardy, swurthy black haired Esst Ten
nesseeNs, who gave Tennessee her old
time glory us the Volunteer State, and
were fopmostin the battles Of Andrew
jackson, and with proper care he will
soon recover his health. =
lie gave Touching narrative Of his
sulicrings ia prison, of bis illness, and
tho care with which the gpaEa plat6lI
fovefl i'm we're doubled, when he was so
sick he could not turn ia bed without
assistance. The jill was crowded with
Union menl Many sickened and per-
ished 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 I'm
ion man until late period, visited him
in jail and said to him.
'BrowoIow, you ough. notto be here
$50 think" the parson responded,
"but here lam" The General said the
Confederate Court was sitting within
hundred yards Of thcjail, and ifhe would
take the oath Of allegiance, he should bc
Immediately liberated. "Sir," said the
parson, looking him steadily in the eye,
"belore viii take the cath of allegiance
to your bogus Government, will rot
in Jail or die here Of old age. ! don't
acknowledge you have court, don't
acknowledge you have government -
|! has neyel been acknowledged by any
power on earth and never will bo. Be.
fore would take the oath would see
the whole Southern Con'ederaCy in the
internal regions, and you on top of it!'
| The General Indignantly lef the jail
! yemarking "tbatis d--d plain talk
"Yes stree, said the Parson. II am
plain man and thcm's my sentiments"
Frequently men were taken out of the
jail and hung; and the secesh rabblo
would howl at him and tell him as ho
looked out from the jail windows that he
was 10 be hung next. lie told them
from those windows that he was ready
to go TO the gallows, and all he asked
was one hours talk to the people before
he was swung Of, that bo might give
tfcm lis dpiHiJh oi Che mob called the
Southern Confederacy, The Pawon said
he expected to be banged He had
made up his mind TO it. At ono time
be 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 gal.
lows but the will Of one man and him
q seccssonist. Great God on what
slender thread hung everlasting lhingsl
The jails in East Tennessee and North
/ Alabama wprr overfull nr ITnion man -