Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-01

Aus'l- '0ITi Salu mel - that ts Id platG
talk. Eyes stree, y" replied l. He tin.
ped his bat, made a bow, which returned
| and we parted, j hope to meet him again
and that will be when the. Federal army
takes possession of Knoxville. 90 En4 af
The Union sentiment of East Tennessee
has never given way, not particle. A
more loyal, devoted, Mntiring band 81
tInionists never lived on G cd s green earth
Z. That little valley, forty miles wide and
abont sixty miles long, of.which Knoxville
IS the CENTRE is full of such Union men and
women. Whenl came away, the Jail oi
Knoxville was fall of Union men. I was
there in jail when they took my. compan-
ions out and hung them. / did not see
them hung, because this was done over the
hill but saw them 60 out, with the
black poplar collins, and lhes6Idiers would
turn round, and pointing 10 BrownloW,
would say, ''Hou will swing next" Nv
reply was!"l am readyto be hung, and ali
want Is one hour under the RaIlows, to
give the pedigree of these men.'6 {"
lll expected to be hung, and had made up
my mind to It. WAS told that the drum
head court.martial lacked but one vote of
confirming my doom, aud that was the
vote OF a Secessionist. No man ever came
so near being hung and was not. One Of
my companions, A, q. Hawn-the gallant
Hawn, one Of the most moral and upright
men In Knoxville, with wife and two small
chtldren-was sentenced to be hung by
this court-martial, and he had hut one
hours notice to prepare himself. He asked
for a minister of one of the churches in
Knoxville to be sent for, bnt the reply Of
tue jailer was, "No id traitor in the
South has the right to be prayed for, and
God does not hear such prayers" Poor
LAWN was placed on the scaFold, and a
miserable drunken chaplain of one of the
Southern regiments was sent to attend
him.
just as they were about to launch Hawn
into eternity, thechaplain said: "This poor
unfortunate man desires me to say that he
was led into committing the acts for which
he is now TO atone with his life, by the
pity" - 's7 ~ p D
I Hawn rose, and in stentorian voice re-
piled, 81 desire to say that every word that
man has said is false. / am the identical
man that put the torch to the timbers OF
that bridge, and ! am ready to swing for it.
Hang me as soon as you can" He said he
would do 1t again ii lie knew this was to
be his fate for it. 10
No one can tell Of the sutFsrings and
hardships that the Union men Of Eastern
Tennessee have had to undergo, and how
many innocent men, without hearing or
trial, have been put TO death. Squads OF
cavalry are royIng about the county com
mitting all munuer Of crimes, aud shooting
down all suspected of treason TO the South
ern ConfederAcy. It was only necessary
to have finger pointed to a man and
some one was ready to shoot bin down.-
This was the case with poor Pierce. He
had committed no act of treason, but was
supposed TO sympathiZe with the Union
men. Walking across one Of his fields one
day, some one said there goes u traitor,
when one of a squad of cavalry fired, and
he was struck with a MIME bali.
The iails in the South are literally full of
Union men, many of them from Enst Ten
nessee. Never was people SO broken
down. The Government owes it to the
people, If they never go anywhere else, to
take care of East Tennessee. They have
stood firm. >.
There are no Union presses left in the
South, and not Union editor but one,
and that is myself. They have all been
bought up. They offered me large sums
of money, but my reply way, .'Thy money
perish with thee, will see you to the
devil first " s,a,st f.5.a. ...',.,..f.t7,
They took my paper, my press and my
type, and gave me notice that should
not publish any more papers, l took the
advice of my friends and family, aud
stopped the Rhig. It was the only time
in my life that ] ever gave in, for, like
Collins ram, always had a head OF my
own. Laughter. . 5ss II. .-Es
"a They took my building, which was six
~ feet long and two stories high,Y aud
transformed it into sn arsenal to repair the
guns which Floyd stole from the United
States Government.
And this was not ALL, An Alabama reg
iment came along one Sabbath day aud
stole from me my only nigger, a young
might have, expected this from the North-
ern army if / had believed all that was
said of it, but i did. not expect that the
chivalrY and flower of the South would
be guilty of such an act, after all their
bOasLing. si5fs.s.r..,l.s ..5f
tell you to-day, upon the, honor of n
man, that the Southern army andits hang.
ers.on have, stolen more negroes in Vir-
ginta, Tennessee and Kentucky during the
past six months, than the Abolitionists
have enttced or aided away in the last for
ty years, and to-day, SO help me God, one
half the soldiers in the South never owned
q slave or were eyer related by the ties of
consanguinity with any one that ever did.
CCheers. They are the offscourings OF
the lowest order Of society, the meanest
set of towards on the face of the earth.
Look how they fled at Fishing Creek, and
everywhere else when the Union army got
after them. When they started out they
said Zone S6utherpetc could whip five blue
bellied Yankees, and here elet me relate an
.incidentthat haPReued in Knoxville few
weeks since. 5la,g.. ma .s..s.s.T -.
4. a unionlady met on the sidewalk one
day a Colonel. Of regiment stationed in
lKnoxyilIe, and said. to him, "Colonei, : how
Is il that -Is notice The Northernertss have
been getting the better of US at Fort Hem
ry, Fort D6relson and Fishing Creek I
thought one Southerner could whip five
Yankees "Oh,m replied the Colonel,
'tyou see these troops were from Ohie, In.