Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-04-11
Parsou BrownIow,


ing. ana he finds that the air Of the free North
sgTees with him admirably. He has TO make
| speeches on Change, to serenaders, to Hotel
parties, as well as to the people who throng
around him in crowds, aud be is booked for
a speech at the Opera House, health permit
ting.
Parsou Brownlow makes a capital of-hanl
speech too, for he is full of matter and talks
right on to the point. At the Merchants IS
Exchange among other things personal he
said
The Brigadier General commanding at
Knoxville came in TO sea me one day. The
prisoners all rallied around to hear what was
said. He said: "Brownlow, you ought not to
be here" Il think so too,' said l. "Now, 3"
says be- "come along with me and we will make
| it all right. We will go up 10 Judge Hum
phrey, at the Court House, and you can take
the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confed-
eracy.' turAed round TO him, at this Insulting
proposition. "Sir," said I, before 1 would take
the oath of allegiance to the Southern Conled=
eracy, to obtain nIyalreedom, will rot in Jail
with disease, or die with old age. Nay, more
i deny that you have a governments deny
that you are authorized to administer the oath
Of allegiance to your rotten mob Government,
which no power on earth will ever recognize.
Before l will do so, will see the entire South
ern Confederacy in hell and you and on the
top Of it. Great cheering Sir said he
"that is id plain talk" "Yes sir-ee." replied
L lie tipped his hat, made bow, which re-
/ turned andwe parted. hope to meet him again,
and that will be when the Federal army takes
possession of Knoxville.
The Union sentiment of East Tennesse has
never given way, not particle. A more loyal,
devoted, untiring band Of Unionists never liYcd
on Gods green earth.
That littIe valley, forty miles wide and about
sixty miles long, of which Knoxville is the cen
ter, is full of such Union men and women
When came away, the Jail of Knoxville was
full of Union men. l was there in jail when
they took my companions out and hung them.
l did not see them hung, because this was done
over the hill; but l saw them go out, with the
black poplar coifins, and the soldiers would
turn round, and pointing To Brownlow, would
say, Y ou will swing next" My reply was, Il
am ready to be hung and all want is one hour
under the gallows, 10 give the pedigree of these
men,"
/ l expected TO be hung, and had made up my
mind TO it. was tod that the drum head
ing my doom, and that was the vote Of a Seces-
sionist. No man ever came so near being
hung and was not.
In reply TO the Union Committee, Parson
Brownlow said when the Union Army goes to
East Tennessee he wished TO 60 with it, and
added
4 Knoxville is in Fremort's Department. and
he was glad OF it, Fremont was his sort of a
man, and be wished to be with him on visiting
East Tennessee. great deal Of hanging had
been done on one side and be would like to
supcrintend some on the other. Without pro-
funily, he could say that the Federal army
would be received in East Tennessee with a JOY
only equalled by the hosannahs Of the angels
when Christ was born.
lie told the Cincinnatians in one of his
speeches, that When the issue is presented, as il
may be- The Union and no Slavery, against
Slavery and 10 Union" he is for the Union
and Slavery may go to the dogs. lie is for
the Union above Slavery Or any other insttu-
ton.
Again, he said-The rebels retained his wife
and three girls as hostages for his good beha-
vior Upon leaving Knoxville he told bis wife
to be prepared for exeCut ion, for according tO
the rebels ideas, he should most certainly mis-
behave hiHself.
The rebel leaders tried TO buy up Brown
lows Union press. His reply was-"Thy mon-
. ey perish with thee. l will see you to the dev-
, il first.
The rebels then seiged his printing Office
+ and gave him notice that he should not pub
] lish any more papers. The parson said
l took the advise of my friends and family
and stopped the Wing. Ii was the only tim
in my life that ever gave in, for like Eollins
ram, 1 always had a head of my own.
q The rebels taok Brownlow's building, sixty
: feet long and tsgo stories high, and transform
ed it into al armory to repair the UpiteC
States guns stolen by Floyd. The Parsor
i, then gave this opinion Of 'Rigger stealing
l Aud this was not ail. An Alabama regi
ment cape along one Sabbath day and stol
from NE my only niger, a young man o
: whom l thought very much. 1 might have
expected this from the Northern army if
: had believed all that was said of it, but l di(
! not expect that the chivalry and flower of th
: South would be guilty Of such an act, after al
their boasting.
tell you to-day, upon the honor of map
that the Southern army and its hangers-Ol
: have stolen more negroes in Virginia, Tennes
:, see and Kentucky during the past six months
than the Abolitionists have eniiced or aide'
away in the last forty years, aid to-day s
: help me God onc-half the soldiers ip the Sout
- never owned a slave or were ever related b,
the ties of consanguinity with any one tina
ever did fCheers They are the ofiscoul
z ings of the lowest order OF society, the meanes
d set of towards on the face of the earth. Thi
c wicked rebellion is about played out all tha
81 is needed to finish the ork is "a little NOR
Il grape Captain Bragg"
Il Grape for the masses, and hemp foT th
leaders is my motto.
Is No MORE LETTERS FROM THE ARMY.-Th
Ie writing of letters by soldiers in the army {
G the Potomac now on the road to Richmond
j prohibited by an order issued from Hea1quaI
a. ters Letters written just before the marc
commenced, were retained three days or MOI
D at Washington before they were dispatchc
t. northward. How long this rule will be iniort
O. ed it is impossible to say. Those who haV
friends in the army and receive no letters wi
understand the reason why.
a, GEN. FREMoST's DEPARTMENT.-The caster
ye boundary of this Department is the AlIegh'
, ny Mountains, the western an indefinite Ii
=, north from Knoxville, Tenn, the southern
70 line from X noxville east to the Mountain
- which embraces Western Virginia, u sma
II neck Of Eastern Kentucky, and point
NJ Eastern Tennessee, with very small strip
North hern North Carolina