The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-05-28

! road, all the bridges were burned rha
purely accidental. | had really gone on
on horseback, as they had suppressed M,
paper to collect from ShCrihs and Clerk
of the counties some fees that were OWN.
me, and they, being Union men, were gla,
to pay But they sworc that | was the til,
| hcll-weathcr and ringleadcr, and must hav,
had Il hand in it. They wanted pcrtex
Ior imprisoniug me, They had filed ever,
Jail along the railroad, and finally, on tn,
9th of September, they seized me and pu
me III damp, uncomfortable, desperate iail
where | found 100 Union mcu. And thcr,
was no piece of furniture there except 4
| dirty old wooden bucket and u pair of til
! dippcrS to drink with. The first men aut
| the best OF the country We're there. They
rallied around me, glad to see me;
! could give them the news. Some took mt
| 10y the hand, and were utterly spcechless
the tears running down their checks They
| pointed to the gratings, and said We never
! thought we should come to this. Said |;
"Chcor up boys bc of good courage. You
are not here for stceling or manSaughtcr
but because you adhere to the flag and Con.
sutution of your country. Cheers. am
here with YOU for no other 0ilensc, and as
God is nay Judge koys, look upon this 6tl,
'''N VI l'NNNiilbNl lbNl iN lllt lltuNlNHl NlIN
of my life Cheers. Hero | intend to
stay till die with old ago or disease, or
until they hang me. never will rcnouncc
my principles" rChecrs. Thor officers
had been accustomed to visit the Jail every
day, and to offer them liberty by proposing
to them it they would volunteer to release
and protect them They were accustomed
to volunteer half dozen at time, But
after got into HE Jail, for thrco months,
all this volunteering ceased. Applause. |
One of the. Brigadicr-Generas, son of am
cx-Goyernor Of that State, paid special
visit 10 me. He came in bowing and scrap
ing, dressed within an inch of his drunken
life. Said he "Brownlow, you ought not
to be here Said |, 81 think so, too. But
your authorities think SO, and have put me
here Now said he, If have come to
tell you il you will take the oath of allegi-
ance we will turn you Qut instantly, and
guarantee your safety and security" Rails
ing up several feet in my boots, and hav-
tng my Irish reused, looked him full in
the face. "Why, Sir said L. Il intend to
rot here till die with disease or old age,
before take the oath. deny that YOU
have any government other than big mob
You have never been recognized by any
civilized power ON Gods earth, and you
never will be" Cheers. "And Sir, said
| "nronnher 81 am w.li see the Southern
Coz oDfedcracy, and you and ON top of it, in
the internal regions before will take the
oath" Cheers. "Well sir, said he, that's
Id plain talk" "Yes, Sic, said |, land
that's the way to talk in revolutionary times.
Cheers. Things went on tightening up.
Many of us took sick; we had to lie
ON that miserable iloor---not room enough
for all to lie down ut once. Think Of it, in
December aud January. standing by
each other. You lie down and warm the
door, and then will. That is the way we
managed until many of our men died from
typhoid fever and pneumonia and various
other Diseases. shall never forget, while my
heal is above ground, some scenes passed
through in that Jail. | rccollect two Bap-
tst Clergyman sick unto DEATH very low
with fever, unable to eat morsal of the
miserable food supplied by the Marshal of
jeff. Davis, man ! had published as Il
scoundrel again and again, but u suitable
repr, sentative of Secession. They allowed
my son to bring me throo meals II
lay, and my wife put III enough for these
two Baptist clergymcn. One of them was
there because he prayed for the President
of the United States, and the other
for throwing up his hat at company of
Union Volunteers. Every time the basket
of food came i'll the jailer looked between
the pie and the plate to see that there was
not some communication passed.
One old Union man had three sons there.
One Of them -- James Madison Cade- was
very sick his wife came to him, bringing
a child five weeks old she had five in all.
They refused to let her in. | besought
them, and they did finally for fifteen minutes
When she saw her husband lying on a piece
OF carpet, with an overcoat over HIM, she
would have dropped her babe i'll astonish-
ment and terror if ] had not caught it. She
sunk down upon his breast; he could not
raise his hands. Neither spoke a word.
stood by and held the baby until the time
was out, and the officer insultingly came in
and told her it was up. This was the case
gentlemen, all over East Tennessee. And
allow me to announce to you, one and all,
that this is tho spirit Of secession in the
South. 1t is the spirit of murder, the spir-
it of hell, and yot you have men in tho
North who sympathize with them i'll fearful
numbers. Cheering If owed debt
to be discharged to the most revolving and
God-forsaken wretch that could be bulled
from the ranks of society, and ! wanted to
pay that debt and get rid of it, would make
a tender to his Satanic Majesty of twelve
Northern men oympathi2lng with secession.
Tremendous applause. If | am severe
aud bitter in my denunciation - . No, no,
not a Bit Well, if am, you must con
slider that we in the South make it person
al matter Cheers. No Northern man
ought to be tolerated in walking Broadway
who has any sympathy with secession
Cheers. They would either be for or
against the mill dam, and would make them
show their hands, Applause Why, gen
tlemen, after the battle of Manassas, they
passed through our town on furlough olll-
GERS and privates, going down into Dixie
exulting, and brought with them divers
what they called Yankee heads-th entire
heads of Union troops, some OF them with
long beard, aud they would take them by
the head and shake them out of the window
and say, A ID Yankees head )" This
is the spirit of secession-the spirit OF the
vile untutored savaSes of hell, and he who
apologizes for them is no better than he
who is the perpetrator OF the crime
| ICheers.I In Andy Johnsons town, Three
cheers for Johnson they had the jail full
| they tool, his house for hospital, and drove
out his family, his wife in the last stages Of
consumption. She was obliged to take ref
uge in an adjoining county, and johnson
has a devil in her as big as a pitcher; anc
whenever the Union army goes out there We
will shoot and hang them like dogs, lhav'
no other ambition than to start the Knox
Vile WING again, get 100000 subscribers
and "'spress my pinon ob some en-" a.
the negroes down South say, Parsol
Brownlow continued to give some of th'
terrible stories of the hanging of Uniol
men under the most aggravating circun
stances and with hendish atrocities. Tn
story of the hanging of Frye, and his CON
rade by the wretch Leadbetter, so near tn