The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-04-11

house. They got a double-barreled shot |
gun, a Sharp's rife, and revolver. That |
was all the weapons I had. Then they |
commenced waiting upon all the private |
families They took all the good horses |
that belonged to Union men. They enter |
ed their dwellings, threw off the feather |
beds from the bedsteads, took all the WOOL |
Ell blankets and eoverlets they could get
hold Of They broke open chests and draw
| ers,, and pocketed what money and jewelry |
| they could find in them. They carried |
away bacon, drove away fat hogs and
beeves, and robbed the people of every spe-
cies of movable property.
They began to arrest them and throw
| them into jail. Nor was that ALL Many of
| them were shot upon the streets, or in the
| fields in cold blood. / could give names
in abundance, and dates, and places. l
| speak not from hearsay but from my own
! personal knowledge. A man would be
quietly about his work in his field. and
some one would point him out as Union
man and the internal rebel cavalry would
shoot him down as damned Union
shrieking Abolitionist." Others were
stretched lengthwise upon logs of wood,
raised short distance from the ground so
as to admit of their arms being tied under
meath it, and were then stripped naked, and
4 kAONSos
wards, when these men would como into
courts of Justice, and pull off their shirts
and display marks of the inhuman treat
ment they had suffered, the Judges upon
the bench would coolly inform them that
these were revolutionary times, and they
could give no redress for such grievances.
Every prominent Jail in East Tennessee
was filed with Union men.
Take the case of Andy johnson. He Is
a man against whom / have fought for
twenty FIVE years with all my might. pour
ing hot shot into him continually, both on
the stump and through the coIumns of my
paper, and he in turn giving me as good as
sent. He and are to-day upon the most
{ friendly amieable terms. We, the people
of East Tennessee, have merged every other
issue into this great issue of the Union
loud applause.) You ought to do SO in
Indiana. You should never touch one of
your aspiring politicians with ten-foot
pole, unless he is totally and uncondition-
ally opposed to this Internal rebellion
, Where would | see man who ia base
enough to sympathize with secession before
: | would vote for him for Officer l would
see him where, in the language Of Milton,
'Oold performs the effect of fire.
. or, as Pollock says,
Whers grayitation, shifting, turns the other way.
And sends him HeIltOsTds-" ID. ,-.--.t z
i They drove Johnson's wife, far gone with
consumption, and very feeble, to take refugo
J with her sOn-in-law, in the adjoining eoun-
ty of Carter. They drove him into the
woods, where he remained no less than
three months, used his house and his beds
, for a hospital, and sold his goods at public
? sale. But the scale has turned. Andrew
, johnson is now Governor. He is the
/ right man in the right place.
T If President Lincoln had consulted the
Union men Of Tennessee as to what man
f should occupy that position, the reply would
4 have been almost unanimously, "give US
Andy Johnson" He has the unlinching
3 courage of Old Hickory, aud let me tell
yon, too, that he feels all the malice and
r venom requisite for the occasion. He will
7 row those wretches up Salt river. He will
send good many of them to Fort Warren,
! | where, Itrnst, after dina trial for treason,
: they will be hung upon a'gallows ofsimilar
, character and dimensions as that upon
, | which Hannah died.
When, upon the 9Th of November, thew
thrust me into Jail at Knoxville, I found
one hundred and fifty men whose sole Of
Tense was their faithfulness to the Union
! Every man among them was an aequaint-
! ance of mine. Three of them were Bap-
! |
! Pope, a man seventy years of age, and for
many years minister of the Gospel, was
thrown into Jail for praying previously to
his sermon for the blessing of God upon
the President of the United States. The
! Rev. Mr.. Gates, man about seventy five
years old, was imprisoned for throwing up
his cap and hallooing as company of I'm
! ion home guards were passing.
} When 1 entered the door the inmates OF
Q the prison were perfectly astonished.-
3 Some OF them were go overpowered by the
g nature of the circumstances that they could
hardly speak. "Oh," said they, "we never
l expected to come to this. We never ex-
Z pected the day would come when we would
: look through the iron CRATES of prison I"
said to them, Boys, cheer up. Are
81 you here for murder, or counterfeting or
, horse stealing2 No. You are here for no
l other offense than that of defending the
} glorious stars and stripes, and look upon
? this 50 the brightest day of my life. These
, scoundrels viii be sick of this business be-
3 fore this thing is over"
While was in the jail both of these
poor breaches were taken sick. The fur
|, niture of the prison deserves description
There was no sign of bsdstesd, not chair
: nor stool of any kind, and the only "fur-
, niture there was consisted of a dirty
wooden pail and two tin cups. The whole
: | one hundred and fifty prisoners could not
lie down at once, SO that we had to "spell''
each other, 80 all might have a little while
to sleep. A part stood while the others
lay down. That's the way we lived in the
jail.
These poor old preachers came near dy-
ing. The rebels showed me one favor.
The jailor, knew, was a mean, sneaking
rascal, whom had published in my paper
for forgery, and I was sure he would give
me arsenic in order to make sure of my
+ not doing so again, and obtained permis-
sion for my wife to send me my dinner
every day, and had her to send the basket
fall every day, and in this way 1 had the
satisfaction of feeding those feeble old
, preachers for two weeks with something
they could eat.
) Old Mr.. Gate had three sons in Jail. Mad
! ison Cate was on the verge of the grave
: With typhoid fever. He lay upon the floor
, of that damn brick Jail with an old ovar