Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-03-01
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The Memphis Avalanche makes a clean
breast of it, and confesses thut the love for
the Uuiou still lives in various portions of
the Sunny South. Disgraceful as the fact
is, it cannot be denied, AYERS that unhappy
print, that the common people in Eastern
aud Central Tennessee have lhe shocking
vulgarity to be patrioLs and in spite of the
persuasive eloquence of dungeons and hal
teys cherish an 'idolatrous love for the Gag
Of their fathers 1t confeSSeS, with tears in
its eyes, that these traitors TO the Rebel
cause, so far from being cxaSperated atthe
! advance of athe 'Yandal hordeS Of the
North, evidence their joy in every village
aud neighborhood' aud bail them as their
deliverers Not only this but some of these
Union.w orshipping catiffS have been or
ganizing into ban is, prowlng about the
country under the folds of the Yankee flag,
committing dcpradalions upon the Chval.
ry' and shooting men at nisht in their own
houses who adhered to the fortunes Of the
South
Various causes for this infatuation Of the
common herd are ingeniouSly assigned by
| the Avalanche and its fellow mourners
One is the slowneSs with which new ideas
penetrate the vulgar Brain, Another is the
result OF vicious education Another is the
prevalence of the popnlar dslusion that
George Washington was greater man than
JEFF Davis and Thomas Jefferson a greater
man than Bishop Polk. Another is the
dolatrous affection for old traditions aud a
stupid disituSt of Conederncy conceived
in perjury and brought forth in larceny.
This dscouraging condition of the pcpu
lar mind is eohGfmed 10y other testimony
The Expedition up the Tennessee Rive
woke up regular Union hornets nest
The people hailed our forces with the Wild
es, demonstrations ofjoy The old f,g wa
welcomed 10y all classes and conditions us !
Savior aud Redecmer of un oppressed pco
pie. Old men wept as they saw it WON
en- and children rent the air with exultan
shouts asst hey bslieidi its glorious Stars aI.l
Stripes hatmtiHg ia the breeze.
Other instances, prove that the com
mon people have no heart in the Rebellion
are occurring every day. A correspondent
of the Tribune, writing from Fort Henry
just after its surrender, relates the follow
: ing pregnant incident:
: While conversing with on intelligent RebC
officer to day. / called his attention to the as
suranceS Of the country people that the Unio
sentiment is largely predominant IN this regio'
c That is true SIR" was his reply "you a
n ways 6nd il 50 in these billy countries. Ho
see, these d----d Hoosiers don't know any be
. ter they are very ignorant aud don't nude
stand the bearings of things For the tru
Southern sentiment, Sir, you must 60 anon
: the gentiemed-he rich people-you wont FL
n Any Tories there.
To find the true Southern sentiment "
g must go among the gentlemen What
confession of the wickedness and infamy
4 the great Conspiracy a few thousau
: aristocrats-th pels of tie Government
= !, striking at its life. and plunging thirty m
: , lions of people into the horrors Of fratrici
) al war ! What punishment is adequate
:, the crimes of the miscreantS who insugu
/! ated the Rebellion !