Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-22
NASHVILLE, TENN. THURSDAY, MAY %, l862a

Itye0r8i fought hm systematically, persev
lkeringly and untiringly; but it was upon the
8old issues Of wbiggery and democracy and
knOw we will 6ght for one another. [Great
! cheering We have merged in Tennessee
| all other parties and predictions ia this
/ great question Of the u nion. [Cheers We
| are the Union men of Tennessee, uncondi-
! uonal Union men-[ [oheersl aid ihe miser-
| able wretch who will attempt here or else.
wnero 10 resurreot old exploded parties ard
! party issues, and try 10 make capital out Of
/ lhis war, deserves the gallOWs and deserves
lldeaih. [Grest applause In Andy John.
llson's town they had the Jail full OF prison
ers drove his family out OF bis house. and
his wife being in the last stage of consump
lltion, appropriated his house, carpets and
Il bedding Tor a hospital, aud his wife had 10
take shelter with one Of her daughtars Ia au
I. adjoulug county, aud johnson has ia him
I tonight devil as big--and there is In the
E6osom otevery Union man in Tennessee-as
my bat; aud whenever the federal army shall
ind It's way there we will shoot them down
like dogs and hang them on every limb we
hoome to [Applause.l They have bad their
time Of banging and shooting and our time
comes next, and hope 10 God that it will
not be long. I am watching in the papers
the movements Of the army, and whenever
hear that my country Is captured, | intend
to return post haste aud point out the rebels.
[Cheers | have no other ambition on earth
but to resurrect the Knoxville Wig, and get
it in fall blast, with one hundred thousand
subscribers. [Cheersl And then, os the
negroes say down South, "Pil 'spress my
opinion of some Of them" [Great laughter
If have any talent in Coos earth, il is tn
talent to pile up epithet, one upon another.
daughter and cheersl
REBEL BARBARITIES
In the county Of Knox, where reside, and
only seven miles west Of the town of Knox
vile, they caught up Union men, tied them
upon logs, elevated the log upon blocks six
or ten inches from the ground, put the men
upon their breasts, tieing their hands and
feet under the log, stripped their backs en-.
trely bare, and then, with switches, cut
their backs literally to pieces. the blood run
ming down at every stroke. They came into
court when il was in session. and when the
case was stated, the Judge replied "These
are revolutionary times, and there is no rem
edy for anything Of the kind" Hence you
see, our remedy is in our own hands; aud,
with the help Of guns and swords aud Fabrps
we intend, God willing, to slay them when
we get back there wherever we ind them.
TCheers
In the Jail where hay they were accus-
toned to drive up with horse aud cart,
with an ugly, rough hat-topped GOTTA upon
it, surrounded by fifteen to forty men, with
l'bristling bayonets, as a guard to march in
through he gate into the Jail yard With
steady, military tread. We trembled ia our
boots for they never notified us who was 90
he hanged, end you may imagine how your
humble servant felt; for il any man in that
| jail, under their law, deserved The galloWs, |
claim to have been the man. | knew it and
| they knew it.
They came semotimes with two coGlns one
on each cart, and they took two men ot
! time and marched them out A poor old
man Of 5iXty-dve aud his son of twenty dyl
| we're marched out at one time and hanged
| on the same gallows. They made that pocr
! old man, who was u Methodist class leader
sit by and zee his son hang till he was dead,
and then they called him damned Lincoln
! lie Union shreker, aud said, "Come on, it is
your turn next" IIa sank but they prop
| ped him up and led him to She halter, aud
| swung both eff on the same gallows They
| came, after that, for another man, and they
took j G. Haum out Of jail-a young man
of Gue sense, good address, and OF excellent
character--a tall, spare.made man, leav n
a wife at home with four or five helpless
children. My wife passed the farm of Haums
the other day, when they drove her on. out
| of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey
II thank them kindly for doing so-and saw
his wife poughing, endeayoring to raise
corn for her suffering and starving child en-.
This is the spirit of secession, gentlemen.
Aud yet you have a set Of GOdiorsaken,
unprincipled men at the North who ore apo,-
ogizng for them and sympathizing with
them. [Applause
Hanging Is going on oil over East Tenn7s
| see. They shoot them down in the fields,
they whip them, and, az strange as b. may
seem to you, in the counties of Campbell
and Anderson they actually lacerdte with
switches the bodies Of females, wives and
daughters OF UaiOn men--cleVer, respectl-
be women. They show no quarter to male
OF female; they rob their houses aud then
throw them into prison.
When they took Iaum out and placed him
on The scafjld they had a drunken chaplail.
They were kind enough TO notify him an
hour before The hanging that he was 10 hang.
Haum Gt once made an application Tor %
Methodist preacher, Union man, % come
and pray for him. They denied him the priv.
iIsge, and said that God didn't heag auy
prayers ia behalf Of any damn Union
shriekcr. and he had literally 70 do wi.loa
lhe benefit orclargy. Bat they had near tae
ghl0wB an unpriuCiplod, drunken chaplain
| % llsl' o"u "lAiJf "'' So ~
took 20 apologize for Hlnm. lli said :
"Ils poor, unfortunate man. who Is a9Iu
tu pay ihs debt az nature. regrets t1- cosr-e
hs took, n3 said he was mised hy '1o
! Union plDHr.' Nluu rose up, ald Wl b
clear, s.e8torlal voice, said "FelI0v cu-
zsu#: There is not word Of truth i1 llHt
statement. I bayc authorized n0Gldy fp
make such stat msul, What i have said
aud done have done ana said with my y
open. and, % Dr. were to bs done oVeu
would do 10 again. 3 am ready 10 nsos. a.I
you can cEa2u.e yout pllpo....' llt tdua
.ILs a mlu; be died IIke Uai0n msN. a.
4u East Ten1e sslu Ous usit 10 die. AZ Col is
my jldge, would sooner Doe u4um 10 'ue
grave % day ban any Que OF l4a g,.ul.si.
concerned il his murder