, 1862-05-08

lffom lhc ashtnEton lntelltgcncer, I'd.
Ifany one we're disposed to doubt whether
duct Of the present war are controlled by ss a
plan, adopted i'll pursuance Of purely militia
y principles, we think there arc two facts
which should suffice to remove al incrcdulitY
on this score. II considerations Of political
justice on the one hand, or Of natural resent
ment on the other, had had anything to do
with dicta'ing the military policy that has
been consistently followed, We may be sure
that the State Of South Carolina would not
have been left to suffer so little from the hor-
hors of the war she had provoked, while, at
the same time, the only population which,
maintained the attitude Of active 10y
atty, is left down to this day with
out any direct snceor on the part
Of the Government. Nothing but predeter-
mined "plans,' founded on conceived militia
= PRINCIPLES Of the most imperious nature,
cnnld excuse the Government from the i'm
putalon Of hasipg cruelty deserted the people
Of East Tennessee; and when we hear it
chsrEcd that the conduct of the war is not di.
rected by a"plan," (Which no newspaper
stratt gists have been able to fathon1 or modi-
ty,) We must point to the fact that, In opposi-
ton to al the prcconceived notions cherished
By unmilI'ary people on this subject, the
Government has fit itself constrained to with
hold direct relief from that portion Of the
people in the South who have had, and still
1lAfE1 1uE 5IQuSHbL c4aIE1S on lis projection.
as they have been, and stul are, the most ii
need OF that protection.
On this point We have only to repeat the
mourRfnl words Of a Philadelphia cotempora-
ry-the As7aerieaa-which, in its number of
yesterday, says:
'Ancther painful chapter in the history Of
the rebellion Is opened to us in the statements
Just received Of the driving out Of the Union
men Of East Tennessee. The rebels have at
tempted scarcely less there than the depopu-
tor of whole districts; i these statements are
whose love for the power erected bY thon-
selves in the Union was such that they could
! ptyer turn traitor to it, have been driven from
| the country bg the Insane partisans Of the re-
| bellion, and this is in greater part on The gen
era1 principles OF the leading rebels, and In
| part 10 tayor p1under OF their property bE the
| rebel guer1illas.
| SIT appears that, under thc accommodating
| dangers gathering around them, the forces
! they have in East Tennessee enga ed in gen.
! cral crusade agains1 all suspected of being
country, and not eDly compelled to leaYe, but
are assaulted and killed while on their way to
Kentucky Nine hundred refugees are report
cd 10 have lost ono hundred killed by this
murderous violence, A body of eighteen hun
dr. is spoken Of as already well advanced OF
their fight to the Upion protection, aud .
general proclamation requires all Union fAn
iiies to leave. A few Of the families of leading
men appear to be favored with pass by q flag
OF truce, among them those Of Parson Brown
low and Hon: g. Maynard, but for all othe1t
there is nothing bnt instant flight to the viii
dernees to escape Are and sword.
"lt is natter for peculiar regret that 81
much suffering should fall upon the skurd]
ard patriotic people Of East Tennessee; the11
who have hoped and believed IN the Unioi
when every body else at the South thought
better to make as fair terms as possible witl
the rebel power and to go with the South,
as it was called, to savo their own lives AM
property. Certainty the patriotism Of thes
: Union refugees has been tEiedraud proved b,
the most trying and terrible tests possible i
) civilized life, and Wc have the pal Of seeio'
them suffer the last extreme Of violence 1itl
out teing able to strike their prosecutor