The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-04-10

The wicked rebellion, he felt confident,
was on it's last legs. lie almost played out.
When the rebel Crittenlen's army passed
him. the mon were literally barefooted, and
almost naked.
Tho blUcks le hos played sad havoc with
them They were preparing to make
desperate fsht ct Ccrinth. If whipped
there, their cause 10 gone. He hoped they
would be pursued through tho Cotton States
to The peninsula. ard then driven into tie
sea, AS were the devils into the sea vi Gall
lice.
The Niger never was iu this rebellion.
He wac never intended to be. Other caus-
cs had produced it, but the guilty were
reaping their reward.
After tho reception the parson took an
airing with some gentlemen, driving through
Clifton aud other attractive suburbs OF the
c,ty.
lie visited the Merchants Exchange,
where no WAS introduced to the merchants
by President Butler. and spoke foI perhaps
half sn hour lie showed plaiily tho
ulurks Of the hard t.ulcs through which he
has passed. He 10 very thin, ind his face
IS haggard, bloodess, atd deeply marked
with suffering and anxiety, He 10, howev-
er, one OF that race oi tall hardy, swarthy,
black haired East Tcinesseeens, who gave
Tennessee her old tine glory as the Voluu-
Of Andrew jackson. and with proper caro-
he viii recover his health.
lie gave touching narrative OF HE suf-
ierlnss in pr son, OF his illness, and the
care with which the guards placed over
| him were doubled when hr was 50 SEX he
! could not turn in bed without assistance.
| The jail was crowded with Cnion men.
| Many aicEencl and pershed m!serably in
| L, anti Others were taken out and hung.
Gen. Carroll of the Confederate army, WHO
was at one time great friend of his, being
u Union man uutl late period, visited him
in Jail, and said to him: "Brownluw, you
ought not to be here SO Think" the
p0rson responded. but here l am" The
General sad the Confederate Court was sit
ting within hundred yards OF the jaiT and
if he would take the oath OF uleg,anc he
should be immediately Liberated. Sir"
said tho palSou, looking him steadily in the
eye, "beiUre will take the oath OF allegi-
ance 10 your bogus government, viii rot
in jail or die here Of old ace. | don't ee-
knowledge you have court don't ac-
knowledge You lnvo II government 1t has
never been acknowledged by any power on
earth. and never will be. Before | would
take the oath would see the whole South
em Uoniederacy in the Internal regions
and you on top OF III
The General Indignantly left the jail, re-
marking that Is lI------u plu.n talk " Yes
Stree" saul the parsou, " am u plain man.
and them's my sentiments"
Frequently men were taken out Of the
Jail and hung, and thu srCcsh rabOle would
howl at him and tell him, as he looked ont
from the Jail window that he vas to DO
hung next. He told them from those win
dows that nc was ready 10 30 to the gallows,
and all he asked WAS one hours talk to the
people before he was swung off, that he
might glyu them his opinion OF the mob
, ! called the Southern COntgdUraCy. The par
son said he expected 20 be hanged. lie
had made up his mind 10 It. Al one time
he was tt.u. - court martial, and in the
decision of his case he was within one vote
Jf being sentenced to hang. There was
r,.hny between him AID the gallows but
the VII Of one ma", and be II seccssionist.
Great God on what a slender thread hung
everlasting things.
The iails III East Tennessee and North
Alabama were over full of union men. The
Union men there had never Ainched. They
stood firm now. The Government, whatev-
er else it did, should Immediately relieve
, them from the grinding and destroying OPP
: preston Of secession. Iii related an instance
OF "a young man named John q. fIurd an
exemplary citizen and church member, with
wife and two little children, who was
convicted of bridge burning. He was no
titled but one hour before lie was hung that
, he was to be executed. He asked for q
! minister of the gospel to come, and sing and
: pray with him, but was told that praying
would not do traitors 70 the South any good,
and he was thus insultngly refused his
+ dying request But the Rebels sent with
3 him to the gallows a miserable, drunken
! | and denurtli2ed Chaplain OF one of their
(, regiments, who stood on the gallows, and
told the crowd assembled to see the hang
+ ing, that the young man about to be exc.
|. cuted had been led into the commission of
/ the crimes for which he was TO suffer, by
: designing men, and was sorry for what he
!. had done The man about to be hung
! sprang to his feet, and called ont that every
word the Chaplain had uttered was false.
= lie was the Identical man that burned the
+ New Creek bridge. He knew what he was
= about when no did il, and said he would do
. it aguin il he had chance. They might
go Oh with their hanging, He was ready
for il.
The parson told of an inofTensive citizen,
who was pointed out to party Of strag-
Cling soldiers, while at work in field, as
I'D Uui0nist' He was at once fired
upon, and SO mangled that he died within a
e. few hours.
v The parson said it might astonsh them,
n but the greatest negro thieves in the world
,e were confederate soldiers. He spoke feel
IS ingly on this subject. They had stolen from
/ him likely negro boy, fourteen years old.
n and worth a thousand dollars. He had
e. Encvcr heard from tho boy since he was ta-
m ken away, and never expected to see him
is again, or to get cent from him. 1t was a
solemn fact that tho Confederate soldiers
s. had stolen more negroes during this war
g. than all the Abolitiouists had stolen for for
~ t. years. These soldiers were the Off
,r sco,lrings Of the earth. Not onc-half Of
II them had ever owned a negro, or were cen
nected by any degree Of social affinity or
m consmguinity, with anybody who ever did
:" own negro. Not only did they steal me-
A. groes, but they entered houses and took all
r the money and jewelry they could lay their
1t hands upon. They wore, emphatcally,
,r thieves as well as traitors.
n He had recently had conversation with
h secesh LADY, who spoke as usual Of one ef
is tae chivaly whipping FIVE Yankees. He
,s asked her about Fort Donelson, etc. She
g explained that by saying the people Of the
NJ Northwest were the sons OF emigrants from
9. the South they were Southern stock and
as fought like Southcns. lie inquired what
n, Of the blue belied Yankees under Burnside.
n but she did not know how that was in fact
Of had heard but little about il.
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