Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-05-30
Fremont Journal.
nEnEL ArRROoErnEs.

York few evenings since, related some Of
the outrages pcrpetrated 10 East Tennessee
upon the Union men. The barbarisn pro-
duced by slavery has no parallel this side
Of hell. Parson Brownlow described his
confinement in Jail. He said:
We had to lie on that miserable, cold,
naked floor, with not room enough for us 10
lie down ut the same time-and you may
think what it must have been in December
and January--spelling each other, one ly-
other taking bis place so made warm, and
and that was tho way We managed until
many became sick unto death. A number
Of the prisoners died Of pneumonia and ty-
phoid fever and other diseases contracted
by exposure there. / shall never forget,
while my head is above ground, the scenes
passed through in that Jail. l recolleet
there were two venerable Baptist clergy
men there--Mr. Pope and Mr.. Cate. Mr..
Cate was very low indeed, prostrated from
the fever and unable to eat the miserable
food sent there by the corrupt jailor and
deputy marshal.
HARD CASE.
Old man Cate had three sons in JAIL
One Of them, James Madison Cate, most
exemplary and worthy member Of the
Baptist Church, who was there for having
committed no other crime than that Of re-
fusiug to volunteer, lay stretched at length
upon the floor, with one thicknes Of piece
of carpet under him and an old overcoat
doubled up for pillow, in the very agonies
OF death, unable to turn over, only from
one side to another. His wife came to
visit him, bringing her youngest child with
her. which was but babe, but they refls-
cd her admittance. l put my head out of
the Jail window, and entreated them, for
Gods sake, to let the poor woman come in,
as her husband was dying. They at last
consented that she might see him for the
limited time Of fifteen minutes. As she
came in and looked upon her husbands
wan and emancipated face, and saw how
rapidly be was sinking, she gave evident
signs of fainting, and would bave fallen 10
the floor with the babe in her arms. had /
not rushed up to her and cried, "Let me
have the babe" and then she sank down
upon the breast of her dying husband, un-
able at first to speak a single word. / sat |
by and held the babe until the fifteen min
utes had expired when the officer came in,
aud in an insulting and peremptory man
ner notified her that the iuerview was to
close. Ihope 1 may never see such scene
again; and yet such cases are common all
over East Tennessee. Such actions as
these show the spirit of secession in the
South. 1t is thespirt of murder and assas-
ination-it is the spirit of hell. And yet
you have men at the North who sympathize
with these internal murderers.
BULL RUN TROPHIES.
After the battle at Manassas and Bull |
Run the officers and priyates of the Con-
federate army passed through our town on
their way to Dixie, exulting over the vic
tory they had achieved, and some of them
had what they called Yankee heads, or the
entire heads of federal soldiers. Some Of
them with long boards and goatees, by
which they would take them up and say,
"See. here is the head Of "a damned soldier
captured at Bull Rum" That is the spirit
of secession at tho South. 1t is the spirit
of murder of the vile untutored savage; it
is the spirit Of hell, and he who apologies
for them is no better than those who per-
petrate the deed.
STILL MORE HORRIBLE.
In the town of GreenYille, where Andrew
johnson resides, they took out of the Jail,
at ons time, two innocent Union men, who
had committed no offence on the face Of
the earth, but that Of being Union men
Nasty and Fry. Fry was a poor shoe
maker, with wife and half dozen child
rem. A fellow from way down East 10
Maine, by the name of Daniel Leadbeater,
the blodiest and the most ultra man, the
vilest wretch, the most uumitigated scouu-
drel that ever made track in East Ten
nessee. This is Col. Daniel Leadbeater,
late OF the United States army, but now
rebel in the secession army. He took these
two men, tied them with his own hands
upon one limb, Immediately over the rail
road track in the town of GreenviIle, and
ordered them to hang four days and nights,
and directed all the engineers and conduc-
tors to go by that hanging concerning slow,
ina kind Of snail gallop, up and down the
road, TO give the passengers an opportunity
to kick the rigid bodies and strike them
with rattan. And they did it.
l pledge you my honor that on the front
platform they made business of kicking
the dead bodies as they passed by; and
the women q will not say the ladies, for
down south We make distinction between
ladies and women)--t women, the wives
and daughters Of meu in bigh position,
waved their white handkerchiefs in triumph !
through the windows of the car at the sight
Of the two dead bodies hanging there
Leadbeater, for bis murderous courage, was
promoted BY JEFF. Davis to the Office Of
Brigadier- General. He had an encounter,
as their own papers at Richmond state, at
Bridgeport, not long ago, with a part Of
Gen. Mitchell's army, where Leadbeater
got glorious whipping His own party
turned round and chastised him for coward
ice. He had courage to hang innocent and
unarmed men taken out of a Jail, but he
bad not courage. enough to face the Yam
kees and the Northern men that were under
Mitchell and Buell.. He took 10 his heels,
like a coward and scavenger as be is.
Our programme is this, that when we
get back inso East Tennessee we will in
struct all our friends everywhere, to secure
and apprehend this fellow Tnadha.ta.,