Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-21

At last the loyal people of East Tennessee
have the prospect of deliverance from their
Oppressors. Our troops, moving across the
mountains from kentucky, have gained pos
session of Cumberland Gap; and Gen. Buell.
with large force, it is said, is marching to
East Tennessee by way of Huntsville and
Chattanooga. The people of that region are
generally loyal to the Union. ABORTION of them
are traitors, but most of them are faithful to
the old flag, and we may safely estimate the
character OF their loyalty by what we know of
such men as Andrew johnson, Parson Brown
low, and Horace Maynard. If they had not
been disarmed and subjected to a reign of ter
ror at the beginning of the rebellion, they
would have made bloody fight for the Union,
at the outset. The consprators at Richmond,
Charleston, and Montgomery took care to
send troops into east Tennessee weeks before
the bombardment of fort Sumter; and the
reign of terror then established has continued
ever since.
How the loyal people of that part of Ten
nessee have been stripped Of their property,
driven from their homes, shut up in prisons,
hunted, and murdered, Mr.. Brownlow has
told us; and statements similar to his have
reached us from many other sources. All in
the country, save the traitors themselves, will
rejoice to know that the rebel power is to be
expelled from that region. When the people
there are again free to control their own
movements and act for their own defence as
they desire, the federal government will not
need to keep a very large force among them.
They will soon organize an army Of their
own to take care OF their safety, put down re-
bellion in other sections of Tennessee, and
aid the government in other states where aid
may be wanted There is a call for more
troops, and the East Tennesseeans will give
bountiful response to this call as soon as the
deliverance now at hand enables them to do
so; and such change among them will con-
tribute powerfully to suppress rebellion in the
lower part of Western Virginia, and in the adj
jacent sections of North Carolina and Geor-
gia, and probably bring recruits from those
states to the federal standard.
The rule of the secession traitors is over
in Tennessee as well as in kentucky and the
success of Gen. Mcclellan will soon put an
end to it in Virginia and North Carolina By
what methods the rebel leaders will undertake
to maintain themselves in the gulf states and
how long they will be able to make stand
anywhere, time will show. They are desper-
ate men, and will scruple at nothing that
seems to them adapted to promote their sue
cess, but we do not see where they can
find means to rescue themselves from de-
struction, or even to prolong their war
against the Union. They talk of car
rying on a guerrilla warfare :" but,
while this method of operation could not
overcome our armies, it would lead to the ex-
termination of all found engaged in it. Gen.
Mcclellan is nowise likely to fail at Richmond
His success there may be counted on as
certainty. We shall soon see that triumph,
and then shall not need to wait long to see
what is to be the last form of this atrocious
war against the Union. All earnest patriots
will long to have it finished in such a manner
as will make the Union stronger than ever
and give it full security against the danger of
another rebellion like this.