Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-09
Editors Of tie PIilaelelpliaIInquiyer.

Tennessee-An Appeal to the PresI.
Editors Of the PhiladelpAiaIn Inquirer.
DEAR Sir: wish to publish in Your
widely circulated journal, brief card,
| which l request your other city papers to
copy. consider that the Petersburg
Express, in announcing the arrival in
that city of my wife and children, ami
the wife and children of Hon. Horace
Maynard, has mcndaciOusly assailed the
reputation and patriotism of these ladies
in stating "that although the husbands
have evinced an unaccOuntable hostility
to the South and its cause, they (the la
dics) are firmly attached to the Eonfed-
eracy!"
There is not one word of truth in this
statement, unless it is alleged that the
! homes and tiresides of these ladies, in
+ Knoxville, from which they have been un-
tremendously expelled by an insolcnt
order of the Commanding General, con
stitute the Confcderacy. Tie order was
issued to these families by VIM. NJ.
| Churchwcll, Provost Marshal ut Knox
vile, giving them thirty-six hours in
I which to leave the COnfederacy, leaving
| their houses aud furniture behind, and
| escaping with portion of their wearing
apparel. Churchill, who issued the men
dUciOus order, no doubt took great pleas
ure iu doing 80; the hatred of Mr. May
nard's family grows out of Maynard hav-
ing beaten him two thousand votes in that
district in Il contest for the United States
Congress; tho hatred for my wife and five
helpless children grows out of fmy having
convicted him of falsehood and dishones-
ty. in II court ofjustice, in certain bank
suit und huge swindle brought against
him. lie ought now to drive out Of the
COnfederacy five officers in his Rebel regf-
ment, who preferred the grave charge
against him, at Richmond, of trying to
draw from the paymaster of the army,
upon false papers, forty thousand dollars
more than he was entitled to? A fit rep
resentatiye of the morality, virtue and in
tegrity of the bogus Confederacy! My
family are up in the vicinity of Borden
town, New Jersey, and feel that to have
escaped with their lives, and part of
their clothes, from the savage beasts of
the Confederacy, is Srea blessing, and
that they can sing in good faith.
'God Ofmy life, whose gracious power.
Through variou. deaths my soul hath led:
Has shown upLn the daEkenei hour,
Has lifted up my sinking head"
Every member of my family, old enough
to appreciate the horrors of this internal
rebellion, despises the so-called Confed-
eracy and the unprincipled villains who
linaugurated it. The only difference be-
tween me and them is, that 1 claim to be
capable of despising the wicked concern
and all connected with originating it with
more intense hatred than they can! But
then have trained them up Sin the nur-
ture and admonition of the Lord" which
implies obedience to law and order and
an undying hatred of Secession and its
guilty authors. -=5
The work of murder, arrests and inn
prisonment, goes bravely on in East Ten
nessee, as my family informs me. who
left Knoxville the latter part of last week.
They were shooting Union men down in
the streets, arresting and shoot.
ing down fifty or sixty in one instance,
after they had surrendered and were un-
der arrest. They marched between three
and four hundred through the street, with
some of them bare-footCd, and their feet
bleeding, taking them to the depot and
shipping them to Atlanta, Ga, to work
| upon their Notifications. These men, de-
MED water, would lift out Of the mud
puddles in the street, with their hands.
after rain, what they could to quench
their thirst
In Gods name 1 call upon President
Lincoln, and upon his Cabinet and army
officers, to say how long they will suffer
a loyal people, true to the Union and to
the Government of their fathers, to suffer
in this way! The Union mon of East Ten
nessee are largely in the maiority-sny
three to one-but they have no arms:
they are in the jails of the country; they
are working on rebel Notifications like
slaves under the lash, and no Federal force
has ever yet been marched into that OBJ
pressed and dOwn-trodden country. Let
the Government, if it has any regard for
its obligations, redeem the country Mt
once, and liberate these people, no matter
at what cost of blood and treasure.
They have suffered these outrages for
spending, nay, despairing of any relief.
Let an army-''a terrible army with ban
ners go at once into East Tennessee.
and back up the loyal citizens, while the
latter shoot and hang their prosecutors
wherever they can find them. want the
army to serve for me as forerunner-a
sort of John the Baptist in the wilder
tness' so that l may go back with new
4 press, type and paper, and resurrect nv
Union journal, and tell one hundred
thousand subscribers weekly what is go
ling on upon the borders of civilization.
il In conclusion, l return my most sincere
thanks, and thanks and gratitude of my
! lpersecuted family, to Lieut.. Speed, the
rebel officer who had them in charge, for
the kind, courteous and gentleman-like
II treatment they received at his hands. in