Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-04
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1869
EAST TENNESsEEAES

interesting. They have frequent and signif
cant references to the Unionists of eastern
Tennessee, and show that they are numerous,
active, and determined. Major j. Slasson,
writing from "Lo 81 den, East Tennessee, Nov.
TO-" said =
"TEe Union feeling o., this county is exceedingly
bitter, and all they ,oant, IN my opuion 10 induce
u general uprising, is encouragement from the Lin
coin armies. They have greet many arms,
and are actually manufacturing Union .fiags to
receive the refugee Iennesseans when they
return. They are getting bold enough Ii l
had one or Two more companies great many
arms could be procured in this neighborhood
i mean if had the force TO spare from
the bridge"
One John L. Hopkins OF Chattanooga writes
to give notice that FIVE hundred armed Union
men OF Bradley county are in motion, going to
attack the rebels at Luwdgn bridge, or intend
ing to pass into Kentucky. uesays :-"Send
word to Zoliicotfer that lie may catch them
But ZollicOtfer did not catch them The Off
who attempted TO send him Hopkins
dispatch, forgot to enclose it in the envelope.
Col. w. B. Wood writes from Knoxville to
say that Unionists are passing into kentucky
by unirequenied ways to iCn the federal army,
and he adds -
Il do not beLeue that tie Unionists are in the
least reconciied to the government, but, on the
trdTy, hostile to 1t as the people Of Ohio, aud
will be ready TO take UP arms soon they
believe the Lincoln forces are near enough 10
sustain them.
In another letter this Col. Wood states that
Mr.. Hodges, a member OF the legislature, "has
been making reasonable speech over in
Lewis county" He then proceeds to relate
misfortune. A company OF his men attempted
10 capture some Union 'incendiares," but
the ''incendiaries deceived the men, got their
guns, and took them prisoners" He writes
again to say, "the whole country is in state
OF rebellion" and he announces the state OF
of the case in this style =
Il feel it to be my duty to place this city
Knoxville under martial law, as there
large majority Of the people sympattizing acith the
enemy, and communicating acih them by the un-
frequented mountain paths, and to prevent
surprises and the destruction of public prop
erty. need not say thai great alarm is felt by
the fen southern men here. They are finding
places OF safety Tor their families, and would
gladly enlist if we had arms Tor them. l have
had all the arms in the city seized, and author
lied Major Campbell to impress all lie can find
in the hands OF Union men,"
many lule ~ OOu WINS ~ lhC GOuAeuCl'
ate" secretary OF war; Benjamin, to tell him
thai "the feeling pervading this country is hos
tile to the JEFF. Davis concern" He had now
seized a son.in-law OF Andrew johnson and
other leading men and insisted that 'they real
ly deserve the gallows," and yet "to convict
them before court is next to mpossibility -
He adds this statement
at the citidra1cal Of the army from here to the
Gap, and the first intimation of the approach Of
Lincoln army, they tcere IN arms, and scarcely a
man but lCas ready to join it, and make 'gdr upon
US"
Benjamin replies, ordering drumhead court
marlials and death the spot for some Of
those loyal men, and severe measures general
ly. There can be no doubt that the union
sentiment piedLminates in east IN Tennessee
and the union men there are among the most
resoute and sefsacrifcing patriots in the
land They are well represented in congress by
Andrew johnson. Who can think of them
without feeling that our armies ought to be in
Tennessee, and that they should have been
there last fall. Let US hope that the day of de-
lverance for eastern Tennesseeis now at hand,
The defeat otZollicoffer has opened the way to
Knoxville, and there will be no delay in the
march onward.
ANDREW Johnson OF TENNESSEE has de
liyered in the senate an earnest speech in favor
OF expelling senator Bright of Indiana. The
reporters do not say that it brought blush tC
the faces Of the two three republican sena
tors who have astonished their friends by
showing disposition to retain Bright in the
senate, but fancy that they were
made to teel ashamed Of themselves. Thl
following is given as condensed report o.
the close OF Mr.. Johlsous speech -
"Mr. johnson then referred to the speech OF
the senator from Delaware, salisbury and
commended at some length that the south was
entirely responsible for the war, and that the
north gave all the compromise that was Ne
cessary, but that the southern traitors would
not accept it. II the senate had not moral
physical, and political courage enough to ex
pei those VINO are unsafe repositories of the
public trust and power, then they were not fit
to remain here themselves. lie (Johnson)
did not say these things in any spirit of uu
kindness, but for the sake of constitutions
liberty and tor The sake OF his own wife and
children. By the failure OF the government Il
enforce the laws, his wife and children haC
been turned into the street, aud his house
turned into Il barrack, He had two sons.in
law--one was in prison, and the other was il
the mountains to evade the tyranny OF the hell
born and he'll bound spirit Of disunon. Yet
when cries come up that the laws may be en-
forced, the senator says L am opposed to tn,
whole coercive policy OF the government
The only way to settle the question now be
fore the government is not compromise, but t
crush out the leaders Of the rebellion. w
have got to show pluck, and have got to fight
He desired peace; but the only way to get
was TO sacrifice blood ami treasure. Then lie
us crush out the rebellion, and look forward t
the time when we shall raise the glorious OLE
flag beneath the cross, and gather around wit
the cry OF Union, one and nseperabe, nov
and forever Christ first, our country next
1t is surprising to us that any loyal membe
OF the federal senate is found capable of hest
tatng 10 expel Senator Bright. His sympathy
with treason is undeniabe. Instead of beini
permitted to return to the senate he shoul,
have been arrested for aiding and abettin,
treason Immediately after his letter to jeff
Davis was discovered. The gunmaker +
whom he gave the letter was arrested AM
imprisoned while Bright, more guilty an
dangerous than he, was allowed to 70 tree
and be went not to Indiana but to Kentuul,