Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-11
Interesting heller frsm PalsaR BFewRIow.
HIS FAMTLY's LOYALTY lvgN-
Dictated.
Oppression Of Union Families in
Fact Tennessee.
AN APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
THANKS 10 A nEsEi OFFICER.

h,iitor Of the PhtladsIobio Inquirer
DEAR Sm:-I wish to publish in your
widely circulated journal, brief card,
which | request your other city papers
TO copy. / consider that. the Petersburg
Express, in announcing the arrival in
that city Of my wife and children, and
! the wife and children of Hon. Horace
Maynard, has mendaoiOusly assailod 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
dies) are firmly attached TO the Confed-
eracy y
There is not one word Of truth in this
statement unless il is alleged that the
homes and iiresides of these ladies, In
Knoxville, from which they have been
nnceremOniously expelled by an insolent
order OF the Commanding General, con-
stitute the COnfederacy, The order was
issued TO three families by William M.
Churchwell, Provost Marshal at Knoxville,
giving them thirty-six hours In which to
leave the Confederacy, leaving their
houses and furniture behind, and escap-
ing with portion Of their wearing appa-
rel. Uhurchwell, who issued the menda-
ciOus order, no doubt took great pleasure
in doing so; the hatred Of Mr. Maynard's
/ family grows out Of Maynard having
beaten him two thousand votes in that
district in contest for the United States
Congress-; the hatred for my wife and
five helpless children grows out Of my
having convicted him of IaLseaO0d and DIS
honesty in a court Of justice, in certain
bank suit and huge swindle I brought
against him. He ought now to drive out
Of the COnfederacy five officers in his
Rebel Regiment, who preferred the grave
charge against him, at Richpoond, of try
ing to draw from the paymaster Of the
army, upon false papers, forty thousand
dollars more than he was entitled to? A
| fit representative Of the morality, virtue
and integrity of the bogus Confederacy
My family are up in the vicinity of Bord-
entoWn, New Jersey, and feel that to
have escaped with their lives, and part
of their clothes, from the savage beasts
of the COnfederacy, is great blessing,
and that they can sing in good faith,
Good Of my life whose grso.ous power.
! Through r1TiOUs de0ihs my soul hath u =
Bas shown uVOn the tiarkCncd hour
Has lHie4 ap my sitSipg eau
Every member Of my family, old enough
to appreciate the horrors Of this Internal
rebellion, despises the so-called Oonfede-
Tacy and the unprincipled villains who
inaugurated it, The only difference be-
tween me and them is, that / claim TO be
capable of desplsing the wicked concern
and all connected with originating it with
more intense hatred than they cant But
then have trained them up din the nur-
ture and admonitiOn of the Lord, )" which
implies obedience 10 law and order and
an mdying hatred of Secession and its
guilty authors.
The work Of murder. arrests and inn
prisonment, goes bravely on in East
Tennessee, as my family inform me, who
left Knoxville the latter part of last week,
They were shooting Union men down in
the streets, arresting hundreds and
shooting down fifty or sixty in one in
stance, after they had surrendered and
were under arrest. They marched be-
tween three and four hundred through
the street, with some Of them bare foot
ed, and their feet bleeding, taking them
TO the depot and shipping them to Allan
ts, Georgia, 20 work upon their fOrtiiica-
tons These men, denied water, would
lift cut Of the municipalities in the street,
with their hands, after a rain, what they
could 10 quench their thirst
In Gods name / call upon President
Lincoln, and upon his Cabinet and army
officers, to say how long they will suffer
loyal people, true TO the Union and to
the Government Of their fathers, to suffer
in this way! The Union men in East
Tennessee are largely in the majority
say three 10 one--but they have no arms;
they are in the jais 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 oppressed and down trodden coun-
try. Let tho Governmon1, if ithas any
regard for It's obligations, redeem that
country at once, and liberate these peo-
pie, no matter al what cost Of blood and
treasure.
They have suffered these outrages for
the last twelve months, and are now de-
spending, nay, despsring of any relief.
Let an army terrible army with
banners go at once into East Tennes-
see, aud back up the loyal citizens,
while the latter shoot and hang their
prosecutors wherever they can find them.
! want the army 70 serve for me a. a
f0rerunner--a sort Of John the Baptist
ia the wilderness, 30 that may 90 back
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