Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-23
Another Letter from Parson Brown

TIE BUsHwnAcElNG sYsTEN-ADvICE TO PI-
e Gus REBELs.
Parson Brownlow has written commu-
nicauon to the Philadelphia Pres, in which,
after quoting Kirby Smiths letter threaten
ing Union bnshwhackers of Kentucky with
hanging, he goes on to say:
'iTh:s is sweet document to emanate
from one of tue Major Generals OF plum
dering aud murderous army and rotten
and thieyiug government, who have urged
all along that bushwhaeking and guerilla.
ism were legitimate and proper means of
warfare in this unholy rebellionl The
whole army of JEFF Davis is one of bush
whackers and marauders, traitors 70 their
be treated as prisoners of war. They COM
meuced the war by issuing letters-of-mAr-
que and reprisal, authorizing the plunder
and robbery of vessels on the high seas.
and the indiscriminate murder of their
crews, in violation Of the known nsages of
civilized warfare. For more than twelve
months past the woods of Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Missouri have been
filed with this class ofthjeves and robbers,
who have fired upon onr soldiers from the
woods have burned military stores, rail.
road. bridges, Union dwellings and barnes,
destroying whole villages. aud laying waste
entire neighborhoodsl That we'll known
guerrilla chief, Floyd, was authorised by
the rebel Congress to raise ten thousand Of
these mnrderers and thieves, TO be divided
into squads, aud put into the irregular ser
pies, !" 10 do what E. Kirby Smith threatens
to hang Union men for
This order was issued just as this
near-sighted scoundrel was leaving East
Tennessee to invade Kentucky aud Ohio /;
and there is no doubt but what he has
swung from the gallows in Kentucky many
Union men, as be has done in Tennessee
1t is high time that our generals should
cease to treat these thieves and murderers
as prisoners OF war, and that they should
adopt Smiths logic, and hang them as they
are caught. Let not thrests of JET. Davis,
VINO now holds the prisoners taken in the
battle with Pope in close confinement, To-
timidate us-let us put an equal number
in close confinement. Nay, let us sum-
mon the halter TO do its appropriate work
at once, amoug such leaders of the rebel
lion az we have captured."
After abiding to the fact that Smith
through certain Provost Marshal named
Churcbwell, hadin ApriJ,turued his Brown.
low's) wife and five children out of Ken
lucky, aud after giving very fatteriua
biography of this ohurchwell (siucc dead ),
the fighting parson concludes his letter it
these remarkable terms:
.'This, Mr. Editor, is the never-to. he
Forgotten 18th of-September, 1862, the day
set apart by JEFF. Davis proclamation rs
day OF humiliation and prayer and thenks
| giving to God for the favor He showed thu
rebels in font of Richmond ard Washing
ton in days gone by 1t occurs to me tina
they ought 10 appoint another day fo
prayer, aud take back all their expression.
kof gratitude for the manner in which Provi
dence has allowed them to be treated b,
the northern hordes,' on the borders o
Maryland and Pennsylvania They SHOULD
now marshal all their hypocritical preach
ers and old whisky drinking clerical rips
aud with united voice, heaving and set
ting at throne of grace, like so many ole
rams at gate-post, pray TO their deity tC
save them from their friends, whilst the,
take care of their enemies!
"September Is, 1862.
| itW. G. BRowNLow."