Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-29

1 kGE ACCcpkGuf lAuur rs CuAllguHGO patty
chose the time aud weapons, and told
Pryor he would eight him with bOuie.k knives.
Pryor was hoFfihed, and exclaimed Goh,
! Lord7 this will never do Il is baFbaTOus
sin violation ofthe code must deeIineF'
Why, the rascals actually challenged me,
! in Knoxville, because they thought was a
preacher and could not fght. They sent u
little fellow all the way from Nashville 70
| 6ght me; a diminutiTe creature, weighing
about niuety-ive pounds; the worst spec
linen Of man that you ever saw, except
Aleek Stephens accepted the challenge,
and, as it was in summertime, said
would fight in a hog pen, with dung-forks,
after the frst warm rain the one who
| pitched the other out to be considered the
victor. The fellow published the cores
pondence, to expose me, and disgraced
himself BE knew would have shoveled
him out at the frst turn.
THE HKADs OF THE REBELLION.
A glorious government they have got in
the South. JEFF. Davis, the repudiator, at
the head little pilfering Jew, Secretary
of War-one of the tribe who murdered the
Savior, and, ever since they parted his raj
ment at the cruci6xion, have been dealing
IN ready made clothing. This little Judah
1 Peter Benjamin wrote me note before l
left, saying that, as was 4 very bad and
dangerous man, he would send me out OF
the State with military escort l an
sEered il he would do that | would do
more for the Confederacy than the Devil
ever did would quit the country. At
the same time he wrote to Crow Ramsey,
District Attorney in East Tennessee, to let
the Union men hang on gallowes, by the
roadside, until the flesh FOtted off their
bones, as a warning and terror to aIfloyal
people. was never expelled from Yale
College for breaking open my FELLOWSHIP
dents trunks, aud stealing their watches
and clothes, but BEN iamin cannot say as
much and tell the truth. He boarded in
Rochester, New York, four months with a
/ poor widow, and ran off without paying
his bill, and it is unpaid to this day The
Southern OOufederacy is headed by roRues
thieves, peTjurers and liars. There are bet
ter men in the peuitentiary; yes, better men
| in hell
| THE EAsT TREEHssERARs MATCHING oS.
Hove the whole Union, but confess to
peculiar tenderness for Tennessee, especially
that portion looking TO the sunrise, where
men, for their loyalty, have suffered a thOus-
aud deaths, by hanging, shooting, by tor
ture, by imprisonment, by being brutaIIy
tied TO trees, and seourged till they perish
in agony. Still, amid this fierce and re-
lentless persecution, though seemingly for
gotten by their countrymen, and abandon
ed by the Government, to the rage of men
whose tender mercies are cruel, they have
held fast to the faith Of their fathers.
Though tracked by spies, though dragged at
midnight by traitors, from the bosom of
their families, cast into dungeons, hung on
gallowses by the highway, shot down like
wild beasts, yet neither vigilance commit
| tess, nor armies, nor scourges, nor dag
| gers, nor dungeons, nor exile, nor death,
nor devils, "nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor
heigth nor depth, mol any other creature"
has been able to separate them from their
love to the Constitution and the Union of
their fathers. We are going forward Send
my respects to Gen. Pillow, and tell him
to dig ditch on the other side of Murfrees-
borO. He tendeted me the chaplaincy of a
rebel egiment. sent him my respects,
and told him that when ! wanted to go to
hell, l Wonld cut my throat at once, and not
go round by the way Of the Southern Con-
federacy. And il any rebel wants to 20 70
hell, and arrives in the Southern Confeder-
acy, let him begin TO look after his baggage,
for that's the last depot before he gets 70
his destination. We have six East Ten
uessee regiments here and on their way.
These brave fellows footed It all the way
from Cumberland Gap. They have fed
from the tyrants Of East Tennessee, Their
| relatives have been hunted down and mur-
dered, or tied to trees aud cruelty ThiD.
ped. And | warn the rebels that these
soldiers are now on their march homeyard.
\ Yes, they are returning home, each man
with a devil in his bosom as big as a half
bushelI aud bigger too. / want them TO
parole no rebel, but hang them up on
every tree BY grape vines. They will be
led 6J the gallant RosecIans, who is q
Sighting geuerali who chased hat Amounted
thief, Floyd, over the mountains Of Vir-
ginia, and tanned the "Butternuts" at Cor
inth and Iuka. want the Tennessee soil
diers to go in the front with your gallant
boys OF Indiana, Wisconsin, aud other
troops OF the great Northwest, to back
them. They are going to take a terrible
revenge upon the traitors who forced them
TO fiy from their families and homes, and
have committed every species of outrage.
The rebels came to the jail where was
confined, and took out loyal men, and hung
them, two at a time. without trial, even
by a drum head court martial, and for no
other reason than that they were IoyaI.-
The rebel women attended the hanGfnts.
and Riggled aud waved their handkerchiefs
in delight over the dying agonies of these
martyrsd Union meH. Iad01'p know how
rebellion Affects the women here, but in East
Tennesseei when 4 woman turns rebel she
gets more devils in her bosom than were
cast out OF Mary Angdnliueg The ouIV
General who has come up to ny ideas Of
Justice in this mattel, and serves these she
rebels right, is Pieayuue Butler. lalsis z
STARVING THE NORTH.
The South said the North would back
doYR. They see how il backs doWnl 1
am apd have been from the beginning, 40
advocate of coercion, aud If necessary, Of
e4termination- This rebellion shall be
crushed, IL We have 70 exterminats the reb-
els aud ask God 70 send rs n better breed
in the South. They offered to bribs ne. i
told them as one said 70 q tsmpter of old
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