The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-05-27

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4 fellow from way down East in
Maine, Is ilc same of Daniel lead.
hester. The bloo.l.ei and most ultra
man. tae tilaA wretch, the most ua-
mltiEa,ed tCpandrol that ever made
traek in Ess, Tepnessse. This i
Cob Daniel Lea1sAser. late 81 TIC
United States Army, bot nov a rebel
Ia the eees.iou army. He took these
men, lied ihm vita his own hands
npon one limb, Immediately over The
railroad track ia he town Of Grten-
vile, aud ordered them 10 hang four
days and nights, and directed an the
engineers and conductors 10 20 by that
hanging concern slow, ia a kind Of a
snail gallop, W and down the road, to
give The passengers an opportunity to
Kick ihe rigid bodies and strike them
with rattan. Mud they did il. /
pledge sou ms honor that on the
( troat platform they made business Of
kicking the dead bodies as they pass.
ed by aad the women Il vill not say
the ladies, for down South We make 4
distinction between ladies and womcn)
1.-The women, the wives and dangh.
tcrs Of men in high position. waved
their white handkerchief in triumph
through the windows Of tie car at The
sight Of thc I've dead bodies hanging
there. Leadboaier for his murderon,
courage, was promoted by Jcf. Davis
70 the office OF Brigadier General
I lie had an encounter, as their own
papers at Richnon state, at Bridge
port, not long ago, with part Of Gen.
Machelfs army, where Leadbeaier
got glorious whipping. His own
party turned round and chnstizcd him
for cowaTdiee. He bad courage to
hang innocent unarmed men taken out
of a jail, but he had not courage 10
face The Yankees and the Northern
men thai were under Mitchell and
Buell. lie took 10 his heels Ike
coward and seayenger that be is.---
/ { Applause and cheers for Gen. Mitch
Iel.) Our programme Is this, that
when we ret back into East Tennes-
sec we win instruct our friends every
where 10 secure and apprehend this
fellow, Leadbeater; and our purpose
is 70 take him TO that tree aud make
the widow Of Fry lie the rope around
his internal neck. (Cheers.) In the
county ct Knox, where reside, and
only seven miles west Of the town Of
Knoxville, they caught up Union men.
/ tied them upon logs, elevated the TO-
upon blocks six or ten inches from the
Igfound, pat the men upon their breasts
tleing their hands and feet under the
| log, stripped their backs entirely bare,
and il.en with witches, cut their backs
literally 70 pieces, tie blood running
down at every stroke. They came
into court when il was in session, and
when the case was stated, the Judge
replied -" These are revolutionary
times, and there is no remedy for any.
ihing OF the kind Hence, you sec,
our remedy is in or own hands and
with the help Of guns, aud swords and
sabres, We intend, God willing, 10 slay
them when we get back there wher-
ever we can find them. (Cheers.--.
In the Jail whore lay they were ac-
cusiomed TO drive up with a cart.
with an ugly rough, flat-topped coffin
upon It, surrounded by fifteen to forty
men, With bri'tllng bayonets, as a
guard to march in through the gatc
into the jail yard, with steady, militia
y tread. We trcmbled in our boots.
for they never notified us who was 10
be hanged, and you may imagine how
your humble servant felt; for If any
man in that jail, under their law. de-
served the galIow', claim to have
been the man. ] knew il and they
knew it, They came sometimes will,
two collins, one on each cart, and ihev
! took two men at time and marched
them ont a poor old man of sixty
five and bis son Of twenty-five were
marched our al one time and hanged
on the same gaIlows. They made
that poor old man, who was Meiho-
dist class lcad In, sit by and see his
son hang till he was dead, and then
they called him damned Lincolnile
UIiion shriekcr, and said, Come on.
j i Is your turn next" lie sank. but
they propped him up and led lin to
tie halter, and swung both off on the
satae gall9ws. They came, after that
: for another inal, and iley took ]. G..
Haum onl 81 iail~a young man of
fine srnse, good address, and OF cscc..
lenl characier--a tall, spare made
/ man. leaviDg wife at home, with
four or five helpless children. Ny
File passed The farm Of llauns ll.e
. Other day, whea they drove her out Of
Tennessee and sent her on 10 Ncw
, jersey thauk them kindly FOR do
ing so-and saw ISIS wife pIoughisx,
cndeuyoring TO raise corn for her sui.
= iering and starving children. That is
the spgit Of secession, genllemen.--
And yet you have set Of God for.
.ken, unprinciPle,l men at The Norh,
sAo are aPologixing for them aMd
synpahisiug wilh them. (Applanse.)
When ihey iaok Iianm out and placed
him On the seadJld they had drunk.
en- chaplain. They were kind enough
10 notify him al hour before the hang