The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-07-03

!D0trtOts, ana Cnr1Slla0 D0llantnfODlStS
compared with these Northern trail
tors who are on the side of JEFF. Da-
visa
But. a word as to your claim against
me- | had large dealings with you
in the paper line, and our business
relations were pleasant. paid you
thousands Of dollars from first to last
and found your firm correct in its ac-
count. My last payment to you, be-
fore the rebellion set in, was through
David A. Deadrick, Clerk Of the
Knoxville Chancery Court; II wns some
six hundred dollars, and left you. ~
my books and yours will show, eighty
cents in my debt. I speak from
memory, but / am certain that ! am
correct.
I take this method Of replying to
your note that the other rebel priso.
ner may meet with my response.
have frequent calls upon me for mon.
ey and cloth 8, by rebel prisoners
from Camp Chase, Camp Morton, Al.
ton, st. Louis; and other points
some placing their solicitations upon
the ground of former political and re-
ligious associations, and some upon
the score of long-standing friend
ship between their families and N.Y.
SELF
No man that has gone into this in.
initelv Internal rebellion of his own
accord, has any claims upon me or
my generosity. And IL even owed
a rebel money--and thank God, do
. not feel, under the circumstances, that
1 ought to pay him one cent. And
certainly, for rebel creditor of mine
to demand payment, would require
degree of impudence that the devil,
with all his etfrontery, cannot boast
of having. What are the facts in my
case? My paper, with large and
profitable circulation, was crushed
/, ont after the rebellion was inaugural
ed, and my printing office, the most
, valuable one in Eastern Tennessee,
shametully sacrificed. Three houses
and lots in Knoxville, worth $4,000
dollars, were taken from me. a large
and well furnished dwelling was taken
7 from me, my family was driven out,
and allowed thirty-six hours in which
TO leave the Southern Confederacy,
and my furniture. beds and bedding
sold TO the highest bidder, and the
proceeds used TO carry on the war
against the United States Govern
, ment. n negro boy was taken from
. me, before / was sent out of the coun-
try, and carried into the rebel army,
and since | left, am informed, that
the rebels have taken charge oil ne
gro girl, on the falsely alleged ground
that one of them WAS my security for
:. the girl | had an interest of &c.
000 in the Churchwell property, in
Knoxville. which I gained in the
lChancery Court, and afterwards in the
SNureme Court, and had sold under
the oSler otthe Court. This has been
I seqneste.ed, and used for the same
unholy purp~se. The scoundrei Gen
~ Leadbetter, whSwas in command oi
:. the Post OF knoxr1le, refused me the
!, privilege of collecting = larre amount
20 - of debts due my printins office, OF
- :, the ground that was an ''rSeu enc
,, my
NJ Thus all 1 had accumulated in thir
ia tr years, was taken from me, becaus
~ I refused to turn traitor, war upon m,
10 government, aud act with q band Q
the most infamous acoundrcls, South
that ever God permitted to breath
the vital air. This is not NIL; IN,
q wife and seven children were driver
out of the country after me, and re
fused the privilege of bringing any
- thing with them but their wearing ap
70 parcl. Ny two sons are in the FEEDER
ot al service, lighting the corrupt gov
4 ernment, and the still more inlamou
70 authorities that forced them from thei
IN native soil. Ny wife, and five help
, less girl children are boarding at
10 private house in Covington, opposit
a. Cincinnati. The Secretary of th
re Treasury, Mr.. Chase. was kind an
m considerate enough, without any sc
,at licitation on my part, to appoint m
Of one of the Special Agents of th
h. Treasory Department, on the 18th {
nj December last, and my pay meets til
=" board of myself and family, and n
Up more. This Is my condition in lii
M at the age Of 81. I repeat, no Soatl
he ern rebel, or rebel sympathiser, ha
1. any claims upon me. I want no fe
N. lowship with such men, and shall b
No found opposing them to the end
my earthly career. When they los
~ their negroes, their lands, houses an
81 homes, and even their lives, l ca
In but thnnls God and take courage.
IN. am for the vigorous prosecutio
"a of this war, until the old Tag the bal
no. ner of beauty and glory, shall way
10 in triumph over every foot Of soil, b
,h' tween the codfsheries Of Maine, ar
,ss the gulf Of Mexico. In other word
az an for using every means that &c
,i. has placed in the power OF the Fede
In al Government, to crush out this r
.m bellion, If in deing 50; every rebel
7 the Southern Conrederaey has to
, 7 exterminated, aud every Northel
INV traitor hung! "Live or die Sink
,,b swim, survive or perish" i am f
80 the Gnion-the Union one and ind
, visible. / am for the Federal Go
= ernmeut as il is 0dAiAiAfertd. ABR
ne ~ ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis re-
~ resent the two great powers that a.
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