The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-19
Z BrownloWRsS Address,.
From the Knoxville Wing, November II, 1863
TO THE PEOPLE OF EAST TENNESSEE.

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I In the, South there has been strong onlo
: element all the time, but powerless 10
good, as it was kept downby rebel bayonets
under the worst reign Of terror ever know
: to a civilized country. AT the North ther
has been all the time tory element, IL
sympathy with the rebellion, but equal !.
powerless for evil, because OF its weakness
: and the infamy Of its leaders. Upon on
most important point, we are happy to say
our people of the loyal States are abso
J lutely unanimous-men of old party atfillia
tions agree that, whateverels may happen
the rebellion must be put down, and the
Union mast be preserved. When the rebel
lion was inaugurated there were Thousands
among us who were half inclined to regart
the attempt to quell the outbreak as hope
| less, and who were more than halt inclined
to end the war by conceding the indepen-
dence Of the bogus Confederacy, although
it had originated in and was based upon the
GREAT SOUTHERN PLATFORM OF
falsehood, perjury and treacheryl .--
Our old subscribers, whose names were
legions, will bear testimony, that we de-
nounced the rebellion and all promoting it.
Nay, we told the public, and especially the
South, what would come to pass. In one of our
editorials, written before the war, we used
this remarkable language: "lf the Cotton
States rush madly into this revolt contem-
plated, a long and bloody war will bo the
result-a war that will dranch the land in
blood and involve both sections of the
country in untold millions of debt, to say
nothing of the slaughter Of hundreds of
thousands and of the suffering of the peo
pie and their utter ruin in business. And
more than this, and certainly worse than
this, for proud people to contemplate, the
South will be whipped and driven in dis
grace back into the Union, and made to yield
obedience to the laws and Constitution Of
the United States. The Southern disun-
ionists, demagogues and editors, fatter
themselves, and have so taught the people,
that the people of the North won't fsht,
and that if bold front is shown them, they
will come to any terms for the sake of
peace. This may be true Of the politicians
and demagogues of the North, who are in
sympathy with Southern traitors, who act
ed with them in breaking up the Charles
ton Convention, and in procuring tie nom,
ination of breckenridge, but tits not true
of tue real people Of the North. They are
brave and patriotic, and will fight to uI-
hold the old flag, and to maintain the Union,
until they put down the rebellion, or exter
minato all who are engaged in it. Come
what will or may, we shall be found, if alive,
on the side of this Union, and in opposition
to this infinitely internal conspiracy to de-
stroy our country, and against the bad men,
aud corrupt politicians, who are urging the
deluded people Of the South on to ruin
Thus we spoke before the war, and aft :,
it had commenced, we uttered the followino
sentiment and prediction in leading edito,
rial: "The deed is done! South Carolina
is out! But the end is not yet. Other
Southern States, will, in their madness and
folly, 60 with South Carolina, andnow comes
the tug of war. What is it for? Is it to
secure our rights, which means to make our
negro property secure? Slavery is secure
but if a war of several years duration is
forced upon the country, it will destroy
slavery. We say this as pro-slaVery man,
and not because we are in sympathy with
abolitionism as great heresy as secession
Our concern, however, is for Tennessee, and
we call upon her citizens to show their
senA patriotism, and courage, by remain
ing where they are--in the Union Des
perate efforts will be made to carry the
B order States out with the Cotton States.
Should Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Arkansas and Missouri-States
strung along the border-go into this infer
nal crusade, their territory will be made the
theatre of hostile operations; and before the
war ends, those States will all be lain IN
ruins. Mark our prediction! Yancey,
Toombs, Slidell, Davis, lsham G. Harris and
the other bad men South, who will head the
revolt, know that it will ruin the border
States, provided they can keep the war in
them, and this the cotton State traitors
will seek to do. And when the war COMES
for come it will, as certainly as there is
God in heaven-these guilty Cotton State
Lords will call upon US for the border States
to drive back the Northern hordes who may
seek to invade our soil But what we say
will be denounced as the rawlings of t al
tor to the South. Go on mad men of the
South. in your wild and wicked career, and
time will tell who is the false prophet and
t0o tr4llOT VIZ say aSalh aiu tuuS !al III
advance, that We intend to adhere to the
FEDERAL UNION, should it cost us What lit
tie we are worth, and even our life.
The past is with the reader and We have
only to speak of the present, and of phut is
n come. While, in common with the whole
country, we depore the ravsges Of war, and
would hail with heartfelt rejoicing the re-
INV, of neace. we deem it inconsistent with
the honor of the nation 20 make any other
tenders of peace to men in arms against {
than such as are embodied in the Copsti
tuition of the United States, under which
they can at any time resume their place il
the American Union, subject only to such
pains and penalties as they may have in
Cured; and while We would have our mill
tary authorities in command, and our Gov
ernment, deal in the most liberal spirit to
ward the deiuded masses, and the patrioti
r who were epnecripted, we urge the punish
: mont of Intelligent traitors. and insist tha