The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-21
OF Marietta Paper Company
NAsnvnLE, june 2Oth, 1859.

learn SeYerat tnlnBs, ana INFER OUTFITS.
learn that you are prisoner Of war, at
Johnson's Island,-that you were cap
tured at the battle of Champion Hill, on
the sacred soil of the South-that you
are out of funds, &c. l infer that you
are an officer in the Rebel army-that
you have gone forth, like thousands of
other deluded and infuriated Southern
ers, at the bidding of your corrupt Lead
ers, in search of your r1ghts--that you
have in part found your. rights--not in
the TERRITORIES" but on Johnson's Is
land, and would be willing to retire from
this uhcslled- for war, and engage in the
more honorable, and certainly more prof
liable business of paper making.
o. am not prepared to say what you
mean by the 'colIaterals'' furnished you
by Kinslte & Rice, of Knoxville, in my
favor. You have certainly intended your
note for some one else. Kinsloe & Rice
were q Publishing frm--dealt largely
with you in the paper line, and failed
while they were the Publishers Of the
PRESBYTERIAN WITNESS and the KNOX
VILE REGISTER. was never the partner
of these men, or their security, exception
some small bills in bank. I hold the
note of that firm for about Five Hundred
Dollars. would like 10 have the money,
and | really need it, but have not
thought of calling upon you TO paylit,
although j could do so with az good a
grace as you could call upon me to pay
you debt of theirs. l have no doubt
these gentlemen could now pay us both,
if we would receive the worthless paper
issues of the bogus Oonfederaoy.
would not give ten cents per bushel for
such money. You might pass it off
among your Nallandigham friends, in
the vicinity of Sandusky. IL l were
you, would call upoa my Copper
head friends at the North, for a loan.
They are with you in your war upon
the Government and ought TO be willing
to relieve your present necessities. They
are not as honorable, patriotic, or as
brave as you are. You have shown your
devotion to your cause, and your in
famous principles by shouldering your
musket, going into the field, and facing
dangers and death. These cowardly
devils at the North, and unmitigated
traitors who sympathise with you, have
no: enough Of manly pride and courage
to 60 into Dixie, and fight for the party
they say are in the right They can
sneak about the towns and neighborhoods
of the loyal States, and encourage deser-
tions, and characterization among the
officers and privates of the Federal army,
who may be at home on furlough, or
leave OF absence. As mean as your
Southern leaders are, aud, as low flung
as are many of the drunken blackguards
in your ranks, they are gentlemen,
patriots, and Christian philanthropists,
compared with these Northern villains
who are on the side of JEFF. Davis.
But word as to your claim against
me. 1 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 accounts. My last
payment to you, before the rebellion sci
in, was thro' DAVID A. DEADRIcK, Clerk
Of the Knoxville 0bancery Court--it wae
some six hundred dollars, and left you,
as my book and yours will show, eiglts
cents in my debt. 1 speak from memory
but am certain that am correct.
l take this method of replying to youI
note, that other rebel prisoners may meet
with my response. / have frequent calls
upon me for money and clothes, by rebel
prisoners at Camp Chase, Camp Morton
Alton, 81. Louis, and other pOints-som,
placing their solicitations upon tn,
ground of former political and religious
associations, and some upon the score o.
the long standing friendship between
their families and myself.
No man who has gone into this in
tnitely Internal rebellion, of his owr
accord, has any claims upon me, or ny
generosity. And if even owed . rebe
money--and thank God do nOt---I d.
not feel, under the circumstances, that
ought to pay him one cent And certainly
for rebel creditor of mine TO demand
payment, would require a degree of impu.
dence, that the Devil, with all bis effront.
cry, cannot boast Of having, What are til,
facts in my caseg My paper, with 1
large and profitable circulation, wAl
crushed out, after this rebellion was ia
augurGted, and my Printing office, the
most valuable in Eastern Tennessee
sham'fully sacrificed. Three houses and
lots in Knoxville, worth ten thousand
dollars, were taken from me. A large