The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
East Tennessee Matters.

JUNE ANORl Il - W. llUIlltlSu "Ilu
rebel prisoners left here last week for Camp
Chase and Johnson's Island, in charge of
Col. Crawford, of the 1st Tennessee Bat
terry. a few of these men were political
prisoners. and to our certain knowledge
they were worse men than the portion who
had been in arms. OF this class is the Rev.
r. M. Stevens, a Methodist Presiding Ell
der. This is the man who pulled the wool
over the eyes Of that miserable old dOtard,
Bishop Early, and influenced his disgrace
full and proscriptive course against Union
preachers, at the Athens Conferences year
ago. They turned men out of the minis
try, and suspended men from their minis
teriaI functions for the offense of being
Union men. Stevens was the head Devil
in this internal work, and is only in part
compensated by this trip North. ',..-..,
Another beautiful pink in this crowd OF
emigrants was Wayne Wallace, bitter,
sneaking, vindictive, and unrelenting reb-
ell. He was little better than a spy left
here by that great rebel financier, Camp
bell Wallace, who fed South with enough
of the funds OF the East Tennessee and
Georgia Railroad Company to support him
and all of his family as long as they may
live, even in one of the cities of Europe
This man, c. Wallace, has governed all the
Wallaces in East Tennessee for years.
The family have had such generation for
the cunning, intrigue, and corruption OF
their chief, that when he took snuff they
would all sneeze!
In our book, published some eighteen
months ago, we gave the private, but muir
derous, dispatches Of this same Campbell
Wallace, captured at Fishing Creek, in
which he urged The shooting and hanging
of Union men. If the long-faced hypocrite
and cowardly scoundrel will ever show
himself in this country again, he will be
made to realize the fate he advised for the
Union men.
THE MURDER OF UNION MEN. " .
Since the Union army has taken posses.
sion of East Tennessee, many very worthy
Union men have been cruelty murdered
by the villainous rebels in arms, assisted
bv perjured citizens who had come forward
and taken the oath. Murder, treason, rob-
berry, infamy, and ruin, are the order of the
day in the counties above and below Knox.
vile. In the upper counties they have
shot down and otherwise murdered unof-
Tending men. neither respecting age nor in
| firmities and the soldiers, turning out in
bands of marauders, have robbed families
| OF all in their houses and on their farms
and where they were unable to carry off al
stroyed it, burning private property and
destroying all before them. They have
| within a few weeks past, murdered ole
men in the presence Of their families, com.
hitting cruel and infamous atrocities, thai
would disgrace wandering Arabs. In
| Washington county, but the other day
they murdered Rev. Mr.. Bowman, of the
Dutch Church, in cold blood, and upon nc
other pretext than that he was Union
| man. a ~ - sE.
In the counties of Blount, Monroe, Ham.
| ilton, and Bradley, below Knoxville, they
have recently committed some of the most
atrocious murders ever known to this hell.
! born and hell-bound rebellion. They
marched old man Smith out from his house
| in Blount, and shot him down in the road,
in his sixtieth year, leaving a poor and
helpless family of nine persons, dependent
on his labor for their daily bread. The
| only charge was that he was q Lincolnlte
They cruelty murdered Rev. Levi Carter,
and one OF his sons, in Bradley, ana Inc
charge was that he was Iincolnlte Meth
odist preacher! They cut the throat OF the
Rev. Mr.. Blair, of Hamilton county, baPt-
| ist preacher, in the presence OF MS fanny,
and his offense was that he was Union
mani They murdered F. Carter, OF bradley
| County, in like manner, as refugees from
that quarter report to us. They are SAID 70
have murdered two of the Carsons IN Monroe
| County, for no provocatlon WnateVer i
They murdered Rev. Hiram douglas, OF
the PRESBYTERIAN church, under circumstan.
ces that Wonld disgrace an Algerian mob!
They shot down man by the name of Co.
| Fart for no other offense than that of be-
inc q Union man. And these are only
items in the long list Of wrongs and cruel.
ties being daily perpetrated by set Of
scoundrels, acting under leaders who have
been false to their allegiance, to friends
neighbors, States, and to all the nation.-
Any yet when these imps of hell are arrest
ed, Union men come forward, impose OF