Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-26

Brownlow's Knoxville Wing, of the
llth instant, gives the following exhibit Of
the outruges perpetrated on Union men
in East Tennessee:
"Since the Union army has taken pos
session of East Tennessee many very
worthy Union men have been cruelty
murdered by the'villainous rebels in arms,
assisted by peEjured citizens who had
come forward and taken the oath. Muir
der, treason, robbery, iniRmy and ruin
arc the order Of the day ia the counties
above and below Knoxville.
''ln tho upper counties they have shot
down and otherwise murder unOifend-
ing men neither respecting age nor in6rm-
tiles; and the soldiers, turning out in
bands of marauders, have robbed families
Of all in their houses and on their farms,
and where they we're unable to carry of
all they found, the thieving villains hav
destroyed it, burning private property
and destroying all before them. They
have within n few weeks past, murdered
old men in the presence Of their families,
committing cruel and Infamous atrocities
that 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
no other pretex than that no was u Union
man.
"ln tho counties Of Blount, Monroe,
Hamilton and Brady, below Knoxville,
they have recently committed some Of the
most atrOCiOus murders ever known to this
hell-bOrn and heli.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
dependant on his labor for their daily
bread. The only charge was that he was
Lincolnite! They cruelty murdered
Rev. Levi. Carter and one Of his sons, in
Bradley, and the charge was that he was
a LincOlDite Methodist preacher! They
cut the throat Of the Rev. ME. Blair. Of
Hamilton county, Baptist preacher,
in the presence Of his family, and his Of
fence was that he was Union mani
The murdered +. Carter. of Brady cOun-
ty, in like manner, as refugees from that
quarter report To uS They are said 70
| murdered two of the CaTsOns in Monroe
county, for no prOyOcatiOn whatever
They murderer Rev. Hiram Douglas, of
the Presbyterian Church, under circum-
stances that would disgrace an Algerian
mob; th0y shot down u man by the name
Of COzart, for no other offence than that
he was Union man.. And these are only
items in the long list Of wrongs and cru
elites daily perpetrating by q set Of scoun-
drels acting under leaders who have been
false to their allegiance, to friends, neigh
bors, States, and to the nation. And yet,
when these imps of hell are arrested,
Union men como forward, impose on the
authorizes, aud procure their release.
God forbid that we should ever be found
endorsing for one Of these scoundrels, or
those baser villains on our streets, who
exult over their deeds Of carnage, and are
daily smuggling letters through our lines
to the enemy.
They have had, and still have, in the
hills and mountains Of Sewer county, four
hundred Cherokee Indians, under the
command of that prince Of marauders aud
thieves, Colonel Thomas, ofwestcrn Car
olinA. These sayRges, less cruel than their
white rebel associates and companions in
arms, are robbing houses and s1alping in
nocent citizens. Docs any man in his
senses suppose for one moment that the
Union men of East Tennessee, in oil time
to come, will not shoot down these lndi-
ans wherever they find them, and those
also who. have had the command Of them?
We say, Stay them right and leftl They
take the oath only to give them facilities
in the work ofmurder and robbery. They
are going through the country notifying
their paroled men from Vicksburgh that
they have been exchanged, and under
these false pretences, violating every
principle of honorable warfare"