Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-07-25
Weeklg Trinity 9aurnaL
Weaverville, Saturday, July 95, 1868.

How THE REBEL GENERAL JENKINS PAROLES
COwARDs.-While jenkins was in Hagerstown he
exhibited many traits which it is to be hoped are
characteristic of the man. An incident win H.
lustrate. About noon yesterday a Lieutenant
and five men, wearing the uniform of Union
soldiers, crept out of some of the houses Of the
town, where they had been hidden, and def iivered
themselves up. When they appeared before Gen.
Jenkins the following conversation occurred
Jenkins" Haloa who are you, and where
did you come from ?"
Lieutenant" We belong to the Union army
or did belong to it, but we don't wish to fight any
longer against our Southern brethern when
our forces left here we stayed behind, and to day
we came cut to be paroled.
Jenkins" What did you say about Southern
brethren" BY -, if thought had twenty
fifth cousin who was as whiteivered as you are,
would kill him and set him up in my barnyurd
to make sheep own their lambs I'll show you
how parole such pukes as you are You're too
id miserable to be paroled in military STYLE
SO saying, he ordered detail of six men aad
a sergeant" good lusty fellows with thick
boots who paroled the recreant Federas to
the west quarter of the town, where the parolng
process ceased and the detail and crowd came
back highly pleased with Jenkins mode of pa
rolling coward.
Gen. Jenkins seems to possess more of the
qualities of gentleman and true soldier than is
usual among rebel officers During his raid into
Western Virginia one of his men stole lady s
hooped skirt which the General discovering com
PEELED him to adjust about his neck and wear for
a week, as he rode, to his great chagrin, and the
amusement of his fellow soldiers. Another maa
of his command stole a valuable shawl, which
Gen. Jenkins knocked him down for doing. aud
then compelled him to return it to the owner.
THE FUTURE. who are Copperheads
now-and lots of them are being made in the
East-should think of the eternal disgrace it will
bring upon them aud theirs, and repent at once,
Ha1per's Weekly says:
When the war is over, the public will prob
ably he apt to sean rather closely the record
which public men made for themselves while it
was raging At that time protests against being
classed as a sometime C0pperhead will abound.
The men who are now noiseSt against the afro.
cious dcsposm of Lincoln will then call Heaven
to witness that they were loyal supporters of tic
Government. For it will then be as odolS to
have been false to the country in her hour OF
greatest peril as it was eighty years ago to have
Joined the tories in the Revolution. Already
there are indications that public sentiment is
being formed in this direction Even among
persons not over friendly to the Government
ticket-of-leave men from Fort Layfayctte are
beginning to be summed Pretty soon the pub
lie will make no distinction between a rascal
who is sent to State Prison for burglary, and a
traitor who is sert to Fort Warren for treason.--
And the stigma will stick. Our children will be
brought up in holy horror Of traitors, and the
time will come when innocent creatures now un
born or mere infants, will be pursued through
life with the bitter aud unbearabe taunt that, in
the days of the Great Rebellion their father was
a Copperhead."