Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-02

ton recurs, with omphasi s-has not East
Iennessee Just and strong : Claims - OF
lightly to be set aside, or cruelty ignored, -
TO your LIBERAL, generous, iastant aid2v Ii
she has, will you not. promptly, meet tbem7
Do not be afraid you may be temples to
give too much, Forty thousand families,
more than 250, 600 persons, must be reiiev5
d,--lfed and clothed, till another crop can
be made, and it will be August before they
can cat the roasting ear. One hundred
dollars for each family, will be d scant al
lowance At that sliYl--East Tennessee
asks you for4s4, ,00cst00.e Now; if your
heart tells you her claim is just, are you
not not beaa BE- alarmed y W What a rs s nDts divided
anaeng $4,000, 900 Of thriving people. and
n@y-three great States z? The varicss
'kattance. Perhaps God has permitted this
war in good caase, to make sspoor and
you rich, SO that our destitution, generous
ly. supplied from your abundance. might
STIR up and intermingle our sympathies
and bring our hearts closer together. and
make cs appreciate, more fulIy.Sthe inesti-
mable blessing of unicn Perhaps, the
Lord, through this channel, may design to
show the poor, misguided rebel soldierthat
Iankses arc not 'sthe heartless, yandal
barbarians' they are represented to be by
their wicked leaders, and that they are
grossly slandered when it is charged that
they hate, andJdesiresto exterminate everv-
body in the South. It may be that Provi-
dence designs, and believe He does, this
very condition Of things TO advance and
hasten the return of honorable and lasting
peace. But of one thing i am entirely sure
-7-our kind Father claims all you have as
Ills, and intends you, as his stewards to
minister Of your abundance to the suffer
ings Of your brethren sa4 s492ais
& Some one worth d million dollars will
read this letter.. One word to yeu. sir, if
yon please If you could, without loss, and
with substantial and permanent profit, car
ry one hundred Of these famishing families
through their pinch enable them to make
crop and save them to the country and
to one another, if you could redeem seven
hundred loyal hearts from death and make
them weep tears Of gratitude at the men
ton of your name, and besiege the throne
of God for blessings on you and Your chill
dren throughzlife, would you not feel more
than justified in doing so? An Investment
of $4,000 Of your, last7receipts in this ben.
efaction will accomplish all l have sup
posed is there any other invest'nent you
could make Of that amount that would pro-
duce more pleasing and beneficial returns
to your heart than this Besides one hum
drod of these are soldiers. Your Gift nerves
their arms to strike ten Thousand .heartier,
harder blows at the heart ofsthe treason
which would destroy your Government
and thereby your capital. How small a
sacrifice to you,--what an .inestimable bles-
sing to. the benefciaries -.
1t / address, a man whose conscience tells
him to give ST 900 out of his wealth, to
keep the lamp Of life burning in DO, 900 sad
but loyal homes, he aoughs, to obey that
monitor. Where is the Individual, corpo-
ration or State, that acknowledges the OBJ
legations of Christianity, or patriotism, or
humanity, and can refuse to lay some wor-
thy offering upon the breadless table of
gallant soldiers fanlished family ?sab ag
Ladies of the loyal Statesi To you /
turn, with confidence thrice assured, when
Iremcmber that you are mothers, wives,
sisters, and daughters. Last at the cross
and first at the sepulcllre of the crucifed
Savior, your hearts, like His,se palpitate
at the sigh of; human suffering, and your
gentle hands, like His, are ever open to
soothe and relieve it. To the loyal women
OF the East and West, L appeal, in behalf
of the true and tried and faithful daugh-
soldier lads came to suffer in our mountains
and valleys for our common country, our
women gave them such a greeting as only
true women can gipe-and champion of
the Union ever found aweleone home un-
der the roof ofeyerE loyal citizen in our
mountain land. + La health, their smiles.
cheered 1in--their word of Kindness en-
couraged him. Wounded or Sick their
gentle presence soothedl and conforted him
their seftruhands smoothed the2pillow
which their fingers had made. and wiped
the cold sweat from his aching brow: Dy'
ing, their sweet voices whispered in his
cal. of Calverv and a herne in Heaven
and dead. with a mothers and a sisters
anguished hearts, they have wept over his
grave. They have broEen the last biscuit
and divided their last salt with your soldier
boys And when the yoke was on all our
necks, and we were all groaning under the
tyrant's heel. \ and your eapturedi braves.
were carried through. our country, famish-
ing with hunger7--they fed them, in the
face of terror, and strengthened them for
the troubles Just before them. s'a' x2l1
70 When that young Yankee soldier, who
fell, bravely4 fighting, at Watapga bridge,
in Gen. Carter's raid, was brutsliy exhum-
ed, and his, body stripped, ipsulted and
left exposed, and no man dared attempt to
re-inter him,-our Young ladies,-my
lneighbof girls, with their own hands, after
night. dug him a grave in the forest made
A.; ~, a co4iin and laid his hodv within il
and by themselves, at midnight, with tears.
bore him to his last resting place, and there
'deeentIy buried him. ise '11ai 79a9e s
/ They baptized with their tears. their
fathers and sons and husbands and lovers.
Dedicated them to the defence OF liberty
ard nationality, aud sent them forth. exiies,
to breast the storm of battle. and bleed for
ouI nations life, with the injunction 10 re-
turn victorious or gioriousiy to die. The
fsf.ler Eands0of 1nahy9lof these nUenien.