Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26
uSIoY ANp FRATERNITY,
KEoxymLr. Oetobor ~. 1905.

KS0yynLE, October ~. 1861,
Mr., "ujHon aiW Fratamityj In the first place
believe you to be "a Baltimore rebel, whose hatred
Of tho Union leads you to iaten1o with the South
and with tho traitors who are Engaged In running
the blockade from that city, Your cowardicc in
ducc, you to conceal your real name, and saves you
from an exposure of your course Of conduct during
this rebellion Your facility in quoting Scripture
was scarcely oxcolled by your iustrous predecessor
in that line the Devil himself and this, compared
with your active services since the Inauguration Of
this rebellion is the true secret Of your keeping your
real name concealed.
AS il regards your gentleman from near Knox
vile he Is rebel who has gone North for two
reasons, ms hundreds Of others have done-Ilrst, TO
avoid being forced into the rebel service being too
cowardly aud mean to fight in war he contributed
to bring about Next he is one of that class Of
rebels who has prosecuted Union men, aud the fam
lilies Of Union soldiers and three East Tennessee
Union regiments being stationed near by Knox
Vile he left that the "deviish spirit that actuatcs
them towards those who have assisted in robbing
their families, might induce thcn to hang or shoot
him if he remained. This Is the secret Of his visit
to Baltimore and, if he take the advice Of one Of
odevilsh language and spirit he will stay away
At least let him remain at respectful distance and
write back to the soldiers whose families he robbed
Of all they had what is the spirit Of Christ and that
the righteousness Of God cannot now be worked
out by the wrath Of man In other words let
him write back through such instruments AS you are,
hat the soldiers were driven from their homes, i'm
risoncd in rebel dungeons, and have now got back
to their own country, must be merctu and observe
the golden rule of doing as they would be done by
This thing of telling down-troddcn Union men, by
rebels, what the spirit of Christ is has played out
and when they listen to such lectures they must
come from some party holding and acting out Il
better system of morality than the party fighting
under the "devilish flag of jeff, Davis,
In the thirty-thrce counties Of East Tennessee
there is not town on the street, of which Union
men have not been shot down for being Union men,
And there is not county that does not now abound
with the widows and orphans Of Union men muir
dered in cold blood, or killed in battle These
widows and orphans have been robbed Of all they
had, and many of them had their houses and fur
nllnrG burned up UclOGc lHelF eyes ana we're lOlu
that il was done because their sbands and fathers
were id LincolniteS, There is not Il county in
East Tennessee in which old ray-hcaded men have
moi been hung or tied to trees and shot for their
Union principles They have been crowded into
the lousy filthy rebel prisons of the South from ev-
! asos -e-ecoi wIIUIy uI,,,J StiVtl
/ Of nakedness, starvation and disease. When four
hundred of them driven through these streets,
two years ago in hot weather. with their feet bleed
ing, and we're refused the privilege Of drinking out
Of the creeks they waded through, they forced
| to dip up the rain water it run in the cutters
along the curb stones. And to have witnessed the
"devilish language and spirit Of Ashbys thieves
and murderers rs they stuck their bayonets into
them, one would have supposed that they had never
/ been instructed as to the words Of our Saviour
This Ascending rebel from near by Knoxville
looked on spprovingly At all this wrath Of man.
and well may he now take refuge in Baltimore The
rebels have had their day in East Tennessee, and
the Union men are now having theirs. There is a
| great deal of hanging and shooting to be done yet,
and it will be done The rebels notified us three
! years ago that but one party could occupy this
country. We Union men have accepted issue and
either we must leave the country they have it to
do. Time will show who holds the country
| am &c, W. G. BRowNLow.