The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-17
A GREAT REBEL FORGERY EXPOSED.
The Pretended address" from JOhE-
son Island Proves Bogus.
Many Of the Pretended Signers Desire
TO Accept the Amnesty.
Letter Exposing the Trick.

Some time since 1t VIII be recollected
that document was published in the
Metropolitan Record, purporting to en-
anate from the rebel officers on John
sons Island, in which they expressed
their detestation Of those who return TO
their allegiance, and particularly of Mr.
Ewing of this State, whose letter was
particularly criticised
The address concludes in these words
In conclusion, fellow citizens of Ten
nessee, as sufferers in a common cause
we allure YOU be not moved from yOuI
sublime position, by the wrongs Of your
oppressors; or seduced from the path
Of duty by the wheedlng cajolery Of
his tired old man, longing for rest and
careful Of life He comes with honey
on his lips, but poison in his words He
lsks YOU to forswear yourself, to betray
rour holy trust, and to deliver yourself
and posterity to an infamy like his own
We feel an abiding faith in the justice
of our cause and the retributiOn Of
Heaven. Our inyincible armies viii yet
return to purge our temples and restore
our household gods Our sorrowing
mothers, wives and sisters will yet be
rewarded for their patient suffering, by
the return Of their loved ones, or by the
recital Of their gallant achievements
and glorious death in our holy cause
Send YOUR yddng braves TO follow in the
war path, illustrated and hallowed by
the heroic deeds Of their brothers
while do you, fathers, ascending the
hill tops az did Moses Of old, and with
q patriarchial faith, uplift your hands
to the Blended heavens, and discounted
Amalek, smitten hip and thigh, viii hy
before you"
This paragraph gave great aid and
comfort TO the rebel sympathizers in
the north; the public journals in then
interest pointed to the spirit displayed
as evidence of the invincible determi
nation of the traitors to resist till the
list Here are men, said they, incar
,erated in prison, and surrounded by
every circumstance calculated to tame
the spirit, and break the resolution, il
rhat were possible; yet they arc firm as
EYER, and unite in conjuring THEN
friends at home to be firm. Such PEG
pie can never be conquered"
We believe this was the logic Of every
copperhead journal in the North and
the document was paraded throughout
the South, TO encourage the people to
persevcre in the unhallowed work OF
destroying the government, and estab-
fishing pure slayeocracy.
But The. bubble has at length been
pricled; the document was forgery
or at least the greater number Of the
long array Of names were forgeries, as
the following communication, from 1t
Col PIEEsoN, commander Of the Post at
Johnsons Island, which we received
yesterday, will evince:
DEPor PRISONERS or WAR,
NEAG SANpUsRY, Ohio, March II, 1864.
Editors Nashville Uaioa-Gontlemcn: !
observe in the Metropolitan Record, Of New
York, letter purporting to be from the
rebel officers from Tennessee, confined al
this depot, in reply TO the address of Hon.
Edwin II. Ewing, of Nashville.
The letter was sent out, surrepttiously, II
written here. Some Of the names under
signed, are not on the rolls of the prisoners.
Many whose signatures are appended TO this
letter, are applicants for the Oath Of Alicgi-
ance. Ii these signatures are genuine, they
have not been male, because the sentiments
Of the prisoners are expressed in this letter,
bat because the rebel intolerance IS so great,
that prisoners do not ike to openly ayow
their opinions.
Mr. Ewing need not therefore have his
senaibnitics wounded, bya document, which
cannot in all respects be genuine, and in
other cases, if aligned at all, ID signed By the
same persons, who have made and signed
thoir applications for the oath Of allegiance,
tho very course Mr.. Ewing advises should
be adopted.
Very respectfully, your obedieut servant.
". s.. PWHsOT,
Lieut. Col l2Sih o. Y. I.
Willthe journals which have araded
the address with such delight now aid
in exposing the forgery? We fear
many of the will not