, 1864-11-15
a Singing Review Of Family fHi8tory-
Pxenttceana Perforated.
From the Knoxville Whig.1

Since the opening Of this Presidential cam
pnign have been repeatedly assatled through
your paper, either editorially or by such dis
missed officers and humbugs as Wolford- ]
have never replied, either to your editorial at
lacks, or the attacks Of different coTcspon
dents, have felt assured that you desired
! to make some little capital for -Four Constit1
tional Conservative States ghts- Peace on
any-terms ticket, and 1t has gratif1ed me q
little to know that my blows hare been fell
somewhere. In noticing your attacks at this
late day, 1t will be apparent to all that nd
dress myself TO you, and not to the odds and
ends Of all Gods creation who compose thu
tors with whom you are associated.
In your paper Of the 30th October you state.
cditorially, that " Brown1ow, having received
office from Lincoln, he now declares his appro
baton, as ne understand, OF all that Lincoln
has done and all that he may hereafter do
Every such man has his price,"
bribery and corruption, and needs to be yenti
lated by g statement Of facts, after which ]
propose to contrast my record with yours, md
10 take brief view Of the relations your fam
i]y and mine sustain to this rebellion
I hold an Office in the Treasury Department
which Was conferred upon me BY Mr. Chase
for me. The pay & not equal to the labol
performed, and at no time hns paid the board
Of mr. small family, with my two sons in the
army. I have retained the position because
desired to serve 1ny friends in East Tennes
see, and to unite with them In restricting the
benefits Of trade to the loyal men Of thu
country.
During the first eighteen months Of tht
war. yo1 associated with others, held offict
under Lincoln, or, If you please, were mixed
up with contracts; and when last SOW yol
IN Nashville, summer was q year ago, yos
was staying and putting along, to and iron
the front, moving heaven and earth, to secur'
Cumberhnd, and writing the most siekenin!
and fattering notices Of Gen. Rosecrans, il
the hope Of winning upon him and his ofdein{a
But n1 your fattery filled, and all the letter
you presented failed TO secure for you tn
contracts you sought and thus refusing t,
Support Of Lincolu's administration. Will
you were interested in contracts under 'tl'
Government, you was as good Lincoln nal
as wns.
To be candid with you, Mr. Prentice, yo1
figured badly In your scramble after contract
! and clamor for extra priyileges-othcrs, asso
ciated with you, and making q tool Of you
worm themselves into positions where the,
| could swind1e the Government. Indeed,
| heard the remark made by meu who had al
Ways been your admirers, that 1t was hurnill
atiDg, nay, mortifying and disgraceful, to Sc
! poor old man, In his dotage, and under tn
| influence Of liquor and an inordinate love Q
money, In such Q drive as you were in, goins
| calling ut The st. Cloud Hotel, Nashville, t
| muster up additional backera:
While I was North, after I had spoken ez
tepsively, and my speeches were rcporte'
| equally extensively, and was made to sa,
to the world what really did say-that ! en-
dorsed Lincoln's entire war policy, and tn
putting down Of the rebellion eTen at tn
cost OF exterminating the Southern populn
ton, you wrote to me and proposed 10 joi,
me in partnership In starting new Union pa
pcr in Nashyl1le-an offer politely declined
It is due to you to state that, at that time
yoa we're receiving your "pTice,n and m,
principles we're NOT offensive toyou. You ar
the last mar In America to talk about me,
having their price and selling ont to Lin
coin.
There Is slight difference In the position
occupied By your tamiy and mine, and, as
necessary consequence, .your principles ami
mine must differ: Ny wife and little children
after had been incarceratcd for three month
and sent out Of the country, were unceremo
house and home, and 60 North, at their ow:
expense, upon thirty six hours notice, n1
thus thrown upon my hands North, while m
property remained here for the use Of til
| Confederacy. thought all the time, an
| still think that the government ought to hay
done something more for me than to comic
upon me this small office, although have nc
| expressed this opinion BEFORE
liz two sons entered the Federal army, m
one Of them is now ut home on crutches, b
cause Of wounds received IN leading lis reg
ment Of cavalry in charge upon Wheeler
forces in Middle Tennessee. My other son
| in General Gillem's command, and vas
tie fieht when the Great Kentucky hors
tl,icf, Morgan, wns killed, under whom %
with whom your sons have been fightin,
cea;nst the government upon whose bonnl
tRefr rebel mother and contract -hnntin
father are living. One Of your SONS VAS kliie
IN Kentucky while on orse-stealing exp
dition under rebel officers. Your other son
now on trial In Virginia for the murder OF
brother rebel By the name Of White. 4o1
wife is IN avowed rebel and ought to be sci
South by the Federal authorities and u
are Int one degree removed from rebel 81
a traitor, having completely played GU
There is not frue-hcarted Union man
your Office. unless he be some one Of the e1
ployees. Your paper is no longer Union a
thority, but is rapidly sinking into disrepn
and meeting with that contempt ats treass
merits. =
with pity for The sorowg ofa poor old ma
am, DC, ". G. BRoWELow.
Extensive Austrian Emigration
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