Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-26
Usres AND FRATERNITY.


KNexvILLE October 3D. 1865.
Mr.. Union and Frate,7,ity in the first place,
believe you to be Baltimore rebel, whose hatred
Of the Union leads you to faterize with the South,
and with the traitors who are engaged in running
the blockade from that city, Your cowardice in
duccs 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 excelled by your ustrous predecessor
in that line the Devil himself; and this, compared
with your active services since the Inauguration of
this rebellion the true secret of your keeping yeur
real name concealed.
AS it regards your gentleman from near Knox
vile, he is rebel who has gone North for two
reasons as hundreds of others have done-frst, to
avoid being forced into the rebel service, being too
cowardly and mean to fight in war he contributed
to bring about. Next, he is one of that class of
rebels who has prosecuted Union men, and the FAM
lilies Of Union soldiers, and three East Tennessee
Union regiments being stationed "near by Knox
vle he left that the adevilish spirit that actuates
them towards those who have assisted in robbing
their families might induce them to hang or shoot
him if be remained. This is the secret of his visit
to BALTIMORE and if he take the advice of one of
adeyilisl 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
that the soldiers were driven from their homes i'm
prisoned in rebel dungeons, and have now got back
to their country must be nerciful, and observe
the golden rule of doing as they would be done by.
This thing of telling down-trodden 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 a
better system of morality than the party fighting
under the ''devilishH flag of JEFF. Davis
In the thirty-three counties of East Tennessee,
there is Tot town on the streets of which Union
men have not been shot down for being Union nlen.
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
niture burned up before their eyes, and were told
that was done because their husbands and fathers
were ID l<lilc0nlteS Iuefe IS HOT Il county IN
Fest Tennessee IN which old gray headed men have
not been hung tied TO trees and shot Cor their
Union principles. They have been crowded INTO
the lousy, filthy rebel prisons of the South from ev-
cry county in East Tennessee, where they have died
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 were refused the privilege of drinking out
of the creeks they waded through they were forced
to dip up the rain water as it run in the cutters
along the curb stones. And to have witnessed the
"devilish language and spirit Of Ashby's thieves
and murderers as 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 approvingly at all this " wrath of man, !"
and wellrnay he take refuge in 3altila pre- 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 party could occupy this
country. We Union mea have accepted issue, and
either must leave the country, they have it to
do. Time will show who holds the country.
am, &c. w. G. BRowsLow