Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-06
SANDERS of East Tennessee,

!. 1t is exceedingly nortifying after all that
the noble sslfsacrifcing Union Men of East
Tennessee have suffered, to see them Stand.
cred and moderated by a interchangeable
scriblers, who Write from this country to
Northern papers. These ick-spittles creep
after certain secesh families. by whom they
are battered fE purpose, while in their
hearts they despise them, andregard them
as hangers-On in the Federal army capable
of any thing but what is cleverl
! The vindication that we offer of East
Tennesseeans, will be found in the following
extracts, and it is complete. GIN. BURN
SIDE, in a speech at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
in New York, is reported TO have said:
'He then paid glowing tribute to the ratriotisIn
of the people Of East Tennessee Their ,elfsacri-
.fcirg loyalty was erywh6re.appafept, Thev no
titled him of the approach, of ngssrassy forces
they hailed his army with cheers waving Aars they
had concealed under their beds and under the floors
OF their dwellings for that purpose; they cheerfulv
gave up the contents of their cellars and barns their
crops and their cattle, to supply his men when they
were without ratiOns. While at Knoxville his army
was supplied with bread by loyal citizens who sent
hundred WAC
on loads OF flour and forage, and every night they
1oated boat-loads of provisions down the river.
through the fog and darkness past the picket. Of the
enemy. They did this and thanked God they had
the privilege of feeding the Yankees"
CHARLES 4. DANA, Assistant Secretary of
War, was here in November and wrote 4
letter to the New York Press. in which he
invites benevolent attention to the sutferincs
of the devoted people of East Tennessee.
The most loyal population which can be found
in any part of the United States far as nv obser
walton has enabled me to Judge Their country has
been repeatedly traversed by both the rebel and
Union armies, and the consequences is that in many
portions Of it the inhabitants literally starving
The Government, of course, viii issue ratiOns to the
destitute in the immediate vicinity of our military
posts but this will not suffice to relieve the Gecp
distress that is beginning to be felt among the
secluded valleys Of that region Having but recent
ly made two journeys through considerable part
of it. l state only what / have seen with nv own
eyes. The dire wants Of that simple minded people
should be met by the humane sympathies of our
Northern communities, whose ample charity cannot
be exercised toward more honest, more patriotic or
more innocent sufferers" ~
Col. FoRNEY, of the Washington CEroai
Gle, thus introduces leading editorial no.
tice Of a peculiar people "a people who
now have nothing left but POVERTY and /
PATRIOTISM:
THE STATE OF FRANKLAND.-Inteligent cor
dependence from this historic region predicts that
Eastern Tennessee Will ere long move for separate
State organization, and obtain it, This section
We told has little in common with the rest of
he State, and nature has defined her boundaries and
distinctive characteristics too plainly to be mstak-
n Certainly East Tennessee has maintained a
glorious individuality in great struggle In its
Mountains we have had the Switzerland OF devotion
md suffering. For years cut off from all aid and
ympathy; alone i'll the power Of the REBELLION and
he victim Of the most atrocioUs forms of rebel op-
rcssion the people of East Tennessee seems to have
their loyalty from the resources Of their
haracter. Famine and the sword have not conquer
d them, and the-country will mark them out as
secular people