The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-04
Use Senatorial Election.

Msssrs. Editors Of The Union:
An article appeared in yesterdays
Union, signed Legislators, which was
intended TO deceive the members,ofthe
Legislature and damage Judge Patter
son, who il prominent candidate for a
seat in the United States Senate, and We
feel il to be our duty to state the facts
aud LET Judge Patterson stand or fall
by them. The article states that Judge
Patterson took an oath to support the
Government Of the soCalled Confeder.
ate States Who, in East Tennessee,
did not take it. Every prominent man,
unless he had a tat Office and made his
way out of East Tennessee, st q very
early stage of the rebellion. Judge
Patterson wSs arrested by an order
from the rebel Secretary, Benjamin,
and ordered to be imprisoned at
Tuscaloosa, during the war. He was
hunted down and abused because he
was a son -inlaw of President johnson,
and, known as a Union Judge. We're.
member when Judge Patterson came
around to his courts, his room was
headquarters for Union men in every
county in.his Judicial Circuit, advising
them 10 stand firm and keep up their
Union organizations and throw
every obstacle in the way Of the re
bellion lie was the rallying point for
Unionism in his circuit and when the
election for Judge was near at hand
what did the rebels say2 They said
Patterson must DE defeated. We must
have Judge that will punish Union
men for treason against the Southern
Coniederacy He shall be beaten
Then 1t was when the Union men went
TO Judge Patterson aad said I, him
YOU must become candidate for re-.
election. We want protection. With
a rebel Judge we will be ruined Re-
compelled 10 leave the country and
leave our wives and children IN tba
hands Of those who viii stsrve tbar,
And so determined were the rpbsls IN
defeat him that circulars were i.s,o5
and circulated throughout the cir,r;t
stating that all who voted for Jp5,a
Patterson would be arrested and SON,
South 10 prison and troops were ST.
toned in every county 10 intimilat,
and drive Union men of from the poI'.
Notwithstanding he was elected bv a
majority Of four thousand votes and
not one rebel in the Judicial Cir
cult voted for him. Under those
circumstances he took tie oath
shame on the man who would iDsipu.
ate that David J. Paterson ever had
been un;althiul and untrue 10 tba
Government OF the United States IN.
people of East Tennessee viii regard :,
as blow and a stab to them ana nj,
kind Go 10 East Tennessee and al
them who took the oath 10 the S,,n.
erh Coniederacy, and they Will toll 90,
We al took 1t, We were compelled - -
10 OF De murdered and imprisopod 81
driven away from their hem.
lies destitute What was tba;a -, ,Hiii-
OF the rebels in East Penn - ''''i
Heiskell, Swan and other la,s; as
els stated on all occasion, ~. 'e'-
intended all Union men ,bo ,,,1' they
East Tennessee and their H. ''a'e
Piled by rebels Grom Kcnt.,, sup
the Union men were deternir.l cut
be driven away from lheir hon '''' 10
keps p Their organizaiions - . and
results Of their organizations ave -. ,.l'
y to be seen. Ifan IN Ea.t Tenra.-
took the oath are TO be ost,s.,..s :
viii begin with Judges Lu,,,v
Milligan, Gaut and Swan and
Attorneys General Hyde, Meek