Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-03-08
RebelliOn...ItS Effects, Gods and Ends.

Messrs. Editors Though not being accustomed
to write for the public eye however, have con-
cluded while comparatively idle, to scrbble little
on the great subject that has agtated the country
for four dreadful years which is at your discretion
without any cost, but to cast aside if you have no
use for it.
To say that the rebellion has made great and
wicked war, is only saying that which has been said
thousand times and more and many have felt its
sorrows and pangs yet it can't be fully realized
With all its crimsoned battlefclds, smoke and
roaring cannons bursting shells and deadly mis-.
siles, groans, bleeding dying and dead, scattered,
broken and bereaved families aching, heavy hearts
and streaming eyes, its devastatiOns, deaths and
sorrows can't be known, and the less further from
the scenes of conflict and army operations. For all
this there is dreadful esponsibility and reribution
the latter of which many of the guilty are re-
ceving and others will, TO very great extent, in
this life. 1.-THE righteous will be recompensed in
the earth, much more the wicked and sinner"
1t does not take the ken of an eagle to locate this
responsibility, for "he that runs may read'-seces-
sion rebellion. Pesceabe secession first taught and
food of carnage and death upon this once happy
country. The impous idea of some that God made
this war; don't believe 1t 5 SANDER. Some of
the religious rebels say he made 1t to establish slave
ry more permanently. "Oh the Lord is for US no
danger | have told some of them if he was, he
bod a q"oo. va. Of showing it Tho truth is, 1T
came the other direction. Excited, maddened po-
ltical demagogues determined to rule or ruin; nc
gro-worshppers and even ministers through am
bition and vainglory, taught and preached rebellion
and treason, cried, "Thc sword and blood to the
death The gods demanded, reckon, "for whom
the determine to destroy they first make mad
Such became the willing instruments and pro-
claimed from stump and pulpit, and cried in death,
"Behold the trio godS-Jef, Cotton, and the Ne
ger-o" But like Baals worshippers, many have
cried in vain
However, in this war against government af-
fordng protection TO its citizens in the enoymen,
of the greatest liberty and prosperity known TO
mankind, and apparently destroying christianity.
which is really the only security for liberty or at
least enervatng it by cutting off many of its great
au1iliaries yet we must and will acknowledge the
hand oil providence, the true God, in bringing
about some great results, and establishing some
moral and political principles.
Already some facts have become apparen, TO
many deluded worshippers of the trio. 1t was pro-
claimed from every city and hamlet, valley and
mountain top of 'secosh," that the cotton god was
king Of the whole earth. That has about sp,,, ont
Don't hear much said now about his mighty works
along the coast. And the great negro god-mascu-
line omnipotent lmpervious they said as the
rock Of Gibraltar. He can't be dcthroned-inyul.
'nerablc to "Abes vandals or power of hell A,
the rebel DIR. Deems said last summer, tone of the
great pillars Of christianity that is the rebel church.
South, and, presume, docs stand upon stephens
great discovery Of the Nineteenth Century, that
CufTey was made for "hewcr Of wood and drawer
of water chains and whips. But great change
is coming over the spirit of their Dreams Negro