The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-09

wefe sble and willing to make my fam
lily IN some-deesse comfortable, during
their seioufn here.
But sie Governor saysI ! have been
sssssF paid that I have been able to pur
chase comfortable farm, in New .JeF
sey, and settle my family on it Nov
have never complained Of my pay,
but, for conscience ssl<e, don't credit
my little sand bank farm to my pay,
when every dollar Of my pay went 70
The support cf my family, and $1,000
and more after it If the public Fausl
know all about my little private affairs
the fact is that almost any one can
get farm, on the terms ] did, If his
friends will furnish him s little money
to start on. By paying a few hundred
dollars in hand, promising few hun
dred more, in a short time, and should
ering mortgages for s., GEO secured on
the land, / got my comfortable" farm.
Bot why have farm at ali Simply
because rents were enormous, boarding
out Of the question, and as matter Of
economy, as a bread and meat business,
/ preferred to pay the increasing inter
est on the money secured in the land
and to raise my own provisions.
Ny friend, the Governor, goes on to
say that, in sn article which appeared
lin the Knoxville Register of the Ilth
of February, 1862, over my signature,
declare for the Soush,-that I say that
when Tennessee went out Of the I'm
ion, she carried me ont with her,-that
I call upon the Union men of East
| Tennessee to unite, and stand by the
South and that, according TO my own
report of my own speeches, made at
Newport and Elizabethton, said that
had no sympathy With Lincoln or his
Gossrnment. Now, in reference to this
batch of charges, which is aimed at my
loyalty, have to say: First, that the
Knoxville Register is witness that
would never have expected Governor
BroWnlow TO introduce, to disprove the
loyalty Of Tennessean, since the Gov
ernor himselfwill testify that during the
war, that shameless sheet was never
known TO utter truth, about or Tor a
Union man, Intentionally. Secondly, it
is very Unfair to make statement based
upon an article in any paper, when the
article itself could have been published
showing just what l am there made
to say, and the connection in which
said it. In the third place, it is alto
gether possible that the Register mis-
printed me, and am very sure it has
misprinted me in some particulars, if
DR.. Brownlow's abstract of the letter is
correct Four,hly, am free to declare,
that did write a letter for publication,
about the time referred to, the language
and thoughts Of which, it is impossible
for me now to recall, but the ciroum-
stances under which it was written, are
indellibly fixed in my memory. The
National Government had ceased to
protect Tennessee; organized treason
had usurped supreme power, and was
making itself fell, in the domination Of
martial law, and reign Of terror over
our disarmed population The gallant
and loyal people of my own little com
~ of Carter; to the number Of 500 to
l 200, had just little time before, been
in arms against the rebellion, and had
made my house headquarters; my
wife had cheerfully fed them, and
they had fought battle on my
premises. | had been proclaimed,
through the rebel press, everywhere, as
the instigator and leader Of that inrur-
rection. I.had been in camp with the
insurgents week and was informed
by a personal friend, Tin the rebel
camps, that the soldiers had been or
dered to shoot ne down on sight AZ
ter l had fed to the mountains. and
lain there six weeks, far away from hu-
man habitations, hunted daily by mis-
ereants thirsting for my blood, I was
pursued by Capt. D. MeClellsn's cavalry
rangers, even to the headquarters oi
Col r. B. Vance. By him l was tried
for bridge-burning and acquitted
was threatened by the bloody clique
then In power asKnoxville, who madl
up in diabolical ferceness what they
lacked in brains, (and Of whom Gov
BroWnlow retains doubtless vivid re
collection with arrest, and trial, there
for treason, ard everybody knew thai
my trial, on such charge, st thaI
place and at that time, mesnt simply
condemnation and summary execu
ton. Call it weakness if you please, o.
what you will, confess the fact, I hac
no desire just then, for a martyr
crown | preferred providing for ~
family. prayed to survive the dark
ness of the hour and to De permitted
to witness the pulverizetion, snd ami
hilation of the atroeious rebellion, anS
, the glorious restoration Of the Nationa
power, and the National flag, over eve
ry square foot Of freedom'si grand do
main. Under these cireumstances,- =
for the protection Of my faulty, an'
the preservation of my own life, and
= with the full approval Of ss good an
) true Union men as were in my cour
ty, or in the United States, wroi'
] that letter Most Of Us, ! presume, il
+ the light Of experiences, coald and woui
amend and change our records, il "
) had It to make again,-but, I pre-
: sumo that under precisely similar cir
, e6rnstances, should make . very siu
liar record, If I fealized, s. ! did thei
4 that the safety 81 my family and my i
y depended upon il Every UniOn maj
d in all my section, understood pc
/ fectly my true pOsitios, then, belof
!, and after, and al the time. 7 tried
!, write that letter cautiously, but cal
o not remember now, in absence Of thi
d document, Whist ETots- think ?
q member, however, some things | di
nos say. I did not say was again
:, he Union--and II wrote myself u
t The Soatk" that was simply repeatir
d what eyery Union man in thai sectic
N had declared from the beginning.
re they al believed the salFatiea Of 4
y South Was TO preserve the Union an
Of peace, and thAs an attempt % destr.
., the Ualon By war, would only rssu
If as Il sIFsady has, in the ruin ard dss
e, iation Of she South I did aef say h
ot no sympathy with Lincoln and &
y. Government Of the United States, ~