Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-05-17
The Return of The ChiyaIry.


como IN 10 imploro terms at the hands of the hated
Yankee, Absence travel aud fasting have made
them The moolost Of men Tho proud bearing aud
naughty air that distinguished tho flower of the
youth four years ago are changed into humanity
aud lamb-ko geutlonoss, How cordial the greeting
Of the 4pondau tories and traitors How warm
their grasp How soitened and melted towards those
whom they drove into exile or threw into prison
How nilectonute and loving towards the fathers aud
brothers Of those they slew in battle or murdered in
their homes and fields And how gratefully they
gaze ut tho bright folds of that broad old banner
boating In beauty over an Our iaad and on every
sea-which four years ago they tore down in thi'
very town with domonac shouts of Joy Who will
say hereafter that the lion cannot DO tanned, or the
leopard change his spots
Nearly all that Is now wanting to restore society
here to the same condition it was in four years ago
is for few more rebels to return Most of thel lead
ers are still absent, Haynes Crozier Sneed Nc
Adoo, Swan, Wallace and Charlton, and few others
are still away But their puppets tools, and nstru.
ments, have returned. Vaughn Is gone but those
who were to execute his orders in his intended as.
suut on johnson and Nelson and the Union assem-
buge in this town in May 1861, are again with u.s.
Vaughn returns not but his instruments in the muir
der of Charles Douglas are here radient with smiles
and love Fox has been gathered to his fathers
but those who cheered and encouraged him in his
arduous abors are spared TO US. Reynolds delays
to roturn, bat his counseloTs and advisers are here
Judge Humphreys comes not, but those who rovolved
around him hide not their faces from US. They all
come npeace, in love, and in friendship They come
to dwell with US. Four years ago they said to the
North, We are II great and mighty nation, and
let there be great wall or mighty chasm between
us to divide us forever" To-day they say, Let US
live together in peace, forgiving all past oienses,
and nesting together under one common flag
-Four years ago they said TO their neighbors, Let
there be enmity between us and and thee, and our
seed after us forever and let those who 60 out from
among US be cxiles and wanderers forever, and let
their children and their childrens children be cursed
as tories and traitors, even to the third and fourth
generation Of those that come after US let their
houses be raised TO their foundations let their wives
and little ones be driven from among US, for we
must be one pcopte let their property be sold, and
their money paid into the kings treasury; ii any
dare to return among Us, lot US hang them as high
as Haman let us raise the black flag to show to the
cowardly North that we are a mighty and a war
like people and nation Of chivahy. If the North
grant not peace to MS let Us gathertogethera mighty
army and march Northward even to their great
cities which We will burn and destroy and CONQUER
the country and levy tribute to pay the expenses of
the war, and establish new empire over all the
land, and we will make the cowardly inhabitants of
the conquered provinces our man servants and our
maid servants forever, for We are a chosen and
peculiar people To-day they return, with hands
crmsoued with the blood of our fathers and of our
brothers, with spirits unconquered and with hateu I'M
satisfied, and say We will live with you, but you
must restore 10 Us possessions and our rights and
allow Us TO control the ballot box, the courts the
pulpit and the Legislative Halls, for we are the
chra5y and the Of the ariStocracy of the land
True, We have killed you in battle we have driven
you from your homes, we have followed YOU and
hunted yoO even in the solitude of the mountains
We have shot you down IN yOnr neaceful fields wa
have nsulted your wives and daughters, we have
you as tories and traitors we have i'm
prisoned and starved your sons and aged fathers we
have taken your horses and cattle and your gold
and your silver and when We captured your sons in
battle We have stript them Of their raiment and
starved and frozen them in prison; yet all these
hngs were right for we were dealing with cow
,rdly, an inferior u degraded and an inRdel race,
Unworthy Of the amenities of a christian people" .
The return Of these rsbels, who have spent four
fears in the work Of destruction is full of danger TO
he peace Of society. What shall be done? Are
ur people to SUD nit to their insolent claims Of su
eriority again. Is our community to be kept in
onstant commotion by the staggering airs of the
~ young gentlemen who in former
ays, were ever ready to shoot Union men. or who
ashed round with Ashby or fought with Vaughn
When they had the power they swore our exiles in
ientucky should never return. They said we could
ever live together. When the Federal army came
ley elected to go away Again and again have
ley came back to reconquer this place each time
reathing out vengeance and slaughter for Union
len. They return in peace only after they are
hipt They hate as before. Their feelings are un-
banged Can We live together in peace? Had
Of the bad young men and the bad old men better
Ell away Every community has the right to in
ire its own peace and safety. Grand Jures can
ring bad men to an account for their crimes. The
18th Of amnesty does not cover robbery, murder,
-son or theft. But an outraged people, rising in
dgnatiOn, may also do quite as much as grand
ries. We counsel no violence. But we can safely
y that the ways of the transgressor are hard and
set with dangers. 1t may be better for returning
bels 10 travel on a little further. Let them 20 in
'aco They voted separation four years ago If {
K doctrine was good then it is good yet.
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