The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-08
VOL. IX.---NO. 40.

military authorities he adds, ''murders
and robberies are of daily occurrence, both
in Nashville and the surrounding counties
OF Middle Tennessee. This state ment is
made IN reply to the cloud aud numerous
complaints against East Tennessee" in
which section of the State unparalleled
ontrages are being hourly perpetrated.-
What, indeed, must be the condition of
State in which the Governor cannot, by
his own admission, ride in safety five miles
from the capital city? Aud yet this man
Brownlow is exercising almost absolute
power, aud the United States forces have
been ordered to cooperate with him when
ever called upon to do so. But while
there Is comparative order and quiet in
every other State, anarchy reigns in Ten
nessee. 1t will occur to most people that
There must be some special cause which
makes the case of this State an unexcep.
tlonal one. That there is su,h cause is,
true, aud it is no less fact that it is to be-.
found in Brownlow himself. Not only is
he utterly unfit to govern men, but he is
so constituted that there can be no peace
in any community in which he lives
Utterly devoid Of principle or Judgment,
ne Is so insolent, aggressive and malignant
in the extreme. He has now driven the
people of Tennessee to a point beyond
which endurance will be impossible. 1t
is because he has goaded many Of them to
the verge Of madness that he cannot ride
out on the roads leading from Nash.
vile.
81 am one of those at the South" says
this pious aud gentle parson, "who believe
this war has closed out two years too soon.
The rebels have been whipped, but not
whipped enough" What does be want ?
The South was compelled to abandon the
struggle and did SO in good faith. AS he
expresses it "the rebels have been whip
ped" But notwithstanding this the
North should have prolonged the war for
two years more. General Sherman, VIC
suppose, ought to have marched through
North Carolina and back again tbroug Oh
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi,
through districts yet untouched by the
ravages of war, and have left behind him
.ui"S" oA'i9o ouo haihiuB uouoottuuS'-
General Grant, too, should have started
on another line upon similar tour of de-
VISITATION. That would have been the
only way in which the war could have
been prolonged until the spring of
1867, as this brutal incendiary wished
But it was scarcely with the purpose ofcom-
menting on him that we took up his letter.
He is not the sort of man to be personally
reproved or reasoned with. With a fore
head that knows not shame, tongue that
revels in abuse and blasphemy, and q
heart that responds only to the blacker
and fiercer emotions, i, is idle, 40 far as
he is concerned, to discuss his acts. But
it is a shame and disgrace that 80 many
members Of the party to which he belongs
should speak of him in terms of common
dation-that those of them who profess
respect for the religion of which he calls
himself minister should listen, without
a sign of dissent, to his ribaldries-and
that public journals should treat him with
regard as jealous and useful partisan,
rather than pronounce him, as he is, a re-
proach to the nation at lsrge.-Baltimore
Gazette. a..