Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-14
southern Bitterness.

the rebel journals Published IN the Southern States
and hence, what they learn of the tempers of these
papers is gathered from sinted extracts When The
wicked rebellion ended, eliminating in the surren-
der of Lee and johnson, it was supposed that the
experience suferngs and hastings offour years would
have had good effect upon the so-called opponents
of Southern pablo opinion nay, it was supposed
that the stereotyped expressions of hate against the
| old Government would at least be modified, II not
altogether laid aside. No one expects an abundance
of love and good will but all wel-bred men looked
for ordinary courtesy all thought that we~would
hear no mere of the coarse abuse, low slang and
disgusting blackguardsm with which Southern edi-
tors assailed every man friendly 10 the Union; we
supposed bowie-knves, tar and feathers ropes and
pixies, would be laid aside and it would be conceded
that one Southern patriot could not handle, with
ease, more than t1oo Yankees. But no. the newly
revived and reconstructed papers in the Southland
We are sorry TO say it-are untiring in their abuse
are as violent at any time during the rebel
lion, full of hate. and Astounding in Incorporate
abuse Every issue of these rebel sheets furnishes
some evidence of its undying malice towards the
Union the loyal North and above all towards South
| ern loyalists Instance the Nashville and Memphis
rebel papers, and we fall back South we find them
| increasing in malignant abuse, in SPITE and in
threats to resist oppression, they term loyal legs
lation
If these journals stood alone in this rebeous tenn
per and purpose it would be matter of consolation
to the lover of peace but they do not for they rep
the temper of the rebel people all over the re-
belious South. What DO these papers and people
expect TO gain by this crusade of abuse and treason?
The loyal people have treated the weaker party with
great courtesy, even with magnanimity. The loyal
| press North and South, has been respectful, and
even kind and forgving The President has par
doned all classes and turned loose upon society
| men he ought to have swungup by their necks. The
operation of this pardonng system has been to re-
store property to rebels that ought to have been con-
fscated The whole loyal party, from the President
down. have done tie very Of what the rebels
would have done had they been the victors. They
would have howled for blood and raved for conis-
cation, and the Punishment of Union men
We claim no special merit for the loyal men and
papers of the NortEs because of their leniency but
We do consider that after the bloody results of the
late terrible conflict less of bitterness hate malice
and of aSsassinations, among Union men and masses
would become the rebels and their fre-eating Jour-
mails. In the very heart of Middle Tennessee and
within a days ride of where the Legislature is in
session, in the counties of Dixon, Robertson and
sumner men arc being murdered in cold blood, and
told at The time in the presence of their families
that it is because they took the Union side of this
great struggle or had sons in the Federal army =
The temper, and infammRtory articles of the Nash
vile rebel papers calculated if not intended to
produce this very state of things. They copy with
appreciation, articles from other Southern journals
advising the President like Cromwell, to disperse
the present Congress with bayonetsl They argue
all points of difference, of yore, from the mouth
of the revolver and the bowie-knife; they brand
all truly loyal men with opprobious epithets. and
threaten them with personal violence; they elect
alI over the South the most bitter enemies of the
Government to Office. Throughout the entire South
they hunt Federal officers, assassnate Federal sol
diers and Union citizens, and make the presence
among them Of Federal civil agents most uncom-
Portable and dangerous. And strange TO say, Con-
gress is called upon TO trust these men
In ordinary times the press is supposed TO reflect
the tone OF the people; but in the South the people
are now ahead of their journals and the latter are
but following the former. The vim of ill-will run
ming through the Southern journals, producing the
covert sheer has given place to open defiance, and
the names of our best men at home in the army,
and in Congress- used in violent way, calcula-
ted to estrange them from all these reconstructed
rebels may propose Al this is to be regretted, as
if is keeping Southern men out of Congress- and
Southern States at discount. But the results of
the war are positive the conclusions are definite the
changes effected complete, and the power of the
nation is in the hands Of the loyal vctors who will
that rebels do again plunge the country into
war; with all the means of warfare in their hands,
as under the reign OF the infamous Buchanan. With
two-thirds in both houses of Congress, and heavy
majories in all the States to back them up, the real
Union party Of the country don't intend to be put
down by the rebels and traitors Of the States so re-
Gently in rebellion.
The Messenger q PEACE issued prospectus her
aiding its advent in which it promised to be posi-
lively a religious, moral and conservative family
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