Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-31

eicted those injuries will be justified in law as they
now are in public sentiments
Second. AS is even now the case in many locali-
ties services rendered and wounds received in the
Confederate cause will be passports TO preferment
while to have taken sides with the of the Union
will be equivalent to judgment of infamy. forever
conSigning the offender to obscurity and disgrace
Third If the Legislature does not vote thanks
and medals to Southern heroes and aDte with other
Southern States TO pay the Confederate debt it will
be from fear or policy, and not from want of sym
pathy or desire.
Fourth As far as possible, restrictions will be
thrown around the negro, and his elevation in the
scale of being dscountenanced, if not actually pro-
hibited; he will be excluded from the courts, from
common schools and probably from all means of ed
ucation-from business and privileged occupations,
and perhaps from the acquisition of property.
Such, we appEehend will be some of the results
of we'll known laws of the public mind, and 1t re-
quires but little speculation to anticipate still fur
ther and more ulteTor results 1t is very question
able whether East Tennessee will submit TO a rebel
government Her people will never tamel Y succumb
to those who have pursued them like bloodhounds
for four years If she does not resist by force she
will refuse her revenues and scorn to send her Rep
resentatives to take seats in Legislature composed
of rebel officers and guerrilla leaders-UniOn men
will feel that they have lost and the rebels won
and that their martyrs have fallen in vain. Even
now, in many localities, they are crushed by the
power Of numbers and actually afraid to speak like
freemen.
Loyal emigrants will turn aside to more congen-
ial parts, and the South will be left TO herself to
resume her former rate OF progress
The negroes will be forced to seek an asylum in
other lands or perhaps they will become declining
race relapse into borbarism, and disappear from the
face of the EARTH event confidently predicted and
in fact hoped for by secessonists.
Your memorialsts do not presume to point out
the means of avertng the direfu results they have
attempted to foreshadow. They simply ask pr0tec-
ton. They pray that the Government will not for
sake them by Withdrawing its direct agency in our
affairs thereby delivering them to their tornlentors
Your memorialists will say, however, that they
desire to be represented in Congress The loyal pco
pie of Tennessee have not forfeited their civil rights
by the misfortune of being surrounded by rebels
And if difficulties should hereafter, is to be
feared in that event they desire to have voice in
the councils of the nation But if our form Of gov
ernment is such that TO admit representatives to
seats in Congress will compel the withdrawal Of the
supervising control of the national Government
our internal affairs, thereby nsuring the ascendency
of the rebel majority, your memoriaiss prefer and
they the loyal people of the State prefer c
live in territorial condition, and even under mil
itary government.
From the rebel yoke they pray to saved. From
such fate we rely upon the power of the nation to
rescue U.S. In behalf of ourselves, in behalf of the
half Of our posterity appeal to that Government
we love and have served to save us and them from
the power of those who have inflicted upon every
conceivable injury.
We are your, most respectfully,
Obedient servants,
A. j. FLETCHER,
n. DERBY,
A. 5. THURNECK,
ROBERT WEITMULLLR,
GERvAs HANRY,
julius BRIESEN,
JOHN SHIMMLEK,
r. SCHNIDER
FERDINAND KUHN,
~ W. HAwkINs,
Z. P. CONF.
A. LOWERING, Chairman pro tenn. Of Central Com
mittee.
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