Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-14

EDITORS OF UNION AND AMERICAN.


EDITORS or UNION AND AMERICAN. N
HUNTINGTON, Tenn, Feb. IS, 1866.
In reading your paper Of I'D January
my attention was attracted by the eloquent
appeals, long and loud, Jeremiahcal lamen.
tations, Of our memorialists in distress
will say nothing Of the labored articles, long
drawn out TO prove the prosecutions Of union
men of the State they viii speak for them
selves to all honest men, and viii do nc
hurt. My object in addressing this article
10 your paper is simply TO give some infor.
nation 10 the public at large, and to YOU
correspondent at Mulberry in particular, re
garding one of the names affixed to those
memorials purporting 10 be from commit
tee, styled the Union Central" / alludt
TO one Mr.. A. w. Hawkins, Doctor Parson
ex-right reverend nominal President Fe-
male Masonic Institute of Huntington,
Ten, Capt Of Confederate Company, with.
out commission, however, which he drilled
on Sunday, and volunteer orator upon more
than one occasion, when he said he hoped
his right arm might fall neryeless by his
side, when he proved untrue TO the South.
He called upon the women all over this
county for contributions collected socks
told the old ladies and the young, to bring
up everything that would add to the COM
fort of confederate soldiers-told them that
he would take their names in book, and
that il would be pleasure, pride and
glory 10 look over them in after times. He
made speech upon our public square, stand
. ing on the pavement in front of poor Wild
ow's house; that widow had son, gallant
boy, who heard that speech, and who now
sleeps on the bloody field Of Murfreesboro,
a sacrifice TO the principles avowed in pub
lie ON that day by ORA. w. Hawkins.
The Parson on that occasion outstripped
himself; his language was good, his heart
full, and his soul overlooking with the lofty
theme of a peoples rights.
He wept with those that wept, when the
company was leaving 10 battle for the cause
of its sspousal; the tears fell from the par
son" like raindrops thick and fast, and a
whining, blubbering, hypocritical sobbing,
and wiping of the tears away, wound up
the efforts Of the soul-stirred and exhausted
doctor. After the battle of Belmont" the
doctor was the first man to start with medi-
cines 10 relieve the wounded and suffering
soldiers OF the Southern army and 30 great
was his love for the cause Of the South, that
he walked a great portion Of the way, and
after arriving even offered his services as
surgeon Of a regiment, which were rejected.
In comes the Parson" then for a chaplaincy,
was rejected again then the poor fellow
didn't know what TO do; be returned home
much mortified that he couldn't get a place
TO serve his beloved country in. II was not
long, however, until the doctor showed the
people who and what he was. Fort Hem
~" fell the Federals occupied this section
of the country the doctors sentiments I'M
derwent a sudden and radical change; he
then denounced the rebels as bitterly as he
had previously done the Federals, and being
offered commission in the Union army,
Joined at once, and signalized himself by
never going into a fight. IT'S true he came
in ten miles Of getting into one ON one occa-
sion, battle of Buck River); but that was
entirely accidental, for as soon as he heard
there was a little engagement ahead, he
thought of urgent business right the other
direction, and made good his fight to Tren-
ton. There he signalized himself, when the
garrison was snrprized by Forrest by run
ningtip an old pair Of drawers as a flag Of
truce, which certainly did credit to his in
genuity, but rather at the expense Of his
courage and dignity. will not dwell long
upon the military career and past life Of a
man, whose palpsble duplicity and janus
faced hypocrisy, Justly. entities him to the
contempt and derision of every body who
has any regard for consistency, manliness
and honor. The motive that prompted him
TO sign the memorial in question, is too APP
parant to the public TO require any comment
or explanation. / am confident that the
gallant old State of Tennessee has good and
patriotic men enough LEFT to save us from
the doom that the Vaccinations of such
pseudo-patriots and loud-mouthed hypocrites
AS DIR. A. W. Hawkins would consign us to
JUNIUS.