Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-10
FROM SUMNER CoUyTx-A ISLANDER


Correspondence Of the Union and Americana
GALLATIN, July 9th, 1s66.-MEssRs.
EDToRs-My attention has been called to
the following paragraph in the Press and
Times of Monday:
HREBEL. MANIFESTATION AT GELATIN.
We learn that Governor BRowNLOw has re-
ceiyed letter from T. McKINLY, registra-
ton commissioners at Gallatin, announcing
that the Fourth was desecrated at that place
by tearing down the United States Flag from
over his Office He writes further; the
rebels swear that the national flag shall
never be hoisted in that place without being
torn down. This menace will prove rather
dangerous when carried into practice. A
young ladg of Edgefeld was tried before
military commission and heavily fined for a
similar freak on the Fourth of July last
year. If men get at such disgraceful work,
they had better first count the cost. If the
rebellion is not ended yet, its supporters will
find that It is fated to die the death
Now the above is lacking in one essential
quality. 1t is not true. The facts are that
on the 4th Of July, two or three drunken
boys of the town were celebrating the coca
sion with a frolic, and went at their pranks
insthe old style Of piling up goods boxes
against store doors, etc. They lowered the
big tin coffee pot sign of tin shop to the
ground, undoing the sign of the Examiner
newspaper Office, took several gates of
their hinges and placed the village barber
pole at the door Of our bookseller, with
various other feats, some of which would
have been ludicrous if they were not so an
noying to the owner of the property. To
Sr9wn the evenings entertainment, they took
flag which was hanging out doors, at the
house of brotherof the Christian gentleman
who has been honore d by his Excellency
with the Office of Commissioner Of Registra-
ton of Sumner county, and at the aforesaid
house he boards It is situated almost in
the suburbs Of the town, and il IS not his
Office as stated in the paragraph above,
While we do not approve these riotOus
proceedings in the least, we would call at
tention to the fact that the "raid was made
upon the houses of good rebels--so called;
and among them the Examiner Office, which
is not generally regarded as having much
loyalty about it of the BRowNLow kind
We make this reference merely to show that
the frOlicers bestowed their faVOrs more
upon the rebel portion of the town than upon
the loyal. .
In regard to the statement that THE
REBELS swore that the national flag shall
never be hoisted in that place without being
torn down, we have merely to say that it is
false. That some drunken rowdy may have
made such remark is possible, but it will
be noted that the averment is that "THE
REBELS made the threat; thus charging
that all of the people of that county share in
the threat; and when it is considered that
Sumner county was all rebel or nearly SO,
the charge becomes sweeping.
Now we do not believe that any respect
able person in the county ever said any
such foolish thing. We therefore denounce
the statement as false and slanderous. We
are aware that we have consumed a good
deal of your space in giving any notice at
all of person who is of no consequence at
at all, and who after a residence of several
years has become most thoroughly detested
in the community, so far as an insignificant
individual can be said to excite the senti-
ment; but we feel that the good name of our
people is aspersed in an unwarrantable
manner. We have been good 'srebels'', but
have laid down our arms, and taken
oaths to support the Government. We
have kept our oaths in good faith-in letter
and spirit, and the man who says to the con-
trary ISLANDERS US, and we mean TO tell him
so. He shall not take refuge behind the
contemplate little office of Register, and
spit forth his venom without being called to
account.
The evident design of that Commissioner
was to insult the people of the place and
taunt them with their failure in the rebel
lion (?) There was no occasion for his dis
play of his flag, as there was no public cele-
bration. While we admit we have no love
of the flag, we intend to accord to it all due
respect. If the commandant of a post,
or other officer saw fit to hoist his flag, we
can respect him for the discharge of his Of
fetal duty--so far right and proper. But il
this same officer, in derogatiOn of his
duty, should take occasion, wantonly and
insultingly, to Aaunt it in our faces and
tauntingly gier us with our misfortune, he
goes beyond the line of his duty, and he
would be craven who did not fell him to
the earth. And in this spirit of a modern,
soulless Radical, the flag was hung out at
Gallatin TO insult its inhabitants. And We
will warrant that those rowdy boys meant
nothing more than to express their contempt
for the man.
SUMNER.