Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-04-18
THE KNOXVILLE WHIG.
Knoxville, Tenn, April Is, 1866.
TENNESSEE.
Unionism North and South.

WHAT IT COSTS TO BE LoYALIST In TENNEs-
sEE--sIGNIFICANT FACTS IN ILLUSTRATION
PATRIOTIC FIRNNEss OF THE UNION MEN.
Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE, Tenn March 81.
! am convinced that unselfsh patriotism was
never better illustrated than in the conduct of the
Union men of Tennessee. Against every influence
which talent hatred, ingenuity and malignity can
bring TO bear they stand firm as the solid limestone
rocks which underlie the surface of their State.
UNIoNIsM NORTH.
II is easy to be a Unionist up there in Indiana
Ohio Public opinion is all on the side of loyalty.
The press the pulpit and the social circle alike lead
their aid TO the cause of freedom and nationality
Office and power are the rewards of devotion TO that
cause The enemies of the republic fall under the
ban of popular opinion while he who, either in the
parlor or from the rosrum earnestly avows his love
for the country and for those political principles
which alone can perpetuate her greatness Is sure to
bask in the sunshine of the popular smile. Thank
heaven that It is So .and that in the loyal North
treason where it exists at all must disguise its hid
eous features, and stalk abroad behind mask of
loyalty, for fear of the peoples frown.
DIFFERENT STATE OF THINGS HERE.
But how different is it in Tennesseel Here every
influence which usually shapes and controls the &C
tions of men is brought to bear with persistent
ergy upon the other side.
To stand up for the national cause.-the cause of
the loval millions whose blood and treasure saved
the Governments the sacred right of those who
saved to govern the republic; this is to encounter
torrent of rebel wrath and vindictve hatred and to
brave fen dinfer more fierce and relentless than
found upon the hands of the Union soldiers who
fought al Chckamauga Not for an instant does
this malignant warfare cease; not one, however
humble, among the devoted Union men, escape his
share. The key note of vituperation and abuse is
sounded each morning in the cities, each week in
the country by the disloyal press; is taken up by
the jackal of treason, and howled all day through
the streets is augmented and intensified in the bar
room, in the brothel, and on Change; is repeated
with every style of variation in the family and
cial circles; and is thundered from the pulpit as if
clothed with the sanction and sanctities of religion
upon the blessed Sabbath day.
FEW FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE.
A. E. Garrett, of Overton, who styles the Congress
Of the United States "a band of infamous and trail
torous scoundrels headed by Sumner and Stevens"
bids defiance to the authority Of the House of which
he is a member; insults its dignity and tramples
upon its rules and usages; conspires with others to
stop the wheels of legislation and overturn the
Government of the State and at last secedes and
bolts to thwart the majority in their clearly express
sed wil-this man is indorsed by the rebel popula-
tion of the counties to which he belongs, and as
reward for his ruinous and disloya conduct is put
forward as q candidate for seat in theState Senate
In every instance the of the legislative dis
organizers has been sanctioned by the entire dsoyal
press and people of the State; and in nearly every
instance they have been put forward as candidates
for the places which they vacated, that they may
receive the rebel vote and If returned by illegal bal
lots, may repeat the ruinous process and again de-
feat the legislation of the State.
deceased rebel General, against whose private
character except affected by the crime of treason,
have not word TO say-a man who lost his life
fighting for the unholiest that marshaled
legion in its support-a over whose public
errors the hand of charity might draw q veil of for
getfulness in consideration Of his private virtues is
buried with all the attendant circumstances of pomp
and splendor and parade and every grace and flower
of eoquence and oratory which the of the
pulpit muster, are brought forward to deck his
grave.
Another rebel General is married; and forthwith
press and ministry break fsrth in loud and contin
ued chorus Of fulsome flattery and praise A round
of etes and parties given in honor of the couple
10 whom, trust, no one wishes aught than happi
ness. But at these brilliant parties it is made the
special boast that wearing the insignia of the
Government of the United States is invited per-
mitted to attend.
A leading minister rises at his desk and, in the
name of heaven and of the God whom he processes
to serve the ladies of his congregation against
intermsrriage with Government officers and Union
men.
If l considered it proper to reveal matters of
ling might be produced to show how utterly the 10y
al men and women of Tennessee have fallen under
the ban and how bitter and relentless is the spirit
of treason that produces them.
O. leyalists of the North you only heard afar off
the roar of the waves of disloyalty and rebellion
that for four long years overwhelmed the South;
that we're driven back by the might of your armies,
and that have returned again. and are now dashing
madly, furiously as before around your struggling
brethren N Tennessee.
PRESENT MODE OF WARFARE.
At present the following is the favorite mode of
rebel warfare. They first define Radical TO mean
one who believes the black race superior to the white
and favors subecion of the latter to the former and
then they denounce as radical every friend of the
Government of the United States, every man who
prefers the rule of oyasts to that of traitors every
who holds that political principles forfeited
by rebellion, every man who asks for simple justice
TO those poor creatures whom the nation in the e1-
ercise of its sovereign authority made free from
vitude.
Mr. Richards, of Memphis, who places himself
upon the simple platform of doing through the
chinery of the Legislature only what the Govern
ment requires as precedent TO the restoration of the
State is denounced as a Radical.
Mr. Arnell, whose heart overhows with kindness
and good will TO everybody, and who simply asks
that those who dragged the State of Tennessee into
the fearful whirlpool of rebellion and civil war; shall
stand aside until her loyal cnlloren nave time TO
bind her wounds and set her on her feet again, is
abused as furious and bloodthirsty Radical.
The East Tennesseeans, who refuse civil and po-
tical rights to the negro but demand the exclusion
Of rebels from the State Government sre scorned as
fanAtical Radicals
In Nashville, Judge NJ. N. Brien is a candidate
Tor seat in the Lower House of the Legislature
made vacant by the withdrawal Of the bolter Lewis
ihe latter OF course, has by the disloyal element
been renominated. Now, Judge Brien is himself
opposed to the franchise law pending before the Leg
lsature but is also opposed to the ruinous and dis
organizing course Of those who seeded from the
House OF Representatives TO prevent its passage
his simple platform is that if elected be win take
has seat and attend legally and proDeiv to Es ,ttie,
as legislator And even Judge Brien is fnriousIv
denounced as Radical So much 50 that in a sin
gle issue of Of the disoya journals of this ct
he is called Radical seven times in fonr separsts
articles Never did Horace Maynard spesk more
truthfuy than when he declared that the term Rad-
ica used by these factonists EN- braces everv
porter of the Government Of the United Ststes
TONE TOWARD UNION MEN
Every native Tennesseean who attempts 10 nlsce
before the country the true condition of affairs is
stigmatized as sraitor to his section and made the