Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-07

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The National Intelligencer, edited by an Irish
Catt9Iic whose sympathies are realy0with the req,
els recently put forth batch Of most unmitigateu
halsehoods, headed 1.-THE Brownlow Faction. on
account Of the former respectabity OF the ln'ei,
encer and of the fact that it was prompted 70 pun
hsh its ISLANDERS from representations made 70 py
two rebels. formerly of Knoxville, we propose 10
correct few of its most garing falsehoods-
Speaking of the Governors imprisonment in the |
Knoxville jail, the Intelligencer says
&The public. however may not know that in the
nrison whare he was confined hundreds OF Union
neu were incarcented, hudded together IKE cat
tIe and diving for want of air, food and water, while
Governor Rrownlow was allowed ample room, ana
his hany were permitted 10 send him food
"The public" of East Tennessee know that the
Governor and other Union men incarcerated in the
Knoxville Jail were huddled together like cattle
in the same prison, no one being allowed more
| "ample room" than another. The statement, there
fore of the Irish caluminatOr in the Intelligence,
is gross perveron of the truth, and is attribute
bic TO his vilainous sympathy with the rebellion
1t is true that the Governors family permitted
to send him his meals three times each day, but the
rebel authorities gave as a reason for allowing it
that it ces a saring to the Cotederacy. He was al
lowed at his request to have enough sent in by his
family to relieve the wants of five or six patriotic
old men, who were very sick-Messrs. Pope and
Cate Baptist preachers, Mr.. Trewhitt, lawyer, who
afterwards died, Messrs. Imam and Underdown,
the latter of whom died also. This privileges was
allowed the Governor because, was alleged, they
wanted his id Mncolnts associatesto eat him
out of house and home The large basket and
cofeepO carried by the Governors son, were closely
examined by rebel officer as they went in and
came out of the prison. 10 see if they could not de-
| tect treasonsble correspondence. The Governor
claims sort of credit for any of these acts of kind
ness to old, infrm and very sick men, but had they
i not received similar aid from some source, they
would all have died. The coarse, hard, and dirty
chunks Of corn bread, and tainted slugs of beef
necks half cooked, and the scanty supply furnished
by Fox, the rebel jalor, accompanied with his in
suits, curses and kicks, were enough to kill we'll
man, to say nothing of sick men, seventy-fve and
eighty years of age Fox has gone TO his reward.
But most of the villains who prompted his bArbar
ity and his robbing our prisoners of their knives
arms and money, are still living, strutting about
with the Presidential amnesty oath or pardon in
their pockets. Some of them prudently keep out
Of the way and send their representatives in to at
tend to their pecuniary interests.
The next great false impression sought TO be made
upon the public mind by the Inteligeneer is found
in these words:
Governor Brownlow was furnished escort and
transportation through to the Union army"
| An escort was ordered to accompany the Gov
ernor to protect him and turn him over 10 General
Buell. at Nashville but the escort refused 10 obey
and the Governor took his two sons two private cit
liens of Knoxville and two friendly rebel officers,
who came from the Union ranks, and started. On
the way he procured all additional "escort" of
armed men, belonging to the company of Captain
F.! Dill who made manly speech to the escort and
told them to protect the Governor at all hazards
This additional force turned out to be fortunate
acquisition, for at Athens depot they met with
part OF a Mississippi regiment who wanted to take
the Governor out and hang him. They were only
deferred from the attempt by the resoute stand of
his friends at each end Of the passenger coach with
revOlvers and muskets. So much for the "escort"
The Governor footed the bill himself and they were
so heavy that he ran out of funds at Shelbyvile,
and had 10 borrow one hundred dollars from a
friend The bill st Wartrace alone was si1ty-fre
dollars where he was re-arrested by Gen. Hordee
and turned round TO Shelbyville where he was held
under guard for ten days longer and was threatened
with hanging by some Texas cavalry who were re-
treating from Mill Springs, whore they had been
soundly thrashed.
Talk about furnishing transportation" Gen. Z.
Kirby Smith recently stated in Lynchburg that he
gave the wives and children of BrownleW and May
nard transportation when they were sent out the
month following, April, 1862 His statement is as
destitute of truth as the ono msde by the Iutel-
gencer. These two families, with sick children,
were sent out by way of Fortress Monroe, upon Sc
hours notice, in the midst of cold SPELL and then
paid their own bills, including railroad fair at heavy
rates. Their houses were taken possession of by the
rebel authorities and abused while the aristocratc
rebels in the town exulted over their bsnishment-
1t did not to them then that one Of tn parties
banished would return and represent them in the
American Congress, and that the other would pre-
side over them as Governor. But such have been
the results of this cruel war"
Whilst upon this subject we have other facts 10
disclose, by means creditsble TO the parties i'm
plicsted. While the Governor lay in the Knox
vile Jail with $50 other good and true Union men,
"huddled together like cattle, and dying for want
of air. food, and water" regular meetings were held
in Ramseys Law Office, on Gay street, attended by
Sneed, Crozer and others, considering in what way
he was to be disposed Of Some proposed TO hang
him straight out; some proposed to turn him out
and let the Confederate soldiers murder him others
proposed to send him to Southern prison and con-
fine him during the war-all with one or two ex-
ceptions agreed upon Furnishing him severely. This
testimony given under oath, substantially, about
year ago, by Col. Mabry, a Southern man, who at
tended the meetings and dissented from their vii
famous propositions.
The Governor, according to the rebel showing,
was tried by drum-head court-martial, sitting with
closed doors, and came within one votc of hanging
He was not only not aware of such trial proceeding,
but was denied counsel by that organized band Of
assassuls all the prisoners were after certain