Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-26

During our connection with this paper since the
lst of April 1885, we have been very often person
ally illuminated by rebel papers in this State This
we expected. To edit Union paper in Union
hating State TO denounce perjured recusanttrai-
tors editors who had taken the amnesty oath, to
advocate, edtorially and in public speeches, law
DISTINGUISHING those who had been in rebellion were
certainly enough to bring down upon our humble
self the vituperaon and hatred of the disranchised
class The files of the KNOXVILLE WING will
bear witness that have consumed but little space
in replying to personal assaults To have replied,
through our paper, to all said against US, would
have been to I'll our columns with matter uninter-
esting TO the public. We never felt there was a
necessity for SO doing. We believed that loyal
man would not condemn US on the testimony of VILE
unrepentant traitors, while the disoyaL would hear
nothing in refutation of the ISLANDERS of their oppo
nents though one should rise from the dead to
speak.
We are induced to make these remarks from see
ing flty assault upon in the columns of an OBJ
scure rebel paper in this State whose UNANIMOUSLY
founded attack has been copied by rebel papers in
and out of Tennessee.
We refrain from giving the name of the paper
U6CauS6 It's ODJ6CL III MoS w PAOfOhO
controversy and get It's name in our paper and de-
rive the benefit of being advertised in our largely
circulated journal. The assault emanates from
flung journal which has circulation, and
has been on the eve of suspending publication for
months. An irresponsible concern whose editor
proposed several months ago to defend the Fran
chise Law" and Gov Brownlow, prorided he could
oct a good share of State patronage
In this he failed. Hence his malignity towar DIS
the friends of the State Government.
After blac kguarding and slandering us in man
which even our political opponents in this city
would testify to be false and unfounded the cores
pondent Of this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES concern writ
ing from the Lamar House of this city lat the hour of
leaving here among other things says John
Brownlow is entirely destitute of courage. In the
sense in which this word is used by traitor, from
the banks ofthe Mississippi perhaps destitute
of courage" We are no duellist. Have never be-
longed to the bowie-knife party While disclaim-
ing this character, we defy the man to point to a
single instance in which We have failed to re-
sent by bLo,cs an insult offered us tCten could do
so on terms of equality, with the prospect Of
fair fight: Not many weeks ago we visited the
traitorous city of Memphis. In Alabama in car
containing but one Union. man beside ourself out
of forty or fifty persons we were insulted and de-
nounced for having served in the Federal army
Discharged rebel officers and soldiers-armed-su sur
rounded u.s. We submitted to this denunciation,
thus encOmpassed by mob wholly unable to re-
sist
If this constitutes a COWARD, we plead guilty.
If such bravado and bullying is Southern chiv-
airy" may the good Lord in mercy deliver US from
such chivalry! On fourteen battlefelds of the late
war we have perilled life in fighting under the
"Stars and Stripes" For our conduct on each and
every occasion we confidently refer to three thous-
and Tennesseeans and the gallant 10th Michigan
Cavalry, all the troops with whom We ever served.
Then, in conclusion, bid defiance to our ira
ducers.
" Lie on while revenge shall DC,
To tell the cry truth on thee