Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-14
Reconstruction.

/ The County Clerk Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff of
Pope county, Arkansas, were all assassinated re-
! Gently The Clerk, Rev. Mr.. Stout was member
of the Arkansas Free State Convention two years
ago, and was shot through the back of the head by
some mscreant, who fired through the crack in the
wall of his Office
What is it that has encouraged the more violent
rebels to perpetrate these bloody outrages which in
! crease in number Who is guilty of the crime of
encouraging them TO believe that the Government
of the United States intends to let them have their
own way in dealing with Union men?
The steamer Belfast was captured a few days since
on the Tombgbee river by party of guerrillas.-
After landing all the cotton, the boat was returned
to the captain. They swear vengeance against all
Government cotton. gunbOat has been sent up
to hunt them down.
A gentleman of superior observation who has Just
returned from Texas and who has never had con-
necton with politics, says that the hatred of the
rebels towards the Federal Government is increas-
ing instead of diminishing They protest against
the exclusion Of their civil and military leaders from
Congress as outrage upon their rights. This in
science is not confined TO the politicians of the South
but clergymen who stepped in treason to the
lips increase the discomfort and bitterness Of the
people by falsehood and eXaggeration. Dr. Taylor,
OF Richmond, Baptist, in the columns Of the New
York Examiner, says: Southern Baptists are con-
scious of wrong in the matter concerning which
they charged. They have no concessions to
make The deep broad gulf which lies between
the sections has been dug by the North, and the
North only ill or abridge 1t. As long as they
occupy their present position no Union can exist"
1t is evident that the soothing influence of time
is needed to prepare the South for restoration. Pre-
mature restoration is the synonym of national ruin,
and very few of the Southern journals perceive
it. The Raleigh IN. c. Progress says;
"Our condition cannot be improved until the
States are restored to the Union, and all military
interference with our local affairs withdrawn. But
how will these things be accomplished? Not by
abusing the Government and defying those in
thority not by newspaper or legislative attacks
upon the Freedmens Bureau any other depart
ment of the Government.
Silence and acquiescence, our own self-respect
should induce to yield under the existing circum
stances and had we done this from the first and not
commenced a clamor about rights and constitutional
privileges almost before armies were disbanded,
the Union would have been restored and all military
restrictions removed before now. Had the sOCalled
Confederate authorities conquered the North, run
its rulers from the capital and the country, and dis
banded its armies they would have settled every
thing their own way; and as we were the vanquish-
cd we must expect that they will do the same. The
President may relieve his Provisional Governors and
express his anxiety for the restoration of the States
to the Union but it is Congress after ALL which body
neither he the people Of the South can control,
that will settle the matter. Press md Times.