Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-05-30
SYmnathY for Rebels.

II Union men, smarting under injuries inflicted
by traitors take it into their heads and hearts occa
sionaly to chastise the guilty parties cause them
10 leave the country without sufficient time TO ad-
lust their private affairs a te. Hbe howl is raised
exaggerated statements published in all the rebel
papers Of the South-doleful accounts are given on
board Of the cars-abusive epithets are piled upon
the Union party-fase statements are sent to Wash
ington-and whining and villanous appeals are
made 10 the civil and military authorities TO correct
the alleged Outrages.
During the dark and bloody days of 6l-2-3 and
Z, no such deep concern felt or manifested for
the suffering Union men and families by any Of these
parties when the rebel authorities gave all Union
men forty days to turn traitors in leave the coun
trvl That was all right, and the confiscation OF
their properly, as a means Of aiding the cause OF
treason was all marveously proper, and openly ad-
vocated by these same sympathi5ers Nay, some
of them were enrolling and coyfscGtlng officers
Right here, in loyal East Tennessee, Union men
were thrown into jails by hundreds, without regard
10 age or innocence. They were marched out Of
these ails TO the several depots, with their arms
pinioned and bound with ropes and shipped to Rich
mond, Macon, Tuscaloosa and Mobile, where they
,tarved, suffered fingered and died, with no kindred
hand 10 wipe the cold sweat from their emaciated
faces Others were taken out and hanged others
were shot down in cold blood upon our streets, and
upon the public roads of the country; and others
were tied 10 wagon wheels and trees and whipped
upon their bare backs, some fainting and dying IN
der thu operation Innocent and unoffending fc-
males were taken into their own yards, tied up and
ham oil Nzybn
sous husbands and brothers were that the conscrPt
ing officers might capture them, and force them to
light against their country! Their houses were
robbed-thcir stock taken-ther fences destroyed
and many of them reduced 10 poverty and want
because their proprietors fighting in the MOI
army, or hiding out in the mountains, rather thar
make war upon the old Government More anc
worse than this transpired right here and 1t was al
approved by these rebel villains, who are insolent
claiming protection from the Courts of the country
and from the Civil and Military authorities of thu
nation Nay, il was openly and everywhere pro
claimed by these very scOundrels, that If the.
achieved the independence Of the Contederacy n
Union man OF family should remain in the countr.
at the same time avowing that if they lost, the.
would leave for parts unknown.
We are not astonished that some acts OF vlolenc
rhould occur, growing out Of these rebel crueue;
but we are and have been, all the time, SURPRISED
that 5, fss- of the guilty parties have been made
suffer Ii can only be accounted for upon the groun
that our people are the most patient and forgivin
race Of men on earth Certainly those who wer
prominent in these acts Of oppression, murder an
robbery, have no right 10 complain when they ar
made 10 atone for their sins. To be allowed 10 lv
Il. ALL is all they have right to ask, and they Shoul
be willing to live in other lands, over the hills an
far away.
Gentlemen who acted with the rebels-teOk n
part in expressing Union men-scquiesce in tn
overthrow Of the rebellion--stand by law and orde
and behave like gentlemen and patriots, ar
opposed TO see treated otherwise than as genteme
and patriots, and We will come to the rescue of a
such as vigorously rs any other man. And we al
pleased 10 know that there are many such. w
would 10 God they were more numerous-ther
would then be fewer complaints of outrages