Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-06-26
Communicated.
WAsHrNeroN CoUNTr, Va, june /

WAsHISeToE CoUFTr Va, june 10, 1861.
Editors Of tie Wig:
DEAR SIRs-In world full Of wr'ongs, and used
To them, still hate 10 see them deliberately infict-
cd in the great name Of justice.
In a card from Maryville in your issue Of the 9Th
inst, the writer's in excupatioR of certain proceed
ings called riotous after charging upon L. K.
Haynes series Of acts Of henious wickedness and
violence in Tennessee followed by the statement
" he endeavored, by all the ability which he pos
sessed TO excite his followers to other acts Of vio
lence." and: GHis character before he came here
was in keeping with the facts recited above Ru-
NOR says he was connected with JEFF. Davis army
and that he got hold of sack of coffee that was in
tended for the soldiers and for which sack of coffee
he gave no account" With the allegations of this
last quotation, except far as they modified by
the timid Rumor says" make square issue. L.
K Haynes character and reputation, before he went
to Tennessee were excellent not specially with reb-
els, but eminenay with Union men as well. He was
only quiet discreet faithful preacher of the Word
He never had any connection whatever /" with JEFF
Davis army" He never had anything, right or
wrong, to do with sack of coffee during the war !;
though when, in his itinerant rounds, he called at
my house. he really did seem to relish keenly the in
fusion of few grains of "af an afr l took a
liking TO him for his ministerial purity and propri-
ETY.. He and George Stewart were of The few, IN
those days, that never preached prayed politics,
about my ears was very attentive TO public pray
ers then, when a venerable Bishop of the NJ E.
Church, South, in open Conference, in string of
patriotic supplicatons and deprecations exclaimed:
"And, O Lord, bless the blockade runners give
them fair winds and smooth seas; and bring them
safely into port laden with the stores so much need
ed by our armies and our people, On the very
Sunday on which Grant broke Lees lines forever
and forever l heard preacher, in his opening
prayer amid similar entreates, tell The Lord what
to do, thus And o God, if our soldiers are This
day battling with the foe, give them the victory in
the name of the Lord Of hosts" 1t was not the
custom TO put in, q II it be thy WILL o Lord" The
Lord instructed, aoleas UoIels in all varieties
of phrases, to confound the enemy and give sue
cess and independence TO the Confederacy. Now
b. X. Haynes whatever his personal opinions and
sympathies, never did any Of these things though
they waited the prettiest popularity, and we're es-
teemed by the pious crowd The perfection of codli
ness and though he was accustomed to pray fer
vently for all sorts and conditions of men He
never fired rebellion from the casemate of devotion
Further, when TO have avowed publicly want of
faith in the Confederate performance would have
been death or Punishment he was one Of the rare
men to whom . nior man could safely. signify his
view of affairs. Passing from this point, j.. K.
Haynes wss good man, I'm sure, '1eading peace
abe and quiet life, in all godliness and honesty
To wrong the man now by publishing abroad false
and misehievous allegations Of Rumor" as to what
he used 70 be, whatever he may have been since,
serves to cast discredit upon the whole statement
against him to the mind Of at least one Union man
now, who moreover, believes in the greatness and
great usefulness OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
and prays for its enlarged prosperity But IL such
" cards and proceedings do no wrong to that
Church, that Church lies far beneath the heights on
which locate it.
Now note ~ In this reply to the card, am far
from lnterposlng any defense of any nisdeeds of L
h. Haynes, John Baxter, anybody else
~ am still further from defending the act of
Conference of ministers Who in spite of the i'm.
plorlng circumstances Of wise and good men of their
number deliberately chose cheered en- by the good
old Bishop 10 identify themselves as a body with
the rebellion, and blend their religious fortunes with
IT by voting that "the people called Southern |
9ietnodsts could not be so blinded to their prsyi-
Dental destiny as not TO perceive with the cearness
OF sunbeam, that the success of the Federal GOV
in any form and under any circumstances I
could only eventuate in the utter destruction of /
southern Methodism,0 by resolving ain the case Of /
Thomas 2. Rutherford, that forasnuch as he had |
opinions on that subject loyalty which he did not
choose to communicate and gave the Committee no
satisfaction pro or con, he be discontinued J" and so
N largely and multiplicity and worse; and by dis /
,Iphning violently other members tevond the
shadow of Church law, seems 70 me jlst for lou
ltyi gt other Prctellses made all the meaner)
Let me be understood. Let me not be misunder.
toOd. Let justice be done TO L. h. Haynes
EpMuND InNnIEY