Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-05-15


+ party of which you are a leader
1. The Judges Of the State, nearly all of
whom have been commissioned by me, you
have spoken Of as corrupt and incompetent,
and pointed 70 them as proof Of the rotten
ness of the State Government This whole
sale charge comes from man whom | heard |
Gen. Arnold denounce as a id liar and |
coward. in law Office full of gentlemen
and saw Arnold prove il by rubbing his |
fist under your nose, and making YOU sit
down in chair, with your big stick in your
hand
s. When the great Union Convention met
in Greeneyille, at the opening OF the war,
representing every county in East Tonnes
see, you labored with might and main TO
defeat the Union party aud play into the
hands Of the rebel party. The whole dele
CATION numbering fifteen hundred, recollect
1t, and recoliect the ferceness with which
Arnold aud others met and repulsed you
And yet, after that, falsely protesting TO be
Union man, you shouldercd your gun,
went into rebel company as private, and
marched upon Strawberry Plains to aid in
killing portion Of The Union members Of
that same Convention!
6. You became candidate for the Rebel
Congress in 1861, and eaavassed the dis
trict, falsely pretending, IL the Prtvdte eireSe,
that your sole object waste serve the Union
cause. Yet, when electioncering with Sc
cessionists, you claimed to be with the
South, and to believe that the Confederacy
was fixed fact In your speech at Sc
ivierville, before the election, you told the
lpeople that all who entertained Union sem
timents might prepare 10 paks them up, and
drawing up your shoulders, you went
through the motion Of g2mittng, as tho Union
men would have to do. Tho election came
of. and in that county you got SIC r0tes
And in all the other counties Of the district
you were disgracefully beaten And why /?
Because the people had no confidence in
you, and knew you 10 be a rebel. They
have no confidence in you now There is
not county in East Tennessee in which
you could DO elected Notary Public
Z. Offended at the Union men for not
supporting you, you went TO work actively
and vindictiyely to destroy as many Of them
as you could You caused tho arrest and
imprisonment of bomo, taking care TO CON
triye the arrest of US many as you could
who were able to pay you fees for defend
ing them Because / refused to vote for
you, you denounced me as ridge-burner,
| and was in part the cause Of my having to
lie out in tho Smoky Mountains. Your
main object was TO drive me to sacrifice my
printing establishment. Whilst l was in
the mountains, you stated TO family in
Knoxville that you had me in your power,
and controlled debt that / was not able to
meet
s. You rat upon the corners Of the streets,
like a vulture, awaiting, with delight, the
arrival and Imprisonment of Union prison
ers, that YOU might take their notes and
/ mortgages on their farms for exhorbitant
fees, when you know that you could not
render them any service, and that the rebel
Court Martials refused to hear with respect
anything you said From poor old man
Inman, of Cooke county, in his SOth year,
you and your rebel partner, Haynes, collect
Ell $3.50 90, without rendering any service,
You took lein upon HUNS little farm,
and when no was hung, you said on the
street, damn him, he ought TO hang.
Within the last year, have seen your heart
lessly written demand of his widow for your
pay, or the sale Of the land upon which you
knew she had been ploughing bare-footed,
with one horse, to raise bread for her faith
erless children. Why, sir a man who would
collect such fec, of of such family, would
steal, and SO the people Of this country
think!
9. You wrote a letter to Haynes, at Rich
mond, offering to take bride from JEFF Da-
Wis, of halt a million Of money, to go North
iii the garb OF a Union man and buy up the
press, and get up fire in the rear against
the Federal army Although you had more
than ouce taken an oath upon the Holy
Evangelist to support the laws and Consti-
tuition of the United States like corrupt
traitor aud perjured villain as you are, for
a pile Of money you was willing To destroy
the Government, and with il the 10000
Tennessee soldiers in tho Federal army
Among my worst acts, after cur forces took
possession Of East Tennessee, was to dis
courage the proposition to hang you
10. After your failure in your application
for = commission as Brigadier General in
the rebel army, you presented Gen. Wigfall
with your $500 war horse, and sent him to
Richmond to enable the rebel General 70
help kill of tho Yankee army These are
among the combination Of causes which
lead al loyal mon to distrust you, and be.
lieye that your sole aim now IS 10 restore
rebels to power in Tennessee.
II Whilst you had mo in Jail, and after
J you had placed me in condition to force
| nae to let my Office and fixtures 70 at hall
, price, you started rebel newspaper, hav.
ing brought rebel editor from Memphis,
f The following is your prospectus
: TKosFEcTUS OF "rHE EAST TESEEssEELS.
Il is proposed by The subscriber 10 establith and
publish, in the city Of Knoxville, Tenn, newIpa-
per, to bo called the East Tennessesan The Issue.
Of the paper viii DO weekly aud tri-we.kly The
first number viii sppear on or before the fifteenth
day Of February, nezt
Il will be the aim aud policy Of the East renIcs-
seoan TO support and sustain, ih al is p0seT ara
.aFcscc TIE 6ovcrHtscEs II tks C5rfcIerots States
in its present war for Independence Describing
the discussions and feuds Of the psst il viii endeaT-
or TO rise above tho angry chickering's snd preju-
dces Of local aud parti5an factions 20 the logit-
mate sphere Of high-toned journalism. Il will take
for its guido those great principles Of Constitutional
liberty which undorlio our Republican institutions