Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-07-10
Letter from Middle Tennessee.


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Editors Brosnso.rs KnOrviRs Wh;si
DEAa SrRs THE rsOple in our part Of the Stat,
are beginning 70 let the "sober second thought
control them. Passion il fast subslding, and she
spiri, Of revenge which the Basnsr man snd BIZ.
ilk had endsavored to engender hiss virtually failed
Brownlow and Stokes win sweep everything clean
as they 60 on tie LIST Thursday in August Our
people, In this region, and especially Ia VA Smith,
we're in the beginning Of the excitement, cuImins-
ting in one Of tbs greatest most wicked and cruel
rebellicns which ever disgraced the world friends
TO the Union. But they yielded and linked their
fortunes to the aOcu7sed doctrine Of secession. Its
fruits we're bitterer to them gall and vormwood
The farmers whe once owned their slaves By scores,
and al every harvest time saw an abundance gath
cred, new see themselves at least many OF ths@, IN
Strengthened circumstances. They got 'thsir rights
some years back in the death Of their beloved soma
by immense orsgHg trains going TO their grSnEris'
and taxing what they needed for the subsistence Of
the army Of tho United States and when asked the
cause ars compelled 10 answer that they brought
ell these troubles upon themselves. They admit
that the same powerful North still exists and they
believe she is stF determined to rsmodde the proud
old Ship Of State without using single stick ef
srrilgy rotten timber. They have heard much
about confscation and begin to feel that unless they
Ashow forth meets fruit for repentance" and make
a elear exhibition that the oath which they have
taken of allegiance is strictly and honestly kept
that the tenure By which they hold their lands
might be destroyed Some of them have talked to
me in this wise; You know val Union man.
and sbcminated the idea of breaking up our Gov
eminent, but my child was at Camp Trousdals and
the great told that II did not vote sepsra-
toa he (my child would be hung, who, being dear
to me, could not forsake. The State was declared
out Of the Union And then, in addition, the argu-
msnt was made, in private 10 public, and even
charged from the bench that to be sgainst the Con-
federacy was treason And thus wss led on and
on, until really began to think was right But
hereafter, sir, intend to be my own judge, make
my own deoisions.F
We have Few men amongst Us who LEFT the rebel
army, back and received the protection of tbs
Federal army-nen who never done any fighting
that are somewhat blatant. They are counted as
naught The Radicals have no use for them, and
the soldiers and officers who remained with the re.
bellion unto the surrender and are behaving like
gentlemen, have 40 respect for them. Some of them
Soldiers to the ss boldly say that the Union men
far more lenent than they would have been had
success crowned their cause Such men Sc the
dapntless and unfinching Gov Brownlow would
have had to have made their arrangements, to say
the least of il, for their Immediate departure The
Radical Union party stands vindcated before the |
honest men Of all parties. Men are disjrasedissG
They know 1t was done by Themselves Some stFin- !
gent laws have been passed. but only upon .ne great
principles Of selfdefsncs. Former sIsves are Free
and admitted to the ballot-box It was the Cat Of /
Heaven. They we're almost universally loyal and /
shed their blood freely il defence of the Gag of their
country. And do they not know our Government
would have been ungrAtsul had they not been cared
for and allowed to continue the exercise Of their
feelings Of friendship amid the blessings Of peace,
when in vars horrid times they rusbsd forth so
Prejudice and education cause some to
'nser. But Why should they7 The once poor and
aown-trcdden creature 10 my own knowledge, al
though willing 70 do all they could in Legitimate
way for their country, were, during the hottest Of
he contest and are even to this day, kind 70 their
ormsr masters. We are right, sirs, before God and
nan, upon every issue of the day. And Jet Us Bght
IN with hearty good will. The AraEzaehs at Mem
phis has proposed again TO marshal batalliOns Of
rsitOrS for the purpose Of seeing that every man
Totes registered or unregistered" (Hhve you seen
ts article on this subjeet7} Let them try II II they
fare Let such advisers have their swny, and In
luce again the poor, unthinAing unrehectng duPes
Who look to them for advice to jump from ths res
sl which is safely andsnugy westhering the Storm,
md proudly riding every wave on the now troubled
political ocean, and at once they will be swallowed
p by the awful malstrom Of destruction hard by
Vhen such times are brought about sgain by wick
and hell-ieserving men, zee are ready and al {
hough every lover of humanity would dsplore the
alamity and weep at the inevitable suffering of
many an innocent one, still our vatchword n ear
oss would be:
- Lay 81 NcDu6, !
And damned Re he Who fret eriss hold, enough
Wheat crops have yielded finely. Corn begins TO
ook we'll, and oats too
Wishing Gov. Brownlow speedy restoration TO
eath, and thirty thousand majority, and word of
beer to East Tennessee loysiists,
an truly, your friend, r
MIDDLE TESEEssEE RADICAL