Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-11
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East Teunessee-A Model BrOWnIOW-
fse-vfews Of a Patriarehai Patriot
Words Of Wisdom and warning
Several days ago it was announced that
one SizemOre had shot and killed on the
spot,a james Webster, at RogersYille, in
East Tennessee. An Old man, writing US
private letter from that division Of the
State, gives rs the outlines Of sizemore's
antecsdents, and his own reflections on the
political situation. he says:
@BilI sizetnore, Oh Roeersgille, was first
) a Rebel for fourteen months, in which ca
pacity be vas distinguished as prosecutor
and murdered Of Union men. He was next
q deserter, and then a notorious Union
bushwhaeker. He was, after the war, the
agent Of the kreedmen's Bureau. After be
finished his career in this position, he en-
tered into the business of a "doggery2
keeper, in which he is now engaged He
is also the Radical candidate for Floater in
the Legislature. His Radicalisfn is unim-
peachable. He has killed, in all, sixteen
men aud ! regret to say that my inforna-
ton is, that every one Of his victims
had surrendered before their lives were
taken. On last Monday he shot three
balls into james Webster, who was
Union soldier and fought well and truly
for his country, killing him upon the spot.
i have heard of no proyocstion except that
Webster, thinking he was free and entitled
10 his opinions and their expression, had
declared himself opposed to Brownlew. II
is also stated that he had been drinking
and was a little noisy, bus was unarmed
and could possibly have done no harm.
This was Sizemore's opportunity, and he
embraced II. Only twelve months ago he
shot and killed man, which act the peo-
pie say was cold-blooded murder. But
no bill was found against him. He seems
10 have 9 carte blanche to murder at will.
After the murder Of Webster, than whom
Drawer and better soldier for the Union
never lived this Sizemore, convinced that
he would be justified and sustained bv those
in authority, delivered himself I'D to a
Radical Justice of the Peace, and was adj
mitted to bail, TO kill and slay, and run the
race for the Legislature on the Brownlow
ticket. / learn, but can hardly credit the
statement, that his bondsmen were Charles
j. Mckinney, f. E. Gillenwaters, Frank
Alexander and Dix Alexander.
l am an old man, Messrs. Editors. and
have but little knowledge of how such
things are managed nowadays I was
born in the Union, and the first thing re-
member was the flag and the Fourth of
July. When / came to the years of man
hood / found out that the flag and the
Fourth of July meant, constitution and
liberty, and law and order When seces-
sion and rebellion came along / voted
against them. / was then for the Union.
and ] stood throughout for the Union.
fed the soldiers who fought in its defense
/ did every thing l could to preserve it.
When the war was ended thought all was
accomplished. was ready to die in peace.
/ thought would leave my posterity in
the enjoyment Of all that just and stable
government devoted 30 liberty and the pro-
lection Of citizens in all their rights. But
! don't see il that way now. / have never
before seen things a. they are now I don't
know Is we have q constitution. I don't
see anything but the shadow of the laws,
that move about and disappear just as the
Governor moves and is unseen. The consti-
tuition and laws, and the liberties of the peo-
pie are his shadow, and when be sits down
and shuts the door, the sun of liberty and
justice is no longer visible, and the people
are in darkness, subject 10 murder and rob
berry, to outrage and insult and oppression,
to pitfalls era destruction. The Union was
formed, its trainers told us, TO secure more
perfect union, to insure domestic tranquility
and the blessings Of peace and prosperity.
This is what | was for, and sent my sons
into the Union armies for. This is what
the hundreds of thousands persisted in the
struggle for. But the survivors don't seem
TO get il? You are young and can see what
is the matter. l am old, my eyes are dim
and ] see darby; but | do know that pos
terity will go to ruin, if what is now going
on continues. / know ! shall not live 10
see il work out; bat do know that elderly
regulated by law" is the only salvation Of
the country and that the Radicals are TAX
ing from us If they succeed the result is
plain. / would say TO you, stir up the peo-
pie TO save themselves; for, no nation was
erer ensldUed ercept by is ODH consent. X"