The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-20
General Thomas Gives the Rebellion
One More Blow.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TENNESSEE,
LOUISVILLE, KY, February 8, 1S67.-Chqrlcs H.
Smith, Mayor of the city of Rome, Ca. and
others.-Gentlemen THE Major General com.
manding the department directs me to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your communication of the
25th ult., addressed to BreYet Major-General
Davis Tillson, commanding the sub-dlstrlct Of
Georgia, giving statement of facts and clrcum-
stances which caused the arrest OF certain citi-
Zens of Rome, Ca, NOR being concerned in the
display of the flag of the laje Southern Coutede-
racy in that city, and asking that Justice may
be done and the prisoners released.
In your letter you state no disrespect was in
tended to the United States Government by the
exhibition OF the Confederate flag, and that the
parties who displayed 1t have accepted in good
faith the present status of affairs, and do &C
knowledge the jurisdiction of the United States
Government etc.
II that is the case it can only be supposed,
presuming that they possess ordinary intelll-
gence, that they misunderstood the present
status OF affairs, which is that the Rebellion
has been decided to be huge crime, embody
ing all the crimes of the decalogue, and that it
has been conquered and disarmed, and that It's
very name and emblems are hateful to the
people of the United States; ald he must be in
deed obtuse who expects, without offense, to
parade before the eyes of loyal people that
which they eXecrate, and their adherence of
which they have expressed in the most en-
phatic language in which it is possible for
great nation to utter its sentiments.
IL is pretended by certain newspapers that
because no order had been issued from these
headquarters that the flag of the Confederacy
was not to see the light, the citizens were not
warned that it would be a reasonable act.
This excuse is too puerile to answer, and un-
worthy OF even scnoolboy. The young men
arrested as well as other citizens of the South,
know we'll enough what is right and what is
wrong in such manners, without waiting TO be
guided by orders especially naming and pro-
hibiting displays honoring treason, and of
course contemning loyalty. We're they so
stupid not to possess such inr ate sense of pro-
priety, the order from these headquarters for.
bidding Rebel glorihcation over the remains
of the Rebel Brigadier-Genera Hanson should
have been a sufficient warning that such per-
formances would not be tolerated.
The sole cause OF this and similar Ofenses lies
in the fact that certain citizens of Rome, and
portion of the people OF the States lately in
rebellion, do not and have not accepted the
situation, and that is. that the late civil war
was a Rebellion, and history win so record it,
Those engaged in 1t are and will be pronounced
Rebels. Rebellion implies treason, and treason
is a crime, and heinous one, too, aud deserv.
ing of punishment; and that traitors lave not
been punished is owing to the magnapimily of
the CONDUCTORS. With too manV people of the
South the late civil war is called Revolution
Rebels are called ConfedPFates, loyalists to
the whole country are called damned Yankees
and traitors and over the whole great crime,
with its accursed record Of slaughtered heroes,
patriots murdered because OF their true.hearted
love of country, widowed wives and orphaned
children, and prisoners OF war slain amid
such horrors as find no parallel in the
history Of the world, they are trying throw
the gloss of IespectabiIty, And tbrustiro
with contumely and derlsion from their society
me men and women who would not ioin hand,
Win them in the work OF running their country
tSoey tEneiywhere in the States lately in rebellion
reason is respectable and loyalty odious. This
Inc Inc people OF the United States, who ended the
et9 heosiIon and saved the country, will not per,
LII hu1 S az attempts to maintain this unnatural
proyal. w my " ueOiUcu uisaP
- AS, however, III pre- ended by the friends OF
sae t arrested that they were so innocent
prisoners and unpunished traitors 10 glory in
h eoa a1q haunt the symbol of their crime
rom cSGS pe c0HiRRty 9iR they will released
no act of treason will be passed Inas
detectedi and may they aud Others wbo tbIe E1eh
like them profit by the lesson tbsv bs VINO tnlnk
Breyet MajOI-General U, S. A. and mdHIPPLE,