Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-22
Inyeterate Rebel MalIgnIty.

/ certain bird of the desert when pursued or in
supposed danger, will hide its bead from pursueri
and fancy itself unseen and secure
The Trustees Of Emory aud Henry College, Yir-
ginis, must have acted upon the same des ia their
recent ouirageons treatment Of Professor Edmund
! Longley wbo for twenty-five years bias stood bon.
oraby, inhuentislly and usefully corrected with
that institution They must have concluded that
there were not loyal men enough in that part OF
Virginia to take note of their vindictiyene5s and
unrelenting hostility TO everything loysl or that
they ~oald lack the courage to express Themselves
! They had only concealed the head. Their meanness
would oat even in the adjoining county Of Marion,
as the following article from the Marion Record Of
/ date June 22d will show
REBEL MEASEEss AND MALIGSITH-WHAT
/ UNION MES or THE Souri, MAY EXPECT WHERE
CONSERVATIVES HAVE PowER.-We learn that
the CuratoE Of Emory and Henry College hsve
displaced Professor Lonely from the chair that be
has flled FOX twenty five years, with distinguished
honor and acceptibility, and all on account Of his
being quasi Union man. As he has never acted
with the Republican party, we can give him but lit
tie comfort. He is wounded in the house Of his
friends" and We shall not waste our pity, If his
friends have proved sssassins An old stakeholder
IL be failed to see il in the lost cause, it was
doubtless all in full sympathy with the persons if
not with the movements Of the shareholders. {" So
bit him again, but if they do these things in
green tree what shall be done in the dry p Think
Of that Prof. Bongley--Rebe Conservative or
Radicsl--bas the reputation Of being gentleman
Of great personal worth.
The truth Is, Prof Longley was about al the salt
left IN that traitorous rebel concern We should not
be much surprised if his well-known Union position
and influence saved the College from the destruction
that would otherwise have followed the murders
there in The College building of unarmed Federal
sick and wounded by Camp Ferguson during the
war. And this is the way they recompense it,
Sbamel 1t is almost equal to the baseness and
treachery Of the New York Convention towards
g. Andrew the First"
Before the war Emory and Henry College was
quite respectable concern, numbering some two
hundred and fifty or more students, of which we
we're one. 1t had On air of life and vigor which
promised well for its future. Lending its whole
influence 10 the bad Of rebellion, it has had
consumption ever since, having dwndled down TO
n meagre hundred or So We can account for is
last GROWING nfamy without difficulty. Finding
that Gen Lees College, in Virginia, was making
Roadway by ts undisguised Soutbcrnisn5, their in
stlncis strongly incning and moving them thereto,
they have followed suit by dischargng the only
Proics or who had ever been suspected of loyalty,
and he Too, one of their best. Their next move is
10 be seen. 10 cannot exceed this in undisguised
hostility TO loyal principles and loyal men. This
act shows that they have learned nothing aud for
gotten nothing by the war. As from the commence
mont Of the rebellion, Emory and Henry College
was hot-bed of treason and malignity, where rebel
since Il will be nothing better A brood Of new and
eager botpars will be ready for the next fray, to
fash their maiden swords in the hearts of patriots
and freemen.
We recommend Republican papers TO vontilato
the uncured, ucurabe rebel venomousness Of Emo
ry and Henry College.