The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-12-25

Is done, we have no sccurltJ whatever, that
our liberties are secured TO usa day. These
men are as great enemies TO our institutions,
as they ever have been, and only seek anoth-
or more favorable opportunity tQgmAke strife,
and bring another war upon u.s. Give them
political power let there be no fruits meet
for repentance required at their hands, and
this generation will not have passed away,
before another bloody war viii be Inaugural,
ted, and our couAtry again will witness more
terrific scenes, than was enacted during the
four years Of terror in East Tennessee, and
all over this tair land Of ours,
The hive and cry is raised from North to
South, and from East to West, by the rebels
and their sympathsers, that, " taxation with
out representation, Acknowledgement is uu-
just; that it was tbs which brought on our
revolutionary war with England, which lasted
seven years, and cost many precious lives,
and much treasure We hold that such de-
claraiions as these, are foreign to the ques-
ton. and therefore untrue. The idea Of com
pairing the efforts Of the rt6els in the late war
TO those of our fore,tdfAsrs, is political sGcri-
l,ge. Our revolutionary fathers were strug-
Cling for civil aud religions freedom the
rebels sought TO overthrow, and destroy the
sacred institutions which our fathers had
planted, aud set up IN their stead, the prin-
ciples Of human slavery, and Thereby have u
sIure-0rchy Government, where tie colored
people aud the poor whites Shsuld forever be
segs, and recognized as property, to be trans.
fvrred. aud sold dd A6aaR,. Permit me to
state a plain case, which the least cultured
mar understand. When a citizen of this
Stale violates the crimina. laws aud is found
guilty Of " grand larceny - be is sent to the
peuiteutiary for several years, AMI il lie re-
mains there until his time expires, he is dis.
francAised, and unable to hold office, although
he is compelled by the law to pay taxes. This
conrict who has paid the penalty for violating
theaaws Of his country, has the same right
20 complain Of being defraachiIed as the tydi.
tor, and unrepenting rebel: yea, he has in-
hnitely a better right to complain, he has
only stolen a few dollars worth OF property,
whilst his rebel brother, has not only taken
properly, but destroyed many valuable lives
aud made many homes wors' than dcsolats.
Their crimes are of greater magnitude
than was CAMS, who rose up in a reat Of
passion, and slew his brother .ibSl. The Al
mighty diSfr0Hchisei Cain, the first murderer,
and he spent the remainder of his days rs
- fugitive and vagabOnd ia the earth and
was uever afterwards permitted To associate
with any family, or congregation of people in
acts OF religious worship,
These rebel preachers whose hands are
stained with their -" brothers blood, which
crieth with the voice of seven told thunder
e from the ground, - will never receive their
just desert, until they are treated like Cam
theiF prototype, But our Government, with
out a parAllrD IS merciful, and when these
q" intelligent rebels eyince contrition Of
heart aud after they have been on projection
for twenty-One years; then if they come ptl
recommended and rOucAei for by good and true
men, let them be pardoned; but until then,
they should be 9iyfrancLssd. 1t is presnmp-
tuUus in them, ut this time, to agitate this
The law protects them in their
person and property, and they ought to be
satisfied with The privilege OF living among
Il people, whom they resolved, If the South
ern COnfrderary was established, to drive
from their midst aud confscate their proper
~. Let justice be done though the heavens
should fall a. +. r..