Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-10-01

enacted the most awful carnage known
10 history. The faithful few who have
not dcfiled themselves with treason are
being put TO The sword Recently shere
was peace through all her borders -
Those fiery tends from their copfrder-
ate hell had ceased to clap their hot
hands for they we're ebaipcd down in
the meshes Of ibefrapchise law, ,apd the
elect few aud chosen Of God were walk
ing under their Official foliage With white.
stones sf prefermeut in their foreheads
.ud they were happy. But behold The
change. That hero Of unrest the Hons
crable John Welsh who, loving odd
numbers, has for month and day
had his head bowed down IN tho dust
Of conviction crying swOe woe Is me II
| preach not the gorpcl = he who for
sock FIRST Grayson unity, Virgins,
and then the high plains OF Niekells-
ville-all--just for the Kingdom Of
Heavens sake il threatened With the
rack, the knife. the earrolie, the sgulfo;
tine, The blade, bowl aud ali mahpefso of
evil. How like u sacred asthst ID lara:
81 he leads his prosecuted Cock to exile.
long have they been the tslts,of Sqili,.
van and stayed the wrath & Jehovah,
just as the few s6alk saved NiDeveb ;
but now like Lot they mus. cast their lots
elsewhere. Maybe wien, tbs1 AIRY. gone
there will be ERE aud brimstono<and an
horrible tempest raihcd upontheihcafy
enfrauchised devils who fehSih::'T Nov
he receives tho er. wp Of nariyrdom. =
See how the sanity radiance flashes 10
the peripheral orbit Of Lis sspnointed
face. 1t reminds one Of the eclipse.
Read bis plain,ive letter on our OUT
side to day. True it hns been customa-
~ for saints in their hour Of. trial to
appeal to Col for help, but tifen the
practice is antiqua,ed and somewhat w.
gar and be appeals to Col. Grisham.----.
The radical law requires that, and the
Honorable John is radical Of the
very strictest sect. yo Gods; pisy to-
day the prosecutions of this child Of
grief aud genius. Shade Of the depar
ted Abraham come forth and calm these
merry spirits who walk the slippery soil
and spill the best blood between Kings
port and Bristol: Grant, thou hero Of
battle unlotse once more tho heated
furnace Of thy wrath and stay these rob.
Ell destroyers
Seriously, there was never more peace
| quiet, law and order il Suliivan county
than now, and if this epistle Of the
Hon. JnO. Welsh is worth anything il
is as specimen Of th at low nialignity
and deliberate fac Scation which was
bred by and welI.consorts withthe nox,
ious era which..threw.its author from OBJ
. nifty. IL eliminates from vanity-whos,
chief virtue it is to have reasapd de-
gree. Of cultivation by which il was ca
pable Of icing wounded. Its authoi
can either remain in the county OF b,
cannot. If be cap let him observe thai
quiet which alcne can remove the stig'
ma of defeat. II he cannot then let him
go; but with this brand upon him that
lis because be cannot 'consoft ,,S<;:h ~
spectability restored TO pawefsS aud lei
him reflect that there are in Sullivan up
wards Of 1900 men who yet cab pity but
who s'orn &c. crush him and who look
with pleasing anticipation to the time
when this like other governments shall
have rectifed itself until It's people will
be too much engaged in the digni
" Of their toll to gaze backward aud
behold him disgusting but micropic
object omitted in the history Of his day