The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-10
THE PREACHER SENATOR OF
TENNESSEE.
PARSON BROWNLOwS SEATING
LETTER TO GEN. ID. II.
HILL.
DEF ENSE OF TIE DEAD CANDY
AND THOMA~.

Gently appeared in the Charlotte y. G., }
Home, Of which you are the editor, | find
going the rounds Of the newspapers, in
| which you make an attack upon the char.
hcter Of the late Gen. Canby and other
| deceased officers of the United States
army. In this editorial you do mo the
honor to bitterly dcnounce me, ! say
honor, for ! esteem 1t hn honor for any
man who has been loyal to his country 90
be blackgusrded and vliied by you.
Were ] 80 unfortunate az to be the recipi-
ent OF your commentator | should teol
like cxclsiming n did Socrates, when APP
plaudcd by bad man like yourself,
What crime have committed.
Yol eXult over the death Of the brave
Candy, assassinsted by savage-, attribute
his death, with that Of Abraham Lincoln,
Edwin VI. stanton, Geo. II. Thomas, Prof.
Nasan Of West Point, ex-senator Pres
ton King Of New York, and the late SEN
stor Lane Of Kansas, to a rotribution OF
God, because in the late civil war they op-
posed the effort to destroy the government
Of the United States.
You say Of General Candy that while
he was In command at Richmond, Va, he
personally superintended tho hanging Of
white man up by the thumbs for kick
ing All insolent negro Now this IS your
version Of Canby's conduct, and the
whole editorial you have written breathes
50 iicndish ami brutal spirit ~ 10 make
you unworthy Of credit.
Besides this, Gen. Hill, tho whole life Of
Gen. Candy gives the lieto your assertion
that he did anything vulgat inhunan or
unbeconing a high-toned soldier. Candy
was man Of learning and ability and n
Christian gentleman as well as model
soldier. | am not prepared 10 deny that
within Canbys department white man
wa tied up by the thumbs. While he
was commanding a. Richmond negro
under the constitution Of the United
States a. amended, which Candy was
sworn to support, va, entitled TO all g
rights and privileges Of other citizens =.
A. Wet Pointer and an officer Of the
Uniti States army before the war, you
know that 20 tie Il malefactor up by the
thumbs was common mode Of punish
ment IN the army, and Candy failed ia biz
duty If he made distinction between
criminal. on account o! race ~ color in
melting out the pains and penalties re-
CURED by good order and military discip.
line.
While, a. n matter Of form and duty, as
department commander, Candy would sp-
prove the verdict Of military court in
dieting iust and necessary punishment
upon criminal. violating the laws u wss
his duty to enforce be was above being
Ai, Osn eIecutioner Tue management OF
the details he left 10 man Of brutal in
stincts, like yourself
Now, General Hill, while you are fslsei y
accusing General Candy oil brutality l
propose 10 enlighten the public a. to your
military record. While IN command IN
North Carolina, during the late war,
twenty-si1 white men were tried on the
charge % being 10y al to tho nu"d States.
| No other oilense was alleged sgatns, them.
| They were put on trial late Ia the after
I noon, and. by the verdict Of drum. head
/ court martial acting under your orders all
were hanged until dead before breakfast
| the next morning, without beGedt of
| clergy. Are you not beautiful specimen
/ TO s.sail Candy on the score Of brutality ?
I | can think of nothing a. supremely ride
ulous, unless IL would be !or you and
your friend Capt. Jack to write tres-
| ties on civilization for distribution among
| the ku-klux of North Carolina. Indeed,
/ If | did not know that you were 10 North
/ Carolina / should infer from the brutality
| Of your assault on Candy and others that
YOU were in the lava beds when 1t was
written, and that the article was the Joint
| production of yourself and Capt. Jack.
Your assumption that the Heath OF the
noble George II. Thomas, by apopleIy,
and tie sudden deaths OF Lincoln and other
| loyal men are retrlbution oithe Almighty
| for the side they took in the late war could
| be inspired only by the malignsncy born
| Of disappointed ambition and the spirit
which posse the devil, the founder OF
| secession Democracy, Of a preference 70
/ ruling in bel to trying in heaven.
! | ain happy III the belief that many
| Thousands Of the honest masses in Tennes
| see, North Carolina and elsewhere, who
were mislsd and coerced into rebellion by
! Just such men rs you, benerAl mn no"
repudia,e your leadership and loath your
teachings.
If l were disposed to initiate you l
could give a long list Of men IN civil and
military lite supporting the rebellion VINO
| have come to sudden and, in many cases
! dishonOrable deaths but proier not 10 DO
so.
| You rejoice over my paralysis as pun,
ishment of God, because, Is you say, !
east my lot with the sbolluonlsts'
recognize the hand of God in my case, ou'
| regard Him as interfering in my behalf
Probably not one man in thousand
| would survive the eXposui
and hardships to which l wa
49, mountains and inoarcersted il
rohsI nri.on in mld.wlnter. While