Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-05-28
THE REAL ENEMIES OF THE SOUTH.

1t must be conceded by all thinking per-
sons, that the worst enemies of the South
are Southern men. They have done more
to keep up an unnatural and Improbable
agitation of dead issues, than all the "fa-
natics" of the North. 1t is one of the
favorite pastimes of Southern chivalry to
utterimprecations and maledictions against
Ben Butler the memory of Thaddeus Ste
phens and others; but if they would turn
their attention to JEFF. Davis, Toombs,
Isham e. Harris, and others of that class,
they would find the authors of the evils
they complain Of A large majority of the
people of this country, desire to forget the
strife engendered by the war. While
those who remained true to the Union
concede nothing and never expect to coll
cede that they were in error, they will
lingly draw the veil of charity over the
acts of those who did go astray, and re-
member the past only to profit by its ter
rble lessons. This is certainly all that
can be expected. 1t was family difficulty
which all good men on both sides now
deplore; and the sacredness of the great
family circle should not be invaded by
dragging up the differences of the past, and
which, happily, do not now exist.
But there are hot-headed, impracticable,
restless, revolutionary spirits in the South,
who are continually abiding to events of
the late war, and prominentmen who stood
| by the government, in such way as to
provoke criticism on the other side, and
| open up the way for odious comparisons.
For instance, the Charlotte, N. c., Home,
edited by Gen. d. H. Hill, makes the sad
| death of Gen. CANDY, an event universal
! ly deplored by good men, the preteXt for
an indirect, and indecent not to say coward
ly attack on that distinguished officer and
| patriot, as well as upon Gen. Thomas, Sec
rotary Stanton, Senator Brownlow and
Others. This was entirely uncalled for,
and only serves to keep up feeling for
eign to that of brotherly kindness. If Gen.
Hill supposes that he can convert the peo-
pie of this country into the belief that Gen
George II. Thomas met his death as retri.
button for his failure to go with the South
he is very much mistaken. If he expects
the majority of the people of the Southern
States to participate with him in his secret
rejoicings at the death of Gen. Candy, he
will find that they are incapable of exhib
iting so fiendish spirit. If he can act the
part of savage by such indecent eXhibi
tons, he will find very few to paint theil
faces and join with him in raising thu
barbarouS war-whoOp.
He alludes to Governor BrOwnlow, anC
insnuates that his Affections are sent upoI
him as a punishment for his persecution o
the people of his own section, while al
who know anything of the facts, know
that the Senator is an invalid from having
been confined in a filthy jail, and KEEP
there by the edicts of petty militar,
satrap, as the representative of the sO~call
ed Southern ConfederaCy, an organization
conceived in sin and born in iniquty, ant
which could not survive its own disgrace
! Here is the way he alludes to prominen
: Union men:
1.-THE history of renegades is getting T.
be instructive. Mr.. Lincoln DESTROYED hi
own people, violated his conscience, an,
stultified his oft-eXpressed opinions II
= was toully and atrociously murdered in tn
p hour of his triumph. Gen. Thomas pledg
ed himself in Lynchburg, at the outbrea
of the war, to stand by his neighbors an
F. kindred. Seduced by office, he Tough
Y against them. AT the close Of his brilliaI
. military career, popinjay was put owe
him and he dropped dead in San Frauci;
co. Old Brownlow was the strongest pre-
slavery man in the South But he cast hi
lot with the Abolitionists, and prosecute
his own people. He is now paralytic an
t almost a driveling idiot"
: Now, if any man can see how such silly
> wicked and malicious utterances as thes
are to benefit the section Gen. Hill pre-
0 fesses TO Tepresent,l ave would Liz
to hear how from him how il is