Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-25

SIR-TOur editorial in reply TO the crlti-
csnl gave you several weeks ago, / find
in your newspaper Of the 9Th inst. Al
though you occupy over a column and a
half, find, to nay astonishment, that you
have nothing TO say in Reuse or extenua-
ton of your coarse and bitter denunciation
of Lincoln. Candy, Thomas, and other dis
tingushed friends of the Federal Govern
ment, now deceased. Your time and space
are taken up in proving to the world by
quotations from my debate with Pryne;
that prior to, and at the breaking out of
the war, l was pro.slavery man. This is
known, perhaps, to every intelligent man
North and South, and is, therefore, no
news to your readers or mine.
In this same debate from which YOU
quote, as well as in all my editorials and
public addresses, announced myself as
unalterably opposed to secession and the
dissolution of the Union and declared my
purpose, whenever the conflict came, to
stand by the Union at all hazards and to
the last extremity.
Thirty-five years ago, in book publish
ed, predicted that extreme men North and
South would bring on conflict of arms
and although l was writing in defense of
John Wesley, when denounced for having
characterized the slave trade as piracy, /
further declared that when the conflict
came would stand by the Federal Govern
ment, let the fate ofsslavery be what it
might.
There is nothing in your reply to me re-
quiring further notice save you taunt me
with not having taken up arms in behalf
of the Union cause. l reply that your par
ty imprisoned me at the commencement
of the war, and rendered me physically
incapable of bearing arms. L had but two
sons who both went into the army, and
one of them is suffering to-day from
wounds received in battle. In this con-
nection L will say that neither myself or
my sons received an education at West
Point, a The expense of the Government,
as you did, and neither of us were under
an oath to fight for the Government, as you
were. You owed the Government debt
of gratitude.
IF there be a crime
Of deeper die than all the guilty train
of human vices, It's ingrattude'
give, herewith, an extract of letter
ASNSANON W 4hO llOll1 CllILCu vi WI III
Carolina, of high character.
"Allow me, in the name ofthe loyal peo-
pie of North Carolina, to tender thanks to
you for your well-merited and scathing
letter to Gen. d. H. Hill, of the Charlotte
Home, who is now generally known here
as Capt Jack" This Captain Jack, who
by the way, is a worse man than his name.
sake of the lava beds, will probably reply
to your letter.
L will give you few points in his his
tory and character. AS you may well sup.
pose, Hill is a mean brute, of low instincts
and by joining church has "stolen the
livery of Heaven TO serve the Devil in
If not an active member, he has been
prompter of the kuklux khan in this State
and gloated over their inhuman outrages
and defended them through his newspa
per, when justice was pursuing them fol
their horrid crimes. He hates the Gov
eminent and its friends with all the ma
lignancy of his coward heart. AS evidence
of his brutal nature, l give you the follow
ing incident related to me by the surgeon
of his command in Virginia: On very
cold night, when the ground was covered
with snow, a soldier who had been out OF
a scout, returned to the camp quite frozen
and so bewildered that he could not fine
his quarters, nor any one who could direc
him; he then asked to be shown the quar-
tiers of Gen. Hill, whittier he went. Or
his arrival Hill was out, and the sick, fro
zen soldier went into his tent and fel
asleep on the straw. Hill coming in, saw
the soldier and Indignantly inquired VIII!
he was there. When the soldier told hin
the reason, Hill, with horrid oath, drov
hin. from his tent placed him undo
guard, and the next day had corporal pun
ishment inflicted upon the poor soldier"
Will you tell the public General Hill
what sort of corporal punishment yo
had inflicted upon this poor, sick Con
federate soldier, and whether it was tyin
up by the thumbs, as you allege Candy d
an acknowledged malefactor?
MyNorth Carolina correspondence rthe
says:
IA few years ago. and since the war,
met General J. Bankhead Magruder at
hotel in Norfolk. The name and conduC
of Gen. d. II. Hill came up in converse
ton and Magruder had much to say {
him, which may be summed up az follows
Hill is liar, coward, brute and sc0un
drel,'" Magruder assigning cogent reason
for his assertions.
Since, in your reply to me, you com
plain that gave a garbled extract of you
editorial, to which my former letter was
reply, L give herewith your editorial il
full
GEN. ID. II. HILLS COMMENTS ON TIL
DEATH OF GEN. CANDY.
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