Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-06-18
LETTER FROM SENATOR BRowsLew.
lie ExcOriates Lieut.. General d. H. Hill.
A. Slanderer Of the Gallant Dead Properly
Rebuked.
LETTER NO. III.

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/ LETTER NO. IL.
To General ID. II. Hill, GcnerdL-in- Chief o
the Modoc and Kukl,sr Democracy o.
North Carolina:
/ EIR-Your editorial in reply to the criti
cism gave you several weeks ago, fiud
in your newspaper of the 9th inst. AL.
though you occupy over a column and
half, find, to my establishment, that you
have nothing to say in excuse or extenua-
ton of your coarse and bitter denunciation
of Lincoln, Candy, Thomas, and other dis.
tinguished 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, 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.
Tn this same debate from which you
quote, as we'll as in all my editorials and
public addresses, 1 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, i'm book publish
ed, i predicted that extreme men North and
South would bring on conflict of arms ,
and although was writing in defense of
John Wesley, when denounced for having
characterized the slave trade as piracy. I
further declared that when the conflict
came would stand by the Federal Govern
ment, let the fate of slavery 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
ofthe Union cause. reply that your par
ty imprisoned me at the commencement
of the war, and rendered me physically
incapable of bearing arms. 1 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-
nectionI will say that neither myself or
my sons received an education at West
Point at the expense of the Government,
,as y0u 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 crime
OF deeper die than all the guilty train
OF human vices, It's ingratitude."
give, herewith, an extract of a letter
received by me. from citizen of North
Carolina, of high character.
"Allow me, in the name of the loyal PEG.
pie Of North Carolina, to tender thanks to
you for your well-merited and scathing
letter to Gen. d. III. Hill, of the Charlotte
Home, who is now generally known here
by the way, is worse man than his name
sake of the lava beds, will probably reply
to your letter.
will give you few points in his his
tory and character. AS you may well sup
pose, Hill is 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 O
prompter of the kuklux khan in this State,
and gloated over their inhuman outrages,
and defended them through his newspa-
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, 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 on
a scout, returned to tbs camp quite frozen,
and so bewildered that he could not find
his quarters, nor any one who could direct
him; he then asked to be shown the quar-
tiers of Gen. Hill, whittier he went. On
his arrival Hill was out, and the sick, fro
zen soldier went into his tent and fell
asleep on the straw. Hill coming in, saw
the soldier and Indignantly inquired why
he was there. When the soldier told him
the reason, Hill, with horrid oath, drove
him from his tent, placed him under
guard, and the next day had corporal pun
ishment inflicted upon the poor soldier"
Will you tell the public, General Hill,
had inflicted upon this poor, sick Con-
federate soldier, and whether it was tying
up by the thumbs, as you allege Candy did
an acknowledged malefactor?
MyNOrth Carolina correspondent further
IA few years ago, aud since the war,
met General ]. Bankhead Magruder at a
hotel in Norfolk. The name and conduct
of Gen. D. III. Hill came up in converse
ton and Magruder had much to say of
him, which may be summed up as follows:
Hill is a liar, coward, brute and scoun-
drel,'" Magruder assigning cogent reasons
for his assertions.
Since, in your reply to me, you COM
plain that gave garbled extract of your
editorial, to which my former letter was
reply, give herewith your editorial in
full:
GEN. d. H. HILLS COMMENTS ON THE
=. DEATH OF GEN. CANDY.
[Charlotte IN. c. Home.]
At the outbreak of the war, in 1861, he
deserted his own section and cast in his lot
with their enemies. He seems to have won
rank and reputation in the Federal service,
and was one Of the six Brigadiers appoint
ed in the regular army on the peace estab
lishment. He was given command of the
Department of the Carolinas, and carried
out ruthlessly all the cruel measures of
,.ove,<,vcooocc COuOrocc Tho war ouoiuet