Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-22
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
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 G.sHarris, 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 con-
Iingly draw the veiftt . Of # charity Ger the
acts of those who did go astray, and re-
member the past only to profit by its ter
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 prominent 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. II. Hill, makes the sad
death of Gen. Candy, an event universal
ly deplored by good men, the pretext for
an indirect, and indecent not tosay 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 IL. Thomas met his death as a retri-
button for his failure to go with the South;
he is very much mistaken. If he expects
the majority of thepeople 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 exhibit
tons, he will find very few to paint their
faces and join with him i'm raising the
barbarous war-wheop.
He alludes to Governor Brownlow, and
insinuates that his Affections are sent upon
him as punishment for his persecution of
the people of his own section, while all
who know anything of the facts, know
that the Senator is an invalid from having
been confined in filthy Jail, and kept
there by the edicts of a petty military
satrap, as the representative of the SOCIAL
ed Southern Confederacy, an organization
conceived in sin and born in iniquity, and
which could not survive its own disgrace.
Here is the way he alludes to prominent
Union men:
1.-THE history of renegades is getting 70
be instructive. MI. Lincoln destroyed his
own people, violated his conscience. and
stultified his oft-expressed opinions He
was foully and atrociously murdered in the
hour of his triumph. Gen. Thomas pledg-
ed himself in Lynchburg, at tine outbreak
OF the war, to stand by his neighbors and
kindred: Seduced by Office, he fought
against them. At the close of his brilliant
military career, popinjay was put over
him and he dropped dead in San Francis
60. Old Brownlow was the strongest pros
slavery man in the South. But he cast his
lot with the Abolitionists, and prosecuted
his own people. He is now paralytic and
almost driveling idiot"
Now, if any man can see how such silly.
wicked and malicious utterances as these
are to benefit the section Gen. Hill pro-
fesses to represent, we would like
to hear how from him how it is to