Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-03
LITTER No. 4.
To Gen. d. II. Hill, Commander of the M0doe
Democracy Of North roll ma.

Your last epistle addressed to me
through your newspaper has been re-
ceived
You raise no new issue with me, but
simply continue your old line of stale per-
sonalities; and yet there is one point in
your last letter to which | desire to call
public attention.
You bOastingly announce that you have
received letters from numerous citizens of
different sections of the North, approx
ing all you have written in your
controversy with me. You quote
largely from one of these letters. | have
no doubt it is true, as you state that they
give you aid and comfort. This 1 regard
as strong point gained and it is what /
have all along suspected that you were
backed up by Northern dough-faces and
pretended Union men.
The same persons who now write YOU
their approval of your charge that +. NJ
Stanton clandestinely committed suicide,
that Lincoln was righteously assassinated
byBooth, Candy by savages and Geo. H.
Thomas death by appOplexy a retrihu-
ton of Heaven because of what you
term his betrayal of the South"
earnestly sympathized with you during
the war when you and others in rebellion
were contending in the field with the
armies of Lincoln, stanton, Thomas and
Calby.
z have seen il charged in respectable
Journals of North Carolina that YOU are
the Head Center or Chief of the Kuklux
Organization in that State. | have never
seen it ccntradicted and have no doubt it
is true, and l am sure Capt. Jack and his
party who are sentenced TO be hanged
have your earnest sympathy, and the SYM
pathy of these Northern dough-faces who
write to you.
In reply 10 your taunt that n certain
class Of Northern men have written you
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nunciatiOn of myself, l have to say it is
gratifying to me to know that what / have
written you has excited the hostility of
these Northern men, During the war
was hated and blackguarded by Northern
dough-faces and copperheads just as was
Lincoln, Stanton, and every man who was
| earnest and outspoken in opposition to the
rebellion. Since the war that class OF North
ern men who have settled in the South
| and found their masters in some rebel like
yourself have generally been hostile to me-
Instead, Gen. Hiliy feeling mortifiea-
| ton or chagrin at the opposition of these
Northern men, glory in having their hos
tility. If / owed the devil debt of one
dozen of the medllest men in the United
! States and wanted premium on the pay
| ment of 1t, L would turn over 10 His Satanic
Majesty twelve of these Northern men.
Only few days since, Jefferson Davis,
at the White Sulphur Springs in Virgin
| Ia, made public speech III which he de-
| nounced Grant and Sherman as guilty of
falsehood and treachery, and declared him.
self in favor Of another rebellion. These
! Northern sneal1s who have been writing
to you, endorse and approve Davis speech,
and they and the other class of Northern
men referred to, would join old JET. in
his contemplated second revolt if they saw
prospect of making anything by IT,
In conclusion, Gen. Hill, l have to say
that, mean as | regard you and the Ku-
lxluX-Modoc Democrats associated with
you, ! regard you and your associates as
better men than these Northern sneaks
and dOugh-faces. W. G. BROwNrOW.