The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-02-02
FROM BLOUNT COUNTY.
A FEW QUESTIONS PROPOuNDED AND
a FEW OBSERVATIONS RECORDED
BY AN EX-UNIoN OFFICER.

A FEW QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED AND
A FEW OBSERVATIONS RECORDED
BY AN EX-UNIoN OFFICER.
MARYYILLE, Tenn, Jan. 81.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
Why is it that the war cry is rails
ed all over the country just now?
Why is it. that from the Atlantic to
the Pacific so many Republican
sheets are finding something OF i'm
mense magnitude that happened
during the late rebellion, that has
just now come to light? -- r-
From the very opening Of Blaine's
battery of heavy artillery on poor
old one-eyed JEFF Davis, but more
especially since. with his dung fork
he has stirred the bones Of the dead
Union prisoners in AndersOnvilIe
prison, and sent an unbcarable stencil
into the nostrils of those truly loyal
editors, most of whom were, at the
time of the war, lying back North,
or. perhaps. in the mountains OF East
Tennessee, or North Carolina, greas-
ing their backs with a bacon rind to
loosen the moss, each and every
one of those little four-cornered,
fools-cap, Republican sheets has
found, and published something new,
of very bad character. Some OF
them have gone back with Blaine to
the prison pens of the South, and
are now holding up to public gaze,
the dry bones of the Federal SOL
diers. while others have fonnd some
thing very strange and startling
never before heard of. There is
something mysterious about this
thing. 1t does seem that the thing
was understood, and that as soon as
Blaine should open with his siege
piece upon old blind Jeff and the
prison pens, all the balance of the
moss-covercd loyalists. with their
smaller arms, consisting chiefly of
pop and squirt-guns, were to turn
loose also. Now, most OF people are
aware of the fact that Union prison
ers suffered greatly in rebel prisons;
but most of men II mean ne1l) were
anxious these old war disagreeables
would not be brought before thepeo-
pie again.
just few months since, if my
memory serves me right, daily pa
per, in one of the Southern cities,
came near being forever suppressed,
and for no other reason than for
speaking favorably of the good feel
ing existing there at that time, as
compared with that of a few years
previous. Some of the other city
papers were awfully vexed because |
they thought the first one had gone
back beyond the dead line. aud was
bringing up old way issues. | think
this thing started about a Confer
ence. some way or other. aA
Were it not for political tricksters.
and oliice-seekers. and bankrupt
newspaper editors, The people would
soon forget that any bitter feeling
had ever existed amongst them.
That first. shot from Blainc's big
gun fell far short of the mark. Not
it was caught up and
kept in motion by many of-ttIe-ex
IRENE Republican papers OF the
yet it did but little damage.
The piece was well aimed, and he
lad a correct idea of the distance
ret. his piece had been loaded too
ong. The ex-Federal and rebel
have been fired at SO often
With this same kind of artillery, and
he very same loading. that it is but
IN easy matter to Dodge it, which /
I'm happy to say has been done in
his case. The damage done is very
light amongst the soldiers, but
lmongst those handredAyards fei-
ows, and army thieves, geneEally.I
ind several fresh. though not nee
'ssarily. dangerous wounds. ID.
A tramp in the western uart of4ke
State asked 4 lady fer moDey ( She
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