Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-02-20

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their itful dreams, wander like hostile
ghosts amid the tumultuous and san.
Culinary scenes of that unhappy period,
the weird and malevolent somnambu.
lists of the bloody shirt.
They ransack the dismal charnel
house Of the rebellion and from the
dust Of it's dead and forgotten
issues bring forth its CORY cerements to
poison this new civilization with re-
vived hatreds. n
1t would seem from the remarks of
the gentleman just quoted that he can
see no reason for the devotion of South
ern men to the Union-no justification
for their d~islovalty to the cause of the
C~onfederacy. He may speak for Texas,
but he shall not speak for Tennessee.
Love of country, fidelity to this Repub-
lie under all circumstances and condi-
tlons, have ever been the prevailing
sentiments among the people | have
the honor to represent here. 1t was
natural with them; it was born in them.
1t is a sentiment which has been
transmitted from sire to son through
successive generations. 1t was kindled
long before the civil war.
Some of our ancestors were with Sc.
vier, Shelby, Campbell, Cleveland,
Winston, Williams and Hambright at
Kings Mountain and bore no insignif.
cant part in turning the tide of the
revolution. Many Of them we're sub.
sequently at New Orleans with their
truest and deadliest rifles. Some of
them were atTalladega and Emuckfaw
and the Horseshoe. Some again an
swered the roll call at Cerro Gordo and
Moline del Rey, at Chapultepec, and
C~herubusco. They swept Federation
Hill and the Bishops Palace, and faced
the fiery tornado of death Mt Palo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma, ut Monterey
and Buena Vista, and some of them
ever scaled the walls of the city of the
Montezumas. "l
These heroes and their descendants
and their followers assisted in holding
up the hands of Andrew jackson when
he dealt his deathblow to notification
With this record, with such examples
and such teachings, is it any wonder
that my people should have cast their
votes solidly against the ordinance of
e cession? They did vote practically
as one a against it, and when the
crisis came, when the tocsin of war
sounded, although they knew that, sit.
uated as they were, in the heart of the
C~onfederacy, surrounded with fire and
sword, their action would entail upon
themselves the untold horrors of arson
burglary, theft, robbery, assassina.
ton and murder; of dungeons, gibbets,
tears, torture and anguish; of pillage
and devastation, of savage cruelty and
hideous desolation, yet each sturdy
mountaineer, unawed, cred, un
daunted, said. TO the winds with
friendships, property, money, slavery,
even life itself; perish all, Let the flag
of our fathers wave supreme. Survive
the Government of the United States
Live the nation"
Another distinguished gentleman
from Texas, Governor Sayers, is oppos
posed to the passage of the bill because
he does not believe that the claimant
were loyal to the Government of thu
United States during the war, HedoeI
not believe that there were any loya
men at the South. l read the following
from the Congressional Record:
Mr.. Sayers, l will state to the gentle
man
Referring to Mr.. Stockdale-
very frankly, when he comes to tn
question of loyalty of the cotton State
of this Union during the war, the opel
VIZ hNpWOo Ivy dlibtS COulu, u5 al uNtI
age, be counted on the five fingers il
the different communities of thos
States. -Congressional Record, FIT,
Third Congress. second session, pag,
5000.
Mr.. Speaker, to say nothing of tn
thousands of civilians throughout tn,
Southern States who were loyal an,
true to the Union, there enlisted in tn
army of the United States during th
war three hundred and thirty cd,
thousand Southern men-a vast arm,
itself. Tennessee contributed her full
share of this number. / desire to hay,
read from the clerk s desk the follow
ing record embodied in an opinion de
livered by Justice Mott, of the Court O
Claims. court of Claims, Reports
volume 21.)
The clerk read as follows:
Mott, Judge, delivered the opinion o
the court:
The military occupation of Tennessee
began with the beginning of the yea
1862, and the advance of the Uniol
forces was continuous and rapid, ex
tending through the most populous por
ton of the State to its extreme south
western border. The permanent occu
patton of Nashville dates from the 25tl
t of February and that of Memphis from
:. the 9th of June.
Before the military occupation of tn,
State was complete u great number o
refugees passed over into Kentucky an,
enlisted in Union regiments formin,
t there This number the adjutant gen
eral of Tennessee, in his report for 1865
computes to be about 1000. Within
the State there were raised aud organ
3 lied thirty two regiments of cavalry ant
infantry and five batteries OF light artil
lery, containing, according to the roll
of the War Department. 81, 002 whit
trOOps. We NAV therefore cOncludl