The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-31

acter Of 4 SOY was telegfaphed ahead, and h
Isgl. CopGdent Of his ground Hurlbert pro
posed that no be sent 10 Richmond At his, owi
expense, that his case might be sdludicated TIL
but Huribcri was wofully deceived as TO th,
estimate In which he was held at the capital
ground Sr% q NJ d'p Of inpocenes. lie was sent to Cssti,
Thunder, where. he. remained without triai !oi
many months. He had good irienas, wn3 a,d rn,
him able counsel in the person OF a. Juason
Crane, ESQ. but he appears also TO have been
the victim OF some secret influence which could
not be overcome. Hurlbert had written an anti,
slavery article some years previously Tor one O.,
prejudice against him in. tho south; and at this
critical period NJ his fortunes this literary
effort was =rsmemhSred by those r. po ssSsr 12
months, examined by n Confederate Commits
sloner. who could ind no specific grounds
%calItits his Incarceration continued. Every
body, seemed TO, be perfectly willing, to have
Hurlbert released. but nobody assumed the re-
sponslbility OF releasing him. II ia difficult 10
determine who was the secret cause OF his long
dctentlon. but 1t was probably Jefferson Davis
large In Richmond. and more than fifteen
months after his arrest at Atlanta HnrlDert
publisbed an account OF this remarkable cpl
sode, In which he scored the authorities.
The arrest OF Parson William q. Brownlow or
East Tennessee. the celebrated editor of the
knOrvtlle Wing. was similar In many respects TO
That Of Clement l. vallsndighan. at he North;
Unionists, and By long odds the most influential
man in all that section. After the. organization
without stint his editorial denrnciations OF Sc
cessiOn in all Its phases. but his position was so
great doubt on tho part OF the State and Con
federate authorities as 70 the safest course to DO
pursued toward him, His every movement was
carefully watched. but for many months II was
deemed inexpedient to arrest him.
Finally a conspiracy. Of the Unionists under
the leadership OF one William Blount Carter. a
fugitive East Tennesseean who had been secret
~ sent back to his home by the Federal author;
tues under the advice OF nen; hnonda9 Sr fiSssss'fIn IN
East Tennessee. and a general uprising OF the
people against the Confederate authorities.
lions between Richmond and the southwest by
the short line were Interrupted, and great con
hurriedly sent 10 the scene of the disturbance,
and the indictments were put down with releht-
less severity. Inc Inc secretary OF M Mhnss Mr; pn neni
In bridg GO burning who could be identified we're
to be tried summarily by drum-head court
spot by hanging. Several OF them were accord
ingly hanged. Carter himself ESCAPED 6ack
burners. several hundred citizens accused OF
I nionism we're arrested aud sent to Tuscaloosa,
Ala. and to other points, where they were re-
tanned In prison for many months. suffering I'M
told hardships. After this East Tennessee was
ruled with an iron hand by the Confederate
on foot, by means OF which the remaining male
population was practically eliminated. But
Thousand OF the mOODthlDtcTb nNu lieu
into Kentucky. where they were organized into
Union regiments. and nnally reentered East
Tennessee under Burnside in 1853,
Parson Broynlow was held to be primarily
responsible for this rebellion within a rebellion,
as 1t we're. II not the actual leader in bridge
theiess nod to the mountains for safety. where
he remained hidden among friends for several
I TSsfI Con ni 10, 2Tin,i mfii, oGlSe MAJ TSs . sIo. r by the
ally Brownlow returned TO Knoxville on tho as
suranco Of Gen. George h: Crittenden that he
hnIt1y nat ha nAtnG.LI Tta ffnn al rnt N nj a I
mics. however, Immediately secured mis- civil
arrest ON q cha;ae OF high treason. and he was
clai med. he was subjected to the grossesti insults
and personal indignities. After a detention Of
some - three rec months !, T VT trial i he he was was I p,ep
mond Government Into the Union lines at
Nashville. His family, were also ordered away.
vas lionized all over tho North. His story OF
tyranny" greatly aroused Northern
Union CAUSE - Soon ali fEspnossses cams into
he possession of the Union forces. and Parson
Br9wnlow. Andrew Johnson, Horace Maynard.
its political dictators. Brownlow wac its
Governor after the war was over. and as
Hon. lsham @: Harris. who was Governor OF
he State at the time OF Brownlow's arrest.
'ubsequently Gov. Brownlow was elected to the
Examples simiiar to the foregoing could be
The policy pursued at the South
elements was not in any particular different TO or
more leniept or generous than that practised at
he North. Fully as many arrests were made
y the South as at the North. and for exactly
he same Gauss. or no cause, and the political
South were certainly subjected to
rery great hardships and indignitics. In the
lundreds, nay thousands of arrests made. 40
.ttention whatever was. paid to the legal rights
" protests OF tho victims, and in many cases
heir property interests were totally sacrificed.
he Maryland obetructionists who rallied about
Federal tyranny" and demanded their consti-
utional" rights whom they fell into Mr.. Stewards
lands would have been shocked to learn that
he South. which they alleged with much heat
vas fighting for constitutional liberty. was at tho
,olicy of precaution against its own obstruc-
ionists. But SO 1t was. and after u time they
anne to know the truth. What the "tyranhical"
'ederal Government Systematically did In Mary
and and elsewhsr to cow and silence its
was precisely the same policy %inaugu-
In dealing with Parson Brownlow
nd his coadjutors. The Union bridg &c burners
we're shot, hanged, and imprisoned IN Tennes-
ee. and the Confederate bridge burners were
faa cruelty, perhaps, but absolutely necessary
o the cause, and necessity knows no law.
Yet, after all. in these piping times of peace it
past belief that such arbitrary acts of
rrest, establishing so dangerous a pre-
edent against all liberty. were permitted to
nchallenged. But the explanation is easily
ound. 1t was u time Of war, ana in the
need but little heed could be paid
o the right OF individuals under the Constitu-
lon.' As Mr.. stanton said, some things had to
done for which there was no law. or the
tights of all-the great mass be sacrificed and
Dst forever. An Individual here and there, q
oterie. were nothing; the nation everything.
his was the policy OF the North. and IL was-If
nything more so-the policy OF the South.