The Sun. — 1862-06-05 (London, England)

WHY THERE IS NO UNION SENTIMENT  IN 2:HE SOUTHERIV STATES.  At a meeting held at New York on the 15th ult., the Rev. Mr. Brownlow, a well-known methodist minister of Tennessee, described his experience in his own state. He said, in the town of Greenville, where:Andrew Johnson resides, they took out of the gaol, at one time, two innocent Union men, who had committed no offence on the face of the earth, but that of being Union men—Nashy and Fry. Fry was a poor shoemaker, with a wife and half a dozen children. A fellow, by the name of Daniel Landbeater, the vilest wretch that ever made a track in East Tennessee, Colonel Daniel Landbeater, late of the United States army, but now a rebel in the secession army, took these two men, tied them with with his own hands upon one limb, immediately over the railroad track in the town of Greenville, and ordered them to hang four days and nights, and directed all the engineers and conductors to go by that hanging concern slow, in a kind of a snail gallop, up and down the road, to give the passengers an opportunity to kick the rigid bodies and strike them with a rattan. And they did it. I pledge you my honour that on the front platform they made a business of kicking the dead bodies as they passed by; and the women (I will not say the ladies, for down South we make a distinction between ladies and women) —the women, the wives, and daughters of men in high position waved their white handkerchiefs in triumph through the windows of the car at the sight of the two dead bodies hanging there. Leadbeater, for his murderous courage, was promoted by Jefferson Davis to the office of brigadier-general. He had an encounter, as their own papers at Richmond state, at Bridgeport, not long ago, with a part of General Mitchel's army, when Leadbeater got a glorious whipping. His own party turned round and chastised him for cowardice. He had courage to hang innocent unarmed men taken out of a gaol, but he had not courage to face the Yankees and the Northern men that were under Mitchel and Buell. He took to his heels like a coward as he is. In the county of Knox, where I reside, and only seven miles west of the town of Knoxville, they caught up Union men, tied them upon logs, elevated the logs upon blocks six or ten inches from the ground, put the men upon their breasts, tying their hands and feet under the logs, stripped their backs entirely bare, and then with switches cut their backs literally to pieces, the blood running down at every stroke. They came into court when it was in session, and when the case was stated the judge replied, "Those are revolutionary times, and , there is no remedy for y anything of the kind,, In the gaol where I lay they were accustomed to drive up with a tr..ocar, with an ugly, rough, flat-topped Coffin upon it, bayonets, as a guardaurrounded by fifteen to forty men, with bristling to march in through the trembled who w a s i tn o our boots, r gate into the gaol yard, in that with steady military tread. W boots, for they never notified s hanged, and you mayaniymamgainne Your humble servant felt; for if their law, deserved the gallows, I :gaol, unde • claim to have e 1 been the man. I knew it, and they knew it. They came sometimes with two coffins, one on each Cut, and they took two men at a time and marched them out. A poor old man of sixty-five, and his son of twenty-five, were marched out at one time, and hanged on the same gallows. They made that poor old man, who was a methodist class leader, sit by and see his son sinking till he was dead, and then they called him a -- Lincoln Union shrieker, and said, "Come on; it is your turn next." He sunk, but they propped him up and led him to the halter, and swung both off on the same gallows. They came, after that, for another man, and they took J. C. Haum out of gaol—a young man of fine sense, good address, and of excellent character—a tall, spare made man, having a wife at home, with four or five helpless children. My wife passed the farm of Ileum's the other day, when they drove