Year: 1863

out, and allowed 35 hours in which to
leave the Southe; n Confederacy, and my
furniture, beds, and bed clothing, sold to
tle highest bidders, and the proceeds
used to carry OF the war against the
United States Government. "A negro
boy was taken from me, before was sent
out of the country, and carried into the
rebel army, and since left am inform
ed that the rebels have taken charge of
negro girl, on the falsely alleged
ground that one of them was my securi--
ty for the girl. | had an interest of ten
thousand dollars in the Churchwell prop
erty in Knoxville, which / gained in the
Chancery Court, and afterward in the
Supreme Court, and sold under the order
of the Court. This has been seouester-
ed, and for the same unholy purpose.
The scoundrel, Gen. Ledbetter, who was
in command of the post Of Knoxville,
refused me the privilege of collecting a
large amount of debts due my printing
Office on the ground that was an "alien
enemy"


Thus, all had accumulated in thirty
years was taken from me because l re-
fused toturn traitor, war upon my Gov
ernment, and act with a band of most
infamous scoundrels South, that ever
God permitted to breathe the vital air.
This is not all; my wife and seven chill
dren were driven out of the country after
me, and refused the privilege of bring
ing anything with them but their wear
ing apparel. Ny two sons are in the
Federal service, fighting the corrupt
Government, and the still more infamous
authorities that forced them from their
native soil. Ny wife and her helpless
girl-children are boarding at private
house in Covington, opposite to Cincin-
natl. The Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Chase, was kind and considerate
enough, without any solicitation on my
part, to appoint me one of the Special
Agents of the Treasury Department on
the 18th of December last, and lay pay
meets the board of myself and family, at
Covington, and no more This is my
condition in life, at the age of fifty-seven.
l repeat, no Southern rebel, or rebel
sympathizer, has any claims upon me.
| want no fellowship with such men, and
l shall be found opposing them to the
end of my earthly career When they
lose their negroes, their lands, houses
and homes, and even their lives, can
out thank God, and take courage


q am for the vigorous prosecution of
this war, until the old flag, the banner
of beauty and glory, shall wave in tri-
umph over every foot of soil, between the
cod-hsheries of Maine and the Gulf of
Mexico In other words, l am for using
every means that God has placed in the
power of the Federal Government to
crush out this rebellion, if, in doing so,
sysrz rebel ip tRh sRahaa aassE Ga EeReraey
swim, survive or perish, l am for the
Union-the Union one and indivisible.
| am for the Federal Government as it
is administered. Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis represent the two great
powers that are in conflict, and it is as
true in this relation as in higher aud
holier one, no man can serve two mas
ters. Either he will hate the one and
love the other, or else he will hold to the
one and despise the other" This is my
position. Until this transcendent ques-
ton of national integrity is decided, l
have resolved to forget all other ties and
interests. Wings and Democrats, Prot
estants and Catholics, are all alike to me,
during my country passage through this
fiery ordeal And every man is with me
who has one drop of pure American
blood in his veins!


go now for saving the country, and
after that, l will aid in the organization
of parties, and the settlement of ques-
tions of policy. And those who prate
about Federal encroachments, and caiole
their disciples with lectures on the peril
of State rights, but have no word of cheer
for Federal soldiers who are pouring out
their blood to save these very men from
all the horrors of anarchy, are base and
trucking towards, and do not breathe
the breath of patriotism Could the
voices of our illustrious fathers of the
revolution be heard, they would come
down out of heaven, ringing in our ears,
"Stand by your country, Lincoln, and by
your Government" Could our thou
sands of slain soldiers be heard, they
would say, stand and die by the Govern
mentl Could our divided families,
weeping after those who were driven
from them by Southern oppression, be
heard, in their mountain homes, they
would say, stand by the Government!
And this shall be the language of the
subscriber, whether he is slain in battle,
at the hands of an assassin, or dies in
the quiet retirement of obscurity.