Year: 1869

cause of the former master; hurt th


cause of the emancipatcd and cnfral


chised slave. God, in his inscrut.


bic wisdom, has crca.ed such mel


white and black, and lenient con


munity lets them run unhung. A


That we can do is to make proper a
| lowance for them, and thank Hlu


that they arc the exceptions to th'
| general rule. J. l..
/ lfyou ask are the people of th,


south generally reconstructed? ii


there healthy growing sentiment o


loyalty /? Candor compels me to an
| swer--No. If you ask are they sat


isfed that they raid too dear for thu


whistle? how they concluded to re
luctantly accept the situation and


like sensible people make the best Of


it? answer, yes land say furth


CT in extenuation of the unrecon.


structed feeling and the absence of q
growing feeling of loyalty-that in


my opinion much of it is fairly attri.
butablc to the abuse of what in itself


may havr been necessary measure


of political prescription at one time


but has remained too long, and been


enforced too rigorously-thus filling


the offices with political adventurous


from the north many OF them unprin


cipled and incompetent, who are


taken as representative loyalists and


with such standard and under such
distastcfnl and aggravating circum-


stances no wonder that the very


name ofloyalty is stencil in tho


nostrils of these unrepentcnt rebels
for politically there is no such thing
as q rcpentent rebel he may be per
force law abiding citizen but if he
has ever been from sentiment and
condition rebel, it is too much for
human nature when you ask him to
cleanse himself thoroughly ofit-the
younger ones may outgrow it but they
must first be surrounded by state
of things calculated to disarm them
OF their prejudices and cultivate a re-
spect for the general government
To this end | would take them at
their word, they say they are willing
to accept the situation and make the
best ofit-that they have no desire
TO rccnslsve the negro. would
therefore remove all political disabil-
tiles, they now have the negro as q
freeman and voter-give them all a
fair chance on an equal footing as
before the law and let them show the
Yankees and the rest of mankind that
they are competent to the whole sit
uation-I believe ifthis is done and
good men of the north go there not
Us politicians but as business men and
rs actual settlers intending to culti-
vate Il feeling Of mutual interest and
goodwill, the time will come and
much sooner than it otherwise will
when we will have United States not
alone in name but in spirit, then we
will know no north no south except
geographically. Returning we came
bo Seln.a and Rome to Chattanooga
and thus VIA the Tennessee and Vir-
gina and Orange and Alexandria
Railroads to Washington. North of
Selma thirty to forty miles the most
southern spurs Of the mountains are
reached and from there to Charlottes-
vile, Va, the road runs in valleys
mostly rich and productive espec- ally
in wheat and the cultivated grasses.
Bristol, Knoxville, Grcenville, Lynch
burg and Charlottesville are all quite
good looking Old towns surrounded
with good soil. All through this
region for hundreds of miles as the
road winds in its serpcntine course
at every turn you are constantly amid
beautiful and picturesque scenery
here the cloud capped mountains
towering above you seem to ovcrhang
your way-issuing from this gulch
away in the distance you see the
blue azure tops of another range
while spread out before you in moro
b sauty, more srandsar aud a~lli-.;s,
Than tho pencil Of the most skillfu!
artist has ever attained to, is the rug
ged mountain side the wooded glen
and the cool green grassy vale whore
the red deer yet wanders and the
child loves to play. East Tennessee
and Southwestern Virginia are fine
stock growing regions and every
where we passed, stock farms are
selling much below their real value
The day we wore in Charlottesville,
Monticello, tho homo Of Thos. Jeffer-
son, was sold atauction. The sale was
not reported before we left, but all
knew it would be cknockcd off itthere
was any bidders fot Il mere song
Between Knoxville and Grcenville
we passed through Bulls Gap, whore
Breckenridge attacked and routed
Gillem early in the war and the
Kentuckians concluded q military
here had arisen in the person OF their
Whilom candidate for Vice President,
but poor Johns military genius all
went back on him and tho first con-
yenient opportunity he retired to
Europe. When at Greenvillc | step
ped out on the platform and asked
agentlcmanly looking man to show
me the house Of that humble individ-
ual A. J. formerly of the White
House at Washington now resident
OF that quiet mountain town. The