Year: 1873

upon criminals violating the laws it was
his duty to enforce, he was above being
his own executioner. The management
of the details be left to man Of brutal
instincts, like yourself.


Now, General Hill, while you were
falsely accusing General Candy of bru-
tality. propose 10 enlighten the public
as TO your military record. While in
command in North Carolina, during the
late war. twenty. six white men were
tried on the charge of being loyal to the
United States. No other offense was al
legged against them. They were put on
trial late in the afternoon, and by the yer.
dict of drum head conrt martial, acting
nnder your orders, all hung until dead
before breakfast the next morning. with
out benefit Of clergy. Are you not a
beautiful specimen to assail Candy on
the score OF brutality? | can think OF
nothing as supremely ridiculous, unless it
would be for you and your friend. Cap.
tain Jack, 10 write q treatise on civiliZa-
ton for distribution among the Ku.KluX
in Moth Carolina. Indeed, II did not
know that you were in North Carolina. |
should infer from tho brutality of your
assault on Candy, Thomas, and others,
that you were in the lava beds when il
was written, and that the article was the
joint production of yourself and Capt.
Jack.


Your assumption that the death OF the
noble George II. Thomas by apopIexy,
and tho sudden death of Lincoll and
other loyal men, are retribution Of the
Almighty for the side they took in the
late war, could be inspired only by the
nialignancy born of disappointed ambi.
lion, and the spirit which possessed the
devil, the founder Of Secession Democra-
cy. of preference to ruling in hell TO
serving in heaven.


| am happy in the belief that many
thousands Of the honest masses in Ten.
nessee, North Carolina, and elsewhere.
who were misled and coerced into rebel.
lion by just such men as you. General
Hill, now repudiate your leadership and
loathe your teachings.


If were disposed 10 initiate you,
could give long list Of men in civil and
military life supporting the rebellion who
have come TO sudden, and, in many cases
dishonorable deaths, but prefer not TO
do so.


You rejoice over my paralysis as
punishment of God, because, as you say,
least my lot with the Aboitionists.
recognize the hand of God in my case,
but l regard Him rs interfering in my
behalf. Probably not one man in
thousand would survive the exposure and
hardships to which was subjected while
driven by rebel cavalry into the noun
tains and incarcerated in rebel prison in
midwinter. While am now in improv-
ing health, with clear conscience, near
ly all the men who were instrumental in
my Imprisonment, and who insulted me
while in prison. are dead. Most of them
died with deliriunl tremenS, or in some
other unnatural way. | would not pa
rade their names before the world, as
you would; for, when God lays his hand
on y man take mine off. and | mention
the fact in defending myself from your
attack.


have noticed that you and others. who
have assaied Candy and Thomas since
their death, never insinuated charge re-
fecting upon their personal characters
while they were living. To make ac-
cusations against man after his death
which you dared not make while he was
living would indicate to unpreudiccd
minds that you are ialsiiers or towards.
As to myself shall go on in the even
tenor of my way, and at the expiration
of my term in the Senate two years
hence. expect to revive the Knoxville
Wing for the especial benefit of men of
your stamp. am. &c.


w. G. BRowNLow.


Knoxville, Tenn. May &c. 1873.


Al. ".