no sort of respect. do we yet believe, that the Administration has such purposes in view. Demagogues and designing men charge it here, and by this means enlist thousands under their banner who, otherwise, would never support their wicked schemes of Secession. We Union men believe that the blow was struck upon Fort Sumter to induce Virginia to go out, and to create sympathy elsewhere, and that the Administration at Washington is seeking to repossess its forts and property and to preserve its existence; and, as long as we believe this, we are for the Union and the Administration. I, of course, speak for Union men in the general. We are sustained in this by the Mobile Advertiser, which glories in the fact that the seven Confederated States “struck the first blow in the conflict," and "threw down the glove of mortal combat to their powerful foe." The Mobile organ of Secession adds, "It was plucky in the seven Confederates: it was more,-it was sublimely courageous and patriotic."

But we have not believed, nor

Allow me to say that the curse of the country has been that, for years, north of Mason & Dixon's line, you have kept pulpits open to the abuse of Southern slavery and of the Southern people.

In like manner, the clergy of the South,-without distinction of sects,-men of talents, learning, and influence, have raised the howl of Secession, and it falls like an Indian war-cry upon our citizens from

their prostituted pulpits every Sabbath. Many of them go so far as to petition their God, in their public prayers, to blast the people of the North! I have no idea that a God of peace will answer any such blasphemous supplications; but it shows the spirit of these minions of anarchy, who have sworn allegiance to the kingdom of Davis, and have been released from any further obligations to the kingdom of Jesus,—at least during the war! Some of our clergy are officers in volunteer companies, with swords hung to their sides, and stripes on their pants. Others, having an eye to the loaves and fishes, are anxious to serve as chaplains.

We are in the midst of a reign of terror in Tennessee, and where it will end, and in what, I am not able to conjecture. We vote for or against the Ordinance of Secession on the 8th of June; and, although there is a majority of the voters of the State utterly and irreconcilably opposed to Secession, I can't promise you that it will not carry. Fraud and force, and all the other appliances of Secessionism, will be brought to bear in carrying the State out of the Union. When overpowered and voted down, we shall be forced to submit. When I surrender, it will be because I can no longer help myself; but it shall be under protest, claiming the right, as a Union man, to curse this whole movement in my heart of hearts! And, whether in or out of the Union, as long as I remember it was Washington who told us, "The Constitution is sacredly

us,

obligatory upon all;" and that it was Jackson who told "The Union, it must be preserved,"—I shall offer this prayer upon the altar of my country: Mania to the brain of him who would conceive, and palsy to the arm of him who would perpetrate, the dissolution of the Union!

And, whether my humble voice is hushed in death, or my press is muzzled by foul legislation, I beg you, and all into whose hands this letter may fall, to credit no Secession falsehood which may represent me as having changed.

W. G. BROWNLOW,

Editor of the Knoxville Whig.

Knoxville Whig, May 18, 1861.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE GREAT ENEMY OF THE COTTON STATES-NOT AN ABOLITIONISTOUR SYMPATHIES WITH THE GOVERNMENT-THE REBELLION ORIGINATED WITH THE SOUTH-CHARGE OF SEEKING TO SUBJUGATE THE SOUTH A FALSE ISSUE-THE KNOXVILLE WHIG REFUSING TO LIE AND BOAST FOR THE TRAITORS-NOT LOOKING TO REWARD IN DOLLARS AND CENTS-STANDING OR FALLING UPON A PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES!

Doctors will Differ.

THE following correspondence will explain itself. We take the writer of the letter to us to be a clever man carried astray upon the Secession wave that has swept over the land, blinding the eyes of honest men to all sense of duty, and burying beneath it the last remnant of the privileges of the Constitution:

"DR. BROWNLOW:

"CEDAR GROVE, FLA., June 15, 1861.

"As a freeman, you have a right to your opinions, in common with other men, but, sir, you have no right to defame those who are laboring to throw off the yoke of Northern oppression. I have ever been an admirer of yours, and of your principles; but permit me to tell you this morning that you are doing more injury to the Cotton States than any of the Greeleys or

Webbs of Yankeedom. I do not believe you to he an Abolitionist, as some do in this quarter. These being my honest opinions, I do not wish to read your paper longer. If there be any thing due me on my subscription, I wish it applied to the family of Jackson the martyr. Very truly, &c.,

"R. M. SCARBOROUGH."

KNOXVILLE, June 25, 1861.

MR. SCARBOROUGH :

I received your letter of the 15th only on yesterday, and I hasten to reply very briefly. Upon examination, I find thirty cents due you on my book, and I enclose you the amount in United States stamps, which you can transmit to "the family of Jackson the martyr," who can use them in their locality.

You are correct in supposing me free from the taint of Abolitionism. I have fought the agitators of the Slavery question at the North for the last two-andtwenty years, during which time I have edited a Whig paper in Tennessee. With my Government, and its Constitution and laws, I intend to stand or fall, having no regard to who may be President for the time being. This rebellion is utterly without cause. Nothing but force will put it down; and hence there never was a more necessary, just, and lawful war than this, to preserve a necessary, just, and noble Government against inexcusable, unnatural, and vil