America. The scheme to avoid a collision about the revenue, is to declare Southern ports free to the commerce of the world, raise their revenues by direct taxation and forced loans, and leave the United States and foreign Governments to fight out the question of the collection of the revenue. Another one of their schemes was to seize upon all the forts and Southern fortifications along the entire coast from Maryland to Texas; and this, like lawless rebels, they have been doing, even before they have seceded. This was all agreed upon before the Charleston Convention, and a part of the programme was to break it up in a row, and prevent the nomination of Douglas, for if nominated they knew he could be elected, and this would prolong the existence of "that most abominable of all abominations, the Union," at least four years longer.

South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida have actually gone out of the Union, and Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas will soon follow. The first four States named have passed their Ordinances of Secession, and published them to the world. They call them ordinances; I call them so many covenants with death and agreements with hell! They are so many decrees to carry out the behests of madmen and traitors. Each ordinance is the twin sister of treason,-"treason de facto." O Secessionism! "hell is moved at thy coming;" for hell and its infinitely infernal Government are thy offspring. The fallen

angels were the first seceders from Paradise, and declared their "independence" by promulgating an ordinance in "a lake that burns with fire and brimstone," and "where there is weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; and where the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever,"-the reward of their treason being "eternal damnation."

But war has commenced. The first guns have been fired, and fired by South Carolina rebels upon unoffending American soldiers sailing into port under the Stars and Stripes of their country. In four of the States of this Confederacy rebellion bids defiance to law, and "bloody treason flourishes over us." Throughout these four States, judgment and truth seem to have "fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason." Even in the halls of our national Capitol traitors stalk unblushingly, and openly proclaim their treason, denouncing the Government and declaring their purpose to destroy it. Traitors stand on the floor of the American Senate and receive nine dollars per day for proclaiming treason, rank and damning,— for which they ought to be hung, and would be if the laws of the land were enforced.

Every man who is worthy of the name of an American citizen will denounce this treason, and rally to the defence of our Constitution and laws. They are the bonds of our Union, and around that Union cluster the hallowed memories of the past and the brightest

hopes and dearest interests of the future. Blood, it is plain to be seen, will be shed in its defence; but upon these Secession aggressors be the consequences and responsibilities.

I am for my country, and on the side of the General Government; and in every contest, either at sea or on land, I shall rejoice in the triumph of the Government troops fighting under the Stars and Stripes. Should Tennessee go out of the Union, I shall continue to denounce Secessionism, and war against the storms of fanaticism at the North and the assaults of demagogues and traitors at the South, though their number be legion. In all candor, I believe that in a Southern Confederacy the freedom of speech and of the press will be denied; and for the exercise of them I will be hung. But, come what may, through weal or woe, in peace or war, no earthly power shall keep me from denouncing the enemies of my country until my tongue and pen are paralyzed in death! Once destroyed, this Union can never be reconstructed. And, with others, I have resolved that no earthly power shall prevail against it; that it shall be "perpetual," as our fathers intended it," one and indivisible, now and forever." W. G. BROWNLOW, Editor of Knoxville Whig.

Knoxville Whig, Jan. 19, 1861.

CHAPTER VI.

PATRONAGE WITHDRAWN FROM MY PAPER-PREDICTING THE SUCCESS OF SECESSION-THE AUTHOR ALWAYS AFTER OFFICE-INDEBTEDNESS TO STORES-OUR OWN PARTISANS REFUSING TO ENDORSE US-MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH SPURNING US.

A South Carolina Correspondent.

WE are receiving quite a number of letters from South Carolina, and it is only at intervals that we condescend to notice one, and then only when the name of the writer is given. The following polite note we publish on account of its information derived from Knoxville:

"W. G. BROWNLOW:

"ABBEVILLE C. H., S.C., Jan. 27, 1861.

"SIR: I wrote to you a few days ago under the signature of 'T. J. C.,' and informed you that you were the greatest liar out of hell, and one of the most infamous scoundrels living between heaven and earth; and I then told you, and now repeat, that nothing would afford us as much pleasure as to see you in Abbeville, where we could treat you to a coat of tar and feathers. I told you in that brief letter that my understanding was that the people of Knoxville were a respectable and intelligent people, and that it was

a matter of surprise that they would allow you to remain in their midst,-a vile scamp, as you have shown yourself to be.

"Since writing that note to you, I have seen a long and interesting letter from Knoxville to a citizen of this Republic, giving some facts in regard to you that I am resolved the world shall know, at least to the extent of the circulation of Southern papers. I was permitted to take down the points made against you in the Knoxville letter, and they are as follows:

"1. The Southern States having withdrawn their patronage from your Abolition sheet, you no longer have subscribers enough to defray the expenses of publication, and you are about to starve out.

"2. The town and county in which you publish your slanderous sheet will shortly cast a majority of their votes for Secession, and so will your State.

"3. You have repeatedly thrust yourself forwa d as a candidate for office, but never have been elected.

"4. You are indebted to every store in your town, -and nothing can be made out of you at law,—until you cannot get credit in any store for a suit of clothes!

"5. Your own partisans refuse, upon the stump, to endorse any thing you say, and will not be held to an account for your doctrines; while the common people send off to other sections of your State for newspapers.

"6. The members of your Church have no respect