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Title: Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession, with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Brownlow, William Gannaway
Subjects: Secession United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r maddenedand vile leaders, such as Wise, Mason, Pryor, and ahost of desperate men whose names can never be men-tioned but with disgust, she was hissed on until shewas out of her senses, and she fell from her high estateinto the disgraceful ranks of. rebellion. New domi-nions must arise upon her ruins, a new race of menmust people her soil, and the Old Dominion be buta historic cognomen in all time to come. What a fate,and what a retribution! Let loyal Maryland legislatefor a part, let New Virginia control the West, let EastTennessee teach the extreme southwestern countiesloyalty, and to little Delaware let Accomac and North-ampton be annexed! This may seem to be a terrible fate; but such wouldbe a merited degree of punishment for the leading dema-gogues of Virginia, and for the masses who followedthem to perdition, ^he way of transgressors may behard, but the retribution is none the less logical andtheir punishment none the less just!^ All these evils were brought upon the country by
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AMONG THE EEBELS. 277 the Southern Senators and Representatives going outof Congress and urging their States to secede. Pryorat one time telegraphed, We can get the CrittendenCompromise. But Douglas overheard Mason say inthe Senate, No matter what compromise the Northoffers, the South must find a way to defeat it. TheCongress of the United States would have given anycompromise wanted. In the Senate, had the SouthernStates remained, they would have had a majority ofsix, and in the House, a majority of thirty-six, overthe entire Republican party. Early in the spring of 1861 a stream of Secession firebegan to pour through East Tennessee, along the greatTennessee & Virginia Railroad, and troops were rushedalong- the road in Greater numbers than the rollinG; O O D stock upon the road would afford facilities for trans-porting. These regiments, coming from the CottonStates, and many of them vagabonds and wharf-ratsfrom New Orleans, Mobile, and Texas^were brimfull ofprejudice against me a

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