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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Brownlow in Cincinnati. (search)
y and its hangers-on have stolen more negroes in Virginia. Tennessee, and Kentucky, during the past six months, than the Abolitionists have enticed or aided away in the last forty years, and to-day, so help me God, one-half the soldiers in the South never owned a slave or were ever related by the ties of consanguinity with any one that ever did. [Cheers.] They are the offscourings of the lowest order of society, the meanest set of cowards on the face of the earth. Look how they fled at Fishing Creek, and everywhere else when the Union army got after them. When they starred out they said "one Southerner could whip five blue-bellied Yankees," and here let me relate an incident that happened in Knoxville a few weeks since: A Union lady met on the sidewalk one day a Colonel of a regiment stationed at Knoxville, and she said to him "Colonel, how is it that I notice the Northerners have been getting the best of us at Forts Henry, Donelson, and Fishing Creek. I thought one Southerne