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The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters in Knoxville. (search)
United States, so help you God." This is a jolly oath. At Greenville this oath is amended to the effect that, such tradesmen shall not sell to secessionists, nor associate with them, nor wed a woman of secession proclivities. If the Yankees should overrun the whole South, the people will have been so thoroughly sworn and to so many purposes, that we fear the obligations of an oath will lose their binding force. The above is not more absurd in its terms than that administered at Athens, Tenn., which imposed the obligation to obey the United States in preference to any State, county or other corporation. At Knoxville, merchants can only engage in the retail business. The wholesale trade is Brownlow's and his appointees. Brownlow must approve the sale of every bill of goods exceeding $5 in value, and for each approval he receives 20 cents. Cotton shippers must pay four cents per pound export duty and $2 per hogshead on tobacco, "before either can escape the vigilance of