--We published in the
Dispatch yesterday the announcement of the suspension of
Brownlow's
Whig. The following has since come under our observation:
‘
"This issue of the
Whig must necessarily be the last for some time to come — I am unable to say how long.
The Confederate authorities have determined upon my arrest, and I am to be indicted before the
Grand Jury of the
Confederate Court, which commenced its session in
Nashville on Monday last."
’
He says he could go free by taking the oath of allegiance, or by giving bond for his good behavior.
But he vows that he will do neither.
He says:
‘
"In default of both, I expect to go to jail, and I am ready to start upon one moment's warning.
Not only so, but there I am prepared to lie in solitary confinement, until I waste away because of imprisonment, or die from old age. Stimulated by a consciousness of innocent uprightness, I will submit to imprisonment for life, or die at the end of a rope, before I will make any humiliating concessions to any power on earth !"
’
The reasons for this anticipated procedure against himself,
Brownlow explains thus:
‘
"I have committed grave, and, I really fear, unpardonable offences.
I have refused to make war upon the
Government of the
United States; I have refused to publish to the world false and exaggerated accounts of the several engagements had between the contending armies; I have refused to write out and publish false versions of the origin of this war, and of the breaking up of the best Government the world ever know — and all this I will continue to do, if it cost me my life.
Nay, when I agree to do such things, may a righteous God palsy my right arm, and may the earth open and close upon me forever !"
’
