Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, And Rebel Ventilator

An Editorial Opinion,

We are frequently called upon to give
legal advice and legal opinions, and some-
times we are offered pay. We have de-
clined in every instance, and very properly
too, as we are no part of a lawyer and
make no pretensions to law knowledge.—
But we now proceed to give an editorial
opinion and editorial advice, for which we
make no charge, and upon points that in-
terest a great many.

Our opinion is, that men calling them-
selves Union men, who come to Knoxville
from surrounding counties, to endorse for
notorious rebels, and to testify to their loy-
alty in order to get them out of prison,
where they have been placed for their vil-
lnious acts, are badly employed, and, as a
general thing, are meaner men than those
they seek to release. And men who voted
for "Separation and Representation" two
years ago, claiming to be Union men now,
are the proper persons to appear here be-
fore the military authorities and endorse
the loyalty of brother rebels who voted the
same traitorous ticket; and when their
friends are released upon the strength of
their testimony, they, the witnesses, ought
to be made to take their places.

The sitting of the Federal Court here
and the daily sittings of the Grand Jury
with power to send for persons and papers
so as to indict traitors for treason and rebel
conspirators for conspiracy, has revealed
the important fact there are no rebels in
all this country, and that no man can be
found who ever done any harm. All are
now for the Union, and think this whole
thing was wrong, and none ever approved
of secession.

Every hour a man is in debt, is a year
spent in slavery. Your creditor is your
master; it matters not whether a kind or
severe one, the sense of obligation you in-
cur, saps the feeling of manly independence,
which is the first charm of south i and it i.
always through the repte in worel feeling
the that our happiness cozer cut the most edec-
tall.