Excerpt from The Testimony of a Refugee From East Tennessee These humble hopes, however, were not to be realized, It is now two years ago when I no longer could resist the conviction that we Were standing on the very threshold of a treasonable attempt to break up the Union. At that time I happened to be in the house of one of my neighbors. In the course oi' the conversation the Union was mentioned by me. The Union, said he, with a contemptuous smile, the Union is gone 1 I could hardly trust my ears. Here stood a man before me, who was not like myself an adopted citizen, but a native of this country, yet who was ready to obliterate from the family of nations the land which for more than thirty years I had'learnt to regard as my own, and which had conferred on me innumerable blessings. Hear me, said I to him, there was a time when the disciples of the Lord had called blessings upon Him - the Pharisees asked him to stop his disciples, but the Lord told them that if his disciples were to be silent, the very stones would cry out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.