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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot + +Author: William Gannaway Brownlow + +Release Date: January 30, 2011 [EBook #35122] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHY OF PARSON BROWNLOW *** + + + + +Produced by Carla Foust, Mark C. Orton and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="transnote"> +<h3>Transcriber's note</h3> +<p>Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer +errors have been changed, and they are indicated with +a <a class="correction" title="like this" href="#tnotes">mouse-hover</a> +and listed at the +<a href="#tnotes">end of this book</a>. All other +inconsistencies are as in the original. +</p> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h1>PORTRAIT<br /> +AND<br /> +BIOGRAPHY<br /> +OF<br /> +PARSON BROWNLOW,<br /> +THE TENNESSEE PATRIOT.<br /></h1> + +<p class="fm3">TOGETHER WITH HIS LAST EDITORIAL IN THE KNOXVILLE<br /> +WHIG; ALSO, HIS RECENT SPEECHES, REHEARSING<br /> +HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SECESSION,<br /> +AND HIS PRISON LIFE.</p> + +<p class="fm3">PRICE 25 CENTS.</p> + +<p class="fm2">INDIANAPOLIS:<br /> +ASHER & CO., PUBLISHERS.</p> + +<p class="fm3">1862.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="fm4">Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862,<br /> +<span class="smcap">By</span> ASHER & CO.,<br /> +In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the<br /> +District of Indiana.<br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/i003.png" width="357" height="600" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"> </a></span></p> +<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION.</h2> + + +<p>The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with +interest and profit. Great actions command admiration, and none of +modern times excel those of the patriot exile, Parson Brownlow, of +Tennessee.</p> + +<p>In this work the spirit-stirring scenes of his late eventful life are +vividly portrayed in his own characteristic and inimitable style. The +descriptions of his trials and triumphs in the cause of the Union will +send a thrill of admiration to every reader's heart; will strengthen the +wavering loyalty of many a young man, and incite him to pursue with +unquenchable ardor, the path which all true patriots have marked out, +and whose beacon lights are justice, truth and right. To the truly +loyal, whose steps "keep time to the music of the Union," the work will +be its own recommendation, and we commend it to these, both of the North +and South, with the confidence that it will meet with their cordial +approbation.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX.</h2> + +<table summary="CONTENTS"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> </td> +<td class="tdr">PAGE</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Introduction</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Biography of Parson Brownlow</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Last Editorial of the Knoxville <i>Whig</i>, and Farewell Address to his patrons</td> +<td class="tdr"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> as it appeared in its last issue</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Nashville Speech</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Cincinnati Speech before the Chamber of Commerce</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Brownlow and the Cincinnati Methodist Preachers</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Indianapolis Speech</td> +<td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="BIOGRAPHY" id="BIOGRAPHY"></a>BIOGRAPHY.</h2> + + +<p>William G. Brownlow was born in Wythe County, Virginia, August 5, 1805. +His parents were poor, and died when he was about ten years old. They +were both Virginians, and his father was a school-mate of General +Houston, in Rockbridge County. After the death of his parents he lived +with his mother's relations, and was raised to hard labor until he was +some eighteen years old, when he served a regular apprenticeship to the +trade of a house-carpenter.</p> + +<p>His education was imperfect and irregular, even in those branches taught +in the common schools of the country. He entered the Traveling Ministry, +in 1826, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and traveled ten years +without intermission, and was a member of the General Conference held in +Philadelphia. He was untiring in his energy, and availed himself of the +advantages of the Methodist Itinerancy to study and improve his +education, which he did in all the English branches.</p> + +<p>Mr. Brownlow is about six feet high, and weighs about 175 pounds; has +had as fine a constitution as any man ever had. He has no gray hairs in +his head, and will pass for a man of thirty-five years. He has had the +strongest voice of any man in East Tennessee, where he has resided for +the last thirty years, and raised an interesting family. He has been +speaking all that time, taking a part in all the controversies of the +day.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>He is the author of several books; but the one which has had the largest +run is one of over four hundred pages, being a vindication of the +Methodist Church against the attacks of Rev. J. R. Graves, in Nashville. +Brownlow's work was published by the Southern Methodist Publishing +House, and something like 100,000 copies have been circulated in the +South and West. It is a work of great severity, but of marked ability.</p> + +<p>In 1858 he was engaged in a debate upon the slavery question in +Philadelphia, with the Rev. Mr. Prym, of New York, in which he defended +the institution of slavery with marked ability, exhibiting a familiar +acquaintance with the vexed question in all its bearings. The debate, a +volume of some four hundred pages, is for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co.</p> + +<p>He is known throughout the length and breadth of this land as the +"Fighting Parson;" but no man is more peaceable, or more highly esteemed +by his neighbors. Few men are more charitable, and few, of his +means—for he is not rich—give away as much in the course of a year.</p> + +<p>He is quite a politician, though he has never been an office-seeker or +an office-holder. He commenced his political career in Tennessee in +1828, by espousing the cause of John Quincy Adams as against Andrew +Jackson. He has been all his life an ardent Whig, and Clay and Webster +were his standards of political orthodoxy. His paper, the Knoxville +<i>Whig</i>, which he has edited for twenty-two years, had the largest +circulation of any political paper in Tennessee, and exerted a +controlling influence in the politics of the State.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="THE_LAST_EDITORIAL_OF_THE_KNOXVILLE_WHIG" id="THE_LAST_EDITORIAL_OF_THE_KNOXVILLE_WHIG"></a>THE LAST EDITORIAL OF THE KNOXVILLE WHIG.</h2> + + +<p>When Secession first raised its hydra-head our hero stood up manfully +for the Union and the Constitution, and amid an almost overwhelming +torrent of abuse heaped upon him by the Press throughout the State. +Darker and darker grew the storm around him; fiercer and fiercer the +denunciations hurled at him by the enemies of the Union; yet, with an +iron will, and sustained by an inward consciousness that he was doing +his duty, he continued to battle nobly for the cause of his country, and +in each and every number of his paper poured down on the rebel crew his +scathing sarcasm and scorching repartee.</p> + +<p>At last the Confederate authorities determined on his arrest and +punishment. In October, 1861, he was indicted by the Grand Jury, and his +paper suppressed. We here give his farewell address, which will be read +with mournful interest and high admiration. His words are those of a +spirit not seeking martyrdom, but ready to confront it in all its +terrors in the cause of truth and patriotism.</p> + +<p>Prentice, of the Louisville <i>Journal</i>, in publishing this last +editorial, made the following very truthful comment: "He may be +consigned by trembling tyrants to a dungeon, but there will be more of +God's sunshine in his soul than can ever visit the eye-balls of his own +and his country's enemies. If a million prayers can avail, the naked +stones of his cell will be a softer and sweeter bed than his traitor +foes will enjoy:"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> +<p class="center">[From the Knoxville Whig, October 26.]</p> + +<p>This issue of the <i>Whig</i> 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. I would have awaited the indictment and arrest before +announcing the remarkable event to the world, but, as I only publish a +weekly paper, my hurried removal to Nashville would deprive me of the +privilege of saying to my subscribers what is alike due to myself and +them. I have the fact of my indictment and consequent arrest, having +been agreed upon for this week, from distinguished citizens, +legislators, and lawyers at Nashville of both parties. Gentlemen of high +positions and members of the Secession party say that the indictment +will be made because of "some treasonable articles in late numbers of +the <i>Whig</i>." I have reproduced those two "treasonable articles" on the +first page of this issue, that the unbiased people of the country may +"read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" the treason. They relate to the +culpable remissness of these Knoxville leaders in failing to volunteer +in the cause of the Confederacy.</p> + +<p>According to the usages of the Court, as heretofore established, I +presume I could go free by taking the oath these authorities are +administering to other Union men, but my settled purpose is not to do +any such thing. I can doubtless be allowed my personal liberty by +entering into bonds to keep the peace, and to demean myself towards the +leaders of secession in Knoxville, who have been seeking to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> have me +assassinated all Summer and Fall, as they desire me to do, for this is +really the import of the thing, and one of the leading objects sought to +be attained. Although I could give a bond for my good behavior, for one +hundred thousand dollars, signed by fifty as good men as the country +affords, I shall obstinately refuse to do even that; and, if such a bond +is drawn up and signed by others, I will render it null and void by +refusing to sign it. 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 concession to any +power on earth!</p> + +<p>I have committed no offence—I have not shouldered arms against the +Confederate Government, or the State, or encouraged others to do so—I +have discouraged rebellion publicly and privately—I have not assumed a +hostile attitude toward the civil or military authorities of this new +Government. But 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 +knew; 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 in upon me forever.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> + +<p>The real object of my arrest, and contemplated imprisonment, is, to dry +up, break down, silence, and destroy the last and only Union paper left +in the eleven seceded States, and thereby to keep from the people of +East Tennessee the facts which are daily transpiring in the country. +After the Hon. Jeff. Davis had stated in Richmond, in a conversation +relative to my paper, that he would not live in a Government that did +not tolerate the freedom of the press; after the judges, attorneys, +jurors, and all others filling positions of honor and trust under the +"Permanent Constitution," which guarantees freedom of the press; and +after the entire press of the South had come down in their thunder tones +upon the Federal Government for suppressing the Louisville <i>Courier</i>, +and the New York <i>Day-Book</i>, and other secession journals, I did expect +the utmost liberty to be allowed to one small sheet, whose errors could +be combatted by the entire Southern press! It is not enough that my +paper has been denied a circulation through the ordinary channels of +conveyance in the country, but it must be discontinued altogether, or +its Editor must write and select only such articles as meet the approval +of a pack of scoundrels in Knoxville, when their superiors in all +qualities that adorn human nature are in the penitentiary of our State. +And this is the boasted liberty of the press in the Southern +Confederacy!</p> + +<p>I shall in no degree feel humbled by being cast into prison, whenever it +is the will and pleasure of the august Government to put me there; but, +on the contrary, I shall feel proud of my confinement. I shall go to +jail as John Rogers went to the stake—for my <i>principles</i>. I shall go, +because I have failed to recognize the hand of God in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> work of +breaking up the American Government, and the inauguration of the most +wicked, cruel, unnatural and uncalled for war, ever recorded in history. +I go, because I have refused to laud to the skies the acts of tyranny, +usurpation, and oppression, inflicted upon the people of East Tennessee, +because of their devotion to the Constitution and laws of the +Government, handed down to them by their fathers, and the liberties +secured to them by a war of seven long years of gloom, poverty and +trial! I repeat, I am proud of my position, and of my principles, and +shall leave them to my children as a legacy, far more valuable than a +princely fortune, had I the latter to bestow!</p> + +<p>With me, life has lost some of its energy—having passed six annual +posts on the Western slope of half a century—something of the fire of +youth is exhausted—but I stand forth with the eloquence and energy of +right to sustain and stimulate me in the maintenance of my principles. I +am encouraged to firmness, when I look back to the fate of Him "whose +power was righteousness," while the infuriated mob cried "crucify him, +crucify him!"</p> + +<p>I owe to my numerous list of subscribers the filling out of their +respective terms for which they have made advance payments, and if +circumstances ever place it in my power to discharge these obligations, +I will do it most certainly. But if I am denied the liberty of doing so, +they must regard their small losses as so many contributions to the +cause in which I have fallen! I feel that I can, with confidence, rely +upon the magnanimity and forbearance of my patrons, under this state of +things. They will bear me witness that I have held out as long as I am +allowed to, and that I have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> yielded to a military despotism that I +could not avert the horrors of, or successfully oppose.</p> + +<p>I will only say, in conclusion—for I am not allowed the privilege to +write—that the people of this country are unaccustomed to such wrongs; +they can yet scarcely realize them. They are astounded, for the time +being, with the quick succession of outrages that have come upon them, +and they stand horror-stricken, like men expecting ruin and +annihilation. I may not live to see the day, but thousands of my readers +will, when the people of this once prosperous country will see that they +are marching, by "double-quick time," from freedom to bondage. They will +then look these wanton outrages upon right and liberty full in the face, +and my prediction is they will "stir the stones of Rome to rise and +mutiny." Wrongs less wanton and outrageous precipitated the French +Revolution. Citizens cast into dungeons without charges of crime against +them, and without the formalities of a trial by a jury, private property +confiscated at the beck of those in power, the press humbled, muzzled, +and suppressed, or prostituted to serve the ends of tyranny! +<a name="corr1" id="corr1"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn1" title="changed from 'the crimes'">The crimes</a> +of Louis XVI fell short of all this, and yet he lost his head! The +people of this country, down-trodden and oppressed, still have the +resolution of their illustrious forefathers, who asserted their rights +at Lexington and Bunker Hill!</p> + +<p>Exchanging, with proud satisfaction, the editorial chair and the sweet +endearments of home for a cell in the prison, or the lot of an exile, I +have the honor to be, &c.,</p> + +<p class="author">WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW,<br /> +Editor of the Knoxville <i>Whig</i>.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">October 24, 1861.</span></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="BROWNLOW_IN_NASHVILLE" id="BROWNLOW_IN_NASHVILLE"></a>BROWNLOW IN NASHVILLE.</h2> + + +<p>Soon after the Parson was compelled by his enemies to suspend the +publication of the <i>Whig</i>, he was prevailed upon by his friends, who +more than himself feared for his personal safety, to act upon an +intimation of the readiness of the rebel authorities to grant him a safe +conduct to the North, and, as stated below, communicated with the +Secretary of War at Richmond, Va. The result was that in November last +an order was sent to the military commander at Knoxville to take him to +the nearest Federal lines. After completing his preparation to go North, +notwithstanding his agreement with Secretary Benjamin, he was arrested +and thrown into prison a second time.</p> + +<p>The imprisonment soon told severely upon the health of the Parson, and +after a month he was stricken down with typhoid fever. Permission being +granted by the rebel prosecuting attorney, he was removed to his private +residence. Here he was laid up for nearly eight weeks. Notwithstanding +his prostration by sickness, the rebel surveillance over him did not +stop. His house was surrounded day and night by guards. His friends were +never allowed to visit him, and the members of his family were not +permitted to leave the premises except under guard. Nor was this all. +Open insults and threats were offered by the rebel soldiery whenever +opportunity afforded. At one time a company of cavalry that had been in +the battle of Fishing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> Creek, and never stopped running until they got +to Knoxville, and passing the house when the Parson's wife was looking +out of the window, one of the troopers rode up to her, and insultingly +asked, "Are you not ashamed to be the wife of that damned traitor and +Lincolnite?" Whereupon the ready-witted woman at once replied: "I am +glad that I am not the wife of a miserable coward that ran away from a +battle-field."</p> + +<p>Feeling strong enough to travel, the Parson again wrote to Benjamin, +complaining of the bad faith with which he had been treated, and +reminding the Secretary of War of the promise of a safe conduct to the +Federal lines. A week elapsed, when the post commander at Knoxville +received a dispatch directing the Parson to be released from +confinement, and to be taken to the nearest Federal outposts over the +route most convenient to him, and under an escort of his own choice. In +pursuance to this order the Parson left Knoxville accompanied by his +doctor, and escorted by Lieutenant O'Brien, an officer in the army, and +relative of his wife. The party proceeded by rail, <i>via</i> Chattanooga, to +Shelbyville, in Bedford county, in the Southern part of this State. Here +they were detained ten days by Morgan's Cavalry, who were engaged in +removing a large quantity of bacon and beef stored in the town, and had +orders from General Hardee not to allow any one to pass their lines +until the whole of the meat had been got away. At last the party were +permitted to proceed overland, under a flag of truce, to the pickets of +General Wood's division. General Wood at once sent them, under escort, +to the city. Parson Brownlow proceeded immediately to the headquarters +of General Buell, with whom<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> he had a long interview; afterward repaired +to the St. Cloud Hotel, in Nashville, and in the front of the same, on +the evening of March 17th, he made the following remarks:</p> + + +<p class="center">SPEECH.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen:</span>—I am in a sad plight to say much of interest—too thoroughly +incapacitated to do justice to you or myself. My throat has been +disordered for the past three years, and I have been compelled to almost +abandon public speaking. Last December I was thrust into an +uncomfortable and disagreeable jail—for what? <i>Treason?</i> Treason to the +bogus Confederacy; and the proofs of that treason were articles which +appeared in the Knoxville <i>Whig</i> in May last, when the State of +Tennessee was a member of the imperishable Union. At the expiration of +four weeks, I became a victim to the typhoid fever, and was removed to a +room in a decent dwelling, and a guard of seven men kept me company. I +subsequently became so weak that I could not turn over in bed, and the +guard was increased to twelve men, for fear I should suddenly recover +and run away to Kentucky. Becoming convalescent, in a measure, I was +removed to my former place of confinement. One day I was visited by some +Confederate officers, who remarked, "Brownlow, you should not be here. +Take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, which will +not only entitle you to a speedy release, but insure your protection." +"Sir!" said I, "before I would take the oath to support such a +hell-forsaken institution, I would suffer myself to rot or die with old +age."</p> + +<p>Why, my friends, these demagogues actually boast that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> the Lord is upon +their side, and declare that God Almighty is assisting them in the +furtherance of their nefarious project. In Knoxville and surrounding +localities, a short time since, daily prayer meetings were held, wherein +the Almighty was beseeched to raise Lincoln's blockade, and to hurl +destruction against the Burnside expedition. Their prayers were partly +answered—the blockade at Roanoke Island was most effectually raised; a +reciprocal of their sacrilege divinely tendered.</p> + +<p>Gentlemen, I am no Abolitionist; I applaud no sectional doctrines; I am +a Southern man; and all my relatives and interests are thoroughly +identified with the South and Southern institutions. I was born in the +Old Dominion, my parents were born in Virginia, and they and their +antecedents were all slaveholders. Let me assure you that the South has +suffered no infringement upon her institutions; the slavery question was +actually <i>no</i> pretext for this unholy, unrighteous conflict. Twelve +Senators from the Cotton States, who had sworn to preserve inviolate the +Constitution framed by our forefathers, plotted treason at night—a fit +time for such a crime—and telegraphed to their States despatches +advising them to pass ordinances of secession. Yes, gentlemen, twelve +Senators swore allegiance in the day time, and unswore it at night.</p> + +<p>A short time since I was called upon by a little Jew, who, I believe, is +the Secretary of War of the bogus Confederacy. He threatened to hang me, +and I expected no more mercy from him than was shown by his illustrious +predecessors toward Jesus Christ. I entered into a long correspondence +with this specimen of expiring humanity, but from mercy or +forgetfulness, on their part, I was per<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>mitted to depart with all my +documents in my little valise, which I hope to publish at no distant +day.</p> + +<p>Gentlemen, when I started on my perilous journey, I was sore distressed +in mind, and exceedingly so in body. But the moment my eyes encountered +the pickets of the Federal army my depression decreased, and returning +health seemed suddenly to invigorate my physical constitution.</p> + +<p>Gentlemen, Secession is played out—the dog is dead—the child is born, +and his name is Jeff. Davis, jr.</p> + +<p>My throat distresses me to such an extent that I must decline further +remarks this evening, but shall make myself heard upon the next +convenient occasion, which will probably be ere the termination of the +present week.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="BROWNLOW_IN_CINCINNATI" id="BROWNLOW_IN_CINCINNATI"></a>BROWNLOW IN CINCINNATI.</h2> + + +<p>Remaining here a few days to recuperate his almost worn-out energies, +and receiving many invitations from different cities to lay before the +sympathizing public the story of his wrongs, he determined to make a +tour through several Northern States. Accordingly on the fourth day of +April he was welcomed to the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a manner which +was worthy of his unswerving patriotism and illustrious fidelity. It was +very much doubted whether the Opera House, since it was first opened to +the public, ever contained a larger or more refined assemblage than on +that evening.</p> + +<p>Before the doors were opened, the crowd had commenced to gather on +Fourth street, and before half-past seven o'clock, not a vacant seat was +to be found in the house, and the aisles and every available spot +occupied. Many were unable to obtain even standing room, and left the +house. The turnout, considering that the admission fee was fifty cents, +must have been very gratifying to the Parson.</p> + +<p>The stage was decorated with a number of American flags, and across the +front part of it were two rows of chairs, on which were seated the Vice +Presidents. Immediately in the rear was a raised platform, on which were +seated three hundred and seventy-two boys and girls from the district, +intermediate and high schools of the city, who, under the direction of +Mr. L. W. Mason, sang the following:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">SONG OF WELCOME.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">All hail! all hail! the here unflinching!<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The pure patriot we sing, unwavering and bold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who foul treason denounced, and with deeds was still clinching<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His strong speech, when vile traitors in numbers untold<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Howled hatred demoniac, and madly were clamoring,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His life should be forfeit! triumphantly sing,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And utter the welcome with the tongue's feeble stammering,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">The welcome, the warm welcome, our hearts to him bring!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Safe! safe in our midst, we shall hear the man's voice,<br /></span> +<span class="i3">That had cowed all his foes, and made us rejoice;<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Then hail him again, and forever and aye!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">His country he loves, and for it he would die!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Rejoice! rejoice! for freedom is marching<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With her power resistless, to punish and crush;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the Iris of Union will soon be o'erarching<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Again our loved country, when its brave children rush<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To rescue its life from the demons now seeking<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To blot out its name from the nations of earth.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But rather than this, let their black blood be reeking,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Unpitied by earth, so disgraced by their birth.<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Thus speaks he, the hero! Then sing with one voice:<br /></span> +<span class="i3">We love and revere him, in his presence rejoice!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">Then hail him again, and forever and aye!<br /></span> +<span class="i3">His country he loves, and for it he would die!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Shortly after eight o'clock Parson Brownlow came upon the stage, leaning +upon the arm of Joseph C. Butler, Esq., the President of the Chamber of +Commerce.</p> + +<p>Mr. Butler, in introducing Mr. Brownlow, said:</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ladies and Gentlemen:</span>—I have been honored with the pleasing duty of +inaugurating the ceremonies of this occasion, in introducing a renowned +and loyal citizen of our sister State of Tennessee. A State forced by +usurpation, fraud and violence into rebellion against a Government that +her sons in <a name="corr2" id="corr2"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn2" title="changed from 'by-gone'">bygone</a> times have done so much to maintain and establish, +and now suffers in being the field of conflict in a desolating civil +war. A State recently baptized again<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> into the fold of the Union by the +martyr patriots' blood shed upon her soil, and will be confirmed in that +fold by continued deeds of heroic daring; within whose limits has been +exhibited by her loyal sons as unfaltering devotion and love of country +as has ever been displayed in the history of any people. Surrounded by +the armed band of desperate and cruel military despots, given up to the +mercy of ignorant and vicious mobs, cut off from all communication with +and support from a Government they were sacrificing themselves to +maintain, these patriots of Tennessee were driven from their homes, +suffered in jails, and sealed, when called on, with their lives on the +scaffold their devotion to the Union and Constitution established by +their fathers. Through a long and weary summer, through the dreary fall +and winter, with hearts sickened by many disappointed hopes, they +suffered and faithfully endured. And now that the armies of the Union +have entered their State, and the flag of freedom once more floats over +its capital, may we not hope that the hour of their deliverance is at +hand. God grant it may be speedy.</p> + +<p>One of this noble band of patriots is with us to-night. He will recount +to you some of the scenes he has witnessed, and give you in brief the +history of the rebellion in his once prosperous and noble State. He has +sacrificed on the altar of his country all that man holds most dear, +<a name="corr3" id="corr3"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn3" title="changed from 'jeapordizing'">jeopardizing</a> not only his own life, but the lives of his family and +kindred in vindicating the sacred cause of his country. If we honor the +bravery displayed on the battle-field, how much more should we honor +him, who almost alone, sick and in prison, tempted by seducing offers of +power and place, and with an <a name="corr4" id="corr4"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn4" title="changed from 'ignoniminous'">ignominious</a> +death daily threatened, +maintains for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> weeks and months with unfaltering trust, his faith and +virtue. The instinctive homage of the human heart to genuine courage we +pay to an endurance like this. The historian who will record for the +perusal of our children the list of heroes that this wicked rebellion +has brought forth, will name none whose matchless courage is surpassed, +or the bold outline of whose character for outspoken patriotism, so +overshadows all cavil and criticism, as the hero of the pulpit and the +press. I have now the honor of introducing Mr. W. G. Brownlow, of +Knoxville, Tennessee.</p> + + +<p class="center">SPEECH.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ladies and Gentlemen:</span>—I appear before you in accordance with the +arrangement of a committee—a large committee—of intelligent and +influential citizens of your own town. I am not before you for the +purpose of making an effort as an orator, or a speaker, with any view or +wish to fascinate or to charm my audience with the style or the language +I employ in the brief address I am about to deliver.</p> + +<p>I am before you for the purpose of relating facts and localities, and +giving you names in regard to the rebellion in the South, and the +persecutions of my fellow countrymen, and their sufferings even unto +death. I have met, since I came to this city, with not a few intelligent +and high-toned gentlemen—men of years and of knowledge—who have +inquired of me seriously: "Is it a fact that they hanged men, shot down +men, in your country, for their sentiments?" You cannot, it seems to me, +realize the state of things that has existed beyond the mountains.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> + +<p>In what I shall say to you, without effort at all at display, I shall +deal in nothing but facts. I will state nothing that I do not personally +know to be true—nothing that I cannot sustain, if a controversy is +raised in reference thereto.</p> + +<p>I have seen the day when I was a young man, ladies (I speak of my age +with a great deal of freedom, for I have a wife who is likely never to +die)—[laughter]—I have seen the day when I could be heard by an +audience of any size—when I have been able for four or five dreadful +hours on a stretch to speak in the open air. Those days with me have +gone by, and are numbered with the days and years beyond the flood. For +some three years back I have labored under a disease of the throat—a +bronchial affection—a severe affliction it was. Until the last twelve +months I could but whisper. In the providence of God, and through his +agency, I am better now. In repeated denunciation of secession my voice +has been gaining all the time [applause,] and I shall not be astonished +if in six months "Richard is himself again." [Applause.]</p> + +<p>You will bear with me, I know, for I shall not detain you long. I shall +by no means be tedious, but you will bear with me, I am certain, if I +make a few remarks, by way of "preliminary," personal to myself. The +circumstances surrounding me, the connection that my name has had for +the last twelve months with the rebellion and with this subject, will +justify me in so doing, without the dread of incurring the charge of +egotism.</p> + +<p>I am a native of the Old Dominion—born, raised and educated in the +State of Virginia. I have the pleasure of announcing to you this evening +that you have before you the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> first man who ever made the acknowledgment +in public, that he was the descendant of one of the second families of +Virginia. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>My parents before me, on both sides, were Virginians. On both sides of +the house they were slaveholders, as most of the citizens of the Old +Dominion are and have been. Although I am branded at home, since the +inauguration of rebellion, with being myself an anti-slavery man, and a +tory and the descendant of tories, I take great pleasure and pride in +announcing to you that my father was a volunteer in the war of 1812, +under Old Hickory. My uncle William, after whom I was named, lived and +died a naval officer, and his remains sleep in the Navy Yard at Norfolk, +Virginia. My uncle Alexander was also a naval officer, and his remains +rest in the Navy Yard at New Orleans. My uncle John was also a navy +officer. He died at sea and was thrown overboard, and became food for +the fishes thereof. My uncle John was the third man who scaled the walls +at the battle of the Horseshoe. [Applause.] On my mother's side—the +Galloways—not a few lost their lives at Norfolk, from yellow fever, +camp diseases and fatigue. They did not fight for a section of the +country—not for the yellow fever swamps of the South—but for every +State, and every particle of this glorious Union of ours. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I may as well make a remark or two on the subject of politics. I am not +here for the purpose of reviving any old party prejudice—not at +all—nor yet with a view to drop a solitary remark that shall offend +even the most fastidious political partisan who may be under the sound +of my voice. In Tennessee, thank God, we have merged all political +party<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> questions into the one great question of the Union and its +preservation. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>In all time to come—though I have been a Whig of the strictest +sort—though I have lived up to the creed and fought Democracy in all +its ramifications, and in all its windings—I would, in the language of +Milton, see a man where cold performs the effect of fire—or, in the +still more nervous language of Pollock, I would see a man where +gravitation, shifting, turns the other way—even hell-ward—before I +would vote for any man who was not an unconditional, straight-out Union +man. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>I have fought Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, systematically, +perseveringly and untiringly, for the last twenty-five years of my +somewhat eventful life. He has scored me on every stump in the State of +Tennessee, and I have paid him back to the best of my ability. But +honors with us are easy. [Laughter.] We take each other by the hand now, +as brethren. [Applause.] Now I will fight for him, and under +him—engaged as we are in the same cause, against the same vile foe to +God and man, and especially to our country. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I have always been a Union man. I commenced my political career in +Tennessee in 1828. I remark again, ladies, that although I may have the +appearance of being—I confess the fact with more candor from the +consideration that I never expect to be—a widower [laughter], I +commenced my political career in Tennessee in 1828. I was one of the +corporal's guard who, in that State, got up the electoral ticket for +John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. I name this fact simply to +show you that I was not a sectional man in '28; that I did not go for a +man because he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> was born and lived south of Mason and Dixon's line, nor +against him because he resided north of Mason and Dixon's line. Having +mentioned the name of Old Hickory, I take pleasure in saying that, while +I opposed him in his political aspirations, Jackson was always a patriot +and a true lover of his country. If my prayers and tears could have +brought him from his grave, during the last twelve months of the +iniquitous reign of James Buchanan, I would have brought him out, that +he might have destroyed secession as he did nullification—that might +have sunk South Carolina in some sort of Lake not unlike the Dead +Sea—where she will ultimately go. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>In the next contest I was a supporter of Henry Clay. In the next contest +I was a supporter of Ulasu White. In the next I supported William Henry +Harrison, and I sung louder, jumped higher, and fell flatter and harder +than anybody else in the whole State of Tennessee. I wrote upon log +cabins, and waved coon-skins and +<a name="corr5" id="corr5"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn5" title="changed from 'water-goards'">water-gourds</a> +high and low. [Laughter.] +In succeeding contests, gentlemen and ladies, I supported Taylor, +Fillmore and Donelson. The last contest I was engaged in, was in the +support of the Bell and Everett ticket. The tail of that ticket is now +doing well enough in the State of Massachusetts. It stands erect, and +carries itself majestically. But the latter end of the ticket will yet +do to tie to, but as to the frontispiece—"pity the sorrows of a poor +old man." [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>One word before I progress further—upon the subject of slavery. What I +have to say on that subject—all I have to say at home or abroad, I will +say to you now, for, ladies and gentlemen, I have no sentiments in the +South that I do not entertain when I am in the North. I have none in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +Cincinnati that I do not entertain when I am at home in Knoxville. +[Applause.] The South, as I told them months ago, when I was surrounded +by three thousand Confederate troops—the South is more to blame for the +state of things that now exist than the North is. But yet, I have to +say, just in this connection, that if, about two years ago, I had been +authorized to collect—if I had been let hunt them up, for I know the +men I would have wanted—if I had been allowed to hunt up about one or +two hundred anti-slavery agitators and fanatics at the North, scattered +here and there, and about an equal number of our God-forsaken, +hell-deserving, corrupt secessionists and disunionists, I should have +marched the whole army of them into the District of Columbia, and dug a +common ditch, erected a common gallows, after embalming their bodies +with gipsy weed and dog-fennel. Had this been done, I should not have +been here to-night—we would have had none of the troubles which afflict +the country now.</p> + +<p>One word more upon the subject of slavery. If the issue shall be made by +the South—if they are mad enough, if they are fools enough to make the +issue of Slavery and no Union, or Union and no Slavery—I am for the +Union. [Applause.] I have told them so at home upon the stump in my own +town. I will stand by the Union until you make the issue between the +Federal Union and the Christian religion; then I will back out from the +Union—but for no other institution. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>The speaker here commenced the narrative of the doings of treason in +East Tennessee. About twelve months ago, he said, a stream of secession +fire, as hot as hell, commenced pouring out of the Southern States in +the direction<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> of Leesburg, Richmond and Manassas, by way of Knoxville, +Tennessee. Then it was that the rebel soldiery of the South, made drunk +upon mean whisky, halted over night—day in and day out—in the town of +Knoxville, and commenced their depredations, visiting the houses of +Union men and stoning the inmates, blackguarding all whom they saw in +them, male and female. His (Mr. Brownlow's) house, in Cumberland street, +was more frequently visited by them than any other building in the town. +At the same time he was reading, in the Mobile and South Carolina +papers, that the best blood of the South had volunteered in the cause of +"Southern rights." He said to his wife, "If this is the flower of the +South, God deliver us from the Southern rabble."</p> + +<p>The rebel soldiers became more and more insulting and overbearing. +Finally, in the month of May, they commenced to shoot down Union men in +the streets. The first man they singled out was Charles S. Douglas, a +gentleman who had been conspicuous at the election as a Union man. They +deliberately shot him down from the window of his house, in the day +time. Mr. Brownlow was in the street at the time they made propositions +to shoot down other Union men. Thinking prudence the better part of +discretion, they retired from the crowd, many of them slipping into +their houses quietly. But the work of murder and slaughter went on. +Finally, many of the loyal men had to flee to the mountains—to the +mountains of Hepsidam, if you please, said the speaker.</p> + +<p>They remained away for several days, sleeping in the open air, and +subsisting on bread and meat brought from their homes, with a quantity +of game which they shot.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + +<p>The rebel troops took possession of Mr. Brownlow's printing +office—destroyed his press and type, and converted the building into a +blacksmith shop for altering old flintlock muskets which Floyd had +stolen from the Government. They were contemplating the destruction of +his dwelling house, and would have accomplished it but for the timely +arrival of General Zollicoffer, who, being a personal friend of the +Dr.'s, set a guard around the premises, and issued an order confining +the Texan troops to their camps for two days.</p> + +<p>Retiring to Knoxville, Mr. Brownlow received a letter from Gen. George +B. Crittenden, stating that he had been ordered by the Confederate +Secretary of War to give him (Brownlow) a passport beyond the +Confederate lines into the State of Kentucky to a Union neighborhood. +Mr. Brownlow was about to accept the General's proffer, when he was +arrested on a charge of treason, for writing and publishing what +appeared in the Knoxville <i>Whig</i> as his farewell letter to his patrons +and subscribers. On the 6th of December he was thrust into the Knoxville +jail. He found in the jail one hundred and fifty Union men—the building +crowded to overflowing. Every man confined on a charge of treason was a +personal friend of Mr. Brownlow's. They ran around him in astonishment, +and asked him what he was thrown into prison for. Some of them shed +tears, others smiled when they saw him enter the iron gates. He told +them he was under arrest for treason on a warrant just issued. He had +been in jail ten or twelve days when a Confederate Brigadier General, +whom he had known as an old Union man, paid him a visit. Upon entering +the jail with two of his Aides he shook hands with him. The prisoners<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +all crowded round to see the "sight." After a while the Brigadier said +it was too bad to see Brownlow in such a place, and tried to impress +upon the patriot's mind the propriety of his taking the oath of +allegiance to the Confederacy, upon which condition he should be +released immediately. Brownlow was in a good humor until that +proposition was made. That stirred up the bile of his stomach. "Sir," +said he to the officer, looking him full in the eye, "I will be here +till I die with old age, or till I rot in prison, before I will take the +oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy. You have no Government. +I deny that you are authorized to administer such an oath. You have +organized a big Southern mob—not a Government. You have never been +recognized by any civilized Government on the face of God Almighty's +earth, and you never will be. And yet you are here asking me to take the +oath of allegiance to the vilest mob that was ever organized South of +Mason and Dixon's line. Not wishing to be profane, nor desiring to be +regarded by you in that light, permit me to conclude my remarks by +saying that I will see your Southern Confederacy in the infernal +regions, and you high on top of it before I will take the oath." The +officer remarked that that was d—d plain talk. Mr. Brownlow replied +that it was the right way to make men understand each other. The General +turned upon his heel, tipped his duck-bill cap and walked off. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>When the speaker entered the jail he found among the inmates three +Baptist preachers. One of them, a Mr. Pope, 77 years of age, was charged +with having prayed to the Lord to bless the President of the United +States, to bless the General Government, and put an end to this +<a name="corr6" id="corr6"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn6" title="changed from 'unhol'">unholy</a> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +war. Another old man—a minister—70 years of age, was thrust into jail +for having thrown up his hat and hurrahed for the stars and stripes when +a company of Union Home Guards marched by his house with the stars and +stripes flying over them. The third, a young man, was confined for +having volunteered as chaplain in a Union regiment.</p> + +<p>The sufferings of the inmates of the jail the speaker described as +horrible. The food they were supplied with was rank and unwholesome. He, +himself, got permission to receive meals from his family, otherwise he +should not have been able to live through his long confinement.</p> + +<p>Toward the conclusion of his address, Mr. Brownlow related several +instances in which prisoners had been taken from the jail and hung by +the troops after a few hours warning. Once they hung a father and son, +whose sole offence was their loyalty to the Government, on the same +gallows. They compelled the father to witness the agonies of the son +before permitting death to come to his relief. The most affecting case +mentioned was that of an old man, who, after a lengthy incarceration, +was sentenced at ten o'clock one morning to be hung at four that +afternoon. His name was William Henry Harrison Self. His daughter, a +highly intelligent and well educated lady, hearing this awful news +during the day, hastened to the jail, and, with great difficulty, +obtained permission to visit the condemned man. The meeting of father +and daughter was a scene which drew tears from the eyes of a hundred and +fifty men long used to hardship and suffering themselves. They embraced +and kissed each other, neither of them able to utter a word for some +time. At about one o'clock the young lady approached Dr. Brownlow, and +asked him to write, in her name, a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> despatch to Jeff. Davis, at +Richmond, asking him to grant a pardon to her father. The Dr. did this, +stating in the despatch, as follows:</p> + +<blockquote><p>"<i>Honorable Jefferson Davis</i>:</p> + +<p>"My father, W. H. H. Self, is under sentence to hang to-day at four +o'clock. My mother is dead; my father is my only hope and stay. I +pray you pardon him. Let me hear from you by telegraph.</p> + +<p class="author"> +"ELIZABETH SELF."<br /> +</p></blockquote> + +<p>The young lady carried this despatch to the telegraph office, a distance +of two miles, in greatest haste, and had it sent to Richmond +immediately. Shortly before three o'clock she received an answer from +"President" Davis commuting the old man's sentence to imprisonment, for +such length of time as the Commanding General should see proper. The joy +of his daughter was, of course, boundless. When Mr. Brownlow left +Knoxville, on the 3d of March, Self was still in jail. He has been +released before this time, Southern "justice" being satisfied in the +premises.</p> + + +<p class="center">REMARKS OF GENERAL S. F. CAREY.</p> + +<p>General S. F. Carey was next introduced. He referred to the deliverance +of Dr. Brownlow as a release from dangers greater than those that +surrounded Daniel in the lion's den, and from beasts far worse than +beset the prophet. His deliverance was not to be credited to their +magnanimity, but their fears.</p> + +<p>He did not like to find fault with the Government, but it did seem to +him that it was time it should bestir itself, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> prosecute the war +with greater vigor. Nor did he approve the policy pursued towards those +taken in rebellion against the Government, referred with much bitterness +to the tenderness displayed in the cases of Magoffin, Buckner, and the +rebel prisoners at Columbus. He <a name="corr7" id="corr7"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn7" title="changed from 'did'nt'">didn't</a> +think the penitentiary the place +for them, and would not have the convicts contaminated by them. There +was no inmate of the penitentiary, though he had been guilty of +murdering his father, mother, or brother, whose crime was not innocence +itself compared with that of these rebel prisoners, who sport their +uniforms in the streets of Columbus, insulting the fathers and brothers +of those men who had fallen in defence of the Union, and sitting in +privileged seats in the legislative chambers of the State.</p> + +<p>The audience had heard the narrative of the sufferings of loyal women in +the South, and yet we have women in the State of Ohio who go to +Columbus, with the avowed purpose of making the rebel officers +comfortable,—conduct that in his opinion, and notwithstanding their +sex, deserved the halter. He had no sympathy with the rebellion or with +rebels, and was for cleaning them out root and branch.</p> + +<p>In speaking on this subject, he felt the utter feebleness of human +language. After it was exhausted, the great crime of rebellion looms up +in all its terrible proportions. God speed the day when we shall be +delivered! And yet he had no hope for the country till all the remnants +of miserable partyism are swept away; he had no hope for it, while +politicians were busy at the Capital +<a name="corr8" id="corr8"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn8" title="changed from 'intrigueing'">intriguing</a> and scheming for the +preservation of some old broken down faction called a party. We need +patriotism, not party.</p> + +<p>Referring to the remarks of Mr. Brownlow, respecting<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> the treatment that +should be meted out to disunionists North and South, Mr. Carey said that +while he respected the right of free speech, he was for hanging any man +who favored disunion and dared to say so. Every man has his rights, the +convict on the gallows, the thief in the penitentiary, but when a man +abuses his rights, the right of free speech, to express himself in favor +of disunion, be he Wendell Phillips, or any other man, cut him down.</p> + +<p>The masses of the people in the North are in favor of a restoration of +the Union as it existed before the war. But if the war continues, and +the people of the rebellious States are given over to hardness of heart, +if they shoot our pickets, if it proves necessary to send a few more +thousand men from the loyal States to put down the rebellion, and people +Southern grave yards, a cry will go up from Maine to the Pacific to +clean out the rebels, niggers and all.</p> + +<p>He believed the whole purpose of the Administration in the prosecution +of the war, was to preserve the Republic and all its institutions as +they existed when it came into power; and nothing is more certain than +that the Union will be preserved, though it cost all our property and +half the lives in the Republic.</p> + +<p>He appealed to mothers to exert their influence in kindling a spirit of +exalted patriotism, and to teach their sons not to be Democrats or +Republicans, but to be patriots; and appealed to the ladies of the city +to visit the hospitals, comfort the sick, point the dying to the land +where there is no secession and no rebels, and give of their time, +sympathy, and means to soothe the sufferings and lighten the afflictions +of those who had <a name="corr9" id="corr9"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn9" title="changed from 'voluntered'">volunteered</a> +in defence of the Union.</p> + +<p>Gen. Carey, of whose vigorous speech we give but a brief<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> outline, +retired amid prolonged cheers. The "Star Spangled Banner" was sung, and +Lieutenant-Governor Fisk, of Kentucky, introduced by the Chairman.</p> + + +<p class="center">REMARKS OF MR. FISK.</p> + +<p>Mr. Fisk said he believed we were, all of us, filled with a righteous +determination to give the present Administration all the aid in our +power to put down the rebellion. He remembered when deputations of the +Legislatures of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio had met in that +place, and that on that occasion no sentiment met a more hearty response +than that of Andrew Jackson: "The Union must be preserved." What we want +is the Union and the Constitution as they were; and while our armies are +in the field fighting for their preservation, let us be careful that no +mischief-makers at home pervert the object of the war to the utter +subversion of one or the other.</p> + +<p>He <a name="corr10" id="corr10"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn10" title="changed from 'did'nt'">didn't</a> +believe in this talk about the subjugation of the South. On +his side of the river that was the argument of the secessionists, and +was considered evidence of sympathy with the rebellion. He did not know +what it was called on this side of the Ohio, but he did know that every +such menace was eagerly caught up and magnified by those confederated +with the rebels. The Government was doing nothing of that kind. It was +fighting for self-preservation and a restoration of its authority, and +it was its duty to send out all the troops necessary to put down the +rebellion. We must fight for the preservation of the Constitution and +Union, and we must preserve them or we cease to exist as a nation. If +the rebellion succeeds the Government is at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> an end, and our history as +a nation terminates. We must fight to preserve them not only for +ourselves, but the rising generation and those who shall come after +them.</p> + +<p>He asserted that all the bloodshed, and all the suffering and misery +entailed by this war, history would charge directly to the account of +the wicked men who had inaugurated it, and not to the loyal people of +this country. It was our duty to go on with this war, and to prosecute +it, not in a malignant and revengeful spirit, but with the simple and +patriotic purpose of putting down the rebellion and restoring the +supremacy of the Government over every inch of its rightful territory.</p> + +<p>At the conclusion of Mr. Fisk's remarks, the little sons of the members +of the Ninth Ohio Regiment were conducted to the stage, and introduced +to the audience. The lads sang a song in German; and when they had +retired, the whole audience joined in three cheers for the Ninth Ohio, +which were given with a will, the vast assembly rising to their feet.</p> + +<p>The resolutions were unanimously adopted; after which, the proceedings +were brought to a conclusion, and the audience dispersed.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>PARSON BROWNLOW AND THE CINCINNATI METHODIST PREACHERS.</h2> + +<p>During his stay in Cincinnati, Mr. Brownlow received a pressing +invitation to meet the Methodist ministers of the city, and address +them; in accordance with which he was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> introduced to a meeting, held in +the editorial rooms of the <i>Western Christian Advocate</i>, by Rev. J. T. +Mitchell. Rev. Dr. Kingsley then welcomed the illustrious visitor in the +following</p> + + +<p class="center">ADDRESS.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Fellow Citizen, Friend and Brother</span>:—In behalf of the Methodist +Clergymen of this vicinity, I welcome you to our city, our homes, our +hearts. Our desires and prayers were never more sincere for anything, +than for your preservation and deliverance, when we learned that you had +been thrust into a cold, damp prison, for no other crime than loving +your country, and hating treason. Thank God, the prayers of millions of +loyal hearts have been heard in your behalf.</p> + +<p>Paul, and Silas, and Peter, Apostles of the Gospel, were liberated from +prison in answer to prayer. The God in whom they trusted has also heard +the prayer in behalf of an Apostle of Liberty and Union.</p> + +<p>Your patriotic utterances in your noble paper were eagerly received by +the friends of the Constitution, and, multiplied a thousand fold, those +utterances sped upon the wings of lightning to the most distant parts of +our country. They were inspiring to the loyal people of the United +States. We were thankful to know that there was at least one Parson in +Tennessee who could love God and his country too—his whole country. One +such man can chase a thousand, and two can put ten thousand to flight. +So we conclude that Parson Brownlow and Andy Johnson are good against +ten thousand rebels. With such pains and such pluck, such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> nerves and +such principles to guide, we trust the State of Tennessee will soon come +right again.</p> + +<p>We are aware that your Union principles have cost you something—cost +you everything but life, and that which, to every true man, is dearer +than life,—honor and rectitude. We bid you a warm welcome on this +account. Situated as we have been, we deserve no praise for being Union +men. To be otherwise would be to serve the devil just for its own sake. +It would be like chopping off our hands just to see the blood run, or +thrusting them into the fire just to feel the pain. But with you the +case has been different. Spurning bribes and offers of aggrandizement, +scorning the threats and terrors of traitors, you have preferred to +suffer privations, afflictions and imprisonment, rather than prove false +to the Government that has protected us all. By thus, in the face of +danger and death, taking your stand so nobly against all odds, all +hazards, all temptations, and machinations of wicked seducers, you have +won the undying admiration of a grateful people. Your deeds have thus +become so interwoven with the most eventful period in the annals of our +country, that your name is henceforth to be a household word, so long as +the American Republic shall live in fact or in history. Yours is the +proud satisfaction of having done right for its own sake, in the face of +powerful temptations to do wrong, and you have your reward. And if a +very unpoetic man may be allowed to amend a couplet familiar to our +school-boy days, I would venture to say:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"And more true joy the Parson exiled feels<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than Davis, with the traitors at his heels."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But, thank God, you are no longer exiled or imprisoned.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> A tide has come +in your affairs to bear you on to fortune. And it will be nothing +strange, and no more than justice, if the same State which has +confiscated your property, and imprisoned your person, should conclude +to honor herself by honoring you, and shall yet say to you, "Well done +good and faithful servant; be thou ruler over ten cities."</p> + +<p>All that is necessary to the Union cause is enough of this same earnest, +unflinching, unchanging determination to face and destroy this monstrous +rebellion, no matter who or what opposes.</p> + +<p>If the Union can not be preserved without <i>saltpeter</i>, then let enough +of this article be employed to secure the result. And, if the disordered +livers of political hypochondriacs can not be restored to healthy action +without the use of <i>blue pills</i>, then let enough of these be given to +work a cure.</p> + +<p>God has given the American people a goodly heritage—the fairest the +world has ever seen. There is not a nation under all the heaven where +the pulse does not beat quicker, and the hopes rise higher, and the +thoughts grow larger, at the very mention of the American Republic. +Never have the hopes of humanity so centered in any nation. Our country +had come to be regarded as the cradle of liberty, the home of plenty, +and the asylum for the poor and oppressed of other lands.</p> + +<p>Shall these high hopes perish? Shall this light of the Nations go out in +everlasting darkness? Shall a few desperate men—desperate by their lust +of power—desperate by disappointed ambition—desperate by their dark +and damning apostacy from the faith of our fathers—shall these be +allowed to destroy our glorious heritage?</p> + +<p>Shall the son strike with rude hands the mother that bore<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> him? Nay, +more, shall he tear her limb from limb, and give her flesh to dogs? +Shall the fair fruits of the tree of liberty perish, the branches torn +off, and the roots burned with fire? God forbid! Such a calamity to the +present and coming generations of mankind must be prevented, cost what +it will. It must be prevented, though it be necessary to send every +leading traitor after Judas Iscariot; and if they will not, like Judas, +wait on themselves, others must have the politeness to wait on them.</p> + +<p>Again I welcome you to our homes and hearts. Our prayer is that your +health may be restored; that your family may be preserved in your +absence, and that you may be permitted to see a good old age in the +midst of a prosperous, happy and united people.</p> + +<p>And when your earthly pilgrimage shall approach its termination, and you +retrospect the past, may you be able to say, in the language of one who +has gone before you, and who preferred a prison to a guilty conscience, +"I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the +faith." And then, as you look to the future, may your eye of faith, like +his, see for you laid up "a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the +righteous Judge, shall give you in that day."</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Parson Brownlow replied as follows</span>:</p> + +<p>I thank you, Brother, and through you the Preachers' Association, for +your had expression of sympathy and regard. I claim, as a Union man, to +have done nothing but my duty. I have always been a Union man, and have +edited a Union paper for the last twenty-five years. I was traveling a +circuit in South Carolina in 1832, when I was elected<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> to the General +Conference, and there met with Rev. L. F. Wright and L. Swormsted. I was +also traveling the Anderson District of the Holston conference in the +same State, and living near Calhoun during the nullification troubles +which were so soon throttled by Old Hickory. This thing called Secession +originated in falsehood, theft and perjury. Floyd did the stealing, the +masses of the people did the lying, and fourteen U. S. Senators from the +Cotton States the perjury. While in the Senate, in the day time, they +made a show of keeping their oaths, but at night they held their secret +caucuses, planning Secession, and advising their leaders to seize the +prominent forts of the South, and arms of importance wherever they could +<a name="corr11" id="corr11"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn11" title="changed from 'fine'">find</a> them. I have no doubt there are better men in hell, or in the +Penitentiaries of this or any other State, than the prominent leaders in +this Secession movement. And I am sorry to say that the worst class of +men now in the Southern Confederacy are the Episcopalian, Methodist, +Baptist and Presbyterian preachers. High functionaries in the +Episcopalian church are now drinking and swearing. Men who have met in +our General Conferences with some of these aged brethren whom I now see +around me, preach as chaplains on Sabbath, but swear and get drunk +through the week. A Presbyterian minister in Knoxville invited all +denominations to hold a union prayer meeting, to pray to the Lord to +sink Burnside's fleet, and raise Lincoln's blockade. And at it they +went, composed of many old clerical rips, who besieged a throne of +grace, raising their hands, heaving and setting like an old Tennessee +ram at a gate-post, that God would send lightning and storm and raise +the blockade. And the Lord did give them a <i>raise</i>—at Roanoke Island, +and with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> that kind of lightning and storm which they did not expect in +answer to prayer. I also heard a Presbyterian minister in Knoxville make +use of the following words on the Lord's day, which he would give to +show the degradation of the pulpit. In the course of his remarks he +stated that Jesus Christ was a Southern man, and all of his Apostles +were Southern men, save Judas, who was from the North. And that he would +rather read a text from a Bible bound in hell than front one printed and +bound North of Mason and Dixon's line. I regard the churches in the +South ruined; and financially they are in a bad fix. I came across Dr. +McFarren about seventy miles from Nashville, trying to run away; but his +horse wouldn't work. He traded the horse for a mule, but the mule +wouldn't work. When I left him he was standing on the street, in company +with his wife and children, looking for another trade. Huston, Sehon and +Baldwin were still in Nashville adhering to Secession. The citizens of +Nashville could but note the contrast, and expressed their opinions in +regard to the superiority of the officers and soldiers of the Federal +army over those of the Confederate. The former were well-dressed and +well-behaved, and did not insult citizens nor ladies upon the streets. +While, on the contrary, the vagabonds of the Confederate army stole +everything upon which they could lay their hands, and drove peaceable +citizens from their homes. While there were some honorable exceptions in +the Confederate army, strange to say it seemed to be mostly composed of +the off-scouring of the land; swearing, lewd fellows, of the most +degraded possible character. I had a hard time among them, and was +satisfied that they intended to execute me. I owe my escape to the fact +that for so long a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> time I had been an editor, and, to a great extent, +had gained the confidence of the people. The Union sentiment prevails in +East Tennessee five to one. Among them my friends notified the leaders +that, if Brownlow was hurt, twelve of their prominent men would be +sacrificed for his life, and I think they were afraid to hang me. So +they wrote to Davis and Benjamin that they had better release me; that I +had many friends, and that my presence would continue to stir up the +rebellion; and that, if they could send me out of their lines, they +would get rid of me and my influence. Therefore Benjamin thought that, +as I was a very wicked fellow and a great traitor, he would release me +on conditions that I would leave the Southern Confederacy, and, if I +would do so, they would give me a safe passport out of their lines. So I +opened a correspondence with that little, contemptible Jew—<i>Judas</i> +Benjamin, and consented to do for the Southern Confederacy what the +devil had never done—<i>leave</i> the country. They still hold my wife and +children as hostages for my good behavior. I don't think they will hurt +them. I hope not.</p> + +<p>But I told my wife, before I left, to prepare for execution, for, as +certain as I got North, I would not behave myself, according to Jeff. +Davis' understanding. I am now feeble, having been preaching and +discoursing for thirty-five years. I have seen the day when I could have +spoken five hours at a time; but my late imprisonment, in connection +with my typhoid fever, has broken down my constitution. When feeblest, +they doubled the guard, and pretended to think that my sickness was all +a sham, in order that more liberty would be given me, and then I could +escape. I told them that it was unnecessary, for if there was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> no guard +I could not run away. For I had written to Benjamin, and, if he would +not send me away in the proper manner, I would not go. I had made up my +mind to hang. I had seen my friends taken from the same prison—one or +two at a time—and hung. Sometimes the father and son on the same day. +While this was going on, they would say tauntingly, "Your turn will be +next, for you are the ringleader and cause of all this trouble." I told +them if they would give me the privilege of making a speech, one hour +long, under the gallows, that I might speak to the people and pronounce +a eulogy on the Southern Confederacy, that I would be willing to die. +And I really think I could have swung in peace. It is my intention to go +back to Knoxville and start my paper. I want to go with the army, and +once more raise the flag of the stars and stripes, and then blaze away. +They have been doing all of the hanging on one side, and I wish to +superintend it on the other. My motto is, "Grape for the masses, but +hemp for the leaders." They deserve hanging, for this is the most wicked +rebellion ever known to the world. If you had given them a President and +all the offices, there would have been no rebellion—for the "nigger" is +a mere pretext.</p> + +<p>After thanking the brethren, he was introduced to the Ministers and +friends present, and then took his leave. During the day he visited the +Book Concern, and expressed himself highly pleased with its evident +prosperity.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="BROWNLOW_IN_INDIANAPOLIS" id="BROWNLOW_IN_INDIANAPOLIS"></a>BROWNLOW IN INDIANAPOLIS.</h2> + + +<p>Mr. Brownlow left Cincinnati for Indianapolis (<i>via</i> Dayton), +accompanied by Messrs. Mayor Maxwell and James Blake, Esq., of the +latter place, and General S. F. Cary and T. Buchanan Reed, of +Cincinnati. The party were greeted with one continued ovation during the +journey. At almost every station the cars were surrounded with eager +crowds, anxious to see and welcome the tried hero and patriot. Upon his +arrival in Indianapolis he became the guest of Governor Morton.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon the party visited the prisoners at Camp Morton, where +Mr. Brownlow made a brief speech, to which some of the rebels gave no +very grateful reception. He was met with jeers, and cries of "Put him +out," "Don't want him here," "The old traitor," &c., which he, having +faced worse treatment under far more dangerous circumstances, gave +little heed to. The insults came chiefly from the Kentucky prisoners, +who have been, from the start, the most obstreperous and unrepentant of +the rebel keepsakes.</p> + +<p>Notice was given that the Parson would address the public in the evening +at Metropolitan Hall. Although the night was dark and rainy, the large +hall was crowded to its utmost capacity, with a highly intelligent +audience. After music by the band of the 19th U. S. Regiment, the +meeting was opened with prayers by Rev. James Havens. The fol<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>lowing +gentlemen of the committee occupied seats on the platform:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Wm. Hannaman</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">David McDonald</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Governor Morton</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Mayor Maxwell</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Calvin Fletcher, Esq.</span></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Col. James Blake</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">J. H. McKernan, Esq.</span></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">B. R. Sulgrove, Esq.</span></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">Alfred Harrison, Esq.</span></span><br /> +</p> + + +<p class="center">SPEECH.</p> + +<p>Gov. Morton then introduced Mr. <a name="corr12" id="corr12"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn12" title="changed from 'Browlow'">Brownlow</a>, +who spoke at length of the +causeless character of the rebellion, and its disastrous effects, and +was frequently cordially cheered by his large audience. He gave an +account of his ancestry, and showed how they had all been engaged in the +service of the country, and always true to its flag and its principles. +He said he had been called a traitor by R. Barnwell Rhett, of South +Carolina. "Rhett" said he, "was named R. Barnwell Smith, but the Smiths +being all Tories during the Revolution, he was allowed by a legislative +act to call himself Rhett. He call <i>me</i> a traitor," said the iron old +Parson indignantly, "when his illustrious ancestors were hunted by +Marion through all the mosquito swamps of South Carolina." (Uproarious +cheers and laughter.) He commented at considerable length on the +rebellion and its leaders, and declared, with great emphasis, that "if +the issue was to be made between the Union without slavery, and slavery +without the Union, he was for the Union and let slavery perish. (Great +applause.) Let every institution die first, and until the issue was made +between the Union and the religion of Jesus Christ, he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> was for the +Union." (Tremendous cheers.) We have not space to report his whole +speech, which was considerably over an hour in length, and was listened +to with close and intense attention by all, and we must content +ourselves with a report of the outrages practiced on the Union men, +which he detailed with impressive eloquence and pathos.</p> + +<p>In May last the South began to pour a stream as hot and ugly as hell +itself from the Gulf States through Eastern Tennessee, towards Richmond +and Manassas, and Norfolk and Lynchburgh, in the shape of a rebel +soldiery armed with side knives and tomahawks, drinking gallons untold +of bad whisky, and boasting largely and savagely enough of the things +they should do in Washington. (Laughter.) I had an old banner, the stars +and stripes, floating from the top of my house, on Main street, in +Knoxville, Tennessee, in a conspicuous part of the city. They began to +come to pay their respects to us—frequently a regiment at a time. Whole +regiments of "wharf rats" from New Orleans and Mobile, as ugly and +disgusting as they were vicious, would come at once, now and then, to +"give old Brownlow a turn," as they expressed it. They would, <i>en +masse</i>, come across the river on the bridge, surround my house, yell, +throw stones, blackguard my wife and family, dare me to come out of +doors, and I now and then accepted their invitations and made them the +best bow I could. I have, time and again, gone out and given them very +frankly and unreservedly my settled opinion of the whole concern, from +Jeff. Davis down, assuring them that my scorn and contempt for them and +the Southern<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> Confederacy was unutterable, and then, making them the +best bow I could, I would go back into the house and leave them to yell +and groan around the house till they saw proper to quit. This course +they have steadily kept up all the year. And yet all of this time I was +reading in the papers of Charleston, Savannah and Richmond, that the +Confederate army was composed of the flower and promise of the Southern +States. I told my wife that if those miserable, God-forsaken whelps that +were screaming like devils around our house almost half of every day +were the <i>flower</i> of the Southern Confederacy, my prayer would be—God +save us from the <i>rabble</i>.</p> + +<p>On the 6th day of November last we had an election in the Southern +States for President and Vice President of the Southern Confederacy, +with only two candidates in the field—Jeff. Davis and little Alex. +Stevens of Georgia. And when we, of Eastern Tennessee came to vote at +that election we did not vote at all, but we positively and utterly +refused to have anything at all to do with it. The sheriffs, who were +Union men, refused to open the polls, or to hold an election, thus +giving the candidates the cold shoulder, and manifesting our contempt +for the whole concern. And, gentlemen, you cannot fail to be surprised +when I announce to you the fact that the great State of Tennessee, +casting not less than 200,000 votes as her ordinary vote, gave Jeff. +Davis and his colleague in villainy a miserable vote of 25,000. Those +two men are to-day holding their offices by the vote of a miserably lean +minority of the people of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee was driven +out of the Union at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> the point of the bayonet. The miserable rebel +soldiery were stationed at the polls, wherever a poll was opened, with +orders to prevent every "damned Union-shrieker" that might appear from +depositing his vote. We had thousands of good Union men, men of good +morals, members of churches, Methodists, Baptists and others, who had no +desire to be involved in difficulty, and who saw that nothing could be +accomplished by attempting to exercise their rights, and who said to +themselves "we will stay at home and let the thing go by default." Let +me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if I know anything at all of any +State it is the State of Tennessee, and I want you to mark well and +treasure up in your minds the prediction I am about to make to you. I +predict to-night that when Governor Johnson shall appoint a day (which +he will do before long,) upon which the people of the State of Tennessee +shall decide at the polls whether they shall come back again beneath the +stars and stripes, when Confederate bayonets shall be driven completely +out of the State, which they will be soon, the "Volunteer State" will +come back into the Union by a majority of 50,000 votes. (Cheers.)</p> + +<p>There is also, at this very time, a powerful Union sentiment in each of +the other Southern States. These Southern traitors may talk to you about +the "unanimity" of feeling in regard to the war, but let me assure you +that it is all false. There is no unanimity in the Southern States. +Louisiana never voted herself out of the Union. The wretches who were in +power there smuggled the vote. The truth is that secession was <i>lost</i> in +Louisiana. Georgia barely went out of the Union.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> Alabama was forced out +through the treason of Jerry Clemens and others. The "Old North State" +will gladly come back again. The Old Dominion, what shall I say of her? +God bless her while he curses her leading politicians. Virginia is about +ready to come back. She is just about sick enough now to be willing to +take medicine.</p> + +<p>But whilst it is true that there is no unanimity in the Southern +Confederacy in regard to the war, there was one remarkable instance of +unanimity that occurred in Tennessee just about the time that we people +of the Eastern portion of the State refused to vote. By a strange freak +of Nature, or Providence, or something else, all the railroad bridges +between Bristol and Chattanooga took fire all at once, and burned down, +one night about eleven o'clock. I was not concerned in the matter, and +can't say who did it. I thought to myself that the affair had been most +beautifully planned and executed, and enjoyed it considerably in my +quiet way. (Laughter.)</p> + +<p>It was but a little while afterward that the Legislature passed a law to +disarm all the Union men of the State. Of course I was called on, in +common with the rest. They did not find much to seize, however, at my +house. They got a double-barreled shot gun, a Sharp's rifle, and a +revolver. That was all the weapons I had. Then they commenced waiting +upon all the private families. They took all the good horses that +belonged to Union men. They entered their dwellings, threw off the +feather-beds from the bedsteads, took all the woolen blankets and +coverlets they could get hold of. They<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> broke open chests and drawers, +and pocketed what money and jewelry they could find in them. They +carried away bacon, drove away fat hogs and beeves, and robbed the +people of every species of moveable property.</p> + +<p>They next began to arrest them and throw them into jail. Nor was that +all. Many of them were shot down upon the streets, or in the fields, in +cold blood. I could give names in abundance, and dates, and places. I +speak not from hearsay, but from my own personal knowledge. A man would +be quietly about his work in his fields, and some one would point him +out as a Union man, and the infernal rebel cavalry would shoot him down +as a "damned Union-shrieking Abolitionist."—Others were stretched +lengthwise upon logs of wood, raised a short distance from the ground so +as to admit of their arms being tied underneath it, and were then +stripped naked, and almost literally cut to pieces. And afterwards, when +those men would come into courts of justice, and pull off their shirts +and display the marks of the inhuman treatment they had suffered, the +Judges upon the bench would coolly inform them that these were +revolutionary times, and that they could give no redress for such +grievances. Every prominent jail in East Tennessee was filled with Union +men.</p> + +<p>Take the case of Andy Johnson. He is a man against whom I have fought +for twenty-five years with all my might, pouring hot shot into him +continually, both on the stump and through the columns of my paper, and +he in turn giving me as good as I sent. He and I are to-day upon the +most amicable terms. We, the people of East Tennessee, have merged every +other issue into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> this great issue of the Union. (Loud applause.) You +ought to do so in Indiana. You should never touch one of your aspiring +politicians with a ten-foot pole unless he is totally and +unconditionally opposed to this infernal rebellion. Where would I see a +man who is base enough to sympathise with secession before I would vote +for him for office? I would send him where, in the language of Milton,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Cold performs the effect of fire,"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>or, as Pollock says,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Where gravitation, shifting, turns the other way,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And sends him <i>Hellwards</i>."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>They drove Johnson's wife, far gone with consumption, and very feeble, +to take refuge with her son-in-law in the adjoining county of Carter. +They drove him into the woods, where he remained no less than three +months, used his house and his beds for a hospital, and sold his goods +at public sale. But the scale has turned. Andrew Johnson is now +Governor. He is "the right man in the right place."</p> + +<p>If President Lincoln had consulted the Union men of Tennessee as to what +man should occupy that position, the reply would have been almost +unanimously, "give us Andy Johnson." He has the unflinching courage of +Old Hickory, and let me tell you, too, that he feels all the malice and +venom requisite for the occasion. He will row those wretches up Salt +River. He will send a good many of them to Fort Warren, where, I trust, +after due trial for treason, they will be hung upon a gal<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span>lows of +similar character and dimensions to that upon which Haman hung.</p> + +<p>When, upon the 6th of November, they thrust me into jail at Knoxville, I +found one hundred and fifty men whose sole offence was their +faithfulness to the Union. Every man among them was an acquaintance of +mine. Three of them were Baptist preachers. One of these three, old man +Pope, a man seventy years of age, and for many years a Minister of the +Gospel, was thrown into jail for praying, previously to his sermon, for +the blessing of God upon the President of the United States. The Rev. +Mr. Kates, a man about seventy-five years old, was imprisoned for +throwing up his cap and hallooing as a company of Union Home Guards was +passing.</p> + +<p>When I entered the door the inmates of the prison were perfectly +astonished. Some of them were so overpowered by the nature of the +circumstances, that they could hardly <a name="corr13" id="corr13"></a><a class="correction" href="#cn13" title="changed from 'syeak'">speak</a>. +"O," said they, "we never +expected to come to this. We never expected the day would come when we +would look through the iron grates of a prison!"</p> + +<p>I said to them, "Boys, cheer up. Are you here for murder, or +counterfeiting, or horse-stealing? No. You are here for no other offence +than that of defending the glorious stars and stripes, and I look upon +this as the brightest day of my life. These scoundrels will be sick of +this business before the thing is over."</p> + +<p>While I was in the jail both of these poor preachers were taken sick. +The furniture of the prison deserves description. There was no sign of a +bedstead, not a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> chair nor a stool of any kind, and the only "furniture" +there was consisted of a dirty wooden pail and two tin cups. The whole +one hundred and fifty prisoners could not lie down at once, so that we +had to "spell" each other, so all might have a little while to sleep. A +part stood while the others lay down. That's the way we lived in the +jail.</p> + +<p>These poor old preachers came near dying. The rebels showed me one +favor. The jailor, I knew, as a mean, sneaking rascal, whom I had +published in my paper for forgery, and I was sure that he would give me +arsenic in order to make sure of my not doing so again, and I obtained +permission for my wife to send me my dinner every day, and I had to send +the basket full every day, and in this way I had the satisfaction of +feeding those two feeble old preachers for two weeks with something they +could eat.</p> + +<p>Old Mr. Kates had three sons in jail. Madison Kates was on the verge of +the grave with typhoid fever. He lay upon the floor of that damp brick +jail, with an old overcoat under his head for a pillow, and a single +thickness of old home-made carpeting between him and the cold, damp +floor of the prison. In this condition his poor wife came thirty-five +miles to see him, with an infant about six weeks old in her arms. She +came into the yard of the prison and asked permission to see her +husband. The officers said "No, they did not allow any body to have +anything to say to these infernal Union-shriekers." I went to the window +then, myself, and by dint of perseverance, prevailed upon them at last +to let her see her husband. They limited her to just fifteen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> minutes. +When she entered the door her eyes fell upon her husband lying in the +corner, so weak and emaciated that he could scarcely stir. He was nearly +gone. She held her infant in her arms. The sight of her husband in that +condition unnerved her completely. Seeing she was upon the point of +letting the child fall, I took it from her and she sank down upon the +floor beside her husband. Neither of them uttered a word, but clasping +each others hands they sobbed and cried together, and O, my God! I hope +that I shall never see such a sight as that again.</p> + +<p>That, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit—the hellish, inhuman, +infernal spirit of secession. The Devil himself is a saint, compared to +the leaders in that scheme.</p> + +<p>In Andrew Johnson's town they hung up two men to the same limb, and the +bloody Col. Ledbetter, a man born and educated in the State of Maine, +going down to Mobile and marrying a lot of negroes through another +woman—the worst man, the biggest coward, and the blackest-hearted +villain that ever made a track in East Tennessee—this man tied the +knots with his own hands, and directed that the victims should be left +hanging for four days and nights right over the iron track of the +railroad, and ordered the engineers to run their trains slowly by the +spot in order that the secessionists on board might feast their eyes +upon the ghastly spectacle. And it is a fact as true as it is revolting, +that men stood upon the platforms of every train that went by and kicked +the dead bodies as they passed, and struck them with sticks and ratans, +with such remarks as "that they looked well hanging there," and that all +"d——d<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> Yankees and traitors should hang that way too." It is true that +Col. Ledbetter, as the weather was somewhat warm and the corpses were +becoming somewhat offensive, ordered them to be cut down at the +expiration of some thirty-six hours, but it was for the convenience of +his secession friends purely, and not from any other motive.</p> + +<p>One day they came with two carts and took old Harmon, a Methodist class +leader, and his son. Old Mr. Harmon was seated in one cart upon his +coffin, and his son in the other, and each cart was surrounded by a +strong guard of rebel bayonets, and driven down the hill to a scaffold +in sight of the jail. The young man was hung first, and the father was +compelled to look upon his death struggles. Then he was told to mount +the scaffold, but being feeble and overpowered by his feelings, two of +the ruffians took hold of him, one of them saying, "Get up there, you +damned old traitor!" and the poor old man was launched after his son.</p> + +<p>A few days after this they came up to the jail with another cart. We +never knew whose turn was to come next. I had "counted the cost." I +intended, if my turn had come, to meet my fate with the best grace I +could. I had prepared a speech for the occasion, and I can assure you +that I should have pronounced a handsome eulogy, if I had been called +upon, for if I have any talent in the world, it is that talent which +consists in piling up one epithet upon another. But it turned out that +the cart was not intended for me. It was intended for a young man by the +name of H. C. Haun, an excellent young man of fine morals and good +com<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>mon sense. He had a wife and two small children. Haun was informed +one hour before hand that he was to be hung. He immediately asked for a +Methodist preacher who lived in the town, to come to see him, and to +pray with him. The reply was: "We don't permit any praying here for a +damned Union-shrieker."</p> + +<p>Haun met his fate like a man. When under the scaffold, a drunken, lying +chaplain rose up, and delivered a short address. Said he, "The poor, +unfortunate young man, who is now about to pay the penalty of his +crimes, says that he regrets his course, and that he was led into it +through the influence of traitors. He is, therefore, deserving of your +pity." As quick as thought Haun sprang to his feet, and in a much +stronger and steadier tone than the lying villain beside him had made +use of, said: "My fellow citizen, there is not one word of truth in what +that man has told you. I have made no such concession. On the contrary, +all that I have said and done, I have said and done after mature +deliberation, and I would do the same again. I am here ready to be +executed. Execute your purposes." He died like every Union man ought to +die when called to face death by villains and traitors.</p> + +<p>My fellow citizens: I congratulate you upon the fact, now sufficiently +clear, that the rebellion is now pretty well "played out." We will wind +the thing up this spring and summer. They are nearly "out of soap" down +South. They lack guns, clothing, boots and shoes. The boots I have on +cost me $15 in Knoxville. They are out of hats, too. In Knoxville there +is not a bolt of bleached domestic or calico to be had, nor a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> spool of +Coat's thread, and, although "Cotton is King," we never made a spool of +thread south of Mason and Dixon's line. Sewing needles and pins are not +to be had. The blockade is breaking them up. It has been remarked on the +streets of Knoxville, that no such thing as a fine-toothed comb was to +be had, and that all the little secession heads were full of squatter +sovereigns hunting for their rights in the territories. [Laughter and +applause.]</p> + +<p>The Reverend Doctor retired amid continued applause and cheering, and +was followed by General Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, who, though his remarks +were brief, were marked with that spirit-stirring eloquence for which he +is noted. Many of his patriotic allusions and decided and unerring blows +at traitors were received with vociferous shouts of applause. He said +that all were rejoiced at the delivery of Brownlow from the clutches of +tyranny, but our rejoicings were saddened by the thought that multitudes +like him were flying to the mountains for safety, or were rotting in +prisons, or were being hanged and murdered for loving their country. He +wished the President and Government could learn to appreciate the +magnitude of the rebellion. It was time that hemp was used to hang the +leaders of this wicked rebellion. It had been said by the sympathisers +with this infernal war against the Government, that the Abolitionists +had brought the war upon the country. This was simply a lie. The +President and all connected with the management of the Government had +manifested a desire to protect slave property above all other property. +He, for one,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> would protect a loyal man like Brownlow in his property, +be it slave property or otherwise; but he would confiscate the property +of rebels, their lands, their houses, their niggers and their necks. The +integrity of the Republic should be saved at all cost, and he would be +willing for a still further sacrifice of life and expenditure of money, +rather than compromise on any other principle or condition than that +every leader of the rebellion should meet the death of a traitor upon +the gallows.</p> + +<p>He claimed that slavery was only a pretext with the conspirators who +originated the rebellion—it was not the cause of the war. It was mainly +hostility to popular government on the part of the aristocrats of South +Carolina and other fire-eating States. South Carolina had in it during +the Revolution more tories than any other State, and she never had an +organized government that conformed to the requirements of the +Constitution—it was not Republican in form. A property qualification +was required for voters larger than that of England. The people never +voted for President or any officer save that of members of the State +Assembly, and the poor man had no voice even in that election. Their +judges, elected for life, came upon the bench clothed in gowns and wigs, +and the Speaker of their Legislature was ushered into his chair +according to the old British custom, adorned with robes, and in the most +pompous manner. They had no penitentiary in that State, but the +whipping-post, ear-cropping and branding were the punishments most in +vogue.</p> + +<p>The speaker said he sometimes felt gratified that this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span> war had come +upon us. We had been a nation of party worshippers, and had lost sight +of that spirit of patriotism that should ever guide freeman of so great +and free a nation. He hoped that party spirit would be obliterated +forever, though we had men in Indiana who were plotting how to make +political capital out of the misfortunes of the country. Next to +secessionists, he despised such men. They were so selfish that they +would sell their grandmother's bones to button makers.</p> + +<p>His motto was: "Let Slavery take care of itself." Let us put down the +rebellion, and whatever may come in the way of accomplishing this +purpose, be it slavery or what else, let it perish. He had been called a +proslavery man, because he had advocated non-interference with the +question in the States. He believed that it was requisite that the +institution should exist as a contrast to be constantly kept before the +laboring men of the North as an encouragement to labor. Invention was +the child of an educated people, and our great improvement in the +sciences, arts and mechanics, was attributable to our respect for and +aid given to the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. Let +the problem work itself out. Like the skunk that the man would not kill, +but confined until it stunk itself to death, slavery was destined, if +left alone, to kill itself. It had been said that it would be best to +divide the country, and let the secessionists have a country of their +own. The channel of the Mississippi will never be permitted to be owned +or obstructed by any other government, and no other flag will be allowed +to wave but the proud ensign of the American Union. Americans can never +consent to be humiliated to ask passports into a foreign country to +visit the tombs of Washington, Jackson or Clay, and Indianians should +never consent to allow Kentuckians to give a quit claim deed to the +ashes of their dead ancestry now mingling with the soil<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> of this State. +The country never will be divided. Let us all unite then in +extinguishing the rebellion, and vindicate ourselves by hanging Jeff. +Davis and Toombs between the heavens and the earth.</p> + +<p>Alluding to the course pursued by Southern divines, General Cary said +Bishop Polk now utters oaths, and he did not wonder at it, for when a +man becomes a rebel he has severed the last link that binds men to their +God, and there was no hope for their repentance or salvation. He had +told a Universalist preacher lately to quit preaching his doctrines +until after the rebellion, for a real fire and brimstone hell was wanted +for the benefit of its authors and abettors.</p> + +<p>General Cary concluded his brief address amid cries of "go on," "go on," +but owing to the lateness of the evening he declined to say more.</p> + +<p>The popular chorus of "Glory Hallelujah! the Lord is on our side," was +then sung by a number of musical amateurs, after which Governor Morton +announced the news just received of General Pope's brilliant victory, +which the audience received with vehement cheering. The patriotic Parson +joined in with the assemblage, and waved his handkerchief exultingly.</p> + +<p>T. Buchanan Reed, one of the nation's best poets, was introduced by +Governor Morton, who read, in a style that but few professional readers +could excel, some extracts from patriotic poems and songs of his own +composition, viz: "The Wild Wagoner of the Alleghanies," "A Tribute to +the Brave Ones at Home," and "The Defenders." Each and all of these +readings were received with applause by the audience.</p> + +<p>After "Hail Columbia," by the band, the meeting adjourned. Take it all +in all, it was decidedly the most intellectual and spirit-stirring +entertainment Indianapolis has ever witnessed.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="BROWNLOW_IN_CHICAGO" id="BROWNLOW_IN_CHICAGO"></a>BROWNLOW IN CHICAGO.</h2> + + +<p>The Parson left Indianapolis for Chicago on the 8th of April, attended +by General Cary and others, and arrived at the latter place on the +morning of the 9th, having met, all along the road, repeated and earnest +demonstrations of welcome, from the sympathizing, loyal masses of the +people.</p> + +<p>During the whole of Thursday, the 10th, Mr. Brownlow was the recipient +of visits from the citizens of Chicago. Between the hours of 11 and 12 +there was a crowd of ladies gathered in the spacious parlors to pay +their respects, and during the introductory exercises he made the +following impromptu remarks:</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ladies and Gentlemen</span>:—When I had the honor, last evening, of meeting +and being introduced to the committees which your city sent to greet me, +I remarked that those committees formed the finest body of men I ever +saw. But when I look at the sweet faces and forms which I now see before +me, I am ready to pronounce those men a very ordinary looking lot. If I +am more particularly attached to the tall ladies, it is because I am +more strikingly reminded of the loved ones at home.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> +<p class="center">AT THE BOARD OF TRADE.</p> + +<p>It being understood that the Parson would make his appearance on 'Change +at 12 o'clock, long before that hour arrived large numbers of the +citizens, members of the Board and others, began to gather there, and by +noon the spacious rooms were packed to their utmost capacity with +persons eager to catch a glimpse of the redoubtable Parson, and pay him +that respect to which his patriotic conduct has entitled him. At 12 +o'clock the distinguished guest entered, arm in arm with Mayor Rumsey, +and followed by the different Committees of Reception. The Parson's +appearance was greeted with hearty applause, and, when order was +restored, Stephen Clary, Esq., made a few appropriate introductory +remarks; after which, Mayor Rumsey arose and said:</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Fellow Citizens</span>:—It may have been expected that on this occasion I +would make a speech before you; but such is not my intention. The +condition of my health, and the hoarseness with which I am afflicted, +render it well-nigh impossible for me to speak at all. I will, +therefore, only say that, in behalf of the city of Chicago, whose chief +magistrate I am, it is my privilege to introduce to you Mr. W. G. +Brownlow, and in your behalf welcome, to the hospitalities of our city, +this noble patriot, who has periled not only his temporal interests, but +his life, for the Union cause in Tennessee. It is sufficient that I +mention his name to you.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>After the Mayor had concluded, J. C. Wright, Esq., on behalf of the +Board of Trade, addressed Mr. Brownlow in an eloquent and stirring +manner, as follows:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span><span class="smcap">Rev. W. G. Brownlow</span>:—At the request of the officers of this Board of +Trade, I have the honor, sir, of performing the most agreeable duty of +welcoming you to our Exchange.</p> + +<p>It is not, sir, because of any official position you now hold, or have +held, that this vast assembly has gathered here to receive you; but, +sir, it is a mark of respect and admiration for your patriotic devotion +to your country. When this horrid rebellion assumed its gigantic +proportions, the loyal men of the North watched with anxiety the course +of many men of the South, whom we had delighted to honor with the +highest positions of trust and power. With rare exceptions we saw them +retreating into the ranks of the traitors, using their influence, wealth +and position to strike down the mildest and most beneficent government +which God in his mercy had ever permitted man to establish. They +beguiled and deceived the people, who had been accustomed to look up to +them, and listen to their counsels. Many of the arch traitors, not +content to act with the popular voice of their States, joined the ranks +of the rebels, endeavoring to force their States to disregard their +allegiance to that glorious Union which, for nearly a century, had +thrown its genial influence and protection over a united, happy, and +prosperous people. Amidst all this horrid exhibition of treason, and +malignant, hellish hate, when the heart grew sick at contemplating the +dark and dismal scene before us; when your neighbors and friends around +you, in vast numbers, had deserted that old flag, consecrated by our +fathers' blood, and were trampling under foot that Constitution which +had so long been our pride and our hope, you, sir, stood firm and +unmoved in your devoted patriotism.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> Threatened with the halter, with +your grave yawning before you, with scorn you spurned proffered freedom +in such honors as traitors could confer. To you the grave had no terrors +to be shunned by an act of disloyalty to your beloved and now grateful +country.</p> + +<p>We are now rapidly making undying history for future generations to +read. When the history of this wicked rebellion—for I can not call it +an honorable war—is written, it will be sadly deficient, if its pages +do not tell, in words that burn, the story of your wrongs, your +fortitude, and your unswerving devotion to your country in the hour of +her great trial. Our children will need no romance to stir their young +hearts, but the truthful picture of your sufferings and heroism will +fill the place of high wrought fiction. We shall no longer point to the +classic ages for noble examples of heroes, who laughed at the halter and +rack, and scorned life at the price of dishonor.</p> + +<p>Sir, it is because you have so loved your country, and suffered for your +principles, that we this day welcome you to our Exchange, to our +hearth-stones, to our hearts.</p> + +<p>In behalf of the officers, and of the more than nine hundred loyal +members of this Board, again, air, I bid you welcome. Amid the stirring, +glorious news of the triumph of our arms, I bid you welcome.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>At the close of Mr. Wright's address, Parson Brownlow arose, and, after +pausing a few moments until the tumult of applause had subsided, in a +calm, clear voice, began his remarks. His first few words were uttered +in a low tone, scarcely audible except to those nearest the speaker; but +presently his voice was raised to a higher key, and, with his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> distinct +and emphatic enunciation, every person in the vast crowd could easily +hear and understand.</p> + +<p>He said he claimed no credit for his acts in Tennessee, for he had +simply done his duty—nothing more—and any man who would not, under +similar circumstances, do the same thing, deserved to be hung. He was a +Union man from principle, not from policy. He had <i>always</i> been a Union +man; it was no new thing with him. He had opposed secession with what +abilities God had given him, under all circumstances, and wherever, in +his presence, it had shown its vile features. And this he should +continue to do, at the risk of being mobbed and hung, if need be. He was +a national man; he had no sentiments in the South that he was not +willing to promulgate in the North; and none in the North that he would +not proclaim upon the house-top in the Southern States. In 1828, the +speaker supported John Quincy Adams for the Presidency, and for that act +incurred the hatred of many of his friends in the South. At a later day, +when Mr. Adams presented before Congress a petition for the abolition of +slavery, the speaker also defended him in that particular; for, though +not an abolitionist, he had always contended that a Congressman's +constituents had the right to petition that body for <i>anything</i> they +might desire. He had supported that eminent statesman, Henry Clay; and, +when he died, he would willingly have voted for Clay's last pair of +pantaloons, stuffed with straw! He had advocated the claims of Daniel +Webster, for his gigantic intellect and commanding statesmanship +entitled him to the highest honors of the nation. But the <i>last</i> ticket +he had supported was the Bell-Everett ticket, which bore such a close +resemblance to a kangaroo—being the strongest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> in its hinder parts. He +should make a trip to Boston, purposely to visit Edward Everett, and to +take him by the hand, for he was a patriot. But as to "Old Man Bell," he +was fast traveling the road leading to a certain locality where traitors +and devils are sure to land eventually. Being destitute of nerve, moral +courage, of fixed patriotic principles, the weak old man had succumbed +to the hell-born and hell-bound heresy of secession.</p> + +<p>The speaker here made allusion to the treatment he had received from the +traitorous rabble in his own State, and gave a brief sketch of his +imprisonment in the Knoxville jail; of the threats of immediate +execution with which his ears were daily regaled; the actual hanging of +many of his companions in the prison; and many interesting particulars +of the struggle between treason and loyalty in Eastern Tennessee. He +stated that, for many days, he fully expected to be hung, and had become +perfectly resigned to his fate, provided his persecutors would grant him +one privilege, which was, that from the gallows he might be permitted to +address them for one hour. "I had prepared myself for the occasion," +said Mr. Brownlow, "and I intended to do the Southern Confederacy +justice—to pronounce a high-wrought eulogy on the concern, from Jeff. +Davis down to the smallest secession Devil among them."</p> + +<p>The speaker thought that the Union sentiment of Eastern Tennessee had +never abated one iota; that there were thousands of good Union men +there, who would hail the approach of the Federal army with sincere joy. +Gen. Jackson put down the rebellion of 1832, and, though this was a much +more formidable uprising, he believed Abe Lincoln would subdue it. "My +friends," said the orator, "the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> <i>hanging</i> must begin <i>on the other +side</i>, this season, and I want to superintend it. You may think I speak +harshly; but, after what I have seen and experienced among the rebels, +how can I feel differently? I tell you, my hearers, I intend to go back +to Tennessee, before long, under different circumstances from those +under which I left the State. I want to go back in company with Gen. +Fremont; I want a big war-horse, and a military suite, and the General +and myself will ride down among those rebels, and, if you will excuse my +apparent egotism, I do believe the scoundrels had rather see the Devil +coming after them!"</p> + +<p>After paying his compliments to Mason and Slidell, both of whom he knows +personally, the Parson remarked that, "When this rebellion is put down, +England and France will have to behave themselves, or we will thrash +them both."</p> + +<p>The speaker then thanked the citizens for the kind reception given him, +and closed his speech with the promise that they should hear from him +again in the evening. He took his seat amid a storm of applause, that +emanated from the hearts as well as the mouths of his hearers.</p> + +<p>Gen. S. F. Cary, of Cincinnati, being present, was loudly called for, +and, taking the stand, proceeded to deliver one of the most thrillingly +eloquent speeches to which we have ever listened. We have not room for +even a summary of this production, but those who are familiar with the +celebrated Cincinnati orator will appreciate the meaning of our +observation, when we say it was one of Gen. Cary's happiest efforts.</p> + +<p>After he had closed, Frank Lumbard was called upon for a song, and, +mounting the stand, gave, in his best style,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> "The Star Spangled +Banner," the entire assemblage joining in the swelling chorus, with +splendid effect. The crowd then filed out past the President's desk, +where sat the Parson, each individual grasping his extended hand with +evident emotions of sympathy and kindly regard. Mr. Brownlow and party +soon after repaired to the Sherman House, where they partook of a +sumptuous dinner.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon the party made a visit to Camp Douglas, and spent some +time in making observations among the very class of men from whose +clutches the Parson had so recently escaped.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="transnote"> +<h3>Transcriber's note<a name="tnotes" id="tnotes"></a></h3> + +<p> +The following changes have been made to the text:</p> + + +<p>Page 16: "the crimes" changed to "<a name="cn1" id="cn1"></a><a href="#corr1">The crimes</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 23: "by-gone" changed to "<a name="cn2" id="cn2"></a><a href="#corr2">bygone</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 24: "jeapordizing" changed to "<a name="cn3" id="cn3"></a><a href="#corr3">jeopardizing</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 24: "ignoniminous" changed to "<a name="cn4" id="cn4"></a><a href="#corr4">ignominious</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 29: "water-goards" changed to "<a name="cn5" id="cn5"></a><a href="#corr5">water-gourds</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 33: "unhol" changed to "<a name="cn6" id="cn6"></a><a href="#corr6">unholy</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 36: "did'nt" changed to "<a name="cn7" id="cn7"></a><a href="#corr7">didn't</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 36: "intrigueing" changed to "<a name="cn8" id="cn8"></a><a href="#corr8">intriguing</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 37: "voluntered" changed to "<a name="cn9" id="cn9"></a><a href="#corr9">volunteered</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 38: "did'nt" changed to "<a name="cn10" id="cn10"></a><a href="#corr10">didn't</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 44: "could fine them" changed to "could <a name="cn11" id="cn11"></a><a href="#corr11">find</a> them".</p> + +<p>Page 49: "Browlow" changed to "<a name="cn12" id="cn12"></a><a href="#corr12">Brownlow</a>".</p> + +<p>Page 56: "hardly syeak" changed to "hardly <a name="cn13" id="cn13"></a><a href="#corr13">speak</a>".</p> +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Portrait and Biography of Parson +Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot, by William Gannaway Brownlow + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHY OF PARSON BROWNLOW *** + +***** This file should be named 35122-h.htm or 35122-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/1/2/35122/ + +Produced by Carla Foust, Mark C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot + +Author: William Gannaway Brownlow + +Release Date: January 30, 2011 [EBook #35122] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHY OF PARSON BROWNLOW *** + + + + +Produced by Carla Foust, Mark C. Orton and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +book was produced from scanned images of public domain +material from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + PORTRAIT + AND + BIOGRAPHY + OF + PARSON BROWNLOW, + THE TENNESSEE PATRIOT. + + TOGETHER WITH HIS LAST EDITORIAL IN THE KNOXVILLE + WHIG; ALSO, HIS RECENT SPEECHES, REHEARSING + HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SECESSION, + AND HIS PRISON LIFE. + + PRICE 25 CENTS. + + INDIANAPOLIS: + ASHER & CO., PUBLISHERS. + 1862. + + + + + Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, + BY ASHER & CO., + In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the + District of Indiana. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +INTRODUCTION. + + +The biography of great men always has been, and always will be read with +interest and profit. Great actions command admiration, and none of +modern times excel those of the patriot exile, Parson Brownlow, of +Tennessee. + +In this work the spirit-stirring scenes of his late eventful life are +vividly portrayed in his own characteristic and inimitable style. The +descriptions of his trials and triumphs in the cause of the Union will +send a thrill of admiration to every reader's heart; will strengthen the +wavering loyalty of many a young man, and incite him to pursue with +unquenchable ardor, the path which all true patriots have marked out, +and whose beacon lights are justice, truth and right. To the truly +loyal, whose steps "keep time to the music of the Union," the work will +be its own recommendation, and we commend it to these, both of the North +and South, with the confidence that it will meet with their cordial +approbation. + + + + +INDEX. + + + PAGE. + + Introduction 7 + + Biography of Parson Brownlow 9 + + Last Editorial of the Knoxville _Whig_, and Farewell Address to + his patrons as it appeared in its last issue 11 + + Nashville Speech 17 + + Cincinnati Speech before the Chamber of Commerce 22 + + Brownlow and the Cincinnati Methodist Preachers 39 + + Indianapolis Speech 48 + + + + +BIOGRAPHY. + + +William G. Brownlow was born in Wythe County, Virginia, August 5, 1805. +His parents were poor, and died when he was about ten years old. They +were both Virginians, and his father was a school-mate of General +Houston, in Rockbridge County. After the death of his parents he lived +with his mother's relations, and was raised to hard labor until he was +some eighteen years old, when he served a regular apprenticeship to the +trade of a house-carpenter. + +His education was imperfect and irregular, even in those branches taught +in the common schools of the country. He entered the Traveling Ministry, +in 1826, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and traveled ten years +without intermission, and was a member of the General Conference held in +Philadelphia. He was untiring in his energy, and availed himself of the +advantages of the Methodist Itinerancy to study and improve his +education, which he did in all the English branches. + +Mr. Brownlow is about six feet high, and weighs about 175 pounds; has +had as fine a constitution as any man ever had. He has no gray hairs in +his head, and will pass for a man of thirty-five years. He has had the +strongest voice of any man in East Tennessee, where he has resided for +the last thirty years, and raised an interesting family. He has been +speaking all that time, taking a part in all the controversies of the +day. + +He is the author of several books; but the one which has had the largest +run is one of over four hundred pages, being a vindication of the +Methodist Church against the attacks of Rev. J. R. Graves, in Nashville. +Brownlow's work was published by the Southern Methodist Publishing +House, and something like 100,000 copies have been circulated in the +South and West. It is a work of great severity, but of marked ability. + +In 1858 he was engaged in a debate upon the slavery question in +Philadelphia, with the Rev. Mr. Prym, of New York, in which he defended +the institution of slavery with marked ability, exhibiting a familiar +acquaintance with the vexed question in all its bearings. The debate, a +volume of some four hundred pages, is for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. + +He is known throughout the length and breadth of this land as the +"Fighting Parson;" but no man is more peaceable, or more highly esteemed +by his neighbors. Few men are more charitable, and few, of his +means--for he is not rich--give away as much in the course of a year. + +He is quite a politician, though he has never been an office-seeker or +an office-holder. He commenced his political career in Tennessee in +1828, by espousing the cause of John Quincy Adams as against Andrew +Jackson. He has been all his life an ardent Whig, and Clay and Webster +were his standards of political orthodoxy. His paper, the Knoxville +_Whig_, which he has edited for twenty-two years, had the largest +circulation of any political paper in Tennessee, and exerted a +controlling influence in the politics of the State. + + + + +THE LAST EDITORIAL OF THE KNOXVILLE WHIG. + + +When Secession first raised its hydra-head our hero stood up manfully +for the Union and the Constitution, and amid an almost overwhelming +torrent of abuse heaped upon him by the Press throughout the State. +Darker and darker grew the storm around him; fiercer and fiercer the +denunciations hurled at him by the enemies of the Union; yet, with an +iron will, and sustained by an inward consciousness that he was doing +his duty, he continued to battle nobly for the cause of his country, and +in each and every number of his paper poured down on the rebel crew his +scathing sarcasm and scorching repartee. + +At last the Confederate authorities determined on his arrest and +punishment. In October, 1861, he was indicted by the Grand Jury, and his +paper suppressed. We here give his farewell address, which will be read +with mournful interest and high admiration. His words are those of a +spirit not seeking martyrdom, but ready to confront it in all its +terrors in the cause of truth and patriotism. + +Prentice, of the Louisville _Journal_, in publishing this last +editorial, made the following very truthful comment: "He may be +consigned by trembling tyrants to a dungeon, but there will be more of +God's sunshine in his soul than can ever visit the eye-balls of his own +and his country's enemies. If a million prayers can avail, the naked +stones of his cell will be a softer and sweeter bed than his traitor +foes will enjoy:" + + +[From the Knoxville Whig, October 26.] + +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. I would have awaited the indictment and arrest before +announcing the remarkable event to the world, but, as I only publish a +weekly paper, my hurried removal to Nashville would deprive me of the +privilege of saying to my subscribers what is alike due to myself and +them. I have the fact of my indictment and consequent arrest, having +been agreed upon for this week, from distinguished citizens, +legislators, and lawyers at Nashville of both parties. Gentlemen of high +positions and members of the Secession party say that the indictment +will be made because of "some treasonable articles in late numbers of +the _Whig_." I have reproduced those two "treasonable articles" on the +first page of this issue, that the unbiased people of the country may +"read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" the treason. They relate to the +culpable remissness of these Knoxville leaders in failing to volunteer +in the cause of the Confederacy. + +According to the usages of the Court, as heretofore established, I +presume I could go free by taking the oath these authorities are +administering to other Union men, but my settled purpose is not to do +any such thing. I can doubtless be allowed my personal liberty by +entering into bonds to keep the peace, and to demean myself towards the +leaders of secession in Knoxville, who have been seeking to have me +assassinated all Summer and Fall, as they desire me to do, for this is +really the import of the thing, and one of the leading objects sought to +be attained. Although I could give a bond for my good behavior, for one +hundred thousand dollars, signed by fifty as good men as the country +affords, I shall obstinately refuse to do even that; and, if such a bond +is drawn up and signed by others, I will render it null and void by +refusing to sign it. 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 concession to any +power on earth! + +I have committed no offence--I have not shouldered arms against the +Confederate Government, or the State, or encouraged others to do so--I +have discouraged rebellion publicly and privately--I have not assumed a +hostile attitude toward the civil or military authorities of this new +Government. But 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 +knew; 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 in upon me forever. + +The real object of my arrest, and contemplated imprisonment, is, to dry +up, break down, silence, and destroy the last and only Union paper left +in the eleven seceded States, and thereby to keep from the people of +East Tennessee the facts which are daily transpiring in the country. +After the Hon. Jeff. Davis had stated in Richmond, in a conversation +relative to my paper, that he would not live in a Government that did +not tolerate the freedom of the press; after the judges, attorneys, +jurors, and all others filling positions of honor and trust under the +"Permanent Constitution," which guarantees freedom of the press; and +after the entire press of the South had come down in their thunder tones +upon the Federal Government for suppressing the Louisville _Courier_, +and the New York _Day-Book_, and other secession journals, I did expect +the utmost liberty to be allowed to one small sheet, whose errors could +be combatted by the entire Southern press! It is not enough that my +paper has been denied a circulation through the ordinary channels of +conveyance in the country, but it must be discontinued altogether, or +its Editor must write and select only such articles as meet the approval +of a pack of scoundrels in Knoxville, when their superiors in all +qualities that adorn human nature are in the penitentiary of our State. +And this is the boasted liberty of the press in the Southern +Confederacy! + +I shall in no degree feel humbled by being cast into prison, whenever it +is the will and pleasure of the august Government to put me there; but, +on the contrary, I shall feel proud of my confinement. I shall go to +jail as John Rogers went to the stake--for my _principles_. I shall go, +because I have failed to recognize the hand of God in the work of +breaking up the American Government, and the inauguration of the most +wicked, cruel, unnatural and uncalled for war, ever recorded in history. +I go, because I have refused to laud to the skies the acts of tyranny, +usurpation, and oppression, inflicted upon the people of East Tennessee, +because of their devotion to the Constitution and laws of the +Government, handed down to them by their fathers, and the liberties +secured to them by a war of seven long years of gloom, poverty and +trial! I repeat, I am proud of my position, and of my principles, and +shall leave them to my children as a legacy, far more valuable than a +princely fortune, had I the latter to bestow! + +With me, life has lost some of its energy--having passed six annual +posts on the Western slope of half a century--something of the fire of +youth is exhausted--but I stand forth with the eloquence and energy of +right to sustain and stimulate me in the maintenance of my principles. I +am encouraged to firmness, when I look back to the fate of Him "whose +power was righteousness," while the infuriated mob cried "crucify him, +crucify him!" + +I owe to my numerous list of subscribers the filling out of their +respective terms for which they have made advance payments, and if +circumstances ever place it in my power to discharge these obligations, +I will do it most certainly. But if I am denied the liberty of doing so, +they must regard their small losses as so many contributions to the +cause in which I have fallen! I feel that I can, with confidence, rely +upon the magnanimity and forbearance of my patrons, under this state of +things. They will bear me witness that I have held out as long as I am +allowed to, and that I have yielded to a military despotism that I +could not avert the horrors of, or successfully oppose. + +I will only say, in conclusion--for I am not allowed the privilege to +write--that the people of this country are unaccustomed to such wrongs; +they can yet scarcely realize them. They are astounded, for the time +being, with the quick succession of outrages that have come upon them, +and they stand horror-stricken, like men expecting ruin and +annihilation. I may not live to see the day, but thousands of my readers +will, when the people of this once prosperous country will see that they +are marching, by "double-quick time," from freedom to bondage. They will +then look these wanton outrages upon right and liberty full in the face, +and my prediction is they will "stir the stones of Rome to rise and +mutiny." Wrongs less wanton and outrageous precipitated the French +Revolution. Citizens cast into dungeons without charges of crime against +them, and without the formalities of a trial by a jury, private property +confiscated at the beck of those in power, the press humbled, muzzled, +and suppressed, or prostituted to serve the ends of tyranny! The crimes +of Louis XVI fell short of all this, and yet he lost his head! The +people of this country, down-trodden and oppressed, still have the +resolution of their illustrious forefathers, who asserted their rights +at Lexington and Bunker Hill! + +Exchanging, with proud satisfaction, the editorial chair and the sweet +endearments of home for a cell in the prison, or the lot of an exile, I +have the honor to be, &c., + + WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW, + Editor of the Knoxville _Whig_. + + OCTOBER 24, 1861. + + + + +BROWNLOW IN NASHVILLE. + + +Soon after the Parson was compelled by his enemies to suspend the +publication of the _Whig_, he was prevailed upon by his friends, who +more than himself feared for his personal safety, to act upon an +intimation of the readiness of the rebel authorities to grant him a safe +conduct to the North, and, as stated below, communicated with the +Secretary of War at Richmond, Va. The result was that in November last +an order was sent to the military commander at Knoxville to take him to +the nearest Federal lines. After completing his preparation to go North, +notwithstanding his agreement with Secretary Benjamin, he was arrested +and thrown into prison a second time. + +The imprisonment soon told severely upon the health of the Parson, and +after a month he was stricken down with typhoid fever. Permission being +granted by the rebel prosecuting attorney, he was removed to his private +residence. Here he was laid up for nearly eight weeks. Notwithstanding +his prostration by sickness, the rebel surveillance over him did not +stop. His house was surrounded day and night by guards. His friends were +never allowed to visit him, and the members of his family were not +permitted to leave the premises except under guard. Nor was this all. +Open insults and threats were offered by the rebel soldiery whenever +opportunity afforded. At one time a company of cavalry that had been in +the battle of Fishing Creek, and never stopped running until they got +to Knoxville, and passing the house when the Parson's wife was looking +out of the window, one of the troopers rode up to her, and insultingly +asked, "Are you not ashamed to be the wife of that damned traitor and +Lincolnite?" Whereupon the ready-witted woman at once replied: "I am +glad that I am not the wife of a miserable coward that ran away from a +battle-field." + +Feeling strong enough to travel, the Parson again wrote to Benjamin, +complaining of the bad faith with which he had been treated, and +reminding the Secretary of War of the promise of a safe conduct to the +Federal lines. A week elapsed, when the post commander at Knoxville +received a dispatch directing the Parson to be released from +confinement, and to be taken to the nearest Federal outposts over the +route most convenient to him, and under an escort of his own choice. In +pursuance to this order the Parson left Knoxville accompanied by his +doctor, and escorted by Lieutenant O'Brien, an officer in the army, and +relative of his wife. The party proceeded by rail, _via_ Chattanooga, to +Shelbyville, in Bedford county, in the Southern part of this State. Here +they were detained ten days by Morgan's Cavalry, who were engaged in +removing a large quantity of bacon and beef stored in the town, and had +orders from General Hardee not to allow any one to pass their lines +until the whole of the meat had been got away. At last the party were +permitted to proceed overland, under a flag of truce, to the pickets of +General Wood's division. General Wood at once sent them, under escort, +to the city. Parson Brownlow proceeded immediately to the headquarters +of General Buell, with whom he had a long interview; afterward repaired +to the St. Cloud Hotel, in Nashville, and in the front of the same, on +the evening of March 17th, he made the following remarks: + + +SPEECH. + +GENTLEMEN:--I am in a sad plight to say much of interest--too thoroughly +incapacitated to do justice to you or myself. My throat has been +disordered for the past three years, and I have been compelled to almost +abandon public speaking. Last December I was thrust into an +uncomfortable and disagreeable jail--for what? _Treason?_ Treason to the +bogus Confederacy; and the proofs of that treason were articles which +appeared in the Knoxville _Whig_ in May last, when the State of +Tennessee was a member of the imperishable Union. At the expiration of +four weeks, I became a victim to the typhoid fever, and was removed to a +room in a decent dwelling, and a guard of seven men kept me company. I +subsequently became so weak that I could not turn over in bed, and the +guard was increased to twelve men, for fear I should suddenly recover +and run away to Kentucky. Becoming convalescent, in a measure, I was +removed to my former place of confinement. One day I was visited by some +Confederate officers, who remarked, "Brownlow, you should not be here. +Take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, which will +not only entitle you to a speedy release, but insure your protection." +"Sir!" said I, "before I would take the oath to support such a +hell-forsaken institution, I would suffer myself to rot or die with old +age." + +Why, my friends, these demagogues actually boast that the Lord is upon +their side, and declare that God Almighty is assisting them in the +furtherance of their nefarious project. In Knoxville and surrounding +localities, a short time since, daily prayer meetings were held, wherein +the Almighty was beseeched to raise Lincoln's blockade, and to hurl +destruction against the Burnside expedition. Their prayers were partly +answered--the blockade at Roanoke Island was most effectually raised; a +reciprocal of their sacrilege divinely tendered. + +Gentlemen, I am no Abolitionist; I applaud no sectional doctrines; I am +a Southern man; and all my relatives and interests are thoroughly +identified with the South and Southern institutions. I was born in the +Old Dominion, my parents were born in Virginia, and they and their +antecedents were all slaveholders. Let me assure you that the South has +suffered no infringement upon her institutions; the slavery question was +actually _no_ pretext for this unholy, unrighteous conflict. Twelve +Senators from the Cotton States, who had sworn to preserve inviolate the +Constitution framed by our forefathers, plotted treason at night--a fit +time for such a crime--and telegraphed to their States despatches +advising them to pass ordinances of secession. Yes, gentlemen, twelve +Senators swore allegiance in the day time, and unswore it at night. + +A short time since I was called upon by a little Jew, who, I believe, is +the Secretary of War of the bogus Confederacy. He threatened to hang me, +and I expected no more mercy from him than was shown by his illustrious +predecessors toward Jesus Christ. I entered into a long correspondence +with this specimen of expiring humanity, but from mercy or +forgetfulness, on their part, I was permitted to depart with all my +documents in my little valise, which I hope to publish at no distant +day. + +Gentlemen, when I started on my perilous journey, I was sore distressed +in mind, and exceedingly so in body. But the moment my eyes encountered +the pickets of the Federal army my depression decreased, and returning +health seemed suddenly to invigorate my physical constitution. + +Gentlemen, Secession is played out--the dog is dead--the child is born, +and his name is Jeff. Davis, jr. + +My throat distresses me to such an extent that I must decline further +remarks this evening, but shall make myself heard upon the next +convenient occasion, which will probably be ere the termination of the +present week. + + + + +BROWNLOW IN CINCINNATI. + + +Remaining here a few days to recuperate his almost worn-out energies, +and receiving many invitations from different cities to lay before the +sympathizing public the story of his wrongs, he determined to make a +tour through several Northern States. Accordingly on the fourth day of +April he was welcomed to the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a manner which +was worthy of his unswerving patriotism and illustrious fidelity. It was +very much doubted whether the Opera House, since it was first opened to +the public, ever contained a larger or more refined assemblage than on +that evening. + +Before the doors were opened, the crowd had commenced to gather on +Fourth street, and before half-past seven o'clock, not a vacant seat was +to be found in the house, and the aisles and every available spot +occupied. Many were unable to obtain even standing room, and left the +house. The turnout, considering that the admission fee was fifty cents, +must have been very gratifying to the Parson. + +The stage was decorated with a number of American flags, and across the +front part of it were two rows of chairs, on which were seated the Vice +Presidents. Immediately in the rear was a raised platform, on which were +seated three hundred and seventy-two boys and girls from the district, +intermediate and high schools of the city, who, under the direction of +Mr. L. W. Mason, sang the following: + + SONG OF WELCOME. + + All hail! all hail! the here unflinching! + The pure patriot we sing, unwavering and bold, + Who foul treason denounced, and with deeds was still clinching + His strong speech, when vile traitors in numbers untold + Howled hatred demoniac, and madly were clamoring, + His life should be forfeit! triumphantly sing, + And utter the welcome with the tongue's feeble stammering, + The welcome, the warm welcome, our hearts to him bring! + Safe! safe in our midst, we shall hear the man's voice, + That had cowed all his foes, and made us rejoice; + Then hail him again, and forever and aye! + His country he loves, and for it he would die! + + Rejoice! rejoice! for freedom is marching + With her power resistless, to punish and crush; + And the Iris of Union will soon be o'erarching + Again our loved country, when its brave children rush + To rescue its life from the demons now seeking + To blot out its name from the nations of earth. + But rather than this, let their black blood be reeking, + Unpitied by earth, so disgraced by their birth. + Thus speaks he, the hero! Then sing with one voice: + We love and revere him, in his presence rejoice! + Then hail him again, and forever and aye! + His country he loves, and for it he would die! + +Shortly after eight o'clock Parson Brownlow came upon the stage, leaning +upon the arm of Joseph C. Butler, Esq., the President of the Chamber of +Commerce. + +Mr. Butler, in introducing Mr. Brownlow, said: + +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--I have been honored with the pleasing duty of +inaugurating the ceremonies of this occasion, in introducing a renowned +and loyal citizen of our sister State of Tennessee. A State forced by +usurpation, fraud and violence into rebellion against a Government that +her sons in bygone times have done so much to maintain and establish, +and now suffers in being the field of conflict in a desolating civil +war. A State recently baptized again into the fold of the Union by the +martyr patriots' blood shed upon her soil, and will be confirmed in that +fold by continued deeds of heroic daring; within whose limits has been +exhibited by her loyal sons as unfaltering devotion and love of country +as has ever been displayed in the history of any people. Surrounded by +the armed band of desperate and cruel military despots, given up to the +mercy of ignorant and vicious mobs, cut off from all communication with +and support from a Government they were sacrificing themselves to +maintain, these patriots of Tennessee were driven from their homes, +suffered in jails, and sealed, when called on, with their lives on the +scaffold their devotion to the Union and Constitution established by +their fathers. Through a long and weary summer, through the dreary fall +and winter, with hearts sickened by many disappointed hopes, they +suffered and faithfully endured. And now that the armies of the Union +have entered their State, and the flag of freedom once more floats over +its capital, may we not hope that the hour of their deliverance is at +hand. God grant it may be speedy. + +One of this noble band of patriots is with us to-night. He will recount +to you some of the scenes he has witnessed, and give you in brief the +history of the rebellion in his once prosperous and noble State. He has +sacrificed on the altar of his country all that man holds most dear, +jeopardizing not only his own life, but the lives of his family and +kindred in vindicating the sacred cause of his country. If we honor the +bravery displayed on the battle-field, how much more should we honor +him, who almost alone, sick and in prison, tempted by seducing offers of +power and place, and with an ignominious death daily threatened, +maintains for weeks and months with unfaltering trust, his faith and +virtue. The instinctive homage of the human heart to genuine courage we +pay to an endurance like this. The historian who will record for the +perusal of our children the list of heroes that this wicked rebellion +has brought forth, will name none whose matchless courage is surpassed, +or the bold outline of whose character for outspoken patriotism, so +overshadows all cavil and criticism, as the hero of the pulpit and the +press. I have now the honor of introducing Mr. W. G. Brownlow, of +Knoxville, Tennessee. + + +SPEECH. + +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--I appear before you in accordance with the +arrangement of a committee--a large committee--of intelligent and +influential citizens of your own town. I am not before you for the +purpose of making an effort as an orator, or a speaker, with any view or +wish to fascinate or to charm my audience with the style or the language +I employ in the brief address I am about to deliver. + +I am before you for the purpose of relating facts and localities, and +giving you names in regard to the rebellion in the South, and the +persecutions of my fellow countrymen, and their sufferings even unto +death. I have met, since I came to this city, with not a few intelligent +and high-toned gentlemen--men of years and of knowledge--who have +inquired of me seriously: "Is it a fact that they hanged men, shot down +men, in your country, for their sentiments?" You cannot, it seems to me, +realize the state of things that has existed beyond the mountains. + +In what I shall say to you, without effort at all at display, I shall +deal in nothing but facts. I will state nothing that I do not personally +know to be true--nothing that I cannot sustain, if a controversy is +raised in reference thereto. + +I have seen the day when I was a young man, ladies (I speak of my age +with a great deal of freedom, for I have a wife who is likely never to +die)--[laughter]--I have seen the day when I could be heard by an +audience of any size--when I have been able for four or five dreadful +hours on a stretch to speak in the open air. Those days with me have +gone by, and are numbered with the days and years beyond the flood. For +some three years back I have labored under a disease of the throat--a +bronchial affection--a severe affliction it was. Until the last twelve +months I could but whisper. In the providence of God, and through his +agency, I am better now. In repeated denunciation of secession my voice +has been gaining all the time [applause,] and I shall not be astonished +if in six months "Richard is himself again." [Applause.] + +You will bear with me, I know, for I shall not detain you long. I shall +by no means be tedious, but you will bear with me, I am certain, if I +make a few remarks, by way of "preliminary," personal to myself. The +circumstances surrounding me, the connection that my name has had for +the last twelve months with the rebellion and with this subject, will +justify me in so doing, without the dread of incurring the charge of +egotism. + +I am a native of the Old Dominion--born, raised and educated in the +State of Virginia. I have the pleasure of announcing to you this evening +that you have before you the first man who ever made the acknowledgment +in public, that he was the descendant of one of the second families of +Virginia. [Laughter.] + +My parents before me, on both sides, were Virginians. On both sides of +the house they were slaveholders, as most of the citizens of the Old +Dominion are and have been. Although I am branded at home, since the +inauguration of rebellion, with being myself an anti-slavery man, and a +tory and the descendant of tories, I take great pleasure and pride in +announcing to you that my father was a volunteer in the war of 1812, +under Old Hickory. My uncle William, after whom I was named, lived and +died a naval officer, and his remains sleep in the Navy Yard at Norfolk, +Virginia. My uncle Alexander was also a naval officer, and his remains +rest in the Navy Yard at New Orleans. My uncle John was also a navy +officer. He died at sea and was thrown overboard, and became food for +the fishes thereof. My uncle John was the third man who scaled the walls +at the battle of the Horseshoe. [Applause.] On my mother's side--the +Galloways--not a few lost their lives at Norfolk, from yellow fever, +camp diseases and fatigue. They did not fight for a section of the +country--not for the yellow fever swamps of the South--but for every +State, and every particle of this glorious Union of ours. [Applause.] + +I may as well make a remark or two on the subject of politics. I am not +here for the purpose of reviving any old party prejudice--not at +all--nor yet with a view to drop a solitary remark that shall offend +even the most fastidious political partisan who may be under the sound +of my voice. In Tennessee, thank God, we have merged all political +party questions into the one great question of the Union and its +preservation. [Applause.] + +In all time to come--though I have been a Whig of the strictest +sort--though I have lived up to the creed and fought Democracy in all +its ramifications, and in all its windings--I would, in the language of +Milton, see a man where cold performs the effect of fire--or, in the +still more nervous language of Pollock, I would see a man where +gravitation, shifting, turns the other way--even hell-ward--before I +would vote for any man who was not an unconditional, straight-out Union +man. [Great applause.] + +I have fought Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, systematically, +perseveringly and untiringly, for the last twenty-five years of my +somewhat eventful life. He has scored me on every stump in the State of +Tennessee, and I have paid him back to the best of my ability. But +honors with us are easy. [Laughter.] We take each other by the hand now, +as brethren. [Applause.] Now I will fight for him, and under +him--engaged as we are in the same cause, against the same vile foe to +God and man, and especially to our country. [Applause.] + +I have always been a Union man. I commenced my political career in +Tennessee in 1828. I remark again, ladies, that although I may have the +appearance of being--I confess the fact with more candor from the +consideration that I never expect to be--a widower [laughter], I +commenced my political career in Tennessee in 1828. I was one of the +corporal's guard who, in that State, got up the electoral ticket for +John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. I name this fact simply to +show you that I was not a sectional man in '28; that I did not go for a +man because he was born and lived south of Mason and Dixon's line, nor +against him because he resided north of Mason and Dixon's line. Having +mentioned the name of Old Hickory, I take pleasure in saying that, while +I opposed him in his political aspirations, Jackson was always a patriot +and a true lover of his country. If my prayers and tears could have +brought him from his grave, during the last twelve months of the +iniquitous reign of James Buchanan, I would have brought him out, that +he might have destroyed secession as he did nullification--that might +have sunk South Carolina in some sort of Lake not unlike the Dead +Sea--where she will ultimately go. [Applause.] + +In the next contest I was a supporter of Henry Clay. In the next contest +I was a supporter of Ulasu White. In the next I supported William Henry +Harrison, and I sung louder, jumped higher, and fell flatter and harder +than anybody else in the whole State of Tennessee. I wrote upon log +cabins, and waved coon-skins and water-gourds high and low. [Laughter.] +In succeeding contests, gentlemen and ladies, I supported Taylor, +Fillmore and Donelson. The last contest I was engaged in, was in the +support of the Bell and Everett ticket. The tail of that ticket is now +doing well enough in the State of Massachusetts. It stands erect, and +carries itself majestically. But the latter end of the ticket will yet +do to tie to, but as to the frontispiece--"pity the sorrows of a poor +old man." [Laughter.] + +One word before I progress further--upon the subject of slavery. What I +have to say on that subject--all I have to say at home or abroad, I will +say to you now, for, ladies and gentlemen, I have no sentiments in the +South that I do not entertain when I am in the North. I have none in +Cincinnati that I do not entertain when I am at home in Knoxville. +[Applause.] The South, as I told them months ago, when I was surrounded +by three thousand Confederate troops--the South is more to blame for the +state of things that now exist than the North is. But yet, I have to +say, just in this connection, that if, about two years ago, I had been +authorized to collect--if I had been let hunt them up, for I know the +men I would have wanted--if I had been allowed to hunt up about one or +two hundred anti-slavery agitators and fanatics at the North, scattered +here and there, and about an equal number of our God-forsaken, +hell-deserving, corrupt secessionists and disunionists, I should have +marched the whole army of them into the District of Columbia, and dug a +common ditch, erected a common gallows, after embalming their bodies +with gipsy weed and dog-fennel. Had this been done, I should not have +been here to-night--we would have had none of the troubles which afflict +the country now. + +One word more upon the subject of slavery. If the issue shall be made by +the South--if they are mad enough, if they are fools enough to make the +issue of Slavery and no Union, or Union and no Slavery--I am for the +Union. [Applause.] I have told them so at home upon the stump in my own +town. I will stand by the Union until you make the issue between the +Federal Union and the Christian religion; then I will back out from the +Union--but for no other institution. [Applause.] + +The speaker here commenced the narrative of the doings of treason in +East Tennessee. About twelve months ago, he said, a stream of secession +fire, as hot as hell, commenced pouring out of the Southern States in +the direction of Leesburg, Richmond and Manassas, by way of Knoxville, +Tennessee. Then it was that the rebel soldiery of the South, made drunk +upon mean whisky, halted over night--day in and day out--in the town of +Knoxville, and commenced their depredations, visiting the houses of +Union men and stoning the inmates, blackguarding all whom they saw in +them, male and female. His (Mr. Brownlow's) house, in Cumberland street, +was more frequently visited by them than any other building in the town. +At the same time he was reading, in the Mobile and South Carolina +papers, that the best blood of the South had volunteered in the cause of +"Southern rights." He said to his wife, "If this is the flower of the +South, God deliver us from the Southern rabble." + +The rebel soldiers became more and more insulting and overbearing. +Finally, in the month of May, they commenced to shoot down Union men in +the streets. The first man they singled out was Charles S. Douglas, a +gentleman who had been conspicuous at the election as a Union man. They +deliberately shot him down from the window of his house, in the day +time. Mr. Brownlow was in the street at the time they made propositions +to shoot down other Union men. Thinking prudence the better part of +discretion, they retired from the crowd, many of them slipping into +their houses quietly. But the work of murder and slaughter went on. +Finally, many of the loyal men had to flee to the mountains--to the +mountains of Hepsidam, if you please, said the speaker. + +They remained away for several days, sleeping in the open air, and +subsisting on bread and meat brought from their homes, with a quantity +of game which they shot. + +The rebel troops took possession of Mr. Brownlow's printing +office--destroyed his press and type, and converted the building into a +blacksmith shop for altering old flintlock muskets which Floyd had +stolen from the Government. They were contemplating the destruction of +his dwelling house, and would have accomplished it but for the timely +arrival of General Zollicoffer, who, being a personal friend of the +Dr.'s, set a guard around the premises, and issued an order confining +the Texan troops to their camps for two days. + +Retiring to Knoxville, Mr. Brownlow received a letter from Gen. George +B. Crittenden, stating that he had been ordered by the Confederate +Secretary of War to give him (Brownlow) a passport beyond the +Confederate lines into the State of Kentucky to a Union neighborhood. +Mr. Brownlow was about to accept the General's proffer, when he was +arrested on a charge of treason, for writing and publishing what +appeared in the Knoxville _Whig_ as his farewell letter to his patrons +and subscribers. On the 6th of December he was thrust into the Knoxville +jail. He found in the jail one hundred and fifty Union men--the building +crowded to overflowing. Every man confined on a charge of treason was a +personal friend of Mr. Brownlow's. They ran around him in astonishment, +and asked him what he was thrown into prison for. Some of them shed +tears, others smiled when they saw him enter the iron gates. He told +them he was under arrest for treason on a warrant just issued. He had +been in jail ten or twelve days when a Confederate Brigadier General, +whom he had known as an old Union man, paid him a visit. Upon entering +the jail with two of his Aides he shook hands with him. The prisoners +all crowded round to see the "sight." After a while the Brigadier said +it was too bad to see Brownlow in such a place, and tried to impress +upon the patriot's mind the propriety of his taking the oath of +allegiance to the Confederacy, upon which condition he should be +released immediately. Brownlow was in a good humor until that +proposition was made. That stirred up the bile of his stomach. "Sir," +said he to the officer, looking him full in the eye, "I will be here +till I die with old age, or till I rot in prison, before I will take the +oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy. You have no Government. +I deny that you are authorized to administer such an oath. You have +organized a big Southern mob--not a Government. You have never been +recognized by any civilized Government on the face of God Almighty's +earth, and you never will be. And yet you are here asking me to take the +oath of allegiance to the vilest mob that was ever organized South of +Mason and Dixon's line. Not wishing to be profane, nor desiring to be +regarded by you in that light, permit me to conclude my remarks by +saying that I will see your Southern Confederacy in the infernal +regions, and you high on top of it before I will take the oath." The +officer remarked that that was d--d plain talk. Mr. Brownlow replied +that it was the right way to make men understand each other. The General +turned upon his heel, tipped his duck-bill cap and walked off. +[Applause.] + +When the speaker entered the jail he found among the inmates three +Baptist preachers. One of them, a Mr. Pope, 77 years of age, was charged +with having prayed to the Lord to bless the President of the United +States, to bless the General Government, and put an end to this unholy +war. Another old man--a minister--70 years of age, was thrust into jail +for having thrown up his hat and hurrahed for the stars and stripes when +a company of Union Home Guards marched by his house with the stars and +stripes flying over them. The third, a young man, was confined for +having volunteered as chaplain in a Union regiment. + +The sufferings of the inmates of the jail the speaker described as +horrible. The food they were supplied with was rank and unwholesome. He, +himself, got permission to receive meals from his family, otherwise he +should not have been able to live through his long confinement. + +Toward the conclusion of his address, Mr. Brownlow related several +instances in which prisoners had been taken from the jail and hung by +the troops after a few hours warning. Once they hung a father and son, +whose sole offence was their loyalty to the Government, on the same +gallows. They compelled the father to witness the agonies of the son +before permitting death to come to his relief. The most affecting case +mentioned was that of an old man, who, after a lengthy incarceration, +was sentenced at ten o'clock one morning to be hung at four that +afternoon. His name was William Henry Harrison Self. His daughter, a +highly intelligent and well educated lady, hearing this awful news +during the day, hastened to the jail, and, with great difficulty, +obtained permission to visit the condemned man. The meeting of father +and daughter was a scene which drew tears from the eyes of a hundred and +fifty men long used to hardship and suffering themselves. They embraced +and kissed each other, neither of them able to utter a word for some +time. At about one o'clock the young lady approached Dr. Brownlow, and +asked him to write, in her name, a despatch to Jeff. Davis, at +Richmond, asking him to grant a pardon to her father. The Dr. did this, +stating in the despatch, as follows: + + "_Honorable Jefferson Davis_: + + "My father, W. H. H. Self, is under sentence to hang to-day at four + o'clock. My mother is dead; my father is my only hope and stay. I + pray you pardon him. Let me hear from you by telegraph. + + "ELIZABETH SELF." + +The young lady carried this despatch to the telegraph office, a distance +of two miles, in greatest haste, and had it sent to Richmond +immediately. Shortly before three o'clock she received an answer from +"President" Davis commuting the old man's sentence to imprisonment, for +such length of time as the Commanding General should see proper. The joy +of his daughter was, of course, boundless. When Mr. Brownlow left +Knoxville, on the 3d of March, Self was still in jail. He has been +released before this time, Southern "justice" being satisfied in the +premises. + + +REMARKS OF GENERAL S. F. CAREY. + +General S. F. Carey was next introduced. He referred to the deliverance +of Dr. Brownlow as a release from dangers greater than those that +surrounded Daniel in the lion's den, and from beasts far worse than +beset the prophet. His deliverance was not to be credited to their +magnanimity, but their fears. + +He did not like to find fault with the Government, but it did seem to +him that it was time it should bestir itself, and prosecute the war +with greater vigor. Nor did he approve the policy pursued towards those +taken in rebellion against the Government, referred with much bitterness +to the tenderness displayed in the cases of Magoffin, Buckner, and the +rebel prisoners at Columbus. He didn't think the penitentiary the place +for them, and would not have the convicts contaminated by them. There +was no inmate of the penitentiary, though he had been guilty of +murdering his father, mother, or brother, whose crime was not innocence +itself compared with that of these rebel prisoners, who sport their +uniforms in the streets of Columbus, insulting the fathers and brothers +of those men who had fallen in defence of the Union, and sitting in +privileged seats in the legislative chambers of the State. + +The audience had heard the narrative of the sufferings of loyal women in +the South, and yet we have women in the State of Ohio who go to +Columbus, with the avowed purpose of making the rebel officers +comfortable,--conduct that in his opinion, and notwithstanding their +sex, deserved the halter. He had no sympathy with the rebellion or with +rebels, and was for cleaning them out root and branch. + +In speaking on this subject, he felt the utter feebleness of human +language. After it was exhausted, the great crime of rebellion looms up +in all its terrible proportions. God speed the day when we shall be +delivered! And yet he had no hope for the country till all the remnants +of miserable partyism are swept away; he had no hope for it, while +politicians were busy at the Capital intriguing and scheming for the +preservation of some old broken down faction called a party. We need +patriotism, not party. + +Referring to the remarks of Mr. Brownlow, respecting the treatment that +should be meted out to disunionists North and South, Mr. Carey said that +while he respected the right of free speech, he was for hanging any man +who favored disunion and dared to say so. Every man has his rights, the +convict on the gallows, the thief in the penitentiary, but when a man +abuses his rights, the right of free speech, to express himself in favor +of disunion, be he Wendell Phillips, or any other man, cut him down. + +The masses of the people in the North are in favor of a restoration of +the Union as it existed before the war. But if the war continues, and +the people of the rebellious States are given over to hardness of heart, +if they shoot our pickets, if it proves necessary to send a few more +thousand men from the loyal States to put down the rebellion, and people +Southern grave yards, a cry will go up from Maine to the Pacific to +clean out the rebels, niggers and all. + +He believed the whole purpose of the Administration in the prosecution +of the war, was to preserve the Republic and all its institutions as +they existed when it came into power; and nothing is more certain than +that the Union will be preserved, though it cost all our property and +half the lives in the Republic. + +He appealed to mothers to exert their influence in kindling a spirit of +exalted patriotism, and to teach their sons not to be Democrats or +Republicans, but to be patriots; and appealed to the ladies of the city +to visit the hospitals, comfort the sick, point the dying to the land +where there is no secession and no rebels, and give of their time, +sympathy, and means to soothe the sufferings and lighten the afflictions +of those who had volunteered in defence of the Union. + +Gen. Carey, of whose vigorous speech we give but a brief outline, +retired amid prolonged cheers. The "Star Spangled Banner" was sung, and +Lieutenant-Governor Fisk, of Kentucky, introduced by the Chairman. + + +REMARKS OF MR. FISK. + +Mr. Fisk said he believed we were, all of us, filled with a righteous +determination to give the present Administration all the aid in our +power to put down the rebellion. He remembered when deputations of the +Legislatures of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio had met in that +place, and that on that occasion no sentiment met a more hearty response +than that of Andrew Jackson: "The Union must be preserved." What we want +is the Union and the Constitution as they were; and while our armies are +in the field fighting for their preservation, let us be careful that no +mischief-makers at home pervert the object of the war to the utter +subversion of one or the other. + +He didn't believe in this talk about the subjugation of the South. On +his side of the river that was the argument of the secessionists, and +was considered evidence of sympathy with the rebellion. He did not know +what it was called on this side of the Ohio, but he did know that every +such menace was eagerly caught up and magnified by those confederated +with the rebels. The Government was doing nothing of that kind. It was +fighting for self-preservation and a restoration of its authority, and +it was its duty to send out all the troops necessary to put down the +rebellion. We must fight for the preservation of the Constitution and +Union, and we must preserve them or we cease to exist as a nation. If +the rebellion succeeds the Government is at an end, and our history as +a nation terminates. We must fight to preserve them not only for +ourselves, but the rising generation and those who shall come after +them. + +He asserted that all the bloodshed, and all the suffering and misery +entailed by this war, history would charge directly to the account of +the wicked men who had inaugurated it, and not to the loyal people of +this country. It was our duty to go on with this war, and to prosecute +it, not in a malignant and revengeful spirit, but with the simple and +patriotic purpose of putting down the rebellion and restoring the +supremacy of the Government over every inch of its rightful territory. + +At the conclusion of Mr. Fisk's remarks, the little sons of the members +of the Ninth Ohio Regiment were conducted to the stage, and introduced +to the audience. The lads sang a song in German; and when they had +retired, the whole audience joined in three cheers for the Ninth Ohio, +which were given with a will, the vast assembly rising to their feet. + +The resolutions were unanimously adopted; after which, the proceedings +were brought to a conclusion, and the audience dispersed. + + +PARSON BROWNLOW AND THE CINCINNATI METHODIST PREACHERS. + +During his stay in Cincinnati, Mr. Brownlow received a pressing +invitation to meet the Methodist ministers of the city, and address +them; in accordance with which he was introduced to a meeting, held in +the editorial rooms of the _Western Christian Advocate_, by Rev. J. T. +Mitchell. Rev. Dr. Kingsley then welcomed the illustrious visitor in the +following + + +ADDRESS. + +FELLOW CITIZEN, FRIEND AND BROTHER:--In behalf of the Methodist +Clergymen of this vicinity, I welcome you to our city, our homes, our +hearts. Our desires and prayers were never more sincere for anything, +than for your preservation and deliverance, when we learned that you had +been thrust into a cold, damp prison, for no other crime than loving +your country, and hating treason. Thank God, the prayers of millions of +loyal hearts have been heard in your behalf. + +Paul, and Silas, and Peter, Apostles of the Gospel, were liberated from +prison in answer to prayer. The God in whom they trusted has also heard +the prayer in behalf of an Apostle of Liberty and Union. + +Your patriotic utterances in your noble paper were eagerly received by +the friends of the Constitution, and, multiplied a thousand fold, those +utterances sped upon the wings of lightning to the most distant parts of +our country. They were inspiring to the loyal people of the United +States. We were thankful to know that there was at least one Parson in +Tennessee who could love God and his country too--his whole country. One +such man can chase a thousand, and two can put ten thousand to flight. +So we conclude that Parson Brownlow and Andy Johnson are good against +ten thousand rebels. With such pains and such pluck, such nerves and +such principles to guide, we trust the State of Tennessee will soon come +right again. + +We are aware that your Union principles have cost you something--cost +you everything but life, and that which, to every true man, is dearer +than life,--honor and rectitude. We bid you a warm welcome on this +account. Situated as we have been, we deserve no praise for being Union +men. To be otherwise would be to serve the devil just for its own sake. +It would be like chopping off our hands just to see the blood run, or +thrusting them into the fire just to feel the pain. But with you the +case has been different. Spurning bribes and offers of aggrandizement, +scorning the threats and terrors of traitors, you have preferred to +suffer privations, afflictions and imprisonment, rather than prove false +to the Government that has protected us all. By thus, in the face of +danger and death, taking your stand so nobly against all odds, all +hazards, all temptations, and machinations of wicked seducers, you have +won the undying admiration of a grateful people. Your deeds have thus +become so interwoven with the most eventful period in the annals of our +country, that your name is henceforth to be a household word, so long as +the American Republic shall live in fact or in history. Yours is the +proud satisfaction of having done right for its own sake, in the face of +powerful temptations to do wrong, and you have your reward. And if a +very unpoetic man may be allowed to amend a couplet familiar to our +school-boy days, I would venture to say: + + "And more true joy the Parson exiled feels + Than Davis, with the traitors at his heels." + +But, thank God, you are no longer exiled or imprisoned. A tide has come +in your affairs to bear you on to fortune. And it will be nothing +strange, and no more than justice, if the same State which has +confiscated your property, and imprisoned your person, should conclude +to honor herself by honoring you, and shall yet say to you, "Well done +good and faithful servant; be thou ruler over ten cities." + +All that is necessary to the Union cause is enough of this same earnest, +unflinching, unchanging determination to face and destroy this monstrous +rebellion, no matter who or what opposes. + +If the Union can not be preserved without _saltpeter_, then let enough +of this article be employed to secure the result. And, if the disordered +livers of political hypochondriacs can not be restored to healthy action +without the use of _blue pills_, then let enough of these be given to +work a cure. + +God has given the American people a goodly heritage--the fairest the +world has ever seen. There is not a nation under all the heaven where +the pulse does not beat quicker, and the hopes rise higher, and the +thoughts grow larger, at the very mention of the American Republic. +Never have the hopes of humanity so centered in any nation. Our country +had come to be regarded as the cradle of liberty, the home of plenty, +and the asylum for the poor and oppressed of other lands. + +Shall these high hopes perish? Shall this light of the Nations go out in +everlasting darkness? Shall a few desperate men--desperate by their lust +of power--desperate by disappointed ambition--desperate by their dark +and damning apostacy from the faith of our fathers--shall these be +allowed to destroy our glorious heritage? + +Shall the son strike with rude hands the mother that bore him? Nay, +more, shall he tear her limb from limb, and give her flesh to dogs? +Shall the fair fruits of the tree of liberty perish, the branches torn +off, and the roots burned with fire? God forbid! Such a calamity to the +present and coming generations of mankind must be prevented, cost what +it will. It must be prevented, though it be necessary to send every +leading traitor after Judas Iscariot; and if they will not, like Judas, +wait on themselves, others must have the politeness to wait on them. + +Again I welcome you to our homes and hearts. Our prayer is that your +health may be restored; that your family may be preserved in your +absence, and that you may be permitted to see a good old age in the +midst of a prosperous, happy and united people. + +And when your earthly pilgrimage shall approach its termination, and you +retrospect the past, may you be able to say, in the language of one who +has gone before you, and who preferred a prison to a guilty conscience, +"I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the +faith." And then, as you look to the future, may your eye of faith, like +his, see for you laid up "a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the +righteous Judge, shall give you in that day." + + +PARSON BROWNLOW REPLIED AS FOLLOWS: + +I thank you, Brother, and through you the Preachers' Association, for +your had expression of sympathy and regard. I claim, as a Union man, to +have done nothing but my duty. I have always been a Union man, and have +edited a Union paper for the last twenty-five years. I was traveling a +circuit in South Carolina in 1832, when I was elected to the General +Conference, and there met with Rev. L. F. Wright and L. Swormsted. I was +also traveling the Anderson District of the Holston conference in the +same State, and living near Calhoun during the nullification troubles +which were so soon throttled by Old Hickory. This thing called Secession +originated in falsehood, theft and perjury. Floyd did the stealing, the +masses of the people did the lying, and fourteen U. S. Senators from the +Cotton States the perjury. While in the Senate, in the day time, they +made a show of keeping their oaths, but at night they held their secret +caucuses, planning Secession, and advising their leaders to seize the +prominent forts of the South, and arms of importance wherever they could +find them. I have no doubt there are better men in hell, or in the +Penitentiaries of this or any other State, than the prominent leaders in +this Secession movement. And I am sorry to say that the worst class of +men now in the Southern Confederacy are the Episcopalian, Methodist, +Baptist and Presbyterian preachers. High functionaries in the +Episcopalian church are now drinking and swearing. Men who have met in +our General Conferences with some of these aged brethren whom I now see +around me, preach as chaplains on Sabbath, but swear and get drunk +through the week. A Presbyterian minister in Knoxville invited all +denominations to hold a union prayer meeting, to pray to the Lord to +sink Burnside's fleet, and raise Lincoln's blockade. And at it they +went, composed of many old clerical rips, who besieged a throne of +grace, raising their hands, heaving and setting like an old Tennessee +ram at a gate-post, that God would send lightning and storm and raise +the blockade. And the Lord did give them a _raise_--at Roanoke Island, +and with that kind of lightning and storm which they did not expect in +answer to prayer. I also heard a Presbyterian minister in Knoxville make +use of the following words on the Lord's day, which he would give to +show the degradation of the pulpit. In the course of his remarks he +stated that Jesus Christ was a Southern man, and all of his Apostles +were Southern men, save Judas, who was from the North. And that he would +rather read a text from a Bible bound in hell than front one printed and +bound North of Mason and Dixon's line. I regard the churches in the +South ruined; and financially they are in a bad fix. I came across Dr. +McFarren about seventy miles from Nashville, trying to run away; but his +horse wouldn't work. He traded the horse for a mule, but the mule +wouldn't work. When I left him he was standing on the street, in company +with his wife and children, looking for another trade. Huston, Sehon and +Baldwin were still in Nashville adhering to Secession. The citizens of +Nashville could but note the contrast, and expressed their opinions in +regard to the superiority of the officers and soldiers of the Federal +army over those of the Confederate. The former were well-dressed and +well-behaved, and did not insult citizens nor ladies upon the streets. +While, on the contrary, the vagabonds of the Confederate army stole +everything upon which they could lay their hands, and drove peaceable +citizens from their homes. While there were some honorable exceptions in +the Confederate army, strange to say it seemed to be mostly composed of +the off-scouring of the land; swearing, lewd fellows, of the most +degraded possible character. I had a hard time among them, and was +satisfied that they intended to execute me. I owe my escape to the fact +that for so long a time I had been an editor, and, to a great extent, +had gained the confidence of the people. The Union sentiment prevails in +East Tennessee five to one. Among them my friends notified the leaders +that, if Brownlow was hurt, twelve of their prominent men would be +sacrificed for his life, and I think they were afraid to hang me. So +they wrote to Davis and Benjamin that they had better release me; that I +had many friends, and that my presence would continue to stir up the +rebellion; and that, if they could send me out of their lines, they +would get rid of me and my influence. Therefore Benjamin thought that, +as I was a very wicked fellow and a great traitor, he would release me +on conditions that I would leave the Southern Confederacy, and, if I +would do so, they would give me a safe passport out of their lines. So I +opened a correspondence with that little, contemptible Jew--_Judas_ +Benjamin, and consented to do for the Southern Confederacy what the +devil had never done--_leave_ the country. They still hold my wife and +children as hostages for my good behavior. I don't think they will hurt +them. I hope not. + +But I told my wife, before I left, to prepare for execution, for, as +certain as I got North, I would not behave myself, according to Jeff. +Davis' understanding. I am now feeble, having been preaching and +discoursing for thirty-five years. I have seen the day when I could have +spoken five hours at a time; but my late imprisonment, in connection +with my typhoid fever, has broken down my constitution. When feeblest, +they doubled the guard, and pretended to think that my sickness was all +a sham, in order that more liberty would be given me, and then I could +escape. I told them that it was unnecessary, for if there was no guard +I could not run away. For I had written to Benjamin, and, if he would +not send me away in the proper manner, I would not go. I had made up my +mind to hang. I had seen my friends taken from the same prison--one or +two at a time--and hung. Sometimes the father and son on the same day. +While this was going on, they would say tauntingly, "Your turn will be +next, for you are the ringleader and cause of all this trouble." I told +them if they would give me the privilege of making a speech, one hour +long, under the gallows, that I might speak to the people and pronounce +a eulogy on the Southern Confederacy, that I would be willing to die. +And I really think I could have swung in peace. It is my intention to go +back to Knoxville and start my paper. I want to go with the army, and +once more raise the flag of the stars and stripes, and then blaze away. +They have been doing all of the hanging on one side, and I wish to +superintend it on the other. My motto is, "Grape for the masses, but +hemp for the leaders." They deserve hanging, for this is the most wicked +rebellion ever known to the world. If you had given them a President and +all the offices, there would have been no rebellion--for the "nigger" is +a mere pretext. + +After thanking the brethren, he was introduced to the Ministers and +friends present, and then took his leave. During the day he visited the +Book Concern, and expressed himself highly pleased with its evident +prosperity. + + + + +BROWNLOW IN INDIANAPOLIS. + + +Mr. Brownlow left Cincinnati for Indianapolis (_via_ Dayton), +accompanied by Messrs. Mayor Maxwell and James Blake, Esq., of the +latter place, and General S. F. Cary and T. Buchanan Reed, of +Cincinnati. The party were greeted with one continued ovation during the +journey. At almost every station the cars were surrounded with eager +crowds, anxious to see and welcome the tried hero and patriot. Upon his +arrival in Indianapolis he became the guest of Governor Morton. + +In the afternoon the party visited the prisoners at Camp Morton, where +Mr. Brownlow made a brief speech, to which some of the rebels gave no +very grateful reception. He was met with jeers, and cries of "Put him +out," "Don't want him here," "The old traitor," &c., which he, having +faced worse treatment under far more dangerous circumstances, gave +little heed to. The insults came chiefly from the Kentucky prisoners, +who have been, from the start, the most obstreperous and unrepentant of +the rebel keepsakes. + +Notice was given that the Parson would address the public in the evening +at Metropolitan Hall. Although the night was dark and rainy, the large +hall was crowded to its utmost capacity, with a highly intelligent +audience. After music by the band of the 19th U. S. Regiment, the +meeting was opened with prayers by Rev. James Havens. The following +gentlemen of the committee occupied seats on the platform: + + WM. HANNAMAN, + DAVID MCDONALD, + GOVERNOR MORTON, + MAYOR MAXWELL, + CALVIN FLETCHER, ESQ. + COL. JAMES BLAKE, + J. H. MCKERNAN, ESQ. + B. R. SULGROVE, ESQ. + ALFRED HARRISON, ESQ. + + +SPEECH. + +Gov. Morton then introduced Mr. Brownlow, who spoke at length of the +causeless character of the rebellion, and its disastrous effects, and +was frequently cordially cheered by his large audience. He gave an +account of his ancestry, and showed how they had all been engaged in the +service of the country, and always true to its flag and its principles. +He said he had been called a traitor by R. Barnwell Rhett, of South +Carolina. "Rhett" said he, "was named R. Barnwell Smith, but the Smiths +being all Tories during the Revolution, he was allowed by a legislative +act to call himself Rhett. He call _me_ a traitor," said the iron old +Parson indignantly, "when his illustrious ancestors were hunted by +Marion through all the mosquito swamps of South Carolina." (Uproarious +cheers and laughter.) He commented at considerable length on the +rebellion and its leaders, and declared, with great emphasis, that "if +the issue was to be made between the Union without slavery, and slavery +without the Union, he was for the Union and let slavery perish. (Great +applause.) Let every institution die first, and until the issue was made +between the Union and the religion of Jesus Christ, he was for the +Union." (Tremendous cheers.) We have not space to report his whole +speech, which was considerably over an hour in length, and was listened +to with close and intense attention by all, and we must content +ourselves with a report of the outrages practiced on the Union men, +which he detailed with impressive eloquence and pathos. + +In May last the South began to pour a stream as hot and ugly as hell +itself from the Gulf States through Eastern Tennessee, towards Richmond +and Manassas, and Norfolk and Lynchburgh, in the shape of a rebel +soldiery armed with side knives and tomahawks, drinking gallons untold +of bad whisky, and boasting largely and savagely enough of the things +they should do in Washington. (Laughter.) I had an old banner, the stars +and stripes, floating from the top of my house, on Main street, in +Knoxville, Tennessee, in a conspicuous part of the city. They began to +come to pay their respects to us--frequently a regiment at a time. Whole +regiments of "wharf rats" from New Orleans and Mobile, as ugly and +disgusting as they were vicious, would come at once, now and then, to +"give old Brownlow a turn," as they expressed it. They would, _en +masse_, come across the river on the bridge, surround my house, yell, +throw stones, blackguard my wife and family, dare me to come out of +doors, and I now and then accepted their invitations and made them the +best bow I could. I have, time and again, gone out and given them very +frankly and unreservedly my settled opinion of the whole concern, from +Jeff. Davis down, assuring them that my scorn and contempt for them and +the Southern Confederacy was unutterable, and then, making them the +best bow I could, I would go back into the house and leave them to yell +and groan around the house till they saw proper to quit. This course +they have steadily kept up all the year. And yet all of this time I was +reading in the papers of Charleston, Savannah and Richmond, that the +Confederate army was composed of the flower and promise of the Southern +States. I told my wife that if those miserable, God-forsaken whelps that +were screaming like devils around our house almost half of every day +were the _flower_ of the Southern Confederacy, my prayer would be--God +save us from the _rabble_. + +On the 6th day of November last we had an election in the Southern +States for President and Vice President of the Southern Confederacy, +with only two candidates in the field--Jeff. Davis and little Alex. +Stevens of Georgia. And when we, of Eastern Tennessee came to vote at +that election we did not vote at all, but we positively and utterly +refused to have anything at all to do with it. The sheriffs, who were +Union men, refused to open the polls, or to hold an election, thus +giving the candidates the cold shoulder, and manifesting our contempt +for the whole concern. And, gentlemen, you cannot fail to be surprised +when I announce to you the fact that the great State of Tennessee, +casting not less than 200,000 votes as her ordinary vote, gave Jeff. +Davis and his colleague in villainy a miserable vote of 25,000. Those +two men are to-day holding their offices by the vote of a miserably lean +minority of the people of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee was driven +out of the Union at the point of the bayonet. The miserable rebel +soldiery were stationed at the polls, wherever a poll was opened, with +orders to prevent every "damned Union-shrieker" that might appear from +depositing his vote. We had thousands of good Union men, men of good +morals, members of churches, Methodists, Baptists and others, who had no +desire to be involved in difficulty, and who saw that nothing could be +accomplished by attempting to exercise their rights, and who said to +themselves "we will stay at home and let the thing go by default." Let +me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if I know anything at all of any +State it is the State of Tennessee, and I want you to mark well and +treasure up in your minds the prediction I am about to make to you. I +predict to-night that when Governor Johnson shall appoint a day (which +he will do before long,) upon which the people of the State of Tennessee +shall decide at the polls whether they shall come back again beneath the +stars and stripes, when Confederate bayonets shall be driven completely +out of the State, which they will be soon, the "Volunteer State" will +come back into the Union by a majority of 50,000 votes. (Cheers.) + +There is also, at this very time, a powerful Union sentiment in each of +the other Southern States. These Southern traitors may talk to you about +the "unanimity" of feeling in regard to the war, but let me assure you +that it is all false. There is no unanimity in the Southern States. +Louisiana never voted herself out of the Union. The wretches who were in +power there smuggled the vote. The truth is that secession was _lost_ in +Louisiana. Georgia barely went out of the Union. Alabama was forced out +through the treason of Jerry Clemens and others. The "Old North State" +will gladly come back again. The Old Dominion, what shall I say of her? +God bless her while he curses her leading politicians. Virginia is about +ready to come back. She is just about sick enough now to be willing to +take medicine. + +But whilst it is true that there is no unanimity in the Southern +Confederacy in regard to the war, there was one remarkable instance of +unanimity that occurred in Tennessee just about the time that we people +of the Eastern portion of the State refused to vote. By a strange freak +of Nature, or Providence, or something else, all the railroad bridges +between Bristol and Chattanooga took fire all at once, and burned down, +one night about eleven o'clock. I was not concerned in the matter, and +can't say who did it. I thought to myself that the affair had been most +beautifully planned and executed, and enjoyed it considerably in my +quiet way. (Laughter.) + +It was but a little while afterward that the Legislature passed a law to +disarm all the Union men of the State. Of course I was called on, in +common with the rest. They did not find much to seize, however, at my +house. They got a double-barreled shot gun, a Sharp's rifle, and a +revolver. That was all the weapons I had. Then they commenced waiting +upon all the private families. They took all the good horses that +belonged to Union men. They entered their dwellings, threw off the +feather-beds from the bedsteads, took all the woolen blankets and +coverlets they could get hold of. They broke open chests and drawers, +and pocketed what money and jewelry they could find in them. They +carried away bacon, drove away fat hogs and beeves, and robbed the +people of every species of moveable property. + +They next began to arrest them and throw them into jail. Nor was that +all. Many of them were shot down upon the streets, or in the fields, in +cold blood. I could give names in abundance, and dates, and places. I +speak not from hearsay, but from my own personal knowledge. A man would +be quietly about his work in his fields, and some one would point him +out as a Union man, and the infernal rebel cavalry would shoot him down +as a "damned Union-shrieking Abolitionist."--Others were stretched +lengthwise upon logs of wood, raised a short distance from the ground so +as to admit of their arms being tied underneath it, and were then +stripped naked, and almost literally cut to pieces. And afterwards, when +those men would come into courts of justice, and pull off their shirts +and display the marks of the inhuman treatment they had suffered, the +Judges upon the bench would coolly inform them that these were +revolutionary times, and that they could give no redress for such +grievances. Every prominent jail in East Tennessee was filled with Union +men. + +Take the case of Andy Johnson. He is a man against whom I have fought +for twenty-five years with all my might, pouring hot shot into him +continually, both on the stump and through the columns of my paper, and +he in turn giving me as good as I sent. He and I are to-day upon the +most amicable terms. We, the people of East Tennessee, have merged every +other issue into this great issue of the Union. (Loud applause.) You +ought to do so in Indiana. You should never touch one of your aspiring +politicians with a ten-foot pole unless he is totally and +unconditionally opposed to this infernal rebellion. Where would I see a +man who is base enough to sympathise with secession before I would vote +for him for office? I would send him where, in the language of Milton, + + "Cold performs the effect of fire," + +or, as Pollock says, + + "Where gravitation, shifting, turns the other way, + And sends him _Hellwards_." + +They drove Johnson's wife, far gone with consumption, and very feeble, +to take refuge with her son-in-law in the adjoining county of Carter. +They drove him into the woods, where he remained no less than three +months, used his house and his beds for a hospital, and sold his goods +at public sale. But the scale has turned. Andrew Johnson is now +Governor. He is "the right man in the right place." + +If President Lincoln had consulted the Union men of Tennessee as to what +man should occupy that position, the reply would have been almost +unanimously, "give us Andy Johnson." He has the unflinching courage of +Old Hickory, and let me tell you, too, that he feels all the malice and +venom requisite for the occasion. He will row those wretches up Salt +River. He will send a good many of them to Fort Warren, where, I trust, +after due trial for treason, they will be hung upon a gallows of +similar character and dimensions to that upon which Haman hung. + +When, upon the 6th of November, they thrust me into jail at Knoxville, I +found one hundred and fifty men whose sole offence was their +faithfulness to the Union. Every man among them was an acquaintance of +mine. Three of them were Baptist preachers. One of these three, old man +Pope, a man seventy years of age, and for many years a Minister of the +Gospel, was thrown into jail for praying, previously to his sermon, for +the blessing of God upon the President of the United States. The Rev. +Mr. Kates, a man about seventy-five years old, was imprisoned for +throwing up his cap and hallooing as a company of Union Home Guards was +passing. + +When I entered the door the inmates of the prison were perfectly +astonished. Some of them were so overpowered by the nature of the +circumstances, that they could hardly speak. "O," said they, "we never +expected to come to this. We never expected the day would come when we +would look through the iron grates of a prison!" + +I said to them, "Boys, cheer up. Are you here for murder, or +counterfeiting, or horse-stealing? No. You are here for no other offence +than that of defending the glorious stars and stripes, and I look upon +this as the brightest day of my life. These scoundrels will be sick of +this business before the thing is over." + +While I was in the jail both of these poor preachers were taken sick. +The furniture of the prison deserves description. There was no sign of a +bedstead, not a chair nor a stool of any kind, and the only "furniture" +there was consisted of a dirty wooden pail and two tin cups. The whole +one hundred and fifty prisoners could not lie down at once, so that we +had to "spell" each other, so all might have a little while to sleep. A +part stood while the others lay down. That's the way we lived in the +jail. + +These poor old preachers came near dying. The rebels showed me one +favor. The jailor, I knew, as a mean, sneaking rascal, whom I had +published in my paper for forgery, and I was sure that he would give me +arsenic in order to make sure of my not doing so again, and I obtained +permission for my wife to send me my dinner every day, and I had to send +the basket full every day, and in this way I had the satisfaction of +feeding those two feeble old preachers for two weeks with something they +could eat. + +Old Mr. Kates had three sons in jail. Madison Kates was on the verge of +the grave with typhoid fever. He lay upon the floor of that damp brick +jail, with an old overcoat under his head for a pillow, and a single +thickness of old home-made carpeting between him and the cold, damp +floor of the prison. In this condition his poor wife came thirty-five +miles to see him, with an infant about six weeks old in her arms. She +came into the yard of the prison and asked permission to see her +husband. The officers said "No, they did not allow any body to have +anything to say to these infernal Union-shriekers." I went to the window +then, myself, and by dint of perseverance, prevailed upon them at last +to let her see her husband. They limited her to just fifteen minutes. +When she entered the door her eyes fell upon her husband lying in the +corner, so weak and emaciated that he could scarcely stir. He was nearly +gone. She held her infant in her arms. The sight of her husband in that +condition unnerved her completely. Seeing she was upon the point of +letting the child fall, I took it from her and she sank down upon the +floor beside her husband. Neither of them uttered a word, but clasping +each others hands they sobbed and cried together, and O, my God! I hope +that I shall never see such a sight as that again. + +That, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit--the hellish, inhuman, +infernal spirit of secession. The Devil himself is a saint, compared to +the leaders in that scheme. + +In Andrew Johnson's town they hung up two men to the same limb, and the +bloody Col. Ledbetter, a man born and educated in the State of Maine, +going down to Mobile and marrying a lot of negroes through another +woman--the worst man, the biggest coward, and the blackest-hearted +villain that ever made a track in East Tennessee--this man tied the +knots with his own hands, and directed that the victims should be left +hanging for four days and nights right over the iron track of the +railroad, and ordered the engineers to run their trains slowly by the +spot in order that the secessionists on board might feast their eyes +upon the ghastly spectacle. And it is a fact as true as it is revolting, +that men stood upon the platforms of every train that went by and kicked +the dead bodies as they passed, and struck them with sticks and ratans, +with such remarks as "that they looked well hanging there," and that all +"d----d Yankees and traitors should hang that way too." It is true that +Col. Ledbetter, as the weather was somewhat warm and the corpses were +becoming somewhat offensive, ordered them to be cut down at the +expiration of some thirty-six hours, but it was for the convenience of +his secession friends purely, and not from any other motive. + +One day they came with two carts and took old Harmon, a Methodist class +leader, and his son. Old Mr. Harmon was seated in one cart upon his +coffin, and his son in the other, and each cart was surrounded by a +strong guard of rebel bayonets, and driven down the hill to a scaffold +in sight of the jail. The young man was hung first, and the father was +compelled to look upon his death struggles. Then he was told to mount +the scaffold, but being feeble and overpowered by his feelings, two of +the ruffians took hold of him, one of them saying, "Get up there, you +damned old traitor!" and the poor old man was launched after his son. + +A few days after this they came up to the jail with another cart. We +never knew whose turn was to come next. I had "counted the cost." I +intended, if my turn had come, to meet my fate with the best grace I +could. I had prepared a speech for the occasion, and I can assure you +that I should have pronounced a handsome eulogy, if I had been called +upon, for if I have any talent in the world, it is that talent which +consists in piling up one epithet upon another. But it turned out that +the cart was not intended for me. It was intended for a young man by the +name of H. C. Haun, an excellent young man of fine morals and good +common sense. He had a wife and two small children. Haun was informed +one hour before hand that he was to be hung. He immediately asked for a +Methodist preacher who lived in the town, to come to see him, and to +pray with him. The reply was: "We don't permit any praying here for a +damned Union-shrieker." + +Haun met his fate like a man. When under the scaffold, a drunken, lying +chaplain rose up, and delivered a short address. Said he, "The poor, +unfortunate young man, who is now about to pay the penalty of his +crimes, says that he regrets his course, and that he was led into it +through the influence of traitors. He is, therefore, deserving of your +pity." As quick as thought Haun sprang to his feet, and in a much +stronger and steadier tone than the lying villain beside him had made +use of, said: "My fellow citizen, there is not one word of truth in what +that man has told you. I have made no such concession. On the contrary, +all that I have said and done, I have said and done after mature +deliberation, and I would do the same again. I am here ready to be +executed. Execute your purposes." He died like every Union man ought to +die when called to face death by villains and traitors. + +My fellow citizens: I congratulate you upon the fact, now sufficiently +clear, that the rebellion is now pretty well "played out." We will wind +the thing up this spring and summer. They are nearly "out of soap" down +South. They lack guns, clothing, boots and shoes. The boots I have on +cost me $15 in Knoxville. They are out of hats, too. In Knoxville there +is not a bolt of bleached domestic or calico to be had, nor a spool of +Coat's thread, and, although "Cotton is King," we never made a spool of +thread south of Mason and Dixon's line. Sewing needles and pins are not +to be had. The blockade is breaking them up. It has been remarked on the +streets of Knoxville, that no such thing as a fine-toothed comb was to +be had, and that all the little secession heads were full of squatter +sovereigns hunting for their rights in the territories. [Laughter and +applause.] + +The Reverend Doctor retired amid continued applause and cheering, and +was followed by General Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, who, though his remarks +were brief, were marked with that spirit-stirring eloquence for which he +is noted. Many of his patriotic allusions and decided and unerring blows +at traitors were received with vociferous shouts of applause. He said +that all were rejoiced at the delivery of Brownlow from the clutches of +tyranny, but our rejoicings were saddened by the thought that multitudes +like him were flying to the mountains for safety, or were rotting in +prisons, or were being hanged and murdered for loving their country. He +wished the President and Government could learn to appreciate the +magnitude of the rebellion. It was time that hemp was used to hang the +leaders of this wicked rebellion. It had been said by the sympathisers +with this infernal war against the Government, that the Abolitionists +had brought the war upon the country. This was simply a lie. The +President and all connected with the management of the Government had +manifested a desire to protect slave property above all other property. +He, for one, would protect a loyal man like Brownlow in his property, +be it slave property or otherwise; but he would confiscate the property +of rebels, their lands, their houses, their niggers and their necks. The +integrity of the Republic should be saved at all cost, and he would be +willing for a still further sacrifice of life and expenditure of money, +rather than compromise on any other principle or condition than that +every leader of the rebellion should meet the death of a traitor upon +the gallows. + +He claimed that slavery was only a pretext with the conspirators who +originated the rebellion--it was not the cause of the war. It was mainly +hostility to popular government on the part of the aristocrats of South +Carolina and other fire-eating States. South Carolina had in it during +the Revolution more tories than any other State, and she never had an +organized government that conformed to the requirements of the +Constitution--it was not Republican in form. A property qualification +was required for voters larger than that of England. The people never +voted for President or any officer save that of members of the State +Assembly, and the poor man had no voice even in that election. Their +judges, elected for life, came upon the bench clothed in gowns and wigs, +and the Speaker of their Legislature was ushered into his chair +according to the old British custom, adorned with robes, and in the most +pompous manner. They had no penitentiary in that State, but the +whipping-post, ear-cropping and branding were the punishments most in +vogue. + +The speaker said he sometimes felt gratified that this war had come +upon us. We had been a nation of party worshippers, and had lost sight +of that spirit of patriotism that should ever guide freeman of so great +and free a nation. He hoped that party spirit would be obliterated +forever, though we had men in Indiana who were plotting how to make +political capital out of the misfortunes of the country. Next to +secessionists, he despised such men. They were so selfish that they +would sell their grandmother's bones to button makers. + +His motto was: "Let Slavery take care of itself." Let us put down the +rebellion, and whatever may come in the way of accomplishing this +purpose, be it slavery or what else, let it perish. He had been called a +proslavery man, because he had advocated non-interference with the +question in the States. He believed that it was requisite that the +institution should exist as a contrast to be constantly kept before the +laboring men of the North as an encouragement to labor. Invention was +the child of an educated people, and our great improvement in the +sciences, arts and mechanics, was attributable to our respect for and +aid given to the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. Let +the problem work itself out. Like the skunk that the man would not kill, +but confined until it stunk itself to death, slavery was destined, if +left alone, to kill itself. It had been said that it would be best to +divide the country, and let the secessionists have a country of their +own. The channel of the Mississippi will never be permitted to be owned +or obstructed by any other government, and no other flag will be allowed +to wave but the proud ensign of the American Union. Americans can never +consent to be humiliated to ask passports into a foreign country to +visit the tombs of Washington, Jackson or Clay, and Indianians should +never consent to allow Kentuckians to give a quit claim deed to the +ashes of their dead ancestry now mingling with the soil of this State. +The country never will be divided. Let us all unite then in +extinguishing the rebellion, and vindicate ourselves by hanging Jeff. +Davis and Toombs between the heavens and the earth. + +Alluding to the course pursued by Southern divines, General Cary said +Bishop Polk now utters oaths, and he did not wonder at it, for when a +man becomes a rebel he has severed the last link that binds men to their +God, and there was no hope for their repentance or salvation. He had +told a Universalist preacher lately to quit preaching his doctrines +until after the rebellion, for a real fire and brimstone hell was wanted +for the benefit of its authors and abettors. + +General Cary concluded his brief address amid cries of "go on," "go on," +but owing to the lateness of the evening he declined to say more. + +The popular chorus of "Glory Hallelujah! the Lord is on our side," was +then sung by a number of musical amateurs, after which Governor Morton +announced the news just received of General Pope's brilliant victory, +which the audience received with vehement cheering. The patriotic Parson +joined in with the assemblage, and waved his handkerchief exultingly. + +T. Buchanan Reed, one of the nation's best poets, was introduced by +Governor Morton, who read, in a style that but few professional readers +could excel, some extracts from patriotic poems and songs of his own +composition, viz: "The Wild Wagoner of the Alleghanies," "A Tribute to +the Brave Ones at Home," and "The Defenders." Each and all of these +readings were received with applause by the audience. + +After "Hail Columbia," by the band, the meeting adjourned. Take it all +in all, it was decidedly the most intellectual and spirit-stirring +entertainment Indianapolis has ever witnessed. + + + + +BROWNLOW IN CHICAGO. + + +The Parson left Indianapolis for Chicago on the 8th of April, attended +by General Cary and others, and arrived at the latter place on the +morning of the 9th, having met, all along the road, repeated and earnest +demonstrations of welcome, from the sympathizing, loyal masses of the +people. + +During the whole of Thursday, the 10th, Mr. Brownlow was the recipient +of visits from the citizens of Chicago. Between the hours of 11 and 12 +there was a crowd of ladies gathered in the spacious parlors to pay +their respects, and during the introductory exercises he made the +following impromptu remarks: + +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:--When I had the honor, last evening, of meeting +and being introduced to the committees which your city sent to greet me, +I remarked that those committees formed the finest body of men I ever +saw. But when I look at the sweet faces and forms which I now see before +me, I am ready to pronounce those men a very ordinary looking lot. If I +am more particularly attached to the tall ladies, it is because I am +more strikingly reminded of the loved ones at home. + + +AT THE BOARD OF TRADE. + +It being understood that the Parson would make his appearance on 'Change +at 12 o'clock, long before that hour arrived large numbers of the +citizens, members of the Board and others, began to gather there, and by +noon the spacious rooms were packed to their utmost capacity with +persons eager to catch a glimpse of the redoubtable Parson, and pay him +that respect to which his patriotic conduct has entitled him. At 12 +o'clock the distinguished guest entered, arm in arm with Mayor Rumsey, +and followed by the different Committees of Reception. The Parson's +appearance was greeted with hearty applause, and, when order was +restored, Stephen Clary, Esq., made a few appropriate introductory +remarks; after which, Mayor Rumsey arose and said: + +FELLOW CITIZENS:--It may have been expected that on this occasion I +would make a speech before you; but such is not my intention. The +condition of my health, and the hoarseness with which I am afflicted, +render it well-nigh impossible for me to speak at all. I will, +therefore, only say that, in behalf of the city of Chicago, whose chief +magistrate I am, it is my privilege to introduce to you Mr. W. G. +Brownlow, and in your behalf welcome, to the hospitalities of our city, +this noble patriot, who has periled not only his temporal interests, but +his life, for the Union cause in Tennessee. It is sufficient that I +mention his name to you. + + * * * * * + +After the Mayor had concluded, J. C. Wright, Esq., on behalf of the +Board of Trade, addressed Mr. Brownlow in an eloquent and stirring +manner, as follows: + +REV. W. G. BROWNLOW:--At the request of the officers of this Board of +Trade, I have the honor, sir, of performing the most agreeable duty of +welcoming you to our Exchange. + +It is not, sir, because of any official position you now hold, or have +held, that this vast assembly has gathered here to receive you; but, +sir, it is a mark of respect and admiration for your patriotic devotion +to your country. When this horrid rebellion assumed its gigantic +proportions, the loyal men of the North watched with anxiety the course +of many men of the South, whom we had delighted to honor with the +highest positions of trust and power. With rare exceptions we saw them +retreating into the ranks of the traitors, using their influence, wealth +and position to strike down the mildest and most beneficent government +which God in his mercy had ever permitted man to establish. They +beguiled and deceived the people, who had been accustomed to look up to +them, and listen to their counsels. Many of the arch traitors, not +content to act with the popular voice of their States, joined the ranks +of the rebels, endeavoring to force their States to disregard their +allegiance to that glorious Union which, for nearly a century, had +thrown its genial influence and protection over a united, happy, and +prosperous people. Amidst all this horrid exhibition of treason, and +malignant, hellish hate, when the heart grew sick at contemplating the +dark and dismal scene before us; when your neighbors and friends around +you, in vast numbers, had deserted that old flag, consecrated by our +fathers' blood, and were trampling under foot that Constitution which +had so long been our pride and our hope, you, sir, stood firm and +unmoved in your devoted patriotism. Threatened with the halter, with +your grave yawning before you, with scorn you spurned proffered freedom +in such honors as traitors could confer. To you the grave had no terrors +to be shunned by an act of disloyalty to your beloved and now grateful +country. + +We are now rapidly making undying history for future generations to +read. When the history of this wicked rebellion--for I can not call it +an honorable war--is written, it will be sadly deficient, if its pages +do not tell, in words that burn, the story of your wrongs, your +fortitude, and your unswerving devotion to your country in the hour of +her great trial. Our children will need no romance to stir their young +hearts, but the truthful picture of your sufferings and heroism will +fill the place of high wrought fiction. We shall no longer point to the +classic ages for noble examples of heroes, who laughed at the halter and +rack, and scorned life at the price of dishonor. + +Sir, it is because you have so loved your country, and suffered for your +principles, that we this day welcome you to our Exchange, to our +hearth-stones, to our hearts. + +In behalf of the officers, and of the more than nine hundred loyal +members of this Board, again, air, I bid you welcome. Amid the stirring, +glorious news of the triumph of our arms, I bid you welcome. + + * * * * * + +At the close of Mr. Wright's address, Parson Brownlow arose, and, after +pausing a few moments until the tumult of applause had subsided, in a +calm, clear voice, began his remarks. His first few words were uttered +in a low tone, scarcely audible except to those nearest the speaker; but +presently his voice was raised to a higher key, and, with his distinct +and emphatic enunciation, every person in the vast crowd could easily +hear and understand. + +He said he claimed no credit for his acts in Tennessee, for he had +simply done his duty--nothing more--and any man who would not, under +similar circumstances, do the same thing, deserved to be hung. He was a +Union man from principle, not from policy. He had _always_ been a Union +man; it was no new thing with him. He had opposed secession with what +abilities God had given him, under all circumstances, and wherever, in +his presence, it had shown its vile features. And this he should +continue to do, at the risk of being mobbed and hung, if need be. He was +a national man; he had no sentiments in the South that he was not +willing to promulgate in the North; and none in the North that he would +not proclaim upon the house-top in the Southern States. In 1828, the +speaker supported John Quincy Adams for the Presidency, and for that act +incurred the hatred of many of his friends in the South. At a later day, +when Mr. Adams presented before Congress a petition for the abolition of +slavery, the speaker also defended him in that particular; for, though +not an abolitionist, he had always contended that a Congressman's +constituents had the right to petition that body for _anything_ they +might desire. He had supported that eminent statesman, Henry Clay; and, +when he died, he would willingly have voted for Clay's last pair of +pantaloons, stuffed with straw! He had advocated the claims of Daniel +Webster, for his gigantic intellect and commanding statesmanship +entitled him to the highest honors of the nation. But the _last_ ticket +he had supported was the Bell-Everett ticket, which bore such a close +resemblance to a kangaroo--being the strongest in its hinder parts. He +should make a trip to Boston, purposely to visit Edward Everett, and to +take him by the hand, for he was a patriot. But as to "Old Man Bell," he +was fast traveling the road leading to a certain locality where traitors +and devils are sure to land eventually. Being destitute of nerve, moral +courage, of fixed patriotic principles, the weak old man had succumbed +to the hell-born and hell-bound heresy of secession. + +The speaker here made allusion to the treatment he had received from the +traitorous rabble in his own State, and gave a brief sketch of his +imprisonment in the Knoxville jail; of the threats of immediate +execution with which his ears were daily regaled; the actual hanging of +many of his companions in the prison; and many interesting particulars +of the struggle between treason and loyalty in Eastern Tennessee. He +stated that, for many days, he fully expected to be hung, and had become +perfectly resigned to his fate, provided his persecutors would grant him +one privilege, which was, that from the gallows he might be permitted to +address them for one hour. "I had prepared myself for the occasion," +said Mr. Brownlow, "and I intended to do the Southern Confederacy +justice--to pronounce a high-wrought eulogy on the concern, from Jeff. +Davis down to the smallest secession Devil among them." + +The speaker thought that the Union sentiment of Eastern Tennessee had +never abated one iota; that there were thousands of good Union men +there, who would hail the approach of the Federal army with sincere joy. +Gen. Jackson put down the rebellion of 1832, and, though this was a much +more formidable uprising, he believed Abe Lincoln would subdue it. "My +friends," said the orator, "the _hanging_ must begin _on the other +side_, this season, and I want to superintend it. You may think I speak +harshly; but, after what I have seen and experienced among the rebels, +how can I feel differently? I tell you, my hearers, I intend to go back +to Tennessee, before long, under different circumstances from those +under which I left the State. I want to go back in company with Gen. +Fremont; I want a big war-horse, and a military suite, and the General +and myself will ride down among those rebels, and, if you will excuse my +apparent egotism, I do believe the scoundrels had rather see the Devil +coming after them!" + +After paying his compliments to Mason and Slidell, both of whom he knows +personally, the Parson remarked that, "When this rebellion is put down, +England and France will have to behave themselves, or we will thrash +them both." + +The speaker then thanked the citizens for the kind reception given him, +and closed his speech with the promise that they should hear from him +again in the evening. He took his seat amid a storm of applause, that +emanated from the hearts as well as the mouths of his hearers. + +Gen. S. F. Cary, of Cincinnati, being present, was loudly called for, +and, taking the stand, proceeded to deliver one of the most thrillingly +eloquent speeches to which we have ever listened. We have not room for +even a summary of this production, but those who are familiar with the +celebrated Cincinnati orator will appreciate the meaning of our +observation, when we say it was one of Gen. Cary's happiest efforts. + +After he had closed, Frank Lumbard was called upon for a song, and, +mounting the stand, gave, in his best style, "The Star Spangled +Banner," the entire assemblage joining in the swelling chorus, with +splendid effect. The crowd then filed out past the President's desk, +where sat the Parson, each individual grasping his extended hand with +evident emotions of sympathy and kindly regard. Mr. Brownlow and party +soon after repaired to the Sherman House, where they partook of a +sumptuous dinner. + +In the afternoon the party made a visit to Camp Douglas, and spent some +time in making observations among the very class of men from whose +clutches the Parson had so recently escaped. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's note + +Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printer +errors have been changed and are listed below. All other +inconsistencies are as in the original. + +Characters that could not be displayed directly in Latin-1 are +transcribed as follows: + + _ - Italics + +The following changes have been made to the text: + +Page 16: "the crimes" changed to "The crimes". + +Page 23: "by-gone" changed to "bygone". + +Page 24: "jeapordizing" changed to "jeopardizing". + +Page 24: "ignoniminous" changed to "ignominious". + +Page 29: "water-goards" changed to "water-gourds". + +Page 33: "unhol" changed to "unholy". + +Page 36: "did'nt" changed to "didn't". + +Page 36: "intrigueing" changed to "intriguing". + +Page 37: "voluntered" changed to "volunteered". + +Page 38: "did'nt" changed to "didn't". + +Page 44: "could fine them" changed to "could find them". + +Page 49: "Browlow" changed to "Brownlow". + +Page 56: "hardly syeak" changed to "hardly speak". + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Portrait and Biography of Parson +Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot, by William Gannaway Brownlow + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHY OF PARSON BROWNLOW *** + +***** This file should be named 35122.txt or 35122.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/1/2/35122/ + +Produced by Carla Foust, Mark C. 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