Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-11-28
ParSOn BrOWnlOW's Farewell Ad.
dress, ...r

The indomitable Parson Brownlow ha'
at length fallen beneath the power of hi
secession enemies. His last issue bear
date, Oct. 26, and contains his farewell
address, in which he states he has beer
indicted by the Grand Jury of the Con
federate Court, holding its session al
Nashville, and his arrest and imprison.
ment determined on. He says he pre-.
sumes he could 60 free by taking an oatt
to support the Confederate Government,
but that he will not do; or be could give
bonds to keep the peace towards seces.
sion, but neither will he do that, nor
suffer his friends to do it, Stimulated
by consciousness of uprightness, he
will submit to Imprisonment, and end his
days in Jail, before ho will submit to
make any humiliating concession. He
then says: t...st s# .,r.
II have committed no offense-I have
not shouldered arms against the Confed-
crate Government, or the State, or en-
couraged others to do SOL have dis
couraged rebellion, publicly and private
ly-I have not assumed a hostile atti-
tude toward the civil or military author
tiles of this new government. But I
have committed grave, and I really fear
unpardorable offences. I have refused
to make war upon the Government Of
the United States I have refused to
publish to the world false and e1aggcr-
ated accounts of the several engagements
had between the contending armies
have refused to write and publish false
versions of the origin of this war, and
of the breaking up of the best Govern
ment the world ever knew and all this
l will continue to do, if it cost me my
life. Nay, when agree to do such
things, may 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 seeded 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 free
dom of the Press; after tho Judges, at
torneys. jurors, and all others filling po-
sitions Of honor and trust, under the
Permanent Constitution which guar
antaes 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
l did expect the utmost liberty to be al
lowed to one small sheet, whose errors
could be combatted by the entire South
ern press! tits not enough that my pa
per has been denied 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 ap-
proval Of pack of scoundrels in Knox
vile, whom their superiors in all the
qualities that adorn human nature, are
in the Penitentiary of our State! And
this is the boasted liberty of the press,
in the Southern Confsdsracy!
I shall in no degree feel humbled
by being cast into prison, whenever it
is the will and pleasure of this 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 prin-
'iples. shall 60, because have failed
20 recognize the hand of God in the
work of breaking up the American
Government, and the Inauguration Of
he most wicked, unnaturrl, and uncalled
or war, ever recorded in history. l 60,
because have refused to laud to the
kies the acts of tyranny, usurpation
nd oppression, inflicted upon the people
f East Tennessee, because Of their de-
'otion to the Constitution and laws of !
he Government, handed down to them
y their fathers, and the liberties Sc
ured to them by war Of seven long
ears. of gloom, poverty, and trial =
repeat, 1 am proud Of my position,
nd Of my principles, and shall leave /
hem to my children as a legacy, far
,ore valuable than princely fortune !
ad the latter to bestowi
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