Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-03

w. Is. Carter, one OF the exiles from East
Tennessee, in reference to the trials Of his
unfortunate fellow. citizens.
The gentlemen was received upon his sp-
pesrance upon the stand with applause, and
when introduced to the audience by Judge
Storer, with some brief and pertinent re-
marks, in reference TO the past history of
the State, he proceeded with brief intro
duction TO the subject that had been hereto.
fore announced.
while il affords me much pleasure, nv
friends, to meet you here this evening, that
pleasure is not unmiDgled with pain, for I
can not help thinking why should be here
while friends near and dear to me are sepa.
rated from me, and am denied the privi-
lege of return.
There are hearts here, | am conscious,
that beat in unison with my own in refer.
ence to the great and magnificent temple of
freedom which it is our duty to sustain. As
the Jews turned their eyes to Jerusalem, SO
must every freeman look 10 the capital of
his country as the grest citadel of liberty,
which il was bis dearest interest to defend
| very much fear the citizens of Cincinnati
do not fully recognize The hight and depth
of that awful, wicked, and abominabIe t6ing
called Secession. What is Secessiou2 The
absence of all good the presence of all that
is evil and vile beneath the sun. | have
seen it transform the beautiful and reAted
female into very fend of hell. It has de
stroyed the dearest ties of friendship. l
have had friends; they are my enemies now.
because they are the enemies Of my country.
[Applsuse.l That man (referring to Mr..
Johnson) had friends who had grown up
win MN from boybood, who would now re-
joice to see him hanged.
1.-THE question arises, why have men gone
such HiUl sttps2 1t can not be accounted
for only as in the time of our Savior: not
only seven but leglons of devils have en-
tered and taken possession of them
The speaker acknowledge himself slave
holder, ard therefore II could not be sun
posed that he was preiuliced against the in
situion, yet be would say that the union
OF these States, the preservation of our Rlo-
rious Inheritance of free institutions is of
more value than all the negroes in America,
OF Africa either. prolonged applause II
II becomes necessary for the preservation OF
the Union and the salvation of our country
that slavery shall be abolished, let it be
abolished. [Applause.l They had learned
that pro-slavery ideas never travel toward
the north pole, while anti.slavery ideas
travel south, and they thought that after a
while Kentucky and Tennessee might want
TO form institutions of their own.
"Ohio could not enter the sisterhood of the
Confederate States without becoming slave
territory. These desperate men had failed
in their end. The real cause was, we did
not elect our man to the Presidency They
found that the mud-siils of society would
hereafter control this Government They
could not bear the idea that rail splitter
should rule over them. The speaker would
be glad to find a rail splitter with sense
enough TO raise himself to such position.
ut was this arstOcratic class who had done
the mischief. They found those men who,
like Lazarus, had sat at the gate waiting for
the cIums that fall from the rich mans table,
now arrayed in purple and fine linen, and
taring sumptuously every day, with good old
father Abraham at the head of the table.
Laughter and Applause.l The fact is there
were fifteen hundred candidates for the Pres-
dency in the South. These men, at the time
of the Baltimore Convection, entered into
the conspiracy to break up this Government.
The private papers of the lamented Judge
Douglas would show this
The speaker proceeded to show the means
they adopted in Tennessee to carry out their
ends. THE first step taken was for every
officer to perjure himself, which they did to
man, when they flooded the State with
lies, The biggest, the most monstrous that
ever were told. They began to rob the mails,
aid this was done under the positive sane.
tion Of King Harris. At one time the people
would bear through the tell he-grdph that
r6TIy was taken ana seven
hundred Federaiists killed; at another thai
General Scott had resigned, then that he
had not resigned, but had been arrested as .
traitor. The people knew not what to be
lieve.
''These men deliberately repealed annuled
and set AT defiance parts of the organic law
of the State which interfered with their
ends.
"Tbey had suppressed freedom of speech
When johnson and Nelson attempted tc
speak at Jonesboro after their return from
Congress, they were met by mob. How
then did the people of East Tennessee regain
meetings with loaded rifles and demanding
it.
"They had taken away the right of suf.
trage. In Nashville, which had six thousand
voters, though three thousand of that num-
Der were absent from the polls, the full vote
was pOlled. Boys of fourteen years of age
participated in the election. That is the way
they get their sixty thousand majority.
There are other Union men in Tennessee
besides T. A. r. Nelson. They are standing
like the everlasting hills. They don't puF.
call King Davis His ExcelIency, the mar
who had given them forty days to leave theil
homes, and thep guarded the passes will
| bay onets TO cut off their egress. Go to CAM
| Robinson, and you will find men who wer,
rich the other day without cent in thei
| pockets. You will find those who were thel
among dear friends now driven away from
| their homes, often almost without clothes
who have barely escaped with their lives
some of whom have travelled over monntair
roads, fifty MI es in day, fleeing from thei
puIsuers.
Many have been shot down like dogs il
the Cumberland Mountains, while making
their escape; others are concealed there still
to avoid the same fate; ard all this they
have done, dared and endured TO sustain The
good old stars and stripes. After all thi!
the speaker was glad be was citizen of Ea,
Tebpessee there they stood without money
without arms, boldly detying the whole Con
iederate States. [Applause.l East Ten
lessee don't ask neutral position in thi:
| contest. She knows that blood must be
offered up to save this country, aud that the
| sacrifice must he insufficient and incomplete
unless the blood of East Tennessee flows
with that of Ohio. [Applsuse Don't be-
heve that those people don't want an army
there. They daily turn their eyes to the
Cumberland Mountains to see the stars and
the stripes.
"lf there shere any reporter for JEFF. Davis
let him 60 back and tell him that | publicly
asked your assistance, and that our business
W dsnlnRlOn III LnlS IespecL was success
ful, [Applause.] The day of salvation is
coming for East Tennessee. The Knoxville
Register has said that l, humble as am
have raised twenty-five thousand men in
Indiana, and since they have wiped out the
affair of Buena Vista, there is no people To
whom we would sooner trust than the loyal
people of Indiana, Jesse d. Bright alWay:
excepted).
"The people of Tennessee have NO preju.
dice against Abraham Lincoln; and if, in