Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-05
A TENNEssEE Ex1LE.

A TENNESSEE EXILE.
An AnectIng Speech from the Rev. b.
carter; carer OF East IenneSssS: S. at Gin Gin
Words Which Western yIrginIanE
Should read aud Remember.
i From the Cincinnati papers.l
The meeting ut Smith l. Nixon's last
night, was one of the largest convened for
n long while. The ball and its galleries
were completely filed. The address OF
Mr.. Carter was received with great enthu-
siasm and vehement applause.
While it affords me much pleasure to
lappear before you tonight, this pleasure
is mingled with pain. My heart is over
whelmed with sorrew when remember
why it is that I, stranger-unknown to
you, occupy this place in your presence
Why is it that we have been brought face
TO face 2 Why am l among strangers,
while the loved ones ut home are this
hour moarning over my absence?
But / find pleasure in my new and
stiansc position: Here have found true
! friends, whose names, if should live, in
coming years must become familiar to my
children. Bat | find Il higher pleasure in
the Knowledge of the fact that the heart
of the assembly in whose presence | stand
beats in perfect unison with my own touch
ing the fate of the great and magnificent
inheritance which we have received from
our fathers; that as the Jewish people al
ways turn their faces towards Jerusalem
when they worship God, even so both you
and every day fix Osr eyes on the Capt.
tai of our country aud for Its safety pray;
that like them bsth you and daily pray
that the footsteps of the proud usnrper
may never tread the halls of the Temple
j ,E I,a nf Frhf frh
I We're laid by the Father of his country
! very much fear that you do not realize the
| full and terrible meaning of tue wo:d Sc
CessiOn. The sun seems quite small TO the
naked eye; but it is u body of vast dimen-
sions. So of Seeess sion II has appeared
as but speck upon the horizon to you and
to our rulers But it is great in all its
parts. 1t is terrible in its march. 1t con-
! sumes-it kills and destroys all that is
! good and lovely whereverit goes. Liberty
! expires beneath its consuming rays. 1t
turns the friend of former days into re-
lenIless and cruel enemy. 1t transforms
the gentle and beautiful female into fiend
of hell. The followers of secession at
once thirst for blood-not only for the
blood of Yankees,-but also for the blood
of the friends Of former years, sc. Why
have Americans gone such awful lengths
]
l sion-I have watched its progress-I have
seen, yea, l have felt-I tonight feel its
I power-I ought to know something about
I it.
1 Perhaps may speak too severely and
! say things unbecoming a clergyman's VOW.
| But have lived beneath this oppression,
and tell you of things which do know.
l generally confess my sins in advance, so
/ / beg this assembly, l should speak too
strongly-to keep their tempers.
] am stakeholder. My ancestors, for
4 three generations, have been Shareholders !;
therefore, cannot be charged with any
great prejudice against slavery. But tell
you before, that lregard the union of the
States as of Infinitely more value than all
the negroes in America. and Africa too
4 [Great applause. Nay, go further and
say that if the prosecution of this war and
the pcrpetuatiou of the Union require that
African slavery shall die, then, say, let
it perish. But tell you, honestly, that
except in one aspect, slavery has no more
to do with this rebellion than the man in
the moon. The question has been used as
a lever to move the public mind. The
leaders know that the Government never
can interfere with African slavery. 1t
takes hree-fourths to alter the Constitu-
ton. There are fifteen slave StAtes.-
This would require forty-five free States,
and a confederation OF sixty. But Texas
will furnish four more, making nineteen
slave States. Now, in Gods name where
is the territory to form all these free States
to come from? They know that the Gov
eminent will not interfere with them, but
they are afraid of the people. They have
learned that ro.slayery ideas will not
travel towards the North Pole, but that
free-soil ideas will travel South. They
are afraid that Tennessee, Kentucky or
Virginia may take into their noggins some
day to abolish slavery, so they attempt to
bnild up government that will not let
them. Now what becomes of your boast
ted State riEhts2 Suppose Ohio should
some day take fool notion, to join the
Southern Confederacy, [great laughter
you can't do it until you euact slavery and
become Shareholders. Why STAKEHOLDER
in Northeastern Texas, told me that the
people of the other parts of the State were
afraid that the people of his section would
abolish slavery.
Ny ideas on slavery are these. If you
don't want slaves 1t is none of our busi-
ness; and if we want them it is none OF
your business. Every State must do just
as it pleases.
There are two reasons for this attempted
revolution, the nFst IS tuaL SeFIalu Wlcheu
very wicked, proud, insolent, ambitious
overbearing, despieable men have lost
power. AS Gov. johnson said, aWe didn't
elect our man. They found out that the
mudsills were controlling the destinies OF
/ the country, and would control them for
ever. know some of those proud South
rons;t they can't.bear'thata raii-splitter shall
be President over them. Now l respect n
rail-spiitter who has had energy enough to
make himself President of the United
/ States. They don't like rail splitter that
when boy fished up and down this river
! for his dinner. They could not think of