The Shasta courier., 1861-11-23
NUMBER 80.
Andy johnson on Secession.
We extract the following from recent
speech of Andy johnson, delivered in Cincin-

We extract the following from q recent
speech of Andy johnson, delivered in Cincin-
natl:
They came into my own country thev
called at my house. Some of their number
came forward and demanded of NV family
whether was at athome-saying, that if l was
they had come to take me, and hang me
Pleasant intelligence, this, for gentlemen (!I
to communicate to wife and daughters But
my daughter indignant at their conduct, said.
No, my father is not at home he is absent
in another county, where he is making
speech for the Union and this presume YOU
know, or your eowardly crew would not
have dared to show themselves at his house
They then sullenly withdrew. Ashley passed
on through the neighborhood they came upon
thehouse ofa Union family; the husband was
not at home, but his wife, stout hearted wo-
man, had her Union flag at the gate post They
insolently commanded her to remove it she
would not. They attempted to seize it, and
she seized it; they struggled for it, but she
kept her flag. They then went into the
scourged her person with it!
g This, my friends, is secession, and these
are the men you are to compromise with,
fiends in human shape, stopped at the house
ofa man named Markham, who, seeing them
approach, and fearing insult and outrage to
himself if he remained, and thinking that
they would not be so likely to provoke
quarrel with the family if he were not present,
took his rife from its resting place and retired
unobserved by them into little thicket hard
by the house, in order to be at hand in case
they offered any abuse to his family. He had
an amiable wife and two daughters. the
youngest a girl ofabout twelve years, and the
otherjust blossoming into womanhood, about
sixteen, as beautiful as the morning and as
pure as the dew drop. The secessionists en-.
tered and insolently demanded dinner for
themselves and feed for their horses. The
wife told them there was the crib and the fod.
der, and they would give them their dinner.
They took the hay and the corn and scattered
it about the ground, and ordered the ladies' to
hasten their dinner.
In due time the meal was prepared, and
soon greedily devoured. After sating their
appetites at the table they began to address
rude remarks to the wife and daughters.
One attempted to make love to the young lady,
when her young sister, seizing the tin horn
or trumpet. which is kept in almost all rural
to make summons to dinner or
sound an alarm to the neighbors it case of an
accident sprang to the door and blew blast.
At this the heIlish demon turned, drew pis-
tol from his girdle, fred its bullet through her
brain, and with one wild shrek she fell in
agonizing death at the feet of her screaming
mother. That blast, the shot, the shrek and
scream. pierced the ear ofthe waiting father.
He sprang from his retreat, he stood at his
door-one glance revealed all; and taking
deliberate aim, he sent his rifles bullet
straight through the villains heartl The
other four. alarmed at the trumpet blast,
and knowing that the whole neighborhood
would soon be upon them, mounted their
horses and fed. The enraged father, finding
them beyond his reach, turned to where tho
SLAYER of his little daughter lay, seized his axe
and cut his brutal body into quarters and
threw them out as only fit for the dogs to
devour!
''Such, my friends, is secession at home.
tits robbery, rapine and murder. And it is
marching towards you, and will beupon you.
You mrst arm for your, own defence. l
speak not to you in fables. These things oc-
CURED not in a remote country, but right
over there in Tennessee, ! seem even yet
to hear the shrek that went up from that
Young and innocent heart, as 1t took leave OF
life. SO wild. so clear, so agonizing, that even
angelic spirits might come to listen ana
ayenge! Will you not, then, rush to the
sunport of our Government and the rescue OF
yonr country from the reign OF terror that
has no paralle in the history OF civilized
man ?'