Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-09-11


4 own to perpetuate their power over thi
D whole nation. How do know that? Ont
of those hypocritical Peace Commissioner:
s had the document in his pocket in Wash.
| ingtOn. Judge Douglas. of lamented mem
: ory-let his friends do justice to his coun-
7 try. Look in his private papers, and you
will find it all. THERE ARE MEN IN THE
STATE OF ONO THAT ENTERED INTO II
l THEN. YOU HAD BETTER LOOK
r OUT FOR DOMESTIC TRAITORS AT
HOME. l make this prediction tonight
That If the Southern army eUer appears
, upon the banks Of the Chic rirer, they lOill
be found as thick as bLack6erries eUen here.
Great applause After these general re-
marks l shall speak to you of the means to
which our enemies resorted. especially in
my county, to carry their point Most of
what l shall say now will have reference
to my own State L wish to let you into
the secrets of the movements of Secession
leaders where [ have seen them. and
know the truth of what l affirm. The first
step that our rulers in the State of Tennes-
see took to accomplish the ruin of our
state was this: The last ofice-holder in
the whole crew perjured himself. Having
done that, they we're prepared for any wick
edness that might follow. TApplause.1
The second step taken was this: They
flooded our country, especially through the
newspapers and the telegraph, with the
most perfect and complete catalogue of
falsehOOds the world ever heard. 1t would
require book bigger than the Bible to
record the hundredth part of the lies cir
culated in the State of Tennessee alone
laughter for the telegraph every morn
ing brought one that would fill at least
hundred pages LAUGHTER
After passing off these falsehoods, thev
began deliberately to rob our mails. They
did 1t long before tennessee seeded. and
they did it by the special sanction of King
Harris. Laughter. | left home in Ju-
ly. For five weeks 1 was the best Know
Nothing ycu ever saw. l didn't know any,
thing except Secession falsehoods. l took
half dozen papers daily and weekly. /
There l sat every morning. l could not
get to read anything except these awful
lies every morning. Tremendous fight at
Harpers Ferry. Seven thousand Federal [
troops killed, and two thousand taken pris-
oners-Mr. Seward has become dissatisfied .
with the Lincoln Administration and has
reslgned-won't have anything to do with
It. Next morning Gen. Scott has resigned. /
Next morning that was contradicted. Gen.
Scott hau not resigned. but Abe. Lincoln
had him prisoner at Washington. That
was calculated to hcve ruined any Union
ism in East Tenn. But the biggest lie was
the statement being extensively circulated
tOo-that Abraham Lincoln Intended to
set our niggers free and make our laugh
tiers marry them. Laughter l have
heard respectable men and women declare
that in the hearing of the people. l looked
at them right in the eye and told them it
is lie lApplause. !
Citizens of Ohio, the most of our people
deserve your pity--nOt your Indignation.
When truth is excluded from them-bv
men to whom they have been in the habit
OF looking for Instruction and advice and
lntormation-is it any wonder that many
OF them should 90 astray.
Again, IN the next place, they set at de-
nance some OF Our State laws. That Leg
islature was the worst body of men. the
most corrupt body of men that ever con-
Vened on earth. 1t was so wicked, so vile
and corrupt that last January, when we
begged some of our Union members to 90
back, some of Us felt almost ashamed to
ask honest men to 90 into such bad compa-
ny. They deliberately trampled upon the
organic law of the State of Tennessee.
That was to get one difficulty out of the
way. They wanted to fix it so that these
volunteers from every part of the State
and the Southern States could vote at the
election IN June. The Constitution of the
state requires men to be residents of
county SIX months before they can vote in
1t. In our election there, volunteers voted
wherever they happened to be. Men who
came from Davisson county voted in the
city OF Knoxville, and so in every town in
East Tennessee.
In the next place, they overthrow the
Constitution of the United States before
the State seeded. l don't admit that
East Tennessee has seeded. and l don't
want any one to say that came from the
COnfederacy. Laughter They
disregarded the Constitution Of
the United States. That instrument for
bids any State entering into a league with
any State or nation other than the United
States Yet our State, before any Seces-
sion entered into league with the South
ern COnfederacy. Applause. Again,
they denied US the freedom of speech. Now,
my friend OR. JOhnson) knows that west ,
Of the Cumberland mountains in Middle
and West Tennessee, for some time previ- !
Gus to the election. no mere man dared to
open his lips upon the stump. They tried
the same game in East Tennessee want =
to tell these people how we had free speech.
Hew did We happen to have free discus :
sion? Shortly after Mr.. johnson returned
from Congress. he and Mr. Nelson tried !,
to speak at Allensburgh. They interfered !
with them 50, that their speeches amount
ed to nothing. A. the town of Browns
vile, they would not let us speak at all. .
They had armed volunteers there to pre-
vent US from speaking Now, | want to
tell you here. how East Tennessee got free
speech She got it when we commenced i
going to public gatherings, with our rifles c
upon our shoulders. Applause She
got it when We dared them to disturb u.s.
If we had not kept the peace by always be- t
ing prepared for war, East Tennessee to-
lay would net be for the Union in my O. +
pinion- LApplause. But again They S
denied US the free exercise of the right of il
suffrage. Tie election in Tennessee, ex- 7
,ept in East Tennessee, was perfect farce.
Let me give you some facts. In the CITY 9
Of Nashville the full vote is 5000. Not.
$500 voters had left provi-
ous to the election. and 700 Union men
did not vote q. all. reducing the number of '