Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-07
Johnson.

II Let tue O5uh'oi hoi' >
land follow the bloody banner it b
| desires it. But he tells US he Is
man Of peace; he never had any in
ention to invade South Carolina
never believed be had. He alluded
to E,op' fables yesterday. There
lis another fable Of E-op's that hs
possibly has read. There vas Ger
Tain man who, after the fighting wa'
over, was taken prisoner. lie asked
to be treated with mercy. tie said
he had done nothing. They asked
him what he was doing thereG He
said he had been blowing horn;
be was trumpeter; and they took
him out and executed him. He had
created all the confusion; he bad been
tagging others On, but had taken
no part in it himself. Thus. the Sen
aior from Tennessee is aging on the
Black Republicans, declaring that
the People of Tennessee will submit
| to the iron rule of despotism; Urging
and advising that the cotton States
shall be crushed, that blood shall
Aow. that our fields shall be enriched
With human flesh aud whitened WITH
Ihunlau bones. That is what be ad
,ises; and yet he is peace man!
1t is very easy fer bystandefs to
make observations. 1t is very easy
to get up heleio the s Fate and talk
about enforcing the laws. 1t Is
quite diff rent thing to undertake
the enforcement yourself--a work
that l apprehend the Ssna'or from
Tennessee speaks truly when he says
he will never undertake.
He alluded to Shakespeare yester-
dav. There was another paragraph
or scene that he might we'll have
quoted, had be been disposed. l re-
collect, that the gallant Hotspur,speak-
log to kia, as TO the delivery OF
his prisoners, said be answered indii.
fere ntly, he knew not what. for he
was mad to see poppinjay discourse
..of guns and drums, and wounds (God save
the mark!'D
n
"And that it was great pity, so it was,
That villai nous saItpeter should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly and but for these vile guns,
He would himself be en- soldier"
ne COMPARES JOHNSON AND HELPER To
HELPER S ADVANTAGE.
The Senator from Tenness ee,
;hopgh, by way of making him
self agreeable 10 bis Free-soil allies,
and BY way Of keeping Tennessee
from going with her sisters Of the
South, asserts that If the Union
is to pc dissolved. he hopes that the
line will not BE- between the non-
tslavehoIding and the slaveholding
States. Ha would have Tennessee
tackled on to the tail of a Black r.
publican Confeder tion. He says
that he has seen somewhere that
South Carolina and Mississippi and
Louisiana, or some, or all oil them,
are indisposed TO confederate with
any nop-slaveholding State. / have
been no evidence myself; but be as.
serted it. ADMIT it to be true. =
He says that indispcsition to ccnfed,
crate With non-s!avebolding States
is the result Of a belief that non
shareholders are not safe to be trust
ed With the protection Of the insti
tuition Of slavery; ergo, the Senator
says that after We have a eonfeder
alton Of slaveholding States. non
Shareholders in our own States viii
be deprived OF all political power
for. says be, if it is not safe to con
feaerate With nou-slavehoiding States
then It il unsafe to allow men VIII
do not own negroes in your owl
! States to exercise political power
i They .alk abont the Helper book
| they talk Of sixty-eight Black Repub
leans sisning It. ! lave never rea'
!, It. ! have seen some extracts from
il, and | apprehend they are the mos
offensive in it. But ! will say thi
i thug fol Helper, that he never hal
j, devised. be has never imagined, b
has neter written anything, that va
more unsound and reasonable TO sh
South, than uhatthe Senator Of aslave
IhoIding State has uttered upon lhi
floor. Applause in the galleries
The presiding officer Mr. Foot
/ = Order.
q Mr. Wigfall-Sir, does be wish a
s.irreprsssible conflict in our ow
\ country? Dses he risb to prelud.c