Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-09-12

OF OHIO THAT ENTERED INTO IT THEN
YOU HAD BETTER LOOK OUT
FOR DOMESTIC TRAITORS AT
HOME. l make this prediction to.
night-TRat If the Southern army eve,
oppears upon the banks Of the Ohio river,
t6ey ,cM Be found as thick as Naek6er-
ries even here. Great applause. AT.
ter these general remarks l shall speaE
to you Of the means to which our enc
mics resorted in my county, to carry
their point. Most Of what shall say
now will have reference to my owl
State. wish to let you into the secrets
Of the movements of Secession leaders
where I have seen them, and know
the truth Of what / affirm, Ths 6rsl
step that our rulers in the State Of Ten
nessee took to accomplish the ruin o.
our State was this: The last Office.
holder in the whole crew pe1ured him.
self. Having done that, they were pre-
pared for any wickedness that might
follow. Applause.
The second step taken was this:-
They flooded our country, especially
through the newspapers and the tel-lie'
graph, with the most perfect and com
plete catalogue of falsehoods the world
ever heard. 1t would require booE
bigger than the Bible to record the
hundredth part of the lies circulated in
the State of Tennessee alone laugh.
terI-for the telegraph every morning
brought one that would fill at least q
hundred pages. Laughter.
After passing off these ialsehoods,
they began deliberately to rob our
mails. They did it long before Ten
nessee seeded, and they did it by the
special sanction of King Harris
Laughter l left home in July. For
five weeks / was the best Know No
thing you ever saw. l didn't know
anything except Secession falsehoods.
I took half dozen papers daily and
weekly. There l sat every morning.
could not get to read anything except
these awful lies every morning. Tre-
mendous fight at Harper's Ferry. Sew
en- thousand Federal troops killed, and
two thousand taken prisOners--Mr,
Seward has become dissatisfied with
the Lincoln Administration and has
resigned-won't have anything to do
with it. Next morning Gen. Scott has
resigned. Next morning that was con-
tradicted. Gen. Scott had not resigned
but Abe Lincoln had him a prisoner al
Washington. That was calculated to
have ruined any Unionism in East Ten
nessee. But the biggest lie was the
statement being extensively circulated
too-tbat Abraham Lincoln intended
to set our niggers free and make our
daughters marry them. Laughter.
have heard respectable men and wo.
men declare that in the hearing Of the
people. / looked at them right in the
eye and told them sit is lie." Ap-
plause.
Citizens OF Ohio, the most Of our
people deserve your pity-not your in
dignalion. When truth is excluded
from them--by men to whom they have
been in the habit Of looking for instruc.
ton and advice and information-is il
any wonder that many of them should
60 astraY.
Again, in the next place, they set al
defiance some Of our State laws. Thal
Legislature was the worst body Of men,
the most corrupt body Of men that ever
convened on earth. IL was so wicked,
so vile and corrupt, that last January,
when we begged some Of our Union
members to go back, some Of US fell
almost ashamed to ask honest men to
go into such bad company. They de-
liberately trsmbled 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 Con-
stitulion of the State requires men to
be residents of a county six months be-
fore they can vote in it. In our election
there, volunteers voted wherever they
happened to be. Men who came from
Davidson county voted in the city Of
Knoxville, and SO in every town in East
Tennessee.
In the next place, they overthrew the
Constitution Of the United States be-
fore the State "seceded." don't ad-
nit that East Tennessee has seeded,
and don't want any one to say that l
came from the Southern Coniederacy.
Lsughter.] They deliberately disre-
garded the Constitution Of tbs United
States. That instrument forbids any
State entering into a league with any
State or nation other than the United
States. Yet our State, before any
Secession entered into league with the
Southern Confederacy. [Applause.
Again, they denied us the freedom Of
speech. Now. my friend { Mr.. john
son) knows that west Of the Cumber-
land mountains in Middle and West
Tennessee, for some time previous to
the election, no mere man dared to
open his lips upon the stump. They
tried the same game in East Tennessee.
l want to tell these people how we had
free speech. How did we happen to
have free discussion? Shortly after
Mr.. johnson returned from Congress,
he and Mr.. Nelson tried to speak at
Allensburg. They interfered with
them so, that their speeches amounted
to nothing, At the town OF Browns