Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-17
From the Nashville Unicn.
THE FOURTH IN NASHVILLE.

uoVernor johnson Oelng long ana loud
ly called for, appeared amid deafening
and enthusiastic cheering. He said it
had been his fixed determination not to
speak again in Nashville without prepa
ration. He had spoken so often in this
place that he feared his remarks would
grow stale. Shouts of GO on go on n
He came here tonight to listen to a dis
tinguished gentleman who was prevented
by sickness from attending, and with no
expectation of speaking himself. But as
no one else seemed to be willing to speak,
he would contribute his mite to the enter
tainment, if possible, of this vast, orderly
and intelligent audience. From the first
of this wicked rebellion he had made up
his mind as to his duty, and survive or
perish, sink or swim, he was determined
to fight it through to the end. He was
soldier for the war. He had been de-
nounced, calumniated and traduced as
traitor for his devotion to his country.
but chall nged any one to point to any
act where he had violated his duty or his
oath of office. In fighting under the old
flag tor the Union, he was but conforming
to the principles he had avowed from his
earliest manhood. He had always stood
before the people as the advocate of pop
ular government, against the government
of property, as democrat in the true and
primary sense of that word. And tonight
he appeared to defend the great princi-
pies of civil and religious liberty. In our
old contests, political parties contended
whose policy was best adapted to promote
the good and prosperity Of the Govern
ment and of the Union-but now the
great question was, shall the Government
and the Union exist, or shall they perish?
There were only two parties now-one
composed of the friends, the other of the
foes of the Union. And although dema-
gogues attempted to raise the cry of Sla-
very and Abolition, the real question to
be decided was, "Shall. free government
live on the Western Continent ?" Be as
sured that this is the question which un-
ivrl;ea sha ""hh;Sh and rant of corrupt
and reckless office hunters.
NGgIUSS CldNCll DOulucIu lhgUIS
Coercion What terrible bug-uoals a.
friehten timid people, and blind them to
| the real point at issue. He asked the vast
multitude before him, What Southern
right any one of them had lost in the
Union Did it ever rob or impoverish !?
Did it ever detraud or oppress you p
Then if you have lost no right, why all
these vast armies Why these bayonets,
and cannons, and fleets, and tented fields !?
Why all these new made graves and
oceans of blood Why are hundreds OF
you coming to the Capitol praying for the
release OF your deluded boys ? He could
tell why. 1t was because some corrupt
and reckless politicians wanted place and
power. They were determined to rain
the country if they could not govern the
whole Unon--they were determined to
govern part. He knew these Southern
politicians, Yancey, Toombs, Davis, Wig
fall, Mason, Benjamin and others well,
for he had served with them for two years
in Congress. He was familiar with their
views and feelings, and having watched
their course closely, believed that he un-
derstood their motives clearly. He sat
side by side with them when they pro-
fessed that they wanted a compromise
with the North. But the journals of Con-
gress proved that these traitors had an
opportunity to get the compromise they
professed to desire, and yet they allowed
it to be defeated when their vote would
have obtained it. They talked hypocrit.
ically. A settlement of difficulties was the
very last thing that these rebel Senator:
wanted. They sought continually how
they might defeat a peaceable settlemen
of the questions in dispute. They TOOK
their seats in the Federal Congress for the
J purpose of breaking up the Union, ant
founding one which they could CONTROL
They succeeded, unhappily for the coun
try, in plunging us into bloody anC
cruel and unhoy war. A war, for what
Why this fearful sacrifice of life-thi
blight upon the happiness of once hap
py people People of Davidson county
what have you lost that you should 60 t,
war ? ask those thoughtless boys wh'
have returned from the rebel army, tn
quickest way they could, how many ne
groes they had lost by the Abolitionists
You were induced and cajoled by ricI
r rebels, and threatened into the army t
: fight against your country !; but when yo1
t returned, didn't you find these aristocrat
ic chivaIry sitting snugly at home ? Th
: very men who were most clamorous 70
:, Southern rights were the very last to G
), into the army to fight for them, but the
were busy in getting others to 60.
The chivalry champions of Souther
t rights indeed! Why they have robbie
: and plundered and devastated the Soutt
: They have made East Tennessee a deser
4 because her people are loyal. | am
i. slave-owner myself, not by inheritance
: but by hard labor-and they not onl
$ robbed me of my negroes, but turned M