Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-10-31
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SPEECH BY PARSON BROwMLCW.

Last Saturday Parson Brownlow addressed
monster meeting in Chicago with one o
his characteristic speeches, from which WI
make the following extuacts. You will mis-:
treat should you fail to read them:
Z LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: From much
public speaking recently, l find myself to
nigh. so worn in body andso floarse in voice
that do not know how Tang shall be ablt
to address you on this OCCASION; but viii
attempt to interest you for while if car
make myself heard. never appeared before
Northern audience in my life without some
degree of embarrassment, owing to the diff.
ference between the'manner of warfare on
the stump in the North and that which is
used at the South and if in what shall say
of the ..thors Of this infamous rebellion and
their most contemplate sympathizers at the
North. I shall deal with them roughly and
handle them without gloves, the audience
will credit it to my manners and education.
In the North, I understand, when in q
speech man meets false statement in a
speaker or writer, he says" that statement
is not exactly in accordance with the facts -
but in the country in which I was raised we
are in the habit of using little different
phrase; we brand the statement as vile ca
lumny, and the man whe made it MS an un.
miticatsd liar. Laughter and applause.
I believe, as l have believed from the first,
that we are in the midst Of a war Inaugural
ted by the Southern conspira.ors. deny
that this is an Abolition war, inauguratcd by
Abolitionists. Applause. But the men Of
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Geor-
ia and all the powers Of hell inaugurated this
z hcllish war. Great applause. 1t erigina-
tod in the South with the worst mon that
ever God Almighty permitted to breathe the
air of Heaven, and If you have State prison
in Illinois
A VOORHEES,, a strong one. ....
Mr.. BRowNLow-A gentleman says you
have pcnitentiary in Illinois. OF course
must be stranger to the inmates OF that in
stitution laughter, but declare in the fear
of God tonight that one half-yes, two-thlrds
of the men in the Illinois penitentiarry are
better men than any Of the leaders Of the re-
bellion at the South [cheers,l and If | We're
not afraid, tomorrow being Sunday. OF bring.
ing on my head controversy with some Of
the Gle, gymen, many of whom are no doubt
in this large assembly, would give it as my
honest conviction that there are better mer
in hell tonight than the leaders of this re-
bellion. Immense cheering and laughter.
Then, gentlemen, take the ground thai
= we are in the midst Of wicked rebellion
for which there is and never has been any
lust or sufficient cause. And | 60 further
Than this-I make my statement still stron
ger and more emphatic We are in the mids
Of . rebellion for which there is not, ant
never has existed, even the shadow Of pre-
text. ...... ..... ..s.....
Speaking of Northern men with Southern
principles, the speaker said:
The last enc of those that was made tn
cats. paw of, and the meanest one Of tn
whole crowd, by any odds, was the old Pub
lie Functionary of Pennsylvania. [Roars
taugter.l An old man whose heart and sou
Is with the rebellion to night. That's true.
have canvassed the State of Pennsylvania
I have been In Lancaster, and all about owe
that country. have not talked with him per
sonally. have net got SO low yet Laugh
teri But csnversed with reliable and in
teiligent Pennsylvanians of high standing AM
integrity, who had conversed with him, t
whom he said, "This war is all wrong;
ought to be stopped. We ought to stop it
We can never subdue this people. They ar
not the people to be conquered" and so on
evidently showing by the tenor and tone
his conversation, that he is with the enemy
You and admit that it ought to be stopped
that it is all wrong; but who inaugul ated
who forced it upon the people? Not tn
Government that is now prosecuting the war
but those against whom the Government il
prosecuting it with increased strength ant
vigor. am not here to reflect upon any o
you for having supported in the Presidential
contest Of 1856, James Buchanan. My skirts
are clear of that. But all these ladies know
that you did wrong in giving him your Votes
Ladies, you and know that any man wht
lives 80 years on this earth of ours withou
counting woman and marrying a wife, is no
tit for wolfbait. Much merriment ane
cheers.
When jeff. Davis made his first levy o
troops, was editing paper at Knoxville
East Tennessee paper they crushed on
this day twelve months ago. That makes
this nay anniversary you know. Laughter.
On the 25th of October last, they crushed tn
most widely circulated paper that floated owe
JEFF. Davis ungodly dominions at that time
and the only religious paper OF any dcnomin
'ation in the entire Confederacy, laughter,
and God knows my Knoxville Wig was no
pious enough to hurt. Roars of laughter.
The rebel soldiers used to meet me on tn
streets and commence cursing and BLACKBOARD
ing me: ".Why don't go in for jeff. Dayi
and my native South 7" Drunk on lneal
whiskcy-for the first levy they brought int
the field were not the flower of the Southern
youth as they said-not the best blood Of tn
South; but the rag-tag and bob-tail OF South
ern society. SaidI What are you goin!
into this war for ~ "We are going in TO
our rights" "Nhat rights have you lost ?
"The right, by Cd, to carry our negroes
into the territories when, to my persona
knowledge, for no man in the South knows
more men than do, two thirds Of the who'll
army at that time, never owned negro il
the world and never were related by affinit.!
or consanguinity to any man that ever did O.
ever will own negro. [Great laughter ane
applause
may say tonight, honestly, and in tin
fear of God, before this vast audience, they
are not fighting for the negro. They MAKE
that the prctext. They have thrust the ne
gro forward. They make that the bone 0
contention. think it perfectly right tina
the Federal army should accept the chaIleng
take up the glove they have thrown dowI
pick up the niger and worry them will
the niger until they have their fill of tn
nioOer ApnIanse I shall have occasion