Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-14
East Tennessee.

Below We copy an interesting portion Of the
speech Of Rev. Mr. Garter of Els, tennessee,
at Jo1per Institute, New York
usr TENNESSEE STRUGGLING AND WAITING FOR
pELyERANCE,
intended to tell YOU something about East
Tennessee. |; Is bright spot in tals Union TO
night fAppAuse. You know nothing Of our
suasging. You occasionally read something
in tie newspapers about Ets. Tennessee but
you have never stopped as hay3, and looked at
All the particulars, auxlously, eagerly. | am
afraid detain Won too long f. TO on 60 on !
EaS: Tennessee Is separated from Middle ana
West Tennessee by the Cumberland Mountains,
running in s0uth-wcsicrly direction Il is
open both to the west and south west, the north
aud the north east, by direct railroad commu
nication with Rchm nd, savannah, Charleston,
Memphis, Nashville, ana other places Her
voting population is about T. 0OO. As my
friend told You, it isa beautiful, lovely country,
hotl IN climate and soil, and the people being
ompaTatlyely pooy-th4t is, IN comparison with
tha merchant rrincs ct Boston and New York
were, consequently allow me to say, more
vr,uous laughter and applause, and more
loyal 70 the lag OF cur country. Renewed APP
p!ause. ltls notorious in the history Of tue
wo7id, that when patriotism dies ont IN the
lowands, YOU End ll living in the mountains
You have seen the sun 20 down and thought It
had set, aud you turned your eyes 20 some lofty
hill, and saw It's radiance still bright. While
all the lowlands are dlrk with treason, the sun
light OF loyalty still shines upon the hills OF
East Tennessee. lCheers la the vote OF the
9.h OF June, 1901, the vote for separation was
l4,O00, against 50 0O0 IN opposition. Do you
know, to night that out OF that 33 600 voters,
tull 5000 are in the army of the United States.
Cheers You may not know that the men
who aided in capturing Cumberland Gap, and
IN defending 1t for three long months, were, the
larger portion OF them, standing in sight of their
own homes and hearth.stones. Have you any
such patriotism as that in New York? ? (' Have
not had a chance to try Has New York
poured out full one fourth of her voting popu-
lation Tor this war aud have they travelled un-
armed midst brstliug bayonets to tender their
services? Applause How did East T9nnes-
scans come to the Unled States army? They
took their lives in their hands, and by day and
night, oyir rugged roads, assaied at every by
path, came into Kentucky and offered their ser
wees to their country, Cheers for them,
bub 1Nu Mltu W klluN uuN bASb lcuueSSee
happens to remain loyal. The world does not
know much about how we have remained, al
most unit for the Government, notwithstaud-
,ng thousands and tens of thousands Of rebel
soldiers were daily passing from one end OF
East Tennessee to the other, because that rail-
road has been the great artery in the Southern
War without 1t they could not have lived We
had tree speech there. That is the way most
men account for the loyalty Of East Tennessee
There we had lew mi.yiduals, such as John
son, cheersl Maynard, remple, rrlgs and
Brownlow, who had tie moral courage to face
death IN every form rather than hold their
peace. Applause But stlll that was not the
way we nad free speech. We bought it liter.
ally at the point oIthe bayoaet, have spoken
myself again aud again to the people in East
tennessee, with five hundred Unon rifles gls.
teaing in ranks close by. la other words,
East Tennessee is loyal to-day because she has
always had courage to stand up for the Govern
ment Threat apphWe Toere she stands to.
day, unchanged, as dnmoyed as her everlasting