Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-08

roads. assRiled at every by path, came iuto
Kentucky aud offered their services to their
country. (Cheers for them.) But YOU
wish TO know how & ct Tennessee happens
to remain loyal. The world doeA not know
much about how we have remained, almost
unit for the Government, notwitbstaud-
ing thousands and tens OF thousands Of
rebel soldiers we're daily passing from one
end of East Tennessee to the other,
because that railroad has been the
great artery in the Southern war
without it they could not have lived
We had free speech there. That is the way
most men account for the loyalty of East
Tennessee. There we bad few individuals
such as johnson. [cheersl Maynard, Tenn
Pile, Trigg aud BroWnloW, who bad the
moral courage TO face death in every form
rather than hold their peace. lAppIause.
But still that was not the way we had free
speech. We bought il literally at the point
OF the baYonet. have spoken myself again
and again to the people in East Tennessee,
with Eve hundred Union rifles glistening
in ranks close by. In other words, East
Tennessee is loyal to-day because she has
always had courage to stand up for the
Government, and suffer for that Govern
meut. (Great applause.) There she stands
to-day, unchanged, as immoVAble as her
NNGAAaSAlH6 AltA9s SuGk bGAOE6 4 lGAk SuLu-
berland Gap, had a part in sending a man
to the railroad, about seventy Eve miles
distant. He had to go through u body OF
rebel troops, which Gen. Morgan was afraid
to attack with 10 600 good troops, aud yet
in four days that man raised 500 good men
aud brought them safely to Cumberland
Gap, in a body and unarmed. Why, fell
low-citizens, if l could go home tonight,
| could raise regiment utimmediately. Can
you do that here, noW2 How stands our
case, now? II looks dark enough. How
do you suppose the loyal people of East
Tennessee feel when they see their fathers
and brothers obliged to turn their backs
to the enemy and flee two hundred miles
Oil could weep, to night, for l know
they are sad. know some Of them shout
ed, Glory to God ~ when they saw the
old flag once more. For fifteen long
months we have beseeched this Govern
meut-begged, prayed, and Wept-and yet
salvation seems farther of than ever; and
IL they put me in prison for it will say it,
we have got some of the most triiing,
political Generals that the world ever saw.
Applause. Just as a specimen of Cen
eralship: If eight hundred unarmed men
could come seVenty-fiTe mile from the rail-
road to Cumberland Gap, said TO the
General in command, can't your troops go
their and break the backbone Of the Rebel
lion. FellOw-citiEens, beg your pardon
for having talked to you SO long. beg
leave to say to you in conclusion, though
am Southern man by birth, and all have
on earth is there; though hope yet to
live aud die and be buried with my fatb-
ersi though all my feelings are Southern,
have no prejudices against you of New
York look upon you as ny friends, be-
cause you hre the friends of the county
1 rejoice in your greatness aud prosperity.
because claim a share in the glory for
the South. also beg leave to remark
that have no prejudices against the Pre-
sident OF the United States. He is my Pres
ident as we'll as your President. He is my
servant as we'll as your servant, and
promise both you and him that the obe-
dience which always rendered him shall
be continued unto the bitter end-(cheers)
-and if, in the providence Of God, AbrR-
ham Lincoln shalt be able 10 bring our
country through the feEy and bloody or
deal, no man will unite more cheeFfalIy
than will in crOwuIug him the Second
Father of his Country. (Great applause,
and three cheers for Mr. CArrer.)