Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-08-16
n un1b@r 81.
BrOwnlow on the Rebellion.


port of Porson Brownlow's speech at Hartford
Connecticut
He began by alluding to the desperate char
! acter OF the men who have control OF secession
in the South, aud said he believed there were
better men in our State Prison to day and far
better men now IN hell IChecrSl lie eNid ne
would give bit of his personal history. lie
was born in Virginia and was quite n curiosity,
as he was the only Virgnan this audience had
ever seen who was descendant of the second
family of that State, ali the Others being +. +.
VS., aud he thought that from the receut
achievements of Mcclellan [immense applHusel
aud that thorough going and brave man Ere
mont [great applause, they had right to be
called Fleet footed Nirginians." While he had
no preiudccs against slavery, and was himself
stakeholder, aud thought the Government should
protect the Union men of the South in their
rights of property. he thought they also ought TO
condscate every bit of property of all the lead
ing rebels, both their negroes aud their Internal
nccks. The Snnth talk of negro stealing by the
h" Lincoln hurdles, but know and say, that du'
ring the past year more slaves hare been stolen
from thc border States and taken south by rehel
negro thieves than were ever stolen III forty
years by the AboIitonists of the North
lie said the real reason OF the rebellion was
that the South lost the power. lie supported
Bell aud Everett aud it turned out to be
" Kangaroo ticket, with its strength all in the
hind legs Mr.. BELL, he said, had been forced
into secession to save himself lrum being hung,
and Mr.. Everett was yet true to his principles,
" Some supported DoUglns aud Johnson-not
bad ticket, for Judge Duugla. was true Union
man, aud were he living AS would to Cod lie
wcre--hc would he found in the army OF the
! Union, battling, for the stars and stripes" some
/ supported breckenridge and Lane, the m'anest,
! dirty tools and infamous cats-pawo of the seccs
| sionsts of the South, aud, before God the
mraneot ticket in the canvass. some supported
/ Lincoln aud llamiu and successfully too. AS
soon as the fact of their election was known, |
came out and said it was the duty of all to sus.
tain aud obey the Administrations" The South
went to fight for thrr rights, aud they mighttud
! them in the Gulr of Mexico, into which he hoped
| our armies would drive them, as the devils did
| the hogs in old times Tie said the South was
/ TO blame for the war, They had their own way,
since the country was formed, elected their own
men, and used Northern men to do their dirty
work. "Jeems Buchanan was sold, body, soul,
aud breCGhcs, to the South and even now, at
Wheathud, his sympathics are with the South"
iuish to state, as matter cf history, that Jet
DdUis had SeueH ICgm6Bts armed ruth mashe7 StottH
/ Jy Floyd, sent up into East Tennessee, and beng
drilled, epeR dctQre LlaeQia tras lEGugurqtal lie
then stated that there was Union majority of
10000 in Tennessee alluded to the recent good
news from Memphis, and said the Union feeling
was equally strong to bis personal Knowledge IN
! the northern part OF Georgia, North Carolina,
| Alabama and Arkansas. The Union men were,
| however, being shot down aud rotting in prisons,
and he hoped soon to return to point out to
our troops the leading traitors and convenient
limbs to which TO hang them" An election
came off at Knoxville just before he lett in
which the Union meu elected their ticket two to
one, Notwithstanding 200 drunken rebel soldiers
rOamed up and down the streets, endeayoriug TO
intlmidate them.
" Union men fill the jails and load the gallows
of the south" lie was himself arrested 10y the
keeper OF forty second class hotel in Nashville,
ON a warrant drawn by man drummed out Of
Zolllcoters army iOr stealing refused bail or
fair trial, aud confined with other prisoners in
common Jail, of which the only articles Of lurni
ture were u bucket aud two tin dppers. The
water we had to drink | found some sentinels
washing ia once, and on my protesting, they
said, the water Jcif. Davis man washes in is
good enough for any damned LncOlnite TO
drink" Mr.. BrownloW gave a terrible account
OF the horrid cruellics inflicted on Union prison
ers a liue man, named Horn was once called
/ to be hung lie requested that u well-known
Methodist preacher be summoned to pray with
! hun. The reply was, God hears no prayers for
damned traitors aud Liuculutes,'" and he was
| taken TO the scallud When my wife came North
| in pursuit Of me she saw his widow pluwug to
raise corn 10 support her fatherless children,
/ And yet you have men ia this city of Hartford,
mean enough uuprlucIpled enough, black heart
/ cd enough internal enough, to sYmpathlse with
/ hlu dpUlOBlLt DI lutae Helll5u tnlhCIeaulS. ~ /
| owed the devil Il dozen Of the meanest mis-
creauts in human society, aud | wanted to get
| premium On the payment would turn over 20
his satanic Majesty dozen Northern men who
! sympathzG with this internal rebellion. (TGuu-
dcuug cries Of Hit EN- again.'D Ii | should,
| should violate the Tennessee statute which lur-
bids cruelty to brutes They ought to be rode
! ou u raI out OF town, aud It IL can be done to-
morrow morning, / II lead the way" (ApplauseD
MIR. BrOWuluw then related several instances,
for the truth Of which he vouched, Of iuhuman
bdrbdrIties ON the part OF the rebels. A Mir,
ilammun aud son were taken forth together aHd
the young man was first swung oil The father
turned away his face Ia agony, but they brulally
pushed his head around aud made him witness
The dying struggles OF his son. In his agony he
tainted, aud was pr0pped up aud hung amid
cheers and the secession a" females " waving
their handkercheis. Two men, named lI9stie
aud Lay, were hung by Colonel Leadbcater
from Maine, alongside the track, aud the trsiss
! went slowly by IA order that the passe gefs
might punch aud kick their dead bodes
prominent citizen, named Madison Gates, lsy
SICK unto death, his mp bone worn through The
SKIN, aud with 40 covering save piece OF car
/ pet, aud admlttaHCe to the prison was brutally
denied his vile, VINO came to see him. The rebela
touk two men IN Knoxville, laid them on logs
[ tied their wrists and ankles beneath them, aud
cut their backs intO pieces with lashes, because
/ they refused TO volunteers aud when the Circuit
| Court met, aud the case was brought up, tbs
! Judge said, These are revolutionary times and
/ there Is no remedy" Such is secession, and [
am an advocate Of cnerclOn-ut subugatlon -- Of
eXtermiHallun." we want @ new set down
/ oOuth-cIviliZed men"