The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-10
Ex-Governor Neil :. Browns Speech.

CEN speech OF Ex-Governor Brown OF 1ennessee'
made at ii Union meeting at Columbia ia that
State, While his appeals are manly to the sell
ish and merccnary passions OF his hearers INC
Speech is yet ia very iorciLic argument 10 those
who, with The speaker, nave been IN rebellion
rebeis aoI Union men, and se.y likely he could
press them with no stronger motive to return 10
Jhejr obedlence ami loyalty t"an to show them
that rebellion was u failure.
These were ma, cd strange and trou bled times.
FOR twelve months, CiVll Wur, with all lte heTce
passions, fierce resent.nentS ana bloody br0iIS,
mad Ia rd over our borders, aud MS State, once
bright planet III the galaxy ol The Union, had
raised the standard 0! revolt and joined the
Southern COnederacy. lie declared thut lie
wa, NOT, and never had been, and never could
be ID secessonot He had devoted the prime OF
his mauhoou to the service of the Union, and
could never cease to love IL But last spring,
against my earnest counsel and my deliberate
judgement, repeatedly expressed III public, the
question OF disunlon was raised, and supported
by influential leaders and Il powerful anu active
party The people seemed hurried off by frenzy.
irresistible as that which breaks its ley cable
and glides on its mission Of ruin from Alpioe
summit, when he saw that he could no longer
struggle to any purpose against the tremendous
storm, he determined, come veal, come woe, he
would stand by Tennessee: His opposition
would have been useless any longer. II would
have ended IN street hrol and !ata! altercatlUns
He felt the State was gone Tor the present.
Old friends, once his ardent supporters, cursed
him AS a Black Republican, Llnconlte, an Abb
oitlonlst. HIS mind w.4s tortured. AT tilues,
he would feel though he would Ike to fly
the country, and leave scene OF horror and
OF misery Tor when he H1 no appetite
But be lcit tnar this would DC untDanly, and
that he would stay and use his influence 10 mod
crate the tnry OF others, and protect his Old
friends. HIS prayer, like that ot McGrcSor, was
that the heather winch ne trod alone might
bloom over aim dead. lie did what he felt Was
his duty, but ne tets disconsolatt, heartbroken,
unhappy. He WOULD rather die 'han lead IL life
made OF such dark aud dEeary and bitter years
rs the one tIrOugh which ht h.d JnSt &ss-d.
lie had seen young men, the HOPE anG flower Ot
the STATE, disseminated, wandering hl:her ana
thIther, scattercl NC" from the prisons along
the NuItnurn lakes to the maIsacs auQ cane
brakes IN the interior o. M,ss!ssi ppl. He would
not 20 into d discussion Of tins controversy or
It's causes Whether the North was right, or
tbe South, OF whether DO, were wrong. il Was
not his purpose 10 argue. lie wished only to
say that 10 his deliberate aud settled judgement
taking all the iacs as they now present them
selves, INTO consideration, he was bound TO de-
clare thar this rebellion was played QUIT was
an utter failure. He had ties the dearest in ma
ture to the Southern side. His only brother was
Il prisoner, and his two SONS were IN the South
ern army, and TO day he would give his right
arm to bring them back. lie never asked them
to 70 there. They went against his Judgment.
IL was his solemn duty t, tell his old friends
that the c. Moderate cause was ruined and
hopelessly lost. lie never had been despond-
ing man, but for months he had felt no faith in
the rebellion lie had not scrupled to say 50 20
all his friends The longer it lasts the worse it
will be for the South. lie had the satisfaction
of knowing that he never asked a man t, vote
the Secession ticket. All he did say thai
If Tennessee voted herself out Of the Union she
conld take him with her, butshc could not make
him vote Secession. Blu, leaving this he would
address the very fercest and most rabid secession
Ist alive.
The North and the South are equally brave
No Northern man can whip three Southeners-
no brave Southern man can whip three North
erners. All men OF sense know this to be fact.
Now he did not for u long time believe that this
trouble would end in war. He thought y hen
Tennessee was armng herself the storm would
blow over. lie did not even think there would
be a war after the battle of Manassas, for re
looked on that Us d bloody fray brought on by
accident rather than as pitched battle. Ii
proved rothing. But he was mistaken. We
have war, and how small We stop It's ravsges and
avert the certain ruin Ii Is bringing on us Ii
you would stare death in the face jus, look 1T the
matter fairly, and see what hope YOU have in the
adventure. Missouri to-day Is in the posse ,slon
of the Federal troops. 50 s a large part OF Ar
kansas. The Confederates seized the strong Odds
of Kentucky, and after having fortified them
strongly were driven out. Maryland was fu ly
under the Federal power a large part of Nlr-
GINA was under the same control, and the Fed
eral troops were still advancing and the Confed-
crates falling back toward the South. Every
day the Union army in force TIN ealens the gates
of Richmond. Middle Tennessee is in the L mon
lines, and East and West Tennessee will soon be 80
So is large part OF North CarolInn, MISSES p
p, and of Florida The Federal flag floats vic
toriously over the soil of every Southern State
Where is The Southern army 1t was lately a
Cornlh. He had been waiting anxiously to
that cloud to break, that some light might shin,
upon US. lie was willing to see the Conteder
ates have fair trial And they have retreate,
he knew not whittier
Now, what must we do as Tsnnesseeans Sh,
is lost to the Southern C"z.S;;iio:acy forever
| The Confederates cannot rcnState themselves
They have got neither men, arms, ammunition
gunboats or navy. Some prolessed to feel hu