Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-01

S'"***""" " Gst WY Y. MAY l. 1862.
 PARsoN BRowNLow ON SECESSION
 Wecopy the following extracts of the speecl
 of Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee. made in In
 dianapolis, Ind on his way east. It gives ,
 frightful, but not overwrought picture of tn,
 barbarism of the Southern Confederacy:
 Gov. Morton introduced. Mir. Brownlow. wht
 spoke at length of the causeess character of thu
 rebellion, and it's disastrous effects, and was fire
 quently cordially cheered by his large audience
 He gave an account of his ancestry, and showed
 how they had all been engaged in the service o
 the country, and always true to its flag and prln
 ciples He said he had been called a traitor b,
 R. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina Rhett,
 said he, was named R. Barnwell Smith, but tn,
 Smiths being all tories during the Revelation, b,
 was allowed by legislative act to call himssl
 Rhett. He call me traitor,' said the iron ole
 Parson indignantly, when his illustrious ances tors were hunted by Marion through all the mos quite swamps of South Carolina lUproariou' cheers and laughter.) He commented ct con
 siderable lengthon the rebellion. and its lead CTS, and declared. with great emphasis, that 'i il | the issue was to be made between the Union
 without slavery, and slavery without the Union he was for the Unlon and let slavery perish.-
 Great applause.) Let every institution die first and the religion of Jesus Christi he was for the Union.' Tremendous cheers.)
 In May last the South began 10 pour stream as hot and ugly as Hell itself from the Gulf States through Eastern Tennessee, towards Richmond and Manassas, and Norfolk and Lynchburgh. in the shape of rebel soldisry armed with side knives and tomahawks, drink ing gallons untold of bad whiskey, and boosting largely and savagsly enough of the things they should do in Washington. Iaughter.) had an old banner, the stars and stripes, floating from the top of my house, on Main street, in Knox vile, Tenn, in conspicuous part of the city, They began to come to pay their respects to us frequently q regiment at time. Whole reg. inents of wharf rats, from New Orleans and Mobile, as ugly and disgusting as they were vii clous, would come at one, now and then, to give old Brownlow turn, as they expressed it,
 They would en masse come across the river on the bridge, surround my house, yell, throw stones, blackguard my wife and family, dare me to come out of doors, and TOW and then accep ted their invitations and made them the best bow could. l have, time and again, gone out aud given them very frankly and unreservedly my settled opinion of the whole concern, from Jeff Davis down, assuring them that my scorn and contempt for them and the Southern Con- federacy was unutterable, and then, making them the best bow could, would go back into the house and leave them to groan and yell around the house till they saw proper to quit. This course they have steadily kept up all the year. And yet all this. time was reading in the papers of Charleston and Savannah and Richmond that the Confederate army was composed of the flow CT and promise of the Southern States. l told my wife that if those miserable, God-forsaken whelps that were screaming like devils around our house almost half of every day were the flower of the Southern Confederacy, my prayer would be--God save us from the rabble.
 On the 9th day of November last, We had an election in the Southern States for President and Vice President of the Southern Confedera- cy, with only two candidates in the feld-Jef Dayis and little Alex. Stephens of Georga.- And when we, of Eastern Tennessee, came to vote at that election, we did not vote at all, but we positively and utterly refused to have any thing at all to do with it. The Sherifs, who were Union men, refused to open the polls. or to hold an election, thus giving the candidates tke cold shoulder, and manfestlng our contempt for the whole concern And gentlemen, you cannot fail to be surprised when announce to you the fact that the great State of Tennessee, casting net less than 10000 votes as her ordinary vote gave Jeff Davis and his colleague in villainy 8 miserable vote of 25,OO0. These two men are to day holding their offices by the vote of a mis- erably lean minority of the people of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee was driven out of the Union at the point of the bayonet. The miser- able rebel soldiery were stationed at the polls, wherever poll was opened, with orders to pre- appear from depositing his vote.
 We had thousands of good Union men, men of good .lporals, members of churches, Metho- dists, Baptists and others who had no desire to be involved in difficulty, who saw that nothing could be accomplished by attempting to exer- else their rights, and who said to themselves we will stay at home and let the thing go by de fault Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, if 1 know anything at all of any State it is the State of Tennessee, and want you to mark well and treasure up in your minds the prediction l am about to make to you. l predict to night that when Governor Johnson shall appoint a day (which he will do before long) uponsWhich the people of the State of Tennessee shall decide at the polls whether they shall come back again beneath the stars and stripes, when Confederate bayonets shall be driven completely out of the State, which they will soon, the Volunteer State will come back into the Union by ma jority of 50O0O votes. (Cheers.)
 There is also at this very time, powerful Union sentiment in each of the other Southern States. These Southern traitors may talk to you about the unanimity of feeling in regard to the war, but let me assure you that it is all false There IS no unanimity in the Southern States. Louisiana never voted herself out of the Union. The wretches who were in power there snug gled the vote. The truth is that secession was lost in Louisiana Georgia barely went out of the Union. Alabama was forced out through the treason of Jerry Clemens and others. The old North State will gladly come back again. The old Dominion what shall say of her God bless her while he curses her leading politicians Virginia is about ready to come back. She is just about sick enough now to be willing to take medicine.
 But whilst it is true there is no unanimity in the Southern Confederacy in regard to the war, there was one remarkable instance of unanim ty that occurred in Tennessee just about tbe time that We people of the eastern portion of the State refused to vote. By strange freak of na- ture, or Providence, or something else, all the railroad bridges between Bristol and Chatta- nooga took fire all at once and burned down one night about eleven o'clock. l was not concern ed in the matter. and can't say who did it. l thought to myself that the affair had been most beautifully planned and executed, and enjoyed it considerably in my quiet way. Daughter. It was but . little while afterward that the Legislature passed a law to disarm all the Union men of the State Of course I was calcd on in