The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-06-07
Remarks Of Parson BrownloW
IN MUSIC HALL, BOSTON,

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| am, ladies and gentlemen, if you will
still indulge a few more personal remarks, a
native Of the Old Dominion, born and raised
and educated in the same county from which
John B. Floyd, the celebrated thief of the
South, halls He has been more fortunate
man than l have been. He has grown rich
by stealing all his lifetime being honest
have remained poor. My parents before me
on both sides were Vrginians and slavehold
ers. | have been held mp during the last
twelve months in the Southern papers as .
tory and a traitor to the country, sympa.
thizer with the Northern horde of Lincoln
abolitionists. 1t has gone hard with me to
submit to the charge of toryism, particularly
when eloquently and bitterly urged in a
Charleston, s. G newspaper, from the pen
Of a son of R. Barnwell Rhett. If you will
turn to the records Of the Revolutionary War,
you will find among the two hundred and
fifty tories Of Charleston who sought to 60
over to the King, :and to throw all obstacles
in the way of Washington, the name of
Smith. About thirty years ago, R. Barnwell
Rhett made application to the legislature,
and had his name changed from Smith to
Rhett; and now to be accused, by grand
son of this Revolutionary tory, Of treason,
is almost as much as my good nature and
mild disposition can bear. (Laughter) |
have the proud satisfaction of knowing to-
night that am the first and only man that
ever appeared before an audience in Boston,
originating in the State Of Virginia, who de-
scenied from one Of the second families of
that State. (Great Laughter.) While you
attach TO the names of great men the letters
I'd. D." and ell. D." to indicate their po-
sitions, we write "F F. "" which signifies
"First Families of Virginia" In all time to
come when you see those letters you will
know that they signify "Fieet Footed Vir-
ginians," for they have done some Of the
best running since the war began.
For tie last thirty years have hailed
from Tennessee. l remarked that my pa
rents were slave-owners. | am pro-slavery
man, not here to advocate or discuss that
subject at all. have debated the question
in years gone by with gentlemen at the
North, and those debates as published are
extant. They still exhibit my sentiments
upon that subject. have never been a
stakeholder upon large scale. l had no
conscientious scruples, gentlemen, but had
not the funds to embark in that venture
The last negro but one that owned was
stolen by the 'chivalry" Of the South > a
boy worth a thousand dollars was seized by
a battalion of Alabama cavalry, uniformed
and taken of, and never expect to see him
or get anything 6r him. had been told
that Lincoln's invading hordes were coming
down South to steal our negroes, to capture
our fine cotton and rice plantations, and di.
vide them out among the Yankees. But we
never expected the flower of the Southern
youth, the best blood of the South, the ''chiv-
alry'' down in Dixie, to turn into negro
Stealing as soon as the war opened. Allow
me to say to you in good faith that from the
time this war commenced there has been
regular band of negro traders and negro
thieves accompanying the rebel army in the
border States and they have stolen in
Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia
and North Carolina, more negroes and run
them off South than all the abolitonlsts be-
tween Heaven and hell have captured within
the last forty years. (Laughter.) They're
a pretty set of devils talk about the negro
freight conveyed upon New England UNDER
ground railroads
While arm upon this subject | may as
well say all that intend to say about it, and
that is this am the advocate Of the fed
eral government and the army guaranteeing
to the loyal men in the South and every
where, well established and authenticated
loyal men, true TO the Union and the flag Of
our country, their title and right In and to all
their property, personal and real, including,
ifyou please. their negroes. Applause. be-
lievc, at the same time, that it is the bound
en- and solemn duty to confscate everything
in the South owned by rebels, including
lands and negroes. (Great Applsuse.) AL
though am pro-slavery man and have
been allmy lifetime the advocate of the pc.
culiar institution, am here before you this
evening prepared to say just what say at
home and what have said all the time up
on the stump, and through the columns Of
the most widely circulated paper in rennes-
see, that If the South in her madness and
folly,-for the whole South il mad and drunk
crazy and deranged,- LII they will in their
mad zeal and frenzy pross upon this country
the issue Of no slavery the Union or no
Union and slavery, lam for the Union If Il
exterminates every other institution. (Great
applausc.) am an unconditional Union
man and il / resided In your State and you
brought out candidates for Office, real Union
men, Douglas Democrats, BLACK Republicans
! or what not. before would vote for any
man for any Office who was not an uncon.
ditional Union man. would see him where
in the language Of Milton,
Cold performs the effect Of Are.
or would see him where, in the more forci
BILE language of Pollock,
-ravtatlon shining
Moves the other way an carries eysrythlhs hslvard