The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-05

DroWnlew nakee Another Speech.
At 4 meeting of the Pioneer Association q
Cincinnati, held on Saturday last, Parson Brown
low made another characteristic speech. w
6ndit reported in the Gazette:
GKHrLEMES: I feel called upon to respon
to the document read by the honorable Secre
tary, and also the address Of the gentlemen frou
the General Assembly who has just taken hi
seat. authorize the gentleman AID the hon
orable Secretary to say, that l shall be prou,
and happy to visit the capital as the guest Of th
General Assembly but cannot say when
shall be able to accept their kind invitation. :
friend, the host OF the Gibson House, who, OF
my arrival here in this city, came to meet me OF
the steamboat, and invited me to make his hous'
my home during my stay here. I fear he vii
get more than he bargAined for. i am yer,
| comfortable there, and shall certainly enjoy hi
hospitality some while longer yet. But still,
want to visit the capital OF your State, to undo
the Vaccinations aud refute the sayings Of ,
| certain bogus nephew Of mine, whom, if Goo
does not know anything more about him than
do, will be inevitably and irretrievably lost in
| coming day.
Ny mind has been variously exercised while
| have been sitting here. This is not society o.
young men and boys, but society of old men
men who are true to the backbone-loyal, faith
full, patriotic men, who old as they are would Jay
down with eager Joy . life almost worn out un
der the beae6cent protection Of the best Gov
ernment ever established on Gods beautiful
earth. They are honest mcn--none of your
mean, pitifuI, swindling, God-forsaken, rascally
demagogues, who have used the strength God
endowed them with to endeavor to overturn his
most sacred institution--our Government.
am no candidate for popular favor-I want no
Office, although did take tilt against lsham
Harris. Laughter am not adapted for an
Office, and as said before, don't want one
but am Federal, and believe in strong
Government-one that has the power aud the
ability and the energy to put down treason-to
crush out traitors; and in short, gentlemen, to
take care of itself. think that our present
Government is the right kind Of Government,
but still not entirely so, inasmuch as 1t is hardly
in earnest enough in the stupendous work it is
now occupied in !; but hope and believe that
with Gods help and our backing, that this Gov
ernment will soon put down the most diabolical
treason that has ever been seen in any part of
the world. e...eat.H.5 a. t.
Ihaye fought many battles; religious battles,
political battles and every other kind of battles,
and the Southern Confederacy, Laughter and
applause and it has gone hard with one to be
called after and pointed at so long, as traitor,
by all the miserable, sneaking, cowardly rascals
who have toru and rent this glorious Union apart.
Ny father was volunteer in my country's army
and my uncle lived and died in the service Of his
country, and thank God their graves are still in
possession of the Federals. My mothers rela-
tipes also shed their blood at their country's call
at Norfolk, and yet am called traitor, and by
such despicable men as compose the Southern
Confeieracy.
Mr.. Eggleston alluded to the crushing out Of
my paper. Yes, gentlemen, the office from which
came the last sheets in defense Of the Union,
ever published in Knoxville, was cleaned out
and converted into workshop for repairing and
altering all the arms stolen by that accomplished
thief and runaway, Floyd. All my ambition now,
is to 60 back once more to Knoxville to estab-
lish another office Once more to spread abroad
the glorious truths of the Union; and, once more
to take from drawer in my own house, the flag
which so long waved deGantly in the breeze,
while these hellhounds we're longing and yet not
daring to tear down and trample it in the dust.
would never have taken down that flag but
for the females 10 my own house, who besought
and entreated me TO do 80, lest the house should
be.torn down about their ears
One Gay crowd surrounded my house and
threatened to tear down my flag; but warned
them they would have to do it in the face of six
loaded muskets, which would he used by men
who would never finch from their duty. They
took sober second thought, and MARCHED away,
but s'presently about fifteen came back again,
drunker than ever, led by young officer, who
was desired to tear the d--d thing of flag
down. In the meanwhile, had left my house
and gone to the Office, leaving my wife in charge.
She came forward and expressed her intention
of shooting the frst man who attempted to haul
down the flag. The officer was slightly scared,
and said
''Madsm, you won't shoot, will your"
''You had better try the experiment" said
She
go on, 60 on!" shouted the crowd, ''she
daren't shoot"
She instantly drew from her pocket one of
Colts reyolvers and cooking it leveled it at the
officers head "Never mind her, she's only q
woman" cried the mob "By God! look at her
eye," said the officer, as he made low bow,
scraped the ground and toddled off, followed by
the whole crowd. The gentleman addressed me
expressing his regret that my paper is stopped
and my office is closed, and reply to him that
all my ambition is to go back to Knoxville and
resurrect my old paper To go back with new
presses and new type, and with soul renewed
and revived by baptism in the glorious liberty
of the Northern States. And I also want to 60
hack there, and repay debt Of gratitude owe
to about one hundred and fifty Of the most I'm
mitigated scoundrels that can be found on the
face of the earth. To liberate people oppres-
sed and defrauded by the most Satanic conspir
acy ever consumated. Defrauded and duped by
Southern Confederacy bonds. Bonds having
on one side full length portrait Of JEFF. Davis,
and picture of tenroost on the other, bear
ing on them these words: II promise to pay, six
months after declaration of peace between the
Southern Confederacy and the United States Of
North America, $50" it
30 They have fixed time which never can and
never will come. The only treaty of peace which
we can have will be accomplished with powder
and ball and river gunboats. There is nothing
which fills rebel with so much horror as gun.
boats. They would rather meet Old Nick, horns
and all, than to meet our gunboats. But this is
not strange, perhaps, when we recollect their
near relationship to that sable individual.
b Some time since, l stood alone admidst 1000
rebel soldiers, and I said, in my address to
them: "It is you of the South that are to blame
The North have not precipitated this war on us;
it is you who have done it. You complained Of
an infringement of Southern rights when there
was no infringement. You complained Of North
ern encroachments when there were none, and
you have rushed into war Of the most wicked
kind, without the shadow of a reason"
But gentlemen Of Oslo, do not and cannot
exonerate the North, and say in brief to you,
that If, fifty years ago, we had taken 100 South
ern fire-eaters and 100 Northern Abolitionsts
and hanged them up and buried them in a COM
mon ditch and sent their souls to hell, we should
have had none Of this war. Immense applause. ]
/ am speaking too long. ICries OF NO! no p
go on u Don't allow that talk."l But in
looking around on this assembly notice that
Time has written his mark Enthusiastically on the
countenances OF large proportion Of this audi
ence. Many are growing gray; am getting old
myself, and know not how soon the span OF
eur existence may be shortened and the spirit
take its fight to relms Of eternal JOY and happi.
ness or everlasting misery. 1t behooves US all
then, to see to it, that We ere prepared for this
change wherever and whenever it may come,
and may God in his infinite mercy bless and
keep us all, l5. a
A PoNr OF HONOR -Merideth P. Gentry was
once an eloquent member of the United States
Congress from Tennessee. He few off the
handle, as a Wing, when Gen. Scott was nomi
mated for the Presidency. How much he con
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