, 1862-05-20
ParS0n Br0Wnl0W's Speech.
Enthusiastic Reception by the Gill
zenS Of New York at the
Academy Of Music.
THRILLING ADDRESS or pARS0h
BRQWNl0W,
lFtom the n. z. Herald, 17fh. J

The fees received for admission and they must
have been 1arge, areto be devoted to the re-
Knoxville. 4 fine band Of music was On the
stage and performed many tunes before the
meeting bega and during the evening.
The stage was crowded with invited guests,
among whom we're many Of the most distin-
guished citizens Of New. York Mr.. Charles
publican Union, conducted Parson BroWnlow
to the platform, and his appearance WIS the
signal for 1ond applause The magnificent as
eenblage arose to their feet and cheered en-
thusiaslic2lly, The ladies Fieing with the gen
ence of the hero of the evening"
Mr.. Rogers stated that Governor Morgan
mas expected to preside; but be read letter
from tie Governor, regEetting that official du-
tics prevented him from being present, and
the nan who with true hefolsm had withstood
the Establishments and the threats Of the lead
ers Of the copEpirators against the nation.
VIM. IL ETarts, Esq, was selected to pre-
side, and in few appropriate remarks intro
duced Rev. ". G. Bro8nloW OF Tennessee.
Immense applause, after which he made .
speech, from which ne make liberal extracts:
m Is NOT NEUTRAL.
For the last thirty-fiye years Of my some
what eYentfu1 life, have been accustomed to
speak In public upon all the subjects atloat in
the land, for have never been neutral on anY
subject that ever came up in that time. Iade-
pendent IN all things. and under al c1rcum-
stances, 1 have never been entirely neutral,
hut have always taken hand in what was
afoat.
The people Of the South, the dcmaeogues
and leaders Of the South, are to blame for
having brought abought about this state Of
lungs, and not the people Of the North
lCheers. We have intended down South for
thirty years to break up this Government It
down South to destroy The Union aud break
up the Government. We have had the Pfesi-
dency in the South twice to your once, and
| five Of our men were reelected to the Presi-
dency, filling period Of forty years. In ad-
| diuon to that we had divers men elected for
| the one term, and no man OF the North ever
vas vas permitted to serve any but the one
term; and in addition, to having elected our
men twice to your once, and occupied the
! chair twice as long IS you ever did, we seized
| upon and appropriated two or three miscre-
ants from the North that We elected to the
| Presidency, and ploWed with them Is our
heifers. {Great ]anghter and applausel. va
asked Of You and obtained at your hands a
| Fugitive Slage Law. You voted for and
| helped US to cnact and to establish it.
We asked Of you and obtained the repeal ot
the Missouri compromise line, which neyes
/
The bitter end, and denounced it and all con.
! cerned in repeating it, and repeat it here
| again tonight. We asked and obtained the
admission Of Texas into the Union, that We
| might hare slave territory enough to form
some four or five more great States, and you
granted it. You have granted US from first to
last all We have asked, all We baVe desired
| and hence repeat this thing Of secession
this wicked attempt to dissolve the Union,
has been brought about without the shadow ol
cause. It is the work Of the worst men that
ever GEO permitted to live on the face Of the
Garth lApplause.l tits the work Of a set 0!
1ncn doWn South, who, in winding up this
revolution, if our Administration and Govern
1nent shall fill to hang them as high as Ha
nlan-hang every one Of them-we will make
an utter failure; I have confidence myself
and thank God have always had faith unit
coIfdence, in the government crushing
out this rebellion. (Applauae.l vi
have the men at the head Of affairs vic
will do it and that gallant man McCle11ar-
o man in whose ability and integrity have
he wonld come right side up. [Laugtcr ant
applause- My own distracted and oppressed
section OF the country, East Tennessee, fall;
new by lie new arrangement into the military
district Of that hero Fremont. [Cheers:l We
IejoIced in Tennessee when we heard that VI
had fallen into his division, [app!ause. | ant
although have always differed with him il
politics. yet. IN a word, he is my sort Of 6
nan. He will eithe: make spoon or spoil ;
hern-[sreat 1aughterl-in the attempt:
When he gets ready to go down into Eas
Tennessee, I hope he will let me know.
want to go with him side by side, on horse
with cpauletfes, cecked hat and a sword
and our friend Briggs OF New Yort, formc'
member Of Congress, who is now on thu
platform, has promised me large coil o
rope, and I want the pleasure Of showing
them Eho to hang, [Great appl,use.1 VI
ing out rebellion. We had lonl
time ago one On q small scale in Mas
sachusetts, and the Government crushed i
out. Afterwards ne had the whisky rebellion
in the ntighbo7ing State Of Pennsylvania, ami
the Government applied the screws aut
crushed it out. Still more recently we had ,
terrible rebellion in South Caroliua, and, witt
Old Hickory at the helm, Te crushed it out
applause.
GENERAL JACKSON.
And if my prayers aud tears could ha7
resnrrected the old hero two years ago
though ] never supported him in my LIE
md placed him in the chair disgraced and oc
cupied by that miserable moekery of q ma,
from Wheatland, VIC would have had this re
bellion crushed out; for, let General jackson
have been in politics what he was-I knew hin
wel-hc was true patriot and a sincere love
of his country. [Chcers.] When Floyd com
mcnccd stealing muskets and other imple
[
plotting treason, had Old Hickory been Presi
dent, rising about ten feet in his boots, aus
taking Floyd By tho collar, he would hay
sworn by the God that made Moses, this thin
mast stop. [Great laughter and applause.
And when Andrew Jackson swore that q thin
had to stop, it had to stop. Laughter.]
More recently still, We had rebellion in til
neighboring State OF Rhode Island, known q
the Dorr rebellion, and the government yer,
efficiently and very properly put it down; bu
the great conspiracy Of the nineteenth centur
and the great rebellion Of the age is now OF
the people to back him, will crush it ont
[Cbecrs and applause.] It will be done, i
must be done and it shall be tione-[grea
chceringl- having done that thing, gentle
men and ladies, if they will give us feV
weeks rest to recruit, VIC will lick Englan'
r1ause] and I am not certain but We vii
have TO do it-particularly old England
[Great laughter. She has been playing
two-tsted game, and she Was well repre-
presented By Russell, for he carried wafer o.
both shoulders. 1 don't like the tone Of be
Journals, and when this war il finished IT
shall have four or FIVE hundred Thousand We
drilled soldiers, Injured to the hardships c
war, under the lead OF experienced officer:
ard then we shall be ready for the rest of til
world and the balance Of mankind.
AN EARLY PERIL.
, In the Inauguration Of the rebellion too
sides With the Union and with the stars an
stripes Of my country. How could it b
othcrwises / had travelled the circuit Is
Methodist preacher in the State Of South Cal
DINA in 1852, in Pickens and Anderson cou1
/ ties {Anderson county being the one whe1
, John G. Calhoun liyed,) and fought with a
, the ability possessed, and all the energy
) could muster, the hereay Of notification the1
even prepared a pamphlet Of seventy page:
backing up an sustaining Old Hickory, an
denouncicg the nu1liierR- and they threstene
70 bang me then have been ! Union ma
all my ilfe have never been sectional ma.
, ! commenced my political career in Tennessee
in the memorable year Of 1928, and was on
thank God, Of the corporal's guard who gt
: up the electoral ticket tor John Quincy Adau
.. against Andrew Jackson. In the next conte
: I was for Clay.
a THE STORM BREAKs.
E pursued the even tenor of my way unit
e the stream rose higher and higher with sece
f sion fire, as red and hot as hell itself, aud con
travel, that great railroad to Manassas. Yorl
town, Richmond and Petersburg. Then
was that, wanting in transportation, wsutit
i, in rolling stock, wanting in locomotives, tbs
d had to lie By over regiments in our to vi, 81
!. then they commenced to ride Union mt
!, upon rails. l have eeen that done IN Il
streets, and hare seen them break into Il
+ stores and empty their contents; and com1l
d before my house with ropes in their hand
4 they would groan cut, 1'Let us give o
= = Bro~nlow turn, the damned cid sconndre
e come out, and ne will hang you to the tr
K llnb.' would appear, sometimes, oa tt
e front portico of my house, and would addre
them in this way: Men, what do you Wa
with meg" for was very select in my word
IT look particular pains never to say gentl
J, men. "Men, what do you want with me
"We want speech from you; we va
you to come out for the Southern Confe
| EFaCY.n no Which I rnplied j have