Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-03-27
Important from the South.

Pdrson Bropnlop's Speech-Andy John
sons FfocJdmation-An Editor Retires in
Disgust.
ltSpeech Of Psr.on Brownlow delivered In front Of the
ST. Cloud Hotel, Nashville, on the evening OF the i7thl
GENTLEMEN: / I'm in a sad plight to say
much Of interest-too thoroughly ~incapacita
ted to do justice to you or myself. My
throat has been disordered for the past three
years, and | have been compelled to almost
abandon public speaking. Last December
| was thurst into AN uncomfortable and dis
agreoablejail-f what? Treason Treason
to the bogus Confederacy aud the proofs
of that treason were articles which appeared
in the Knoxville Wing in May last, when
the State of Tennessee was a member ofthe
imperishable Union. At the expiration of
four weeks, l became a victim Of the typhoid
fever, and was removed to a room in a de-
cent dwelling, and a guard Of seven men
kept me company. | subsequently became
so weak that l could not turn over in my
bed, and the guard was increased to twelve
men, for fear | should suddenly recover and
run away to Kentucky. Becoming conva-
descent, in a measure, | was removed to my
former place Of confinement. One day l
was visited by some Confederate officers,
who remarked, ''Brownlow, you should not
be here. Take the oath of allegiance to the
Confederate Government, which will not
only entitle you to a speedy release, but in
fore | would take the oath to support such
| q hell forsaken institution, l would suffer
myselfto rot or die with old age"
Why, my friends, these ~dcmagogues &C.
ltually boast that the Lord is upon their side,
and declare that God Almighty is assisting
them 10 the furtherance of their nefarious
project. In Knoxville and surrounding To-
i ~calities, a short time since, daily prayer
Q meetings were held, wherein the Almighty
was beseeched to raise Lincoln's blockade,
and to burl destruction against the Burn
9 side Expedition. Their prayers were partly
answered-the blockade at Roanoke Island
was most effectually raised a reciprocal of
d their s~acrilcge divinely rendered.
Gentlemen, | I'm no abolitionist; | APP
/, plaudn no sectional doctrines; l am a Southern
man and all my relatives and interests are
re thoroughly identified with the South and
m Southern institutions. 1 was born in the
re Old Dominion, my parents were born in
e. Virginia, and they and their antecedent'
were all Shareholders. Let me assure you
that the South has suffered no infringement
re upon her institutions the slavery question
to was actually no pretext for this unholy, un
lie righteous conflict. Twelve Senators from
the Gotten States, who had sworn to pre-
to serve ~inviolato the Constitution framed b.
our forefathers, plotted treason at night
at At time for such o crims--and telcgraphe'
er to their States dispatches advising them t
if pass an ordinances of secession. Yes, gen
.c- tlemen, twelve Senators swore allegiance j
#. the day time, and unswore it at night. !
Dl. short time since, | was called upon by a lii
nd tie Jew, who, l believe, is the Secretary o
War Of the bogus contederacy. He threat
ened to hang me, and l expected no MOI
mercy from him than was shown by his i
lu%striOus predecessors towards Jesus Chris
lIes | entered into a long correspondence wit
ne this specimen Of expiring humanity, br
.n' from mercy or forgetfulness, on their par
iLh ments in my little ~valise, which l hope
IT. publish at no distant day. Gentlemen, whe
| started on my perilous journey, | was So
distressed in mind, and exceedingly so
SUI body. But the moment my eyes encounte
om ed the pickets of the Federal army my d
81 preston decreased and returning heal
IT, seemed suddenly to invigorate my physic
nc constitution
~ Gentlemen, Secession is played out-tl
dog is dead-the child is born, and his nan
OF is Jef. Davis, jr.
My throat distresses me to such an exte
M. that | must decline further romarks I'll
evening, but shall make myself heard up
on, the next convenient occasion, which W
probably be ere the termination of the pre-
ent week.
mr.. The Nashville papers publish this spec
on successive days, the demand for it bel
such that they could not supply it in o
De- day.
ANDREW JoHNsoN's APPEAL TO II PEoP
OF TENNESSEE.
arc Fellow CITIZENS: Tennessee assam
sea- the form of IA body polite, as one of t
wn, United States of America, in the year rs
ed, at once entitled to all the privileges of t
lace Federal Constitution, and bound by all
ex- obligations. For nearly sixty years she &C
the tinued in the enjoyment of all her RICH
ton and in the performance of all her duti
the one ofthe most loyal and devoted of the $
de- terhood of States. She had been honor
nifty by the elevation Of two Of her citizen TO t
and highest place in the gift of the Americ
lsti- people, and a third had been nominated
BILE, the same high Office, who received a libe
it'll. though ineffective support. Her populati
and had rapidly and largely increased, and tn
title moral and material interests corresponding
to advanced. Never was a people more pr
and porous, contented and happy than the pee
10 of Tennessee under the Government
the United States, and none so little burd,
On ed for the support of the authority by viii
her they were protected. They felt their CT
ernment only in the conscious enjoyment
ans. the benefits it conferred and the blessing,
heir bestowed.
we'd. Such was our enviable condition III
within the year just passed, when, UNI
his what baneful influences it is not my D
ems pose now to enquire, the authority Of
the Government was set at defiance, and
ad / Constitution and Laws condemned, by
,ed. bellious, armed force. Men who, in
out, dition to ordinary privileges and duties
the citizen, had enjoyed largely the bour
she and official patronage of the Governme
and have by repeated oaths, obligated the
selves to its support, with sudden mgr,
tude for the bounty and disregard for tn
100. solemn obligation, engaged, deliberately o
mo- SYSTEMATICALLY, in the accomplishment of
bat overthrow. Many, accustomed to defer
their opinions and to accept their guidan
and Others, carried away by excitement
! on overawed by seditious clamor, arrayed the
pr selves under their banners, thus organic
1Sls. a reasonable power, which, for the time