Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-10-03
ParsOn BrownlOIv on The Rebels and the

At.the recent Republican State Convention
of Michigan, held in Detroit, Parson Brownlow
made a brief speech, chock full of his peculiar
tiles. We copy few paragraphs;
Then they make their negroes an element of
strength, in growing crops for substance, while
every white man fights their battles / have
always been an advocate of slavery, gentlemen;
but ever since the opening of the rebellion i
have advocated the seizing of the negroes, wher-
ever found, and using them by wholesale or
retail to put down this Internal rebellion loud
cheers,) Washington used them, Lafayette
used them Jackson used them, Zach Taylor
used them, Gems Gaines and Worth used them
Gaines informed them that he would give them
their freedom beyond the Mississippi if they
would fight, and when Gaines was tried, Con-
gress defended him. [Cheers.1 / am further
persuaded that having seen rebels North and
South, there is not to be found meaner, shab-
bier and more Internal rebel on Gods EARTH
than the Northern rebel. Loud Cheers.1 l
tind them all over the North. find rebels in
open rebellion, here at the North, and if owed
the devil debt and be held my bond to pay
him in a round dozen of the moot false, eodfor-
saken hell-deserying, white men, and / wanted
TO get premium upon that deed, / would hand
over to his satanic majesty dozen Northern
sympathisers Loud laughter and applause ]
would confiscate the property of every rebel
North and South, confscate their negroes, con-
fiscate their lands and confsticate their rail-
way stock, confiscate their money and then
confscate their internal necks. Laughter and
cheers.
This Government of ours must stand.-
lCheers.] 1t must be preserved as a temple Of
liberty, and although the negro is said to be the
cause Of the war, South Carolina years ago, COM
menced it. They are tired of Republican forms
Of Government, tired Of the rights in the hands
Of the people, and ! shall never die satisfied
until it is obliterated--let it be wiped out of
the Union into the Atlantic. Sink her and her
hellish rebels into eternal perdition. TLoud
cheers.1 Let the city Of Charleston, thai sink
OF rebel filth and iniquity, be laid in ashes, and
let law be passed that it shall never be re-
built tCheers.l
Gentlemen, deserve nothing for what have
done and suffered. / tell you the man, North
or South, born and reared in America, who will
not risk his property and his life for the Union,
does not deserve the name of an American eiti-
zen. LCheers.1 While in East Tennessee 1
gave them the best fighting l could, and in re-
turn they gave me the best they could. [Cheers. ]
The Apostle Paul says he fought with beasts
at Ephesus, but fought the devils, Tom. Walk
er and JEFF. Davis ICheeTs and laughter and
another Internal mean man.
Gentlemen, you know but little about this
rebellion; you know there is rebellion, but you
do not know how feroeious il is. / have seen
it. have witnessed the rebels take Union men
of property and position, two at a time and
hang them. have seen men shot in their
eOrnhelds. l have known them TO tie them to
post and whip them till they tainted. An
this have seen, and their hellish work is going
on yet, for no other reason than they were loyal
to the best government God ever vouchsafed to
man. [Sensation.J Every Jail in East Ten
nessee is filled to overiowing with Union men.
No better men ever breathed the air Of heaven
than those of Tennessee. The satanic in1u-
ence Of the Confederaey neither in hoighth or
Depth length OF breadth, things present or
things 10 come, has been able TO separate the
people Of East Tennessee from the love Of God
and Of their country