Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-04-02
ParsOn BrOEnlOH's Speech.

1
Parson Brownlow, having been released
by the rebels, came to Nashville few days
ago. The following is an address which
he delivered in that City on the 10th in
slant -
Genaemen:-I ana in a sad plight to
say much of interest-too thoroughly in
capitated to do justice to you or myself
Ny throat has been disordered for the
past three years, and have been compell
ed to abandon public speaking. Last De
cemher | was thrust into an uncomfortable
and disagreeable jail-for what? Zrea
son! Treason to the bogus Confederacy
and the proofs of that treason where arti-
cles which appeared in the Knoxville Whig
in Ma last, when Tennessee was a mem
Der Of an imperishable Union. AT the expi
ration of four weeks, | became victim OIL
the typhoid fe, er, and was removed to q
room in a decent dwelling, and guard o.
Sven men kept me- company. | SUB
sequently became so weak that could not
turn over in my bed, and the guard was
increased to twelve men, for fear should
suddenly recover and run away to Ken
lucky. Becoming convalescent, in a
measure, | was removed 10 my former
place OF confinement. One day | was Wis
tied 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 10 speedy release,
but insure your protection" "Sirw said
|. "before l would take the oath to sup
port such a hell-forsaken institution, |
would suffer myself to rot or die with old
age"
Why, my friends, these demagogues ac-
tually boast that the Lord is upon their
side, and declare that God Almighty is as
sisting them in the furtherance Of their
nefaious project. In Knoxville and sur
rounding localities, short time since, dai-
ly prayer meetings were held, wherein the
Almighty was beseeched to raise Lincoln's
blockade and hur destruction against the
Burnside expedition. Their prayers were
partly answered-the blockade at Roam
oke Island was most effectually raised; a
reciprocal Of their sacrilege diyinely ten
] dered.
Gentlemen, am no Abolitionits; ap-
plaud no sectional doctrines; am South
ern man, and all my relatives and interes
are thoroughly identified with the Soutl
and Southern institutions. was born il
the Old Dominion, my parents were borr
in Virginia, and they and their antecedentS
were all shareholders. Let me assure you
that the South has suffered no infringe
ment upon her Institutions; the slavery
question ~ss actually no prttext for this
cunoly, unrighteous conflict. Twelve Sen
ators from the Cotton States, who had
sworn to preserve inyiolate the Constitu-
ton framed by our forefathers, plotted
treason at night-a fiji time for such a
crime--and telegraphed to their State dis
patches advising them to pass ordinances
of Secession. Yes, gentlemen, twelve
Senators swore allegiance in the day time,
and unswore it at night. A short time
since was called upon by little Jew,
who, elieve, is the Secretary of War Of
the bogus Confederacy. He threatened to
hang me, and | expected no more mercy
from him than was shown by his ilastri-
Gus predecessors towards Jesus Christ
entered into long correspondence with
this specimen of expiring humanity, but
from mercy or forgetfulness, on thir part,
[ was permitted TO depart with all my
documents in my little yalise, which hope
to publish at no distant day. Gentlemen,
when | started on my perilous journey, |
was sore distressed in mind, and exceed
ingly SO in body. But the moment my
eyes encountered the pickets Of the FEEDER
al army my depression decreased and re-
surning health seemed suddenly to inyigor-
ate my physical constitution.
Gentlemen, secession is played out--the
dog is dead the child is born, and his
name is JEFF. Davis, jr.
My throat distresses me to such an ex-
tent that | must decline further remarks
this evening, but shall make myself hearl
upon the next convenient occasion, which
will probably be ere the termination Of the
present week.