The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-04-11

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frightful but not overweight picture of the
barbarism of the Southern Confederacy:
Gov. Morton introduced Mr.. BroWnlow, |
who spoke at length of the causeless char |
acter of the rebellion, and its disastrous |
effects, and was frequently cordially cheer
ed by his large audience. He gave an &C.
count of his ancestry, and showed how
they had all been engaged in the service of
the country, and always true to its flag and
its principles. He said he had been called
traitor by r. Barnwell Rhett, of South
Carolina. "Rhett," said he, " was named
r. BarnwelI Smith, bat the Smiths being
all tories during the Revolution, he was al
lowed by legislative act to call himself
Rhett. He call me traitor" said the iron
old Parson Indignantly, g when his illustri-
Gus ancestors were hunted by Marion
through all the mosquito swamps of South
Carolina" .(Uproarious cheers and laugh
ter.) Hecommented at considerable length
on the rebellion, and its leaders, and de-
clared, with great emphasis, that " if the
issue was to be made between the Union
without slavery, and slavery without the
Union, he was for the Unicn and let slave
ry perish. (Great applause.) Let every
institution die first and until the issue was
made between the Union and the religion of
Jesus Christ, he was for the Union" TIRE
mendous cheers ,aaia..
In May last the South began to pour
stream as hot and ugly as He'll Itself from
the Cult States throu gu Eastern Tonnes
sec, towards Richmond and Manassas, and
Norfolk and Lynchburgh, in the shape of a
| rebel soldiery armed with side knives and
tOmahawks, drinking gallons untold of bad
whisky, and boasting largely and savagely
enough of-the things they should do in
Washington. Laughter. / had an old
banner, the stars and stripes, floating from
the top of my house, on Main street, in
| Knoxville, Tennessee, in a conspicuous part
of the city. They began to come to pay
their respects to us-frequently q regiment
ut a time. Whole regiments of " wharf
| rats" from New Orleans and Mobile, as
| ugly and disgusting as they were vicious,
would come at once, now and then, to "giVe
old BroWnlow a turn, as they expressed it.
They would, ca 8aaSse come across the river
on the bridge, surround my house, yell,
throw stones, blackguard my wife and
family, dare me to come out of doors, and
now and then accepted their Invitations
and made them the best bow l could. !
have, time and again, gone out and given
them very frankly and unreservedly my
settled opinion of the whole concern, from
JEFF. Davis down, assuring them that my
scorn and contempt for them and the South
ern Confederscy was unutterable, and then,
making them the best bow could, Il would
go back into the house and leave them TO
yell and groan around the house till they
saw proper to quit. Rhi5 course they have
steadily kept mp alftlIe y5Ar. And yetall
| this time ! was readirg in the papers of
Charleston ,-.r; savannah and Richmond
that the Gonseferate army was composed of
the flower and promise of the Southern
States. told my wife that if those miser-
able, Ge@-forJaken whelps that were
screaming like devils around our house al
most half of every day were the Jaosger of
the Southern Oonfederacy, my praye- would
be-God save rs from the rGbbLe.
On the 9th day of November last we had
an election in the Southern States for Pres
, iGent and Vice President of the Southern
Oonfederacy, with only two candidates in
the feld-Jef. Davis and little Alex. Ste
| Yens of Georgia. And when we, of East
ern Tennessee, came to vote at that election
| we did not vote at all, but we positively
and utterly refused to have anything at all
to do with it. The Sheriffs, who were
Union men, refused 10 open the polls, or. to
hold an election, thus giving the candidates
the cold shoulder, and manifesting our con-
tempt for the whole concern. And, gentle
men, you cannot fail to be surprised when
| announce to You the fact that the great
State of Tennessee, casting not less than
200, 900 votes as her ordinary vote, gave
: JEFF. Davis and his colleague in villainy a
| miserable vote of 25, 900. Those two men
are to-day holding their offices by the vote
of miserably lean minority of the people
, of the State of Tennessee. Tennessee was
driven out of the Union at the point of the
bayonet. The miserable rebel soldiery
were stationed at the polls, wherever poll
a was opened, with orders to prevent every
+" damned Union-shrieker" that might ap-
pear from depositing his vote.
. We had thousands of good Union men,
men OF good morals, members of churches,
Methodists, Baptists, and Others who had
no desire to be involved in difficulty, who
saw that nothing could be accomplished by
attempting to exercise their rights, and who
said to themselves tive win stay at home
and let the thing go by default" Let me
tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if | know
anything at all of any State it is the State
of Tennessee, and want you to mark we'll
and treasure up in your minds the predic-
tion am about to make to you. predict
tonight that when Governor johnson shall
appoint day (which he will do before
longl upon which the people Of the Stateof
Tennessee shall decide at the polls whether
they shall come back again beneath the
stars and stripes, when Confederate bayo-
nets shall be driven completely out of the
State, which they will be soon, the " Vol
unteer State will come back into the I'm
ion by a majority of $4,000 votes.-
(Oheers.
There is also, at this very time, pow
erful Union sentiment in each of the other
Southern States These Southern traitors
may talk to you about the q unanimity" of
feeling in regard to the war, but let me as
J sure you that it is all false There is no
, unanimity in the Southern States. Louis
lana never voted herself out Of the Union.
The wretches who were in power there
smueg,ed the vote. The truth is that Sc
cession was lost in Louisiana. Georgia
barely went out of the Union. Alabama
was forced ont through the treason of Jerry
Clemens and others. The "Old North State
will gladly come back again. The old Do
minion, what shall say of herr God
bless ner while he curses her leading poli-
ticiana Virginia is about ready to come
/ baelr She Ia inst ahOut sick enouQh now