Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-24

All .Wmense OnlOn gathering was held at Franklin, Tennessee. on Saturday. 22d ult., al which the in6exible Parson Brownlow made a characteristic speech, of which the following is summary:
 He remarked that he had been accustomed for so many years to speak from the text that he would adhere to his old habit to-day. He would take for his text on the occasion, a 1 short editorial which he published in refer 1 ence to secession, in the Knoxville Whig. | TThe speaker then read the celebrated edito- rial of the Knoxville Whig, written immedi- ately after the secession of South Carolina, predicting the horrible consequences of that deed. Everybody is familiar with it, as it has been frequently published.l
 This shall be my text. The dreadful conse- quences which foretold, then derided as idle I predictions, have more than been fulfilled. To employ the language of distinguished states man, now dead, l say, We are in the midst of revolution." mighty revolution. When and where it will end, God only knows. l trust, however, that am now beginning to see some gimpses of daylight on the Southern border Bloody and terrible as the revolution may be, nope it may never end until the Stars and Stripes wave again over every foot of territory in the South. Loud applause. (To attain this end, am for coercion, for sub jugation-yes, for the annihilation, if you choose, of every man and woman who dares resist the glorious authority of the flag of my country, under which we have lived for eighty years, so happily and prosperously. During this period we have had nineteen Presidential elections, n which we of the South, with half the people of the North, and half the territo- ", elected onr choice thirteen times, and gen. erousy magnanmously, suffered the North to elect their choice six times. Not content with our own Presidents, we even proceeded to kidnap three of these six Northern Presi- dents, making them Northern men with Southern principles!'' Now let me say, am Southern man, born and bred, and intend to live and die in the South, where 1 can fight rebels and sece ssonists but yet, of all vile creatures on the earth these Northern dough- faces, with Southern principles, We're the mean est. Why, the worst rebels know of to day, are Northern men whr came South, married widows with twenty or thirty negroes, and sud denly grew chivarous and uoisy about South ern Rights.
 never voted for la, kson or any of his par ty friends. but if my earnest prayers or bitter tears could have recalled Old Hickory to life, would have poured tleEl forth that he might have Sat iu the "Oli Pnblic Functonary's" Chair, and collarng thu, unmtigated scamp, Floyd, Jake Thompson, and that anonted thief Judah Benjann, told them, e By the Eternal, this damnable plot has got to stop" And it would have stopped, and the people would have shouted Amen Va of the South ruled the nation absolutely. We never allowed the nearly all of ours, but put the North eff with one term. Yet, after the enjoyment of all these extraordinary favors, when the mighty North saw fit to elect Lincoln, we got furious ly patriotic and voted separation and repre- sentation." And guess that see goodly number preseptto-day who voted for separa tion and representation. Gentlemen, think ysu have gotten what you voted for to your hearts content. You have been represented with vengeance for over two years, out of nearly all you ever possessed. Represen ted out of your Legislature and of Congress You have got representation You have got separation, too! Separation from your hay stacks, corn-cribs, and fence-rails! Separation from your horses, mules and cattle Separa- ton from your beloved niggers, and have heard it hinted that some of you have been separated from your daughters! You will have a good deal more of this separation before the war is over.
 We have got more than our share of appro- pri ations in the old Union. The North con- tributed quarter of million of dollars to help carry our mails, which was a dead loss to the Federal Government The North gave us what we asked. It helped us to the fugitive slave law /; it helped us to Texas, and threw in Polk and Dallas to boot. The South wanted to repeal the Missouri Compromise, and the North helped her a fatal step, which was the beginning of much of the pres ent trouble And yet, in the face of all these historic facts, we rebeled to save our niggers. We are to- day in the midst of fearful, cruel and bloody revolution, without the semblance or shadow of justification for our wicked conduct. We were the last people on earth who had cause to complain, for We enjoyed the favors of be- nignant Government, over and above the North. And now I think some of you are beginning to see your stupendous folly. Your eyes, like those of your kittens, are gradually opening to the light. The marching and counter-marching of armies through your farms and villages, is teaching many of you dear but valuable lesson. But some of you are still not satisfied, and are wishing for the re. turn of the rebel army. Let me tell you, if it does return, there are enough blue-coated fel. lows to set them aaoat again, southward and