The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-07
UNION AND RESTORATION IN TEN,
NESSEE.
A ROUsING SPEECH BY PARsoy
BROWNLOW.
THE REBELS ANNIHIBATED.

An immense Union gathering was held
at Franklin, Tennessee, on SATURDAY.,
29d ults, at which the inflexible Parsou
Brownlow madea Characteristic speech,
of which the following is summary:
He remarked that he had been accns-
toned for so many years to speak from
the text that be would adhere to his old
habit to-day. He would take for his text
on the occasion, short editorial which
lie published in reference to secession.
in the Knoxville Whig. THE speaker
then read the celebrated editorial of the
Knoxville Whig,s written Immediately
after the secession of South Carolina,
predicting the horrible consequences of
that deed. Everybody is familiar with
1t, as it has cen frequently published |
This shall be my text The dreadful
consequences which foretold, then de-
rlded as idle predictions, have more than
been fulfilled. To employ the language
OF distinguished statesman, now dead,
say: +" We are in the midst of revo-
lutioD, mighty revolution. When
and where it will end, God only knows.
trust, however, that ! am now begin
ming to see some glimpses of daylight
on the Southern border. Bloody and
terrible as the revolution may be, | hope
it may never end until the Stars and
Stripes wave again ever every foot of
te 'ritory in thu South. Loul applause. l
10 attain this end | am for coercion, for
subjugation-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 hap
PLY and prosperously During this Pc
riod we have had nineteen Presidential
elections, in which we of the Sonth, with
half the people of the North, and half the
territory, elected our choice thirteen
times, and generously, magnanimously,
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 Presidents.
making them Northern men with
Southern principlesl" Now let me say,
L am Southern man, born and bred
and intend to live and die in the South
where L can fight rebels and secession
lists; but yet, of all vile creatures on the
earth, these Northern doughfaces, with
Southern principles were the meanest
Why the worst rebels l know of to-day
are Northern men who came South, mar
ried widows with t-~s"ty tnrty ne
groes, and suddenly grew chivalrous and
noisy about Southern Rights.
never voted for jackson, or any of
his party friends, but if my earnest pray
ers and bitter tears could have recalled
Old Hickory to lie, would have poured
them forth that he might have sat in the
"Old Public Functionary's" chair, and
collaring that unmi.igated scamp Floyd,
| Jake Thompson, and that anointed thief
Judah Benjamin, told them, "By the
Eternal, this damnable plot has got to
stopp And it would have stopped, and
the people would have shouted Amen |
We of the South ruled the nation abso-
lutely We never allowed the North to
re-elect a President. We reelected
nearly all of ours, but put the North off
with one term. Yet, after the enjoy
ment of all these extraordinary favors,
when the mighty North saw fit to elect
Lincoln, we got furiously patriotic and
voted separation and representation. p"
And ] guess that see goodly number
present to-day who voted for separation
and representation. Gentlemen, / think
you have gotten what you voted for
to your hearts content You have been
repl esented with a vengeance for over
two years, out of nearly all you ever pos
sessed. Represented out OF your Legis-
lature, and of Congress! You have got
representation! Yeu have got separa-
ton, too! Separation from your hay
stocks, corn-cribs, and fence-rails! Sepa-
ration from your horses, mules, and cat
tlel Separation from your beloved mig
gers, and | have heard it limited that
some of you have been separated from
your daughtersl You will have a good
deal more of this separation before the
war is over. Llt
We have got more than our share of
appropriations in the old Union. The
North contributed quarter of million
| of dollars to help carry our mails, which
was a dead loss to the Federal Govern
ment. The North gave us what we ask
ed. 1t 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 Compro-
mise, and the North helped her; a fatal
| hdS tuc
of the present trouble. And yet, in the
face of all these historic facts, we re-
belled 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 favnrs of benignant Gov
ernment, over and above the North. And
now 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 return of the rebel
acmy. Let me tell you, if it does return
there are enough blue-coated fellows