The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-03

ers here, demand of you in the name
oil the Constitution, as the protection and
support OF that guarantee. | say in the
name ofthe Constitution, if relief and re-
dempion is not extended to that portion
OF the people of Tennessee, east of the
Cumberland Mountains, who are, note ex-
ceptlng you here in Indiana, The most
loyal people of the United States, for
they have been loyal when men had 10
dare to be loyal, while you have men here
who are loyal because they dare not be
otherwise. If, say, redemption does not
come soon TO that hunted and outraged
people, | will come to Indiana, TO Illinois
aud the great Northwest, and Mead for a
chosen band Of men to redeem il. (Voi-
ces, you shall have them.) Complain of
this war know it is painful to see a
son or father come home mangled; but il
Is one OF those incidents that grow out of
civil war like this. There Is a fearful
responsibility resting somewhere, and
those who precipitated this unholy
war, the blood is upon their skirts. You
nave brought this war on; you who have
set brother against brother; you who
nave converted our fertile fields into bar
ren and desolate wastes; you who have
caused all these Corpses 70 be made
who have FASTENED brave boys and fathers
to eternity from the cannon's mouth; YOU
who have done all this, let me ask you 20
lift up your hand and see il 10 does not
look red with blood, But Justice will
come; the slower its pace the surer its
blow.
You are tired of eighteen months war.
4 | Hntv IDnU did "a tolr r. A..
tablish the Government under which you
live Z Government that required sew
en- years to establish you are willing to
yield up after contest of eighteen
months. So far as / am concerned, /
wonld war thirty years No, would
not stop then. What are thirty years of
war compared with tho Importance of
the end in view? II is nothing. You
are engaged to-day in laying the foun-
dations Of Government that shall en-
dure as long as the sun continues in its
career. say TO you here, q may be
over-zealous,) if my life could be spared
seven hundred years ! would fight as
long, yea, would fight forever against
this Southern aristocracy. The speaker
then referred TO the memorable declara-
tlon OF Paul Jones, "No, do not surren-
der--l am just getting ready TO fight"
so let our motto be, "We are just getting
ready to fight" The speaker then read
extracts from Southern papers, showing
that they depended more ON divisions in
the North, from the efforts of Richard
son and VallandighaIn, than their own
armies. He showed that IL only requir-
ed perseverance on our part 10 crown
our efforts with success. 10 do this we
must not listen TO the deceitful voices o +
sympathizers now crying peace and an
armistice. Open the Mississippi, block
ade Galveston and take possession Of
Eastern Tennessee, and then the rebel
lion is crushed. .. ...r..,
Then, alluding again to the intention
of the oonspiratOrs to establish an aris-
tooracy, Governor johnson remarked /:
God did not create the being to be my
master Let me tell you now, in Wow
of the efforts being made TO divide you
IN the Moth, the time has arrived when
the tyranps rod should be broken and
the captive set free This endorse
ment Of the PROCLAMATION caused tremen-
dous applause. And let me tell you 10
dag that because somebody lives In the
, South, there is no reason that somebody
in the North should be opposed TO him
have always lived in the South Ihaye
picked cotton with my own hands, and
never saw negro boy who could pick
more cotton than | could. have own
ed negroes which the Southern Confeder-
acy 30 generous Of individual rights, hi
conhscated, turning my family unpro-
tected into the streets, and seizing my
house for hospital for Butternuts. If
such are TO be the rights guaranteed, my
prayer is, that yours and my children
may be free Of them. But | can speak
from knowledge OF the negro.
How these sympathizers carp about
employing the negro. DO not their
Southern Confederaey friends employ
I negroes But be that as IL NAV, Is
that any reason you should 90 against
the government, aud 60 croaking
about the country, appeEling TO a
squeamish sympathy. | have lived in
the midst of negroes all my life There
is one thing | want understood /
am for the Government with the insiitu-
tion of Slavery under the Consultation az
il is II IL can be saved am for this
Government without negroes IL ID can be
INhNNAosl NiAt tNf ANAh 1ONtIn-
ment under any and all clrcumstances
Tremendous applause II negroes get
in the way, let them be crushed. On
the other hand, II they do not get in the
way, let them remain where they are. am
for the Government and all the means
and instruments that will 90 to maintain
the Government. Is this Government,
this great buwarh Of human liberty, 10
be compared with Slavery? What Is King
Cotton compared with IL? IL is as dust
in the balance Some Of the sympathi-
zers have got the idea that without cot
ton they cannot sell corn for quite as
much. Why the world had existed and
prospered for 5000 years without the aid
Of cotton as an article Of commerce, and
without this our Government will 20 on.
When we come 10 think Of II, by produ-
cling little more wool, little more fax,
and little more hemp Yoices-hemp,
hemp, hemp for JEFF. Davis, l--you can
dispense with cotton without creating a
ripple. This Goyernmeni this mag
niiicient structure, will continue 10 20
on, whether cotton continues In the Uni
ted States or not. ! repeat again, am
for the Government my fathers handed
down 10 me with negroes. / am for Il
without negroes. Rather than see this
Government destroyed would see the
whole negro race back in Africa, aud
Africa itself into empty space. have
! enlisted In this cause Of free Govern