Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-10-07
AROUSING SPEECH
PARS0N BR0WNL0W

An immense Union gathering was held
at Franklin, Tennessee. on Saturday, 22d
ultimo, at which the infexible Parson
Brownlow made chara cteristic speech
of which the following is summary:
He remarked that he had been ac-
customed for so many years to speak from
a text, that he would adheye to his old
habit to-day He would take for his text
on the occasion, q short editorial which
he published in reference to secession, in
the Knoxville Wing. The speaker then
read the celebrated editorial OF the Knox
Vile Whig, written Immediately after the
secession OF South Carolina, predicting
the horrible consequences OF that deed.
Every body is familiar with It, as 1t has
been frequently published.
This shall be my text. The dreadful
consequences which | foretold, then deri-
ded as idle predictions, have been more
than fulfilled. To employ the language of
a distinguished statesmen, now dead, |
say: I'VE are in the midst of a revolu-
tion," mighty revolution. When and
where it will end, God only knows. /
trust, however, that am now beginning
to see some glimpses of daylight on the
Southern border. Bloody and terrible as
the revolution may be, hope it will ney-
er end until the Stars and Stripes wave
again over every foot of territory in the
South. Loud applausel To attain this
end, l am for coercion, for subjUgation-
yes, for the annihilation, if you choose, of
every man and woman who dares 10 re-
l. l. e al zf
nv country, under which we have lived
for eighty yeare, so happily and prosper
ously. During this period We have had
nineteen Presidential elections, in which
we of the South, with half of the people
OF the North, and half the territory, elect
ed our choice thirteen times, and gener-
ously, mrgnanimously suffered the North
to elect their choice six times. Not con-
content with our own Presidents, we even
proceeded TO kidnap three of these six
Northern Presidents, making them
Northern men with Southern princi-
ples!" Now let me say. am Southern
man, born and bred, and intend TO live
and die in the South, where ] can fight
rebels and secessionists; but yet, of all
vile creatures on the ecrth, these North
ern doughfaces, with Southern principles,
were the meanest. Why, the worst reb-
els know of to-day are Northern men
who came South, married widows with
twenty or thirty negroes. and suddenly
grew chivalrous and noisy about South
ern Rights.
never voted for jackson, or any of his
party friends, but if my earnest PRAYER
and bitter tears could have recalled Old
Hickory 10 life, would have poured them
forth, that he might have sat in the 'Old
Public Functionary's" 5" chair, and collar
ing that unmitigated scamp Floyd, Jake
Thompson, and that anointed thief, Ju
dah Benjamin, told them, by the Eter-
nal, this damnable plot has got to stop!"
And it would have stopped, and the peo-
pie would have shouted Amen.
We of the South ruled the nation abso-
solutely. We never allowed the North
to re-elect a President. We reelected
nearly ali of ours. but put the North off
with one term. Yet, after the enjoyment
of all these extraordinary favors, when
the mighty North saw fit to elect Lin
coin, we got furiously patriotic and voted
separation and representation" And
guess that see goodly number present
to day, who voted for separation and rep
resentation. Gentlemen, | think you
have gotwhat you voted for to your hearts
content. You have been represented
with a vengeance for over two years, out
of nearly all you ever possessed. Repre-
sented out of your Legislature, and of
Congress- You have got representation
You have got separation, tool Separation
from your hay-stacks, corn-cribs and
fence-railsl Separation from your horses,
ooT31of from
beloved niggers, and have heard it hint
ed that some of you have been separated
from your daughters You will have
good deal more of this separation before
the war is over.
We got more than our share of appro-
priations to the old Union. The North
contributed quarter of million of dol
lars to help carry our mails, which was a
dead loss to the Federal Government
The North gives US what we asked. 1t
helped US to the fugitive slave law; 1t
helped us to Texas, and threw in Polk
ar1 Dallas to boot. The South wanted
to repeal the Missouri Compromise. and
the North helped her; fatal step, which
was the beginning of much of the present
trouble. And yet, in the face OF all these
facts, we rebelled to save our nlggers!-
We are to-day in the midst of a fearful,
cruel, bloody revolution, without the SEM
blance or shadow of justification for our
wicked conduct. We are the last people
on earth who had cause to complain, for
we enjoyed the fayors of a benignant
Government, over and above the North.
And now think some of you are begin
ming to see your tremendous folly. Your
eyes, like those of your kittens, are grad
ually opening TO the light. The march
ing and countermarching of armies thro'
your farms and villages, is teaching many
of YOU a dear but valuable lesson. But
some of you are still not satisfied, and
are wishing for the return of the rebel
army. Let me tell you, if it does return,
there are plenty of these blue-coated fel-
lows to set them ahoat again, southwark;
and by the time the Federal troops have
taken possession of your State again, they
will wipe you so clean that there will be
nothing left of you but the tip end of your
tails. Stop your folly and come back and
Join US. The United States is able and
determined to put down the rebellion
TApplause.l talk to the rebels.
Who inaugurated this rebelionI South
Carolina has been plotting it fer thirty