, 1863-05-02

Secretary to be appointed; for he lad certain
resolutions to put to the meeting at tho close
Of his address, md be should like him to make
faithful record Of the meeting, that it might
be sent 10 the daily papers, and copies for
warded to the army, because the soldiers
wanted to know whether they had any friends
in Chicago or not. A gentleman named King
vas then elected to the Office, but as he was
not forthcoming, the audience did tho report
crs present the honor Of making them their
Secretaries; SO they got three instead Of one.
The meeting was pretty numerously at
tended, and gradually filed up quite well as
the hour to commence advanced, and the lee
turcr finally spoke to about 1000 persons,
amongst whom was o good sprinkling Of
Indies.
He said he appeared before the audience as
q complete stranger and an exile from his
mountain home; but he was happy to say that
he was not a stranger to the cause in which
his country was engaged. He had the disad-
vantage Of being no orator, where MI were
orators; that he was graduate Of the Brown
low school, and If be made too many Brown
| 1owisms, he hoped the audience would pardon
| him. He had great field to travel over and
| could only hit The leading features Of his
theme.
He was no partisan, although be had been
charged hy Copperheads and Butternnts with
| villi1ying the Democratic party. There was
no party in the army Of the Cumberland. Ali
the soldiers there studied or cared for was the
tactics Of war, and how they could best defeat
the enemy. There were plenty Of
men in the North who called themselves
| Democrats, bnt wero contemplate white
| In 1nCS ~ In
attempted to pass that military bill last SEES
sion. These men were not Democrats-thcy
were trn!tors. [AyoIce, Il worse than that. N
Well, they might call them devils, if they
He was not there to villfy the Democrats.
He believed that Abraham Lincoln was
a thoroughly upright and honest 1uan,
aud It was the duty: of us ali
to unite ourselves into one party, one
Onion; and support Mr.. Lincoln aud the ad
nal rebellion He repeated he WAS no party
| man: and he never would be \ patty man un
til every traitor In the North had got Ill:
rights. --..-.,
iDgs Of the soldiers towards Mr.. Lincoln md
| the proclamation. ln East Tennessee the,
| had no hand in electing Mr. Lincoln; but 4:
low.ahiding citizens, when he was elected
they believed it was their duty. to suppor
him, When he crossed the river he never ex
were plenty Of them. Indiana WAS Us full o
them as Southern Illinois, and there Her'
many more there than In all Tennessee pu
together.
The Tenncsseeans never blamed Lincoln ant
J his government for not redeeming East Ten
nessce; they blamed Buell-tEaitor Buell., Wit
) | was not only traitor but . coward. He coult
have re1ecmedit twelve months ago, but th
scoundrel wouldn't do It; aud if he aud hi
| friends had him In East Tennessee they woul'
hang him higher than kite. Now, the tral
0 tors here talk about the negro, and make
1 fuss about the proclamation, Just as the South
, crners do; they say the proclamation is un
= constitutional, and that this Is 4 war in whlc
q nobody must hurt . rebel Southcrner
/ This cry Of "uncoHstiFatjondl'' Was the CT
8 oftraitors only. Did any ono ever hear thes
. . traitors say that JEFF. Davis had doncanythin
d unconstitutional Not a bit of it. And why
), Because they were ell Of JET. Davis kidney
. In his carly days he lad heard of Abolition
lists as things which were frightfu1 and to b
summed, as - ''critteEs half hoss, half allIgato
with sprinkling Of tho coon in them ~ No
he fnund they called him an Aboltiopist
ICheers.1 Wasn't that funny! Loud cheer
a He said that the secessionists In the Sout
s. | had done more to abolish slavery than all Il
y aholftionftts of the North, and the Pres
!. denf,s Proclamation to boot. The Southe'
9 planters have had their wine parties day aft
8 aay. and talked, in the presence OF their =
% erocs, all the politics Of the day, and how Il
= ntrrocs werc 10 be free within the fcdcr
= lines. and the rest Of 1t. And sleepy SAINT
is swallowing every word, and when the par
n breaks up he goes to the quarters OF Ills IA
and tells them all. So that they arc no