The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-18
PHrson BrownIow's Lccturc M
Cleveland, a. hiO.

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PARsoN BRowNLow's LECTURE.
The lecture of Parson Brownlow, nj
the Academy OF Music last evening, drew
a large audience, who applauded the pa
triotic sentiments which they heard. to
the very echo. Whilst he had never been
an Abolitionist, he said he was in favor
Of putting down the rebellion If slavery
was abolished for ever and ever. He
said he was in favor of suspending the
habeas corpus, and every other corpus, if
necessary. He was for emancipation.
contiscation, and determination, unless
the rebels submit. lie read an editorial,
which he published in the Knoxville
| Whig two years ago, when the news came
that South Carolina had seeded. In
that editorial, commenting on the mad
action of that State, he said it would have
! been blessing to the country if South
! Carolina had voted herself out of exist
ence, and blessing TO unborn generations
| had she voted herself into the infer
nal regions. (Cheers.) In that edito-
rial he predicted that the other Cotton
| States would follow the lead of South
Carolina, n great war would ensue, and
| the rebel leaders would be cunning
enough to have it fought on the soil Of
! the Border States. He ridicued tho idea
prevalent in the South, that Northern men
wouldn't fight. He said Breckenridge dem
ocrats and demagogues might not fight,
but the Northern people would fight un-
| til they exterminRted the rebels or were
themselves exterminated. The South
pretended to rebel to make Slavery Sc
cure Brownlow told them their rebel
lion would inevitably destroy Slavery,
and the prediction is rapidly being veri-
| fed.
Mr., Brownlow addressed himself to
to Southern sympathizers, if there were
any in his audience, in fair and candid
manner, showing conclusively that the
| South had not the shadow of an excuse
for plunging the country into this terri
BILE war, The South has had thirteen
Presidents out Of the nineteen that have
been elected, and out of the six that have
been elected from the North the South
won three of them over to her interests,
took possession of them, soul, body and
pantaloons, making them her tools. The
South reelected five of her Presidents for
second term, while she has suffered
no President from the North to re- occupy
the Chair The South has always had
more than her proportion of Offices, more
than her proportion of money appropria-
tions for building forts, custom. houses,
etc, and for thirty years she has had
mail facilities at an annual expense, over
all revenues, of from 100000 TO S40O,-
900. Yet in the enjoyment of all these
privileges, instigated by the devil and
without the fear of God and the Consti-
tuition of the United States before her
eyes, she has endeavored for more than
thirty years to break up this Union.
Said the speaker, we are now assaulting
the place where all this deviltry was
concocted. We are bombarding Charles
ton at this moment, and hope, said he,
that The internal city will be reduced 10
ashes Then he hoped the Constitution
would be so altered as 10 preclude the
rebuilding of the city While the world
stands. Applause
He referred 10 the letter of Governor
Wise, of Virginia to the Governors Of the
| southern States, about the time of the
| election in 1856, in which be proposed,
in case Fremont was elected, to march
upon Washington, seize the archives of
the Government, break up the Union and
declare their independence.
II was the South that voted down the
proposition of COrwin TO so amend the
Constitution that slavery could not be
intcrfered with. They wanted preteXt
to rebel They were determined TO ac-
cept Of no compromise. They were de-
| liberaie and systematic in everything
connected with this treason. Well, they
went out, and we have gene out after
them, and intend to keep after them
We shall drive them out of Tennessee
into Georgia, and then into the Gulf as
the devil drove the hogs into the sea.
Applause, He alluded to the measures
that the North had adopted to pacify the
South on the slavery question--the Flu
gitive Slave law, the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, the annexation of
Texas, etc. all TO no avail.
Mr.. BrownloW spoke in enthusiastic
terms Of Rosecrans and his army, whom
he but recently visited. He saws IL is
the finest army in the world, and they
have every confidence in their leader.
! The rebels say be is ga id Ohio
Dutchman, and don't know when he is
whipped" Applause That army has
six months of supplies now and they
are preparing for great Summers work.
lie spoke of employing negroes in the
army. lie acknowledged that he had
been little squeamish about il once, but
he was now ready 10 fight the rebels with
anything, lions, tigers, elephants, ,--even
the devil himself Laughter and ap-
plause. With regard to destitulion in
in the South, he believed that the ac-
counts were not at all exaggerated. lie
spoke of rebel barbarities, and said il
was fact that rebel soldiera going home
to Louisiana from Bull Run had heads Of
dead Union soldiers, which they exhib-
tied exulungly wherever the train stop
p3d.
Abiding TO jeff Davis threatened
blindness, he said the blind would lead
the blind, and they would all fall into the
"1ast ditch" together He paid glowing |
tribute TO the people of East Tennessee, |
and praised their devotion 10 the Union, |
which no persecution or suffering could |
destroy.
The only hope now left for the South, !
be said, is division in the North lie
! therefore bes0ught his hearers 10 sustain
| President Lincoln and through him the
| Government. lie cOmplimentod secre-
tary Chase very highly and said that he
had been fully equal 10 the financial
emergency Of the country.
In conclusion he said the country must
be saved il we all perish, and then per-
haps the Almighty would create a better
race OF people