Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-14

finest army of as true patriots as was ever le'
against an enemy-an army full Of zeal and devo
tion TO the countrys best interests. A Napoleon o
Cssar might have gloried in his position as thei
leader. But how degraded now, not in being a can
didatc for President of the United States, but il
( condescending to become the standard bearer of
most miserable party or rather the fag ends of al
parties. In the border slave States his supporter
will be the Shareholders and their dupes nine-tenth
/ of whom have been, from the commencement of thu
rebellion rebels and ader and abetters OF the rebels
, in arms-thosc who have sent their sons and a!
| many of the poor white men as they could induce
to 80, well mounted and equipped, to swell the
ranks Of the rebel army. At the outbreak Of the
rebeon-as many of us know who lived there and
saw il with our own eyes-every train that went
down the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was
crowded with them. Kentucky, l know, has &
proud position among the loyal States Of the Union
and 80 has East Tennessee; but in neither has this
been gained by shareholders. The many fine regi-
ments which have been raised there and here, and
which have fought and bled SO nobly in the front
rank, of our armies, have not been composed OF
shareholders, but of small farmers and mechanics
and their sons who had little no connection with
slavery. The shareholders cursed them as Lin
conites and "Abolitonists," and continue to do SO
till the present time. 1t slaveholders and mem-
bers of their families who grieved SO bitterly over
the disaster the now dead John Morgan met with
during his raid last June into Kentucky. 1t was
they who focScd for miles around into Cynthiana
with dcvacies for the wounded of his command,
and when they died, had their rebel carcasses put
into the best cofins and strewed their collins and
graves with roses, and said in their grief over thcm
These are of the best blood of the South. 1t was
lucky who showed their contempt for Union soldiers
who fell in that fight by throwing their bodies,
shrouded and uncofined into holes dug in their
gro burying-grounds. And it is these hypocritical
shareholders who saying TO the President, you
ought not to take our slaves from us Kentucky Is
Il loyal State 1t is a loyal State, but no thanks to
them. 1t is loyal in spite of them. The rebel
Shareholders in Kentucky and other border slave
States will make every c1erton to the cleo
ton Of Mcclellan not that he is their first choice,
but their choice under the circumstances in which
they are involved their most available man. The
first choice of many Of them would be the "HOnor-
able jefferson Dacis,7 but he is not availabe if he
were, they would be very glad to got our v"ioS {"
secure his election.
Comrades. companions in arms, who have strug-
Scd three years to crush out this SHAREHOLDERS re-
bellion let us spurn their solicitations and the soc
aons of their friends and allies and TOOLS such as
Prentice, Wolford, Jacobs, Mallory, and host of
others whose talents prostituted to ubserve the
E 1of
and malign the President Of the United States Who
We believe has endeavored to perform his whole
duty to his country faithfully earnestly and honest
y-who is laboring ceaselessly tc strengthen our
armies in the field, that by defeating foes peace
may be restored to our beloved country.
In the North, the party who expected to hur-
rah for "litte Mac and rally around his standard,
and who solicit our votes, is well known, is made
up Of emigrants from slave States who have taken
their pro-slavery principles with them, which have
led them to sympathize with the South and desire
he success of the rebellion, or that, at least all
possible favors be shown their Southern friends
Connected with these in that party are many, TO
ay the least Of the "baser sort, drunken oungers
about doggeries and places Of public resort, who
have been taught and Influenced by disappointed
politicians and scheming aspirants to office, who
succeed in bringing themselves into notice by de-
tanning the government the administration, or by
any other means however mean, that are likely to
be successful. These sclf-styled Democrats whose
great desire is not the benefit of the masses but the
lggrandizemcnt of themselves and their special
friends The party is a humbug and a burlesque on
he name they have assumed. The men of this
party, a few months ago showed hellsh delight
n shooting down in the streets the fIrloughcd SOL
Tiers who had the privilege of returning home and
pending a few days with their families and friends.
Now they will come with their honey-fuggling to
secure votes to e1alt them to power and position
which having gained would look upon us again
with contempt, and with malice prepensc in their
hearts, gnash on us with their teeth. They want
,ur votes to e1at George B. Mcclellan to the chief
,ommander-in-chicf of our army and navy, and,
Ier the promises he has had to make the leaders of
he party he heads to place him in position where
,ur beloved Grant and Sherman and their noble
armies will be under his control and at his mercy.
Brother soldiers he is not ft for the position. He
S not safe for it. He has given US proof abundant
hat he is too slow a nag TO work in the lead. He
vas in the lead two years ago, when, after the bat
le of Antietam, instead Of following up the advan
age our army had there gained, and pushing on to
rush Lee before he could recross the Potomac, !
rG''tag him, at his request cessation of hoStiltieS
which, of course Lee improved by recrossing the )
iver and so fortifyng on the opposite bank that he
ould bid him defiance. Here our woud-be Pres- /
lent settled down again, at time when the most !
ntiring activity needed, and wasted forty days
nd nights, and dishOnored the army by permitting |
he rebel Stuart to make his celebrated raid around
i'm, as he had done before, when his army was ,
ying on the Chickahominy.
With such leader, our victorious army which /
las gone in triumph through Northern Georgia, |
Tould long since have been annihilated or been |
riven back in disgrace, instead of having the .