New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-11
wRErENG IN BEHALF OF EAST
TENNESSEE.
Asar,-s by the Hon. N. q. Tayior.

East Tennessee at the Cooper Institute was addressed
last evening by the Hon n G. Taylor late Representa-
tive from that section. Considering the state OF the
weather there was quite good attendance The audi
ence gave most interested attention for than two
hours to honest graphic and eloquent recital OF tho
suferings and wants Of this oppressed people AT the
hour for opening the meeting, Gen. w. X. STRONG, in
few Introductory remarks explained the occasion Of theii
disappointment in the absence Of Gen. Burnside as
President of the meeting. Before the adjournment tho
following letter was received in explanation thereof
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL March TO- 1864.
J. dy,'cp 4erens, jy., esq.MY DEAR SIR; On my return
from New Haven this afternoon toGnd your Kind note asa
me pe.lde INC meen5 70 De addressed ts evening ny
che Hon " g. Taylor in behalf Of the suffering people Of Easl
Tennessee and ycty sorry that on important va
reference to Official duties VIII prevent me from being
with you the opening OF She meeting IL Is possible y az
may be able to join you during the evening You know ho"
much patty have for the brave ard noble people Of East
Tennessee and how much admire their unswcivns loyalty
and how much desire TO see their present supplied BY
the loyal sections They deserve aid and
Thanking tie gentlemen Of the Committee for the honor
done by asking preside your meeting, fenan
A +. BUESslpE
Gen. HIgAN WALrRIDGE was then nominated aud
elected presiding officer who after thanking tie
meeting for the honor of calling him e. preside ana
presenting OF the claims Of East tennessee upon
our sympathy. closed his remarks with: / Shal! row
have the pleasure fellow citizens 10 present g. yOu one
Of the gifted of East Tennessee citizen formerly
of its abost Representatives on the floor OF the ma
renOWn not only of Tennessee hut the Union
cerncd they always found in him able eloquent and
gifted advocate. Driven from his country by the pcrse
utoBS Of the Rebels he comes TO represent 10 you tie
suiierngs Of his cOuntymcn. And as he stands here
tonight with US should fortune call to lis section Of
the cOunryi May we there be ably to excaim, as he
excaims here: These these are my cOunuymen; and
1his. Oh this is my country"
have the pleasure 10 present to you the lion. y u
TAYLOR. who viii now address you
The speaker of the evening then came forward, amid
flp continued aDDauSe of the audience. and said.
"a MIR. CHAIRMAN. LADIES AND GENTLEAEN. FELLOW.
CITIZENS: am here to night, at the instance OF many
kind citizens of this great city 10 address you in refer
ence 10 that particular section of the Republic who
representative / an this occasion ! regret that
cannot come before you to speak OF the prosperity ofy
people must tell yOu OF the gruting sound OF war
and distress and sorrow re6chong and reverberating
among valleys and mountains Were It Otherwise
should have been here IL is only the necessities
of this cue and unnatural war that have induced
present myself here tonight in an attitude of hunha
zion Fellow citizens. before have concluded think
yOu will ooDcede, however mat II Is OIL! seeming
Humiliation. l take the attitude OF seeming to beg
for those things which are necessary for the very
existence of my people. do not come here
as a bcggGr nor the representative Of 0eggarS;
come here for population who have been too proud
20 cringe or to ask aims. After graphic discussion
of therc-ion Of East Tennessee Its resources its health
u climate its brightness and natural beauty OF scenery
and its people be continued ms CouutTyi these val
1eys mountains the homes ofa01 600 souls and
it has been the misfortune or good fortune OF this Popu
ltOn to have incurred the dSpeasurc OF their southern
brethren who hate them with the very bitterness Of
nifty This people is maintained by the consolation that
1his enmity incurred from their adherence u tho
advice OF the Father Of their Country by their con-
slant devotion to the Union which fathers cOnse
Grated with their tears and baptized with their blood
by their persistent refusal TO participate in the mad
which had protected al its citizens and had never
snfriDged the rights OF an individual or State
and which they felt il their religious duty TO trans
,nt uninpaired TO their children and their chldrens
children. lApplauso. Let the universal prosperity
which visited all her interests In the Union and the
hovl t,1
dsmembered families, the social DISCRIMINATION, the
psralyzed industry the thousand widows and orphaned
children the desoated Fields and newnade graves Of
The South without the Union, testify the unspeakable
madness of those who execIated the hast Tenlessecans
because they would not affiliate with treason. IA p
rlausel like their forefathers they have yet
learned how 10 be 10 the Constitution and the
Union In the great Revolutionary struggle they len
their women children and old men 10 ght with the
Wild Indian while they buckled on thor armor, 4
marched across the mountains met the foe Of THEN
country under Shelby and Campbell They fought upon
almost every battle field Of 1879 and triumphed under
ckson at New-OreaDs In 1929 when Modification
rear ed its hydra head they were ready with their lives
TO vindicGte the integrity Of the Go'ernment
Her stalwart sons mingled IN po Tue MS.'
Cerro GOrdo, Palo Alto and Chepultepee' and
sweled the shout of victory as our triumphant gons
marched into the Grand Plaza OF Mexico mus ~ the
Geld az the huskns, at the bar In tue private circle
In the large assembly in the homes 0! the reh IN inc
cabins Of the poor everywhere and At all times. the
heart OF East Tennesseeans has Tine 70 Inc music
.entimen It Il passion 1t IL principle on lire ever
consuming never consumed; IL is heritage IN the
blood transmitted from sire to son stereOtyped upon
fhe heart and riveted in the soul lAPPause The
sneaker then reviewed the election contests OF 6 and
1852 showing the fidelity Of his action 10 the Union
even The State had been suDdered BY the session al
Tssbyle and repudsted false the statements Of the
authorities that they had ever given large msJorles
for Secession. The same Storm which ieh upon
1he vhols South, fell also on East Tennessee
but her people breasted that storm, and II
rolled over their heads and when the ballot
of East Tennessee ives oouHted enc 81 sV 30
Constitution, true 20 the country But oy ana Dy lhe
Confederate Congress passed law as the war wa1ed
stronger and fercer conscrptng az Aer people rom 70
to 5 wears of age They enrolled and ordered to
report at a given point on given DAY 10 enter the
Confederate service. The exodus which had now De
onn sweled ND 10 hundreds and thousands Our young
men had sworn that if ever they Lifted the hand m TINS
civil war il must be under the flag that ther iathers
lived and hence when they were n0thed 10 appear as
Confederate soldiers they went into ther notAers ara
received their parting blessing, they shook hands with
fathers and received the psternal farewel-in many
eeses foreyerthey kissed their wives ana niue one
and in The darkness Of the night they left their domios
b4hind not 10 take the broad highway, not To
seek the bye.weys, which cross the c0unlIyIlor
those gurdedi but to CLIMB tse ttac ,se
knapsacks upon their oacEs, b,an IN haAu'
poory clad often in rags and baretooted IN md'wnter
making their tracks In blood they wandered through
that wilderness in the night season. with no hight on
their path but the pale rays OF the ann moon or the es
light Of the stars, or sometimes without TteI moon
or Stars 70 gulQc III tho
The deepest darkest gorges Of those mountains until
the shadows Of another night would lend friendly
cover 10 their escape 1t not for bOuntes nor the
hope Of gain that they suffered thus but it the
sderation Of their country it was the Flag Of the
Union II was their devotion 10 that land which their
fathers had bled TO redeem from foreign rule. ZAP
plausel Thus thoy left their homes by hundreds and
By thousands and travelled for 200 or 800 miles and al
slough the ConfedeTates had passed law giving citi.
zens of the State forty days in which TO leave their
bones they had placed armed men with bayonets
and muskets TO capture or shoot down who