Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-02-06

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Abrari b Linedis;s' 81 sibo old Public Faqction
airy q Penns s the NEST shabby,
eunpas DC, asa unworthy man eyer.elect-
ed. a Jasass Buchanan sent = force to
Chs. s..e.wi;s bis sworn dassss-whsi
q sssesss. taisal iI., or When
Fort Sumter was bombarded, that would
have been the end of this deviltry. Iassert
to you. upon the authority Of GEN. CAss,
that he did order a regiment of Marines,
and war ship, then lying II Hampton
Rhodes, but he was at once surrounded by
Floyd, Thompson, Cobb, and others of that.
class of politicians, and made to revoke his
order. The miserable old traitor lacked the
back bone of Jackson. Cries of, That 5
true.
[ am sorry, ladies, that your husbands:
fathers, brothers, and sweethearts, ever con-
scented 70 vote for such a man for the Pres
idency. You and l know, that a man who
will live eighty years in this sin-stricken
world of ours, without marrying a wife, or
even counting a lady, is not tit for wof-bait.
daughter and cheers.
But there was no occasion for plunging
this country into this dreadful civil war
The pretext of our Southern demagogues
was. that they had been denied their rights,
What rights? The right to carry their
slaves into the territories of the United
States, Now, every reading man knows
tll.st~ " ~ tsy always had the right to carry
our slaves into every foot of territory, where
God has given us soil and climate adapted
to slave labor. And we have only been ex-
cluded from such soil and climate as would
not pay the owner Of slaves to carry them
there
When, at the South, we clamored for a
Fugitive Slave law, to enable us to recover
our slaves ran off upon an underground
railroad, the North generously came to the
rescue, and enabled US to enact such law,
and without your votes we could not have
carried the measure. When we called for
the annexation of Texas, because her vast
Territory would enable US to carve out thrse
or fous more slave States, you very gencr-
ously but very improperly, as l then assert
ed, arIG as l still believe, annexed Texas,
and brew in Polk and Dallas too. When
We csfed in thunder tones, for the repeal
Of til fAissouri Compromise Line, the North
canoa forward and by her votes, and very
wrona uuy. as I held at the time, and still
holf glJusicd th&t measure. measure
whicf lies at the bottom of mach of our
touIles. Cries of, That s true
But, gentlemen we have intended, at the
South, for the last thirty years to break up
this government 1t has not been the negro
question that has troubled us. Mr. Yancey
this fact in his letter to Earl Rus
sell, since this rebellion Was inaugurated.-
We have made the negro, and our slleged
insecurity Of negro property, the PTetcrt for
what We are doing. The truth is, these
cotton State aristocrats are sick and tired
Of 6 Republican form Of Government, and
they wish to introduce z monarchy, with a
property qualification for voters and Office
hol3ers When South Carolina passed her
Ordinance Of Secession, now more than one
wear ago, r. Barnwell Rhctt, and other
leading sccessionsts, announced that now
their eyes, like those of old Simeon, had
seen the salvation of the Lord-what they
had been Iaboring to accomplish all the
days of their public lives, had then come to
pass!
! WIS in Montgomery, the Capitol of Al
ADAMS, more than II year before Mr.. Lincoln
WAS elected, and even before he was nomi-
mated, and while | WAS there, the Lcgisla-
turc was in session. They adopted q reso-
luton on the part Of both Houses, inviting
ne to address the members Of the House
and Senate and such of the citizens as
might choose to turn out, upon the great
issues dividing the North and South. They
knew me to be 4 Southern man-thcy knew
was no Abolitionist and hence this UneX-
pcctcd horror. | accepted their invitation,
and I addressed an immense audience,
crowded into all the parts Of the hall Of
the Capital and held them to it for more
than two dreadful hours. / told them on
that occasion, that | was Southern man.
that my parents, and even grand parents
on both sides were Southern men. and that
was the advocate, as l had ever been, of
slavery, but if they forced the issue upon
the country Of slavery without p Union, or
a Union without slavery, I was for the
Union. to the determination Of every insti-
tution on earth. They never had any use
for me after that. TGreat applause.]
The Legislature Of Alabama passed a law
appropriating s35O,O0O to arm and equip