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


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. Your Senators and Representatives in
Congress will tell YOU that the Southern
politicians have controlled the Military
Committees in Congress for years--that fhey
haze Eepsrted trsnr time te time SO many
stands of arms worthless. and asked FOR
them to be replaced with the modern i'm
proved arms, and would order those on hand
to be sold at public cutlery to the highest
bidder. Information would at once be given
to Southern Generals that 50 many thousand
arms would be sold at such and such points
on certain days. Southern Governors would
have agents there with the money, and buy
them in at the most reduced rates In this
way the traitors of the South have. been
preparing for this rebellion for years. And
in this way, connected with the arms that
Floyd stole from the Government, the rebel
States We're we'll armed when they went into
the rebellion.
Just before this rebellion was inaugurated,
Pryor of Virginia, and Wigtall Of Texas,
boldly announced that if the entire North
would sign sheet Of blank paper, making
string Of names as long rs from Washing
ton to Liverpool, and allow the South to fill
up the blank with the terms and conditions
upon which she would agree to remain in
the Union, they would not touch it, they
were bound to 90 out, they intended to have
an independent Coniederacy Pryor, as
you VIII recollect, just before he made his
bow and walked out of the House, tcle-
graphed his constituents, in reference to
what the Peace Congress proposed-~We
can get the Crittenden Compromise, but we
won't accept it. We intend to 90 out, and
to break up the old Government"
Judge Douglass, then a Senator from Hi
nois, overhead a Southern Senator say
No matter what the North might agree to,
the South intended to secede, and to break
up the old Government )" and he exposed
this traitor in the Senate, and he dared not
deny the charge. Who was that Senator {?
| will tell you. 1t was that notorious hypo-
critic, that chief of traitors, that old CLAN
dorcd, dstempercd, sway-backed, hip-shot-
ten, spavened, whisky rotted j. IL. Mason
of Virginia Yes, Mason the but-cut of
original sin, and the upper crust Of all po-
litical nastincss. Loud laughter and pro
longed cheering And had | been the gov
eminent of the United States at the time
Mason and Joha SLideI We're taken out Of
Fort Warren and placed on board British
steamer to 60 to Europe, as Ambassadors Of
this bogus Southern Contederacy, | would
have chained a grind-stOne around each Of
their internal necks, and cast them over
board in the harbOr of Boston, where John
Hancock and Samuel Adams threw the
boxes of tea before you or | were born.
Applause, and cries of good. have men
toned tho name of John Slidcll. Did you
ever sec that arch traitor? He wears upon
the side Of his head face which the Al
mighty put there as an advertisement; and
He intended by it that no man in Europe
or America, at all acquainted with human
nature, should ever mistake John SIidell
for an honest man. Loud applause
But | have told you that VIC intended to
destroy this government at the South, and
we intended it for the last thirty years.
These troubles had to come, and it is well
for Us that they are upon Us now. Knowing
that this vile conspiracy was on hand, and
knowing the bad men at the head of it, how
could l act with them? l fought it in 1882,
in South Carolina | was then in the Pen
dletOn District, where John c. Calhoun re-
sided. | fought it from the pulpit, from the
stump, and through the press. They threat
encd to hang me then, as they did last win
ter. But the difference between the periods
of Notification and this Rebellion is, in the
former period we had a President who was
every inch man. hen this rebellion was
inauguratcd we had nobody in the chair
Had jackson been at the head of affairs in
stead Of Buchanan, he would have raised
himself up about ten feet in his boots, taken
Floyd & Co. by their Threats and looked
them out Of countenance, he would have
cxclaimcd-"By the God that made Moses,
this thing has gone far enough, it must
stop" And when Jackson said thing had
to stop, it did stop, and all the people said
amen. TApPlause.]
Now, had Breckenridge instead of Lin
coin been elected, We should have had none
Of this trouble, not a bit Of it. But let me
explain. The Southern programme was to
quietly administer the government, while