Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-02
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mansion with asoul of his own large enough
to I'll his front paror nm the more com
Portable because feel and knou that ! Am
welcome, have rs m associate guest OF
the house Robert Dale Owen, an intellectual
and educated man, and q most agreeable
gentleman in company, us well rs enter
tanning in conversation.
Go where ! will, meet up with whom ]
may, in the loyal ranks find that the Bal
timore Convention, by nominating Abraham
Lincoln, did just what the people expected
and demanded The feeling Is universal
that the lnanio for the times is Mr. Lincoln,
us the business in which the nation is con
cerncd is familiar to him, and il would be
the worst sort Of policy to put it into new
hands to complete The loyal people who,
thank God, are the great majority all over
Ito North, have learned to value him be.
cause Of the y0stness ofthe services he has
rendered
OF Andrew Johnson, the nominee for
Vice President, but one opinion prevails
among the loyal hosts, that he is thcman for
the place, and that he will be Of great ser
vice to the Southern onion men, and assist
materially in securing to them justice in the
winding up Of this rebellion The Platform
adopted at Baltimore gives great satisGlc-
ton to the Union men, and with Lincoln
on the platform, the Uion war party have
ticket that no combinations can defeat
No matter who may benominatcd at Chi
cago or elsewhere, or what their platforms
may be- tl.e Baltimore ikct is destined to
win. Nay, the candidahs opposing that
ticket will be most disgrcefally defeated,
and, in fact ought to be, rs the COUNTRY is
what We are lorwho advocate the Baltimore
ticket, and party and spoaS are what our OPP
ponents are after.
The news is here this morning of the de
feat Of Morgan in Kentucky, and of his
fleeing in utter confusion ia Pound Gap.
admitting the loss at Cythiana Of near
LOCO men. This raid is ole that has not
paid, but has cost the thieves and robbers
Of that command more in hoses and lives
shan they have realized. There is one fca-
tRe in this affair worthy Of remark. 1t
is the general desire, throughout the loyal
States, and among loyal men that raid after
raid May be made into Kentucky, until the
leading, active, moving spirih of that State
shall he made TO take one sidoor the other
Of this struggle for the nation'slfe. Indeed
| have heard loyal Kentuckials say they
were glad Morgan had gone among them,
and hoped they would be made to take a
stand either tor or against the rebel iuya-
ders
Bur the great observed ola observers
here is the Great Central Sanitary Fair for
tho relief Of the sick and wounded soldiers.
and their families. These fairs and the
wonderful success attending them, speak in
thunder tones to the rebels and those in
sympathy with them, Of the purposes and
determinations of the loyal men and women
of the loyal States.
The great Fair at New York yielded
clereu hAidred Hogsdnd doiiars, and the one
here promise. to excel that. or any yet held
in the United States. Already the receipts
amount to Scrcn hmdrcd Housdtd dollars,
and they have fifteen more days to run, and
arc averaging nty Ho9saad per- Ion The
average attendance daily is one LHdred
thopsdm PcSoas 1t is wonderful. ] have
never seen such an exhibition in my life !
have never seen such zeal, patriotism, and
liberality displayed in any cause
The history Of the great enterprises so
successfully conducted in the loyal States of
this Union, and popularity called Sanitary
Fairs, forms one Of the most curious, in.
structivc, and characteristic chapters of
American life and history. Schemes for
raising money by the voluntary conlribu-
tons Of the people, for the relief of those
who have suffered on the battlefield, have
been common in other countries and in
other wars. In the early days of the French
Revolution offerings Of money, the gold and
silver plate of the churches, the supcrnuous
fincry Of the rich, were freely laid upon
what was then called 'the altar Of the coun-
try In Prussia, in 1913, when the great
national uprising took place against the
French. personal ornaments, gold and silver
plate, and jcwclry, to a large extent, were
offered to the Government and were gladly
accepted.
But these displays ofpopular enthusiasm
in Europe were wholly unlike the grand
movement we have been called upon to wit
ness in America. They were short-lived
aud spasmodic. springing only from the ex-
citoment of the hour, and destitute Of that
calm, constant, persistent character which
is the great the striking popularity Of our
American bencvolence, directed towards the