Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-05
q our country and the Union Of these States.

NY distinguished friend who has jus. al
dressed yon has rendered il unneeessafy fol
mo. even II could, 10 give you . descrip
ton, geographically, OF the country which
represent before you 10 day for be hal
painted It with tho pencil Of N artist, a. b,
-, 10 word.Painting, unexcellcd within th,
Limits OF our broad country. [Applanse.
Mhtio ho has drawn tho outline OF that beau
! uiai, and lovely, and loyal land, be has i'm
pressed hia pictures with The warmth, and
beauty, and patriotism Of his own doyoted
hesrt Applause. come 10 yoa to-day
ietDw-eiIisens, rs the representative OF Easi
Tennessee, not 10 talk TO you about party
pehues, nor 10 mako arguments or appeal;
for tho support or the Advancement oil tht
inserssis OF any particular party or any par.
4 ueuIar man in these United Stntee for
tell yon, Ia all candor aad truth, that such
hae been oifr condition. for more than two
years, that We have had no party politics
as We used 20 understand them. Il il true
we have parties there, but thero are only
two. We once had q democratic party, q
whig party, an American party, and IN anti.
/ American party; but these parties have all
been merged In the great questions that
have divided as for the last four years.
might say, for the last eight years, and we
are divided into only two parties, tho one
known as tho Union party, and the other
~ the secession or rebel party and I am
1 glad TO tell you to-day, as my ilustrious
friend has told you in advance, that when
the test was applied at the ballot.box, we
stood, IN the thirty counties Of East Tennes-
/ see, rs thirty.four 20 seven upon this aucs.
! ton ; thirty. four for the preservation oil tho
/ Union Of these S.atee, and seven for the
dissolution of this government TApplause |
Neither do come before you to day, iel-
low citizens. .as a bCCgaT, although present
myself somewhat in the semblanco OF beg.
gar; nor do represent begging, although
q begsared people. She whose people were
too proud 10 bow tho mock and receive the
yoke Of King Cotton of tho South, is too
proud s. heart 20 ask aims at the hands of
her sisters OF tho North. lApplausc.1 But
] coIae, fcl! citizens, as a representative
Of suffering Rnl loyal people, reduced to
extremity by reascu of their devotion to
our common country, to present some plain
facts % the loyal people Of the North and
nifty far the extension Of that bensvolenca
which opens its hand always to the suffer
ing ard the faithful every ywhegO.
II Is true, fellow citizens, that many Of cur
kindred Of the South arc very angry with
the people Of Eas. Tennessee, and they hate
IL with great bittelacss. and ei late have
iaae Hs great iniGry. Yet. While tharssAs.A
hSAaee % this fact is Z source OF great pain
10 the peopie or E@st Tennessee, they are
coasolod by the reflection that this animosi{
y and hatred have been cngendorsd by her
devotion te the union Of these States, by her
adherence 10 the farewell advice Of our glo-
rioes Washington, tho father OF our eoun-
try; by Eer persistent refusal 70 tale part
or lot in any mad effort Tor the overthrow
CT orr common governments government
which has always protected its citizens,
which has never iniringcd solitary right
cf an individual or a State OF this Union,
from its beginning down, and which our
people believe il TO DO their religious duty
TO hand down, as priceless and incstimablc
heritage, 30 their children and childrens
children. Loud Applause
But, fellow citizens, IL is not truc that
East Tennesse: has ever bccn unfaithful to
the Southern people, either in principle or
in fact We believed, and we declared, that
the interests and institutions. the happiness,
prosperity and rights of the peoplc Of the
South were bound up with and in the Union,
and that they could never be preserved out
sido of the Union. W. declared this upon
the rcstrum, and at the hustings, every
where, from Carter to Shelby-trom tho
eantern limit OF the State 10 its western
boundary upon tho SNississipp river. HIS
tory has been written, fcllow.eitizen.. aud
its immutable verdict is, that cur iud yment
was right and correct, and IL has dcmoastrat-
ed that theirs was false and illlacious. Let
The universal prosperity that swelled every
channel Of our vitality--eommerciRl, poiiLi-
cal industrial ard social-at the beginning
of the war and within the Union, attest
this fact; and let their ruino4 commerce.,
thoir paralysed iESnstry, their bankrupt
TREASURY, tho dismembercd families, the
broSen.hearted widows, the orphaned ehil.
drcn, the desolatsd homes aud new-Inado
graves, without the Union, attest the unut.
terable folly of those who exccrated the
people of East Tennessee because they would
not affiliate with treason. Applause -
Could those who made this war bo mado
alone 10 taste iis bitterness and feel its woes,
IL had been weIl indeed. Then East Ten
neasce would have escaped. But, alas the
concentrated fury OF the war has rolled over
her innocent bosom, aud she is in ruins to-
day, having nothing let her but pride, pow
eriy, and patriotism. Her people are tho
descendants of the pioneer heroes Of North
Caroliua, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, with here and there = sol.
itary individual from other Northern and
Southern States Of the United Ststes and.
like their illustrious ancestry they have
never learned how TO prove false 20 the
Constitution and Union OF tho country
The pioneer heroes Of East Tennessee left
their daughters, their wives and their old
men, 10 defend thcir homes against savage
foe, In the great war for Independence, while
they buekled on their aFmor, and struck
upon the sides and slopes OF Kings Noun
tain, under the lead Of Shelby and Campbell,
for our infhn. nationality In the war Of
1912, they fought calamity on many bat.
tie-aeld, and triHnsphed under the immortal
Jackson At New orieahs. tApPlause In