Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-14

against an onemy-an army full Of zeal and dcyo-
tion to the countrys best interests, Napoleon or
Casar might have gloried in his position as their
leader, But how degraded now not in being can
didatc for President of the United States, but in
condescending to become tho standard bearer Of Il
most miserable party or rather the ag ends of all
parties. In the border slave States his supporters
will be the Shareholders and their dupes nine-tcnths
of whom have been, from the commencement of the
rebellion rebels and aiders and abcters Of the rebels
in arms-thosc who have sent their sons and as
many of the poor white men as they could induce
to go, well mounted and equipped to swell the
ranks of the rebel army. AT the outbreak Of the
rebcllion-as many Of us know who lived there and
saw II with our own cyes-eycry train that went
| down the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was
crowded with them. Kentucky | know, has Il
proud position among the loyal States of the Union
and has East Tennessee; but in neither has this
been gained by Shareholders. The many fine rcgi-
ments which have been raised there and here, and
which have fought and bled SO nobly in the front
| ranks of our armies have not been composed of
Shareholders, but Of small farmers and mechanics
! slavery. The Shareholders cursed them as "Lin-
colnitcs and "Abolitoniss' and continue to do SO
till the present time. 1t was slavchodcrs and mem
bers of their families who grevcd so bitterly over
the disaster the now dead John Morgan met with
during his raid last June into Kentucky 1t was
they who hockcd for miles around into Cynthiana
with dclicacies for the wounded of his command,
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into the best cotns, and strewcd their collins and
graves with roses and said in their grief over them,
"Thcsc are of the best blood of the South, 1t was
the ,lavcholdcrs Of the Blue Grass region Of Ken
lucky who showed their contempt for Union soldiers
who fell in that fight by throwing their bodies, un
shroudcd and uncoffned into holes dug in their ne
gro burying-grounds. And it is these hypocritcal
Shareholders who are saying TO the President "IOu
ought not to take our slaves from us; Kentucky is
loyal State. 1t is loyal State, aut no thanks to
them. 1t is loyal in spite of them. The rebel
shareholders in Kentucky and other border slave
States will make every cAcrtion to secure the cleo
tion Of Mcclellan, not that he is their first choice
but their choice undcAthe circumstances in which
they arc involved, theft most available man. The
first choice of many Of them would be the "HoHor
able jefferson DaciS but he is not nvoilabc if he
were they would be very glad to got our voioe +"
secure his election
Comrades, companions in arms, who have strug-
gled three years to crush out this SHAREHOLDERS
belion let us spurn their solicitations and the solic
tatons Of their friends and allies and tools such
Prentice, Wolford, Jacobs, Mallory and host Of
Others whose talents prostituted to subscryc the
interests of slavery and Shareholders and to defamc
and malgn the President Of the United States, who
we believe has .ndcavored to perform his whole
duty to his country faithfully earnestly and honest
ly--who is lsboring ccaseessly tc strengthen our
armies in the field that by defeating our foes peace
may be restored to our beloved country.
In the North, the party who are expected to hur-
rah for little Mac and rally around his standard
and who solicit our votes, as is well known, is made
up Of cmigrants from slave States who have taken
their proslavery principles with them, which have
led them to sympathizo with the South and desire
the success Of the rebellion, that, AT least, all
possible favor4 be shown their Southern friends.
Connected with these in that party are many TO
about doggerics and places Of public resort, who
have been taught and Influenced by disappointed
politicians and scheming aspirants to Office, who
succeed in bringing themselves into notice by de-
flaming the government the administration or by
any other means however mean, that are likely to
be successful These sclf-styled Democrats whose
great desire is not the benefit of the masses but the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of themselves and their special
friends. The party is a humbug and burlcsque on
the name they have assumed. The men Of this
party, Il few months ago, showed hcllish delight
in shooting down in the streets the furloughcd sol
dicrs who had the privilege of returning home and
spending few days with their families and friends
Now they will come with their honcy-fugglins to
secure votes to exalt them TO power and position
which having gained, would look upon us again
with contempt, and with malice prepcnsc in their
hearts, gnash on us with their teeth. They want
our votes to eaalt George b. Mcclellan to the chief
magistracy of these United States; to make him
comnlander-in-chcf of our army and navy, and
after the promises he has had TO make the leaders Of
the party he heads, to place him in position where
our beloved Grant and Sherman and their noble
armies will bo under his control and at his mercy
Brother soldier. he is not fl for the position. He
is not safe for it. He has given u, proof abundant
that he is too slow nag to work in the lead. He
was in the lead two years ago when aner the bat
tie of Antietam, instead Of following up the advan-
tage our army had there gained, and pushing on TO
crush Lee before he could recross the Potomac,
granting him. at his request cessation Of hgstlitieS
which, of course Lsc improved by recrossing the
river and fortfying the opposite bank that he
could bid him defiance. Here our would-bc Prcsi-
dent settled down again. at time when the most
untiring activity was needed and wasted forty days
and nights, and dshonorcd the army by permitting
the rebel Stuart to make his celebrated raid around
him, as he had done before when his army was
lying on the Chickahominy.
With such leader, our victorious army which
has gone in triumph through Northern Georgia,
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