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

Congress viii tell you that the Southern
politicians have controlled the Military
Committees IN Congress for ycars--that they
have reported from time to time 90 many
stands Of arms worthless, and asked iol
then to be replaced with the modern I'm
proved arms, and would order those on hand
TO he sold at public outcry to tho highest
bidder Information would at once be given
10 Southern Generals that SO many thousand
arms would bo sold at such and such point,
on certain days, Southern Governors would
hayo agents there with tho money, and buy
them in at the most reduced rates In this
way the traitors of tho 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 well armed when they went into
the rebellion.
just before this rebellion was iuauguMtod,
Pryor of Virginia and Wiglhll Of Texas,
boldly announced that if tho entire North
would sign sheet Of blank paper, making
= string Of names as long as 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 60 out, they intended to have
an independent Conledcmcy, Pryor, as
you will rccoloct, just before he made his
bow and walked out Of the House, telc-
graphcd his constituents, in reference to
what the Peace Congress proposed We
can get the Crittcndcn Compromise, but we
won't accept it. We intend to 90 out, and
to break up the old Governments"
Judge Douglass, then a Senator from Hi
nois, overhead Southern Senator say
"No matter what the North might agree to,
the South intended to sccedo, 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
dcrcd diStcmpercd, sway backed, hip-shot-
ten, spaycncd, whisISy-rottcd d. " WdS2a,
Of Virginia. Yes Mason, the but-c of
original sin, and the upper crust of all po-
longdd cntAHng Lcnc| Iam'htev,rn1 pro
uumcut Of the United States at the time
Mason and JohR ,SiidN were taken out Of
Fort Warren and placed on board British
steamer to go 70 Europe, as Ambassadors Of
thus bogus southern Confcdcracy, | would
have chained grind stone around each of
their Internal nccks, 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 the name Of John Slidol Did you
ever SEQ that arch traitor2 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 Slidcll
for an honest man. Loud applause,
But / have told you that we intended to
destroy this government at the South and
We intended it for the last thirty years.
These troubles had TO come, and it il well
for us that they arc upon us now. Knowing
that this vile conspiracy was on hand. and
knowing the bad men at the head Of it, how
could act with them? fought it in 1880,
in South Carolina. ! was then in the Pen
dlcton District where John C. Calhoun re-
sided fought it from the pulpit, from the
stump, and through the press They threat
cncd TO hang me then, Ms thoy did last win
ter. But the difference between the periods
of Notification and this Rebellion is. in the
former period we had President who was
every inch n man. When this rebellion was
inauguratcd we had noLo7y in the chair
Had Jackson been at the head Of affairs in
stead of Buchanan he would havo raised
himscfup about ton feet in his boots, taken
I ~ u a W. W tll'll lli'h'N anu I'bhtl
thom out Of countcnancc, he would have
cxclaimcd-"By the God that made Moses,
this thing has gone far enough; II must
stop" And when Jackson said thing had
to stop, il did stop. and all tho people said
amen IApplauscl
Now, had Breckenridge instead of Lin
coin been elected, we should have had mono
Of thi. trouble, not bit Of it, But let me
explain. The Southern programme was to
quietly administer the government, whilc
they started all the government factories to
work. .ay at Springfield, Troy. and other
points. and manufactured all the rifles, mus
kets, cannon. pistols. &c, they could bring
out in four years. They intended to make
all the ships Of war, vessels for transports.
at the Navy Yard. and to erect all the forts
they could around the Southern coasts. and