The mountain Democrat., 1865-10-07

States, by the Constitution, to coerce
State pointed to your demand fol
additional securities for slavery to you
statement that Vermont was at that tim,
guilty of 'nulli6catiOu,' of resistance t
the laws Of the United States, which yor
pronounced open rebellion l comment
ed on your statement that the conduct O
Vermont had bfbB sDch E2Ial, the Govern
ment was at an end Nor did omit tC
tell the people that you then and there
18th and 19th Of December, 1860, haC
submitted an opinion in regard to your
general complaint l did not, like
Beecher, pronounce you drunk, nor did /
like Wilkes, say you had been poisoned
l permitted you to speak for yourself by
reading the following from yo0r speech:
I'VE have complained that their inten
ton to hem slavery in, so that, like the
scorpion when surrounded by fire, if il
did not die from the intense heat of the
scorching flames, it would perish from
its own poisonous sting"
You further promised your rebel friends
what Tennessee should do, if guarantees
for slavery were refused. You said
Tennessee will be found standing as 6rm
and unyielding in her demands for thosG
guarantees = as any other State in
the Confederacy.' asserted, also, thai
you had declared the election of Lincoln
and Hamlin sectional that you avowed
ycrr purpose to put down Mr.. Lincoln
and drive back his advances on Southern
institutions;' that you promised not tC
abandon your Northern Democratic
friends and leave oil 10 Lincoln's cohorts,
that you solemnly pledged yourselves moi
to permit Mr.. Lincoln to come with bis
cohorts, as we consider them, from the
North to carry of everything All ths
foregoing, and much more, l charged up
on you, and proved by your speech of the
18th and 10th Of December, 1860.
Continuing my address, l said that il
you were credible %itness--I beg you
to believe l so regard you'll could provG
that every political supporter and admi
rer of your Excellency, and every follow
er Of the sanity Brownlow then and there
present, was disunionist. In doing this
l read from speech made by you at Co
lumbia, Tennessee, on the ID of June
1862. 1t vas revised by yourself, and
publishedfn your own organ, the Nash
vile Union, Of June 0, 1862, then edited
by your friend Mercer, who is best knowr
as 'Quinine Mercer because of his sym
pathy with the rebel sick, to whom, it i.
alleged, he kindly smuggled that invalua
BILE medicine while be sojourned within
the Federal lines.
read the following:
Now l will prove very briefly that q
secessionist is as great an Abolitionist al
Sumner. Both the seceSsionist and thu
abolitionist are for breaking up this
Union. l will state the argument in I
syllogism, thus: An AboIitionist is dis
unionist. A disunionist is q secessionist
A secessionist is . disunionist. A dis
unionist is an Abolitionist. There is no
a particle of difference between them
Irepeat, I read the foregoing, after
which | was so irreverent as to say, in re.
gard to your syllogism, that could find
the silly, but not the gism but you we're
distinct and positive in the allegation that
an Abolitionist is = disunionist' All
this and much more did l say. may it
please your Excellency, for the many pi-
GUS purposes hereinafter enumerated ;
chiefly, however, with the design Of qui-
citing the hearts and consciences of Q few
of your old rebel friends, Office holders
and trade agents, who desire to join you
in your late but earnest championship of
the rights of the colored race. They have
some pride of consistency; having al
ways been rebels at heart, they dislike
suddenly to become Abolitionists, fearing
they may be required, in following your
illustrious example, to deal harshly with
those who, from false sense Of shame,
are still unwilling. by turning Abolition.
lists, to incur the rebel reproach of apOs.
tacy. They urge that they dislike TO
be called Judases, and yet they wish
to be with you and at rest Hence the
struggle between their old party and rebel
pride and their love for you; their dire
necessities and love Of cash. With oil
such adopted this mode of reasoning:
That the popular judgment is often
wrong, and traditionary or hereditary
prejudiCes rarely right. For example, !
would take two celebrated cases, those of
PLATE and Judas, that the Christian world
affected, nay felt, great horror of their
names and characters, that they were as.
sociated With the murder of our Saviour,
and, therefore, no one supposed it posi-
BILE to find anything in their natures to
extenuate the severe judgment of man.
kind; whereas, in fact, Plate was very
bitterly opposed to our Saviour's perse.
cutions and ignominious death, and pro-
tested he found no fault in him. while
the mob (may Heaven protect your Ex-
cellency from all mobs) hurried him away
to execution, without even the dignity of
q military arrest. That Judas, from all
we had been able to ascertain in regard
to his character, was very unobtrusive,
reticent man, better fitted by nature for
q trade agent or a contractor than q dis.
ciple; that, though be turned his back
upon his friends, nay, betrayed them, he
was neither the first nor the last who had
yielded to temptation that his reward
was hard money-thirty huge pieces
and long before Chase had inflated the
currency, or California had augmented
The coin; that be was . man of sensibil.
ity, that he repented, and so suffered
from remorse that he burst his bowels
assured the secessionists and Office.
seekers, however, that they need not
wait for quarantine before joining the ar
my of Sumner and John Brown; that
you had done so, turned your back upon
them-betrayed them, and that, although
The official health bulletin represented
you in 9 precarious condition, / had yet
seen no mention Of any morbid distention
Of your bowels. Nor did l fail to remind
the audience of the radical change of your
opinions of John Brown and Mr.. Seward,
since you denounced the one as q mur-
derer. robber, q thief and traitor and
the other as bis political tutor. Ipointed
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