The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-07-28

sympathize with our sister southern statee;''
that you particularly alluded to South
Carolina Whose reasonable representatives
were then assembled, and who, one day
after, inaugurated the rebellion that you
did then and there s'freely admit ,*...* -
good cause for dissatisfaction. and COM
plant, I" because of the election of your IL
lustrious predecessor; andth Hon. Hanni-
bal Hamlin who the Rev. Mr.. Brownlow
represented as q free negro. said, also,
that You were then only a conditional un-
ionist; that you declared yourself, ssnot
for seoeding or breaking up the union of
these ststes until every fair and honorable
means had been exhausted in trying to
obtain on the part Of the non-slaveholding
states compliance with tho spirit and let
ter Of the constitution and all it's guaran-
tees" And I further stated that you, at
the same time, had assured your rebel
friends, with whom you did 90 "deeply
sympathize" that, "when this shall have
been done and the states now in open re.
rebellion (meaning Vermont and Massa-
chusetts) against the laws of the United
States - shall persis. in their present
unconstitutional course, it (the gov
ernmenD will not have accomplished the
great design Of its creation, and will there
fore, in fact, be a practical dissolution of
the union" repeat / told the people
that this speech, so made as Aforesaid BY
you (assisted by Senator Latham who was
kind enough to read for you), was design
ed by you to foment rebellion among your
constituents. I selected certain passages
from that speech to prove the above gen.
eral statement. l referred to that part in
which yea said "there is no power con-
ferred upon the Congress of the United
States, BY the constitution, to ooerce q
state;" pointed to your "demand F." for
additional securities " for slavery; to
your statement that Vermont was, at that
time, guilty Of "nullifcation," OF "resist-
ance to the laws of the United States"
which you pronounced "open rebellion.
l commented upon your statement that the
conduct of Vermont had been such that
government was at an end" Nor did l
omit to tell the people that you then and
there Qsth and 10th of December, 1S6O,)
had submitted an opinion in regard to
your general complaint" / did not,
like Beecher, pronounce you drunk, nor
did /, like Wilkes, say you had been poi
soned. l permitted you to speak for your
self by reading the following from your
speech:
We have complained that their intention Is
to hem slavery in so that like the scorpion
when surrounded by fire, if he did not die from
the intense heat of the scorching flames. il
would perish from its own poisonous sting.
You further promised your rebel friends
what Tennessee should do, if new guaran-
tees for slavery were refused. You said.
Tennessee will be found standing as firm
and unyielding in her demands for those
guarantees as any other State
in the confederacy." l asserted also that
you had declared the election of Lincoln
and Hamlin sectional, " that you avoved
your purpose to "put down Mr.. lincoln
and drive back his advances upon South.
ern institutions 2" that you promised not
to abandon your Northern Democratic
friends, and leave all to Linoolns cohorts :"
that you solemnly pledged yourself not to
"permit 4r. lincoln to come with his CO.
horts, as we consider them, from the
North, to carry of everything" All the
foregoing, and much more, charged
upon you, and proved by your speech of
the 18th and 10th Of December, 1850.
Continuing my address, said if you
were a credible witness II beg you to be.
lieve I so regard you'll could prove that
every political supporter and admirer of
your exoellency, and every follower of the
sanity Brownlow then and there present,
was disunionist In doing this, read,
from . speech made BY you at Columbia,
Tenn, on the I'd day Of June, 1862. It
was revised By yourseH, and published in