The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-08-09

did then and there freely admit
good cause ior dissatisfaction and com
plant" because of The election of your IL
Iustrious predecessor and the Hon. Hanni
bal HamIin, who The Rev. Mr. Brownlow
represented as free negro. ] said, also,
that you were then only conditional Un-
ionist; that you declared yourself, "nol for
seeding or breaking up The Union of these
States until every fair and honorable means
had been exhausted in trying 10 obtain on
the part of the non -slaveholding States a
com pIiance with the spirit and letter OF the
Constitution and all It's guarantees" And
further stated that you, at the same Zine,
had assured your rebel friends, with whom
you did sn ''deepy sympaihize" that "when
this shall have been done and the States
now in open rebe lion (meanIng Vermont
and Massachusetts "aS ainsl the laws of
the United States shall persist in
their present unconstitutional course, il
k Qhe Govemmen) will not have
accomplished The great design of IFS crea-
,ion, and will therefore, in fact, be a prac-
uca dissolution oil The Union" | repeS,
told the people that this speech, so made
as aforesaid by you (assisled by Senator
Latham, who was kind enough TO read for
you,) was designed by you TO foment re-.
bellon among your constituents. selected
certain passages from that speech 10 prove
the above general statement. referred TO
that part in which you said 'rhere is Eo
power conferred npon the Congress OF the
United States, by the Constitution, to coerce
a State ;" | pointed to your "demand" for
additional securities for slavery TO your
statement that Vermont was, at that time,
guilty OF notification" of "resistance TO
the laws of the United States" which you
pronounced "open rebellion" | comment.
ed upon your statement that the conduct OF
Vermont had been such that "the Govern
N enl was at an end" Nor did ! omit 10
tell the people that you then and there
(1S.h and 18th OF December, 186o,) had
submitted an opinion in regard 10 your gen
eral complaint" [ did not, like Beecher,
pronounce you drunk, nor did /, like Wilkes,
say you had seen poisoned. | permitted
you 10 speak for yourself By reading the
following from your speech
eve have complained that their intention
is 10 hem slavery in, so that like the scor-
2ion when surrounded by fire, if it did not
die from the intense heat OF the scorching
flames, it would perish from lis own poi
sonous sting"
You further promised your retel friends
what Tennessee should DO, if new guarsn-
tees for slavery were refused. You said,
Tennessee will be found standing as firm
and unyielding in her demands for those
guarantees i 4 as any other State in
The Confederacy" | asserted, also, that
you had declared The election Of Lincoln
and Hamin 'sectional," that you avowed
your purpose to ''pu; down Mr.. Lincoln and
drive back his advances upon Southern in.
stitu,ions;" that you promised not 10 aban-
don your "Norhern Democratic friends and
leave all to Lincoln's cohorts, as We consider
them, from the North, TO carry off every
thing An the foregoing, and much more,
| charged upon you aud proved by your
speech of 18th and l9lh OF December, 1860
Continuing my address, said that If you
were a credible witness-I beg You 10 be-
leve | so regard you-l could prove that
every political supporter and admirer OF
yocr Excellency and every follower of the
sanity BrownIow then aad there present,
was a d;sunionst In doing this, | read
from speech made by you at Columbia
Tenn, on the 2d OF June, 1862. 1t was
revised by yourself, aud published in the
Nashville Union of June 8, 1862, then ed
tied by your friend Mercer, who is best
known as "quinine Mercer" because of
his sympathy with ;he rebel sick, TO whom
/, is alleged, he kindly smuggled that inval-
liable medicine while he soiourned within
the Federal lines.
| read The following
"Now will prove very briefly that Sc
cessionIst is as great an AboliDionist as
Sumner. Both the secessionist and disun-
ionist are for breaking up Ibis Union. |
will state the argument IN a syllogism thus
An AboitioGisl is a disunonist. disun
ionisl is a secessionist secessioaist is a
disunionisl. A disunionist is an Abolition
ist. Therefore, a secessionist is an Abol-
zionist. There is not particle oi difference
between lhem.'
repeat, | read the foregoing, after which
was 50 irreverent as 10 say, in regard 10
your sylogism, that | could find the silly
but not The gsm; bul you were distinct
and positive in the allegation that can Abo-
lilionist is a disunionisl.' All this apd
much more did | say, may it please your
Excellency, for the many pious purposes
hereinafter enumerated; chiefly, however,
with the desiea OF quieling the hearts and
conscledces of lew 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 always been rebels, at heart, they
dislike suddenly 10 become Abolitionists.
fearing they may be required, in following
your illusTious example, TO deal harshly
with those who, from a false sense of
shame, are still unwilling, By turning Abo
hiionisis, 10 incur the rebel reproach of
apostacy. They urge that they dislike TO
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