The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1866-10-19

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was to take position near the front door,
the other "smallrr fry" were to take positions
In different parts Of the room. "The COM
mittee was to engineer the cheering part of
the programme, give the signal, and inaugu-
rate the cheering by stamping z, the others
were TO follow. Thus arranged, every thing
being ready, "hOnest John commenced his
speech. But, by way Of caution to you, let
me say, never call Col. Eetherland " honest
John" to his face. lie does not like the
name Rsw. lie will get mad can not, for
my life, tell why this is so. lie did, when
II candidate for Governor, love to he styled
"honest John lyon could not please him
better; but now he gets awfnly mad. can
only account for it in this way Though !
would not have him to know it for anything) :
When We use to call him honest John"
years ago, he was then honest, politically, and
he acknowledged it as compliment: be-
cause. it was true, be felt it to be so but
Of late, since he has become an advocate Of
"My Policy" so .aOtOriouSiy dishonest, Polih-
edIly, aud he knows it 80 well himself, that
he has an idea that everybody else knows il !;
and when we call him " honest John now,
he thinks that we use the term honest
John ironically; being satisfied, himself,
that, as applied to him now, politically it can
be used in no other sense. ] speak Of tLis
cOn6dentally, that you may not anger him,
should you happen to be thrown in TO "hon-
est Johns " company any time before see
you.
We win now return to the cpenking. A
certain Editor in the city OF Knoxville, speak
ing of :" honest Johns speech, made nj the
great mass meeting bat recently, said -
q Honest John made one Of his able, sound,
common sense. argumentatiye speeches, and
held the audience spell.bound for two tmor-
tall hours" suppose this was the kind of
n speech he made at Sheedvile. do not
e1actl, know what the Knoxville Ny Policy"
Editor means by holding an audience tsbell-
bound" II he means that every body was
quiet and still. and did not make any fuss,
except when they went to leave the house,
suppose honest John" held this audience
spell bound" A good many left the house
while he was speaking; but they done so in
a quiet manner.
Every body Was still all the time, except
"the committee Of arrangements" (Bill Kyle
made an awful stamping once; but every
body else was spell -bou1d," they would not
unite with "the committee Of arrangements"
10 cheering F" honest John:" so ".he COM
mittee" cayed in, and "honest John went
through without any further disturbance
every body was "spell. bound"
| ! Wish you could have heard "honest
Johns" speech. It wss indeed "a common
sense, argumentatve speech. have no
doubt but that honest John succeeded in
proving, satisfactorily, 70 himself, Bill Kyle,
Bills father, app, and all other rebels pres
en-. great many thingss few Of which ]
will notice, to-wit:
That Andrew Johnson and his preasnt sup
portsrs were the only men in the land who
loved and re, erenced the constitution NJ our
fathers, and who were devoted to the pnion.
10 other words, that The whole radical fra
ternity were a set of traitors and disnnion-
lists. If you had heard " honest John and
the patriotism Of Andy and the constitution
ally or my Policy" you would have thought
| idoubtless honest John" thinks sol that
| Andy had became so enRmored OF the con-
stitutiOn that he had actually been married
to il. This man that six months ago, a child
had been conceived, md was just now being
born that it was coming forth in the shape
~ aAy Policy, !" sort Of young eo1ii7anoH :
that every body ought to worship the babe
on account OF its ancestry being born Of
Andy; begOtten of tie old constitution
| ''AlOuthh JOuu HNAl ViOhFh hAtk Wv Ah'N''
we're all clever, good people that he had
nothing "againet" them that be admitted
| that we had lust past through a terrible civtl
war but he did not think the rebels much
to Ulamp for al that; that they loved tie old
constitution berause they advocated IL TO
bo the constitution Of the government. with
only few sligllI variations. "Honest John"
thought there were as many disunionists in
the North as in the Sontb. That therefore
be did not think the rebels much to blame
and II they (the rebels had Gone wrong,
,bonrst John" thought that they had been
punished sufficiently Ila went on to show
how they bad been punished. He said \
great many OF them had been killed. others
had lost near aud deal friends. Was not this
punishment Still this was not all, they had
| lost great deal Of property, hnt II destroy
ed and all had lost their niggers-hmss!f With
the rest He thought that this was pnnish-
ment enough. lie is a man Of a large heart,
las much Of the spirit Of iorgiynep: 80
much am surprised that he ever Joined the
Presbyterian Church. lie ought, by oil
means. 10 hrye Joined the DuBknrd Church /.
lie would make an admirable mehiber OF this
Church. 1t is contrary to their church rule
10 resent an injury "H0nest John ought to
be a Dunkard While be WAS on this part OF
bis subject, I noticed he developed strong
singleness VI mind he could not see but one
side Of justice at time aud ! suppose he
furgot to look on the other siie nt least he
did not say anything about suffering on the
other eide. lie had. suppose, forgotten ihat
half q million Union soldiers had been aneri-
feed and that the government had insreas.
ed debt Of four billions Of iollar', and
speaking to m East Tennessee audience and
. ,rticularly the people Of the loyal county
Of Hancock He ought not TO have forgotten
that they lost property during the war "a
well as the rebels "honess John forgot all
this.
lie next pitched into the radicals general
ly. He resurreeted from the grave that old,
defunet hydra heated mons,sr-hsgro eqndlhy,
With which Bin Spdn, Haynes aud other reh-
el speakers in 1851, tried to scare the people
with and erighten them Into rebellion and
treason against the government. The sama
uonsisr that "hohest John" then said no sen-
| sible man would be frightened ati and that
| he then helped TO demolish Il. John ought
not 10 have raised this monster from the
Rrase. lie helped 70 bury II, end he ought
10 have lefl Il In lie grave, undisturbed, ua-
IGNORED and forgotten.
But suppose this was a part OF the pro-
gtpmme dictated By "the COMMITTEES Of Ar
raugemtnls,n and "honest John had 10 DO u