Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-09-20
PARSON EsROWNLOyy.
EEIs Cooper Institute Speech

CITIZENS OF New YORK: When | adj
dressed you from this platform four years
ago for two dreadful hours, | had the
strength to do so. and a voice to make nv
self heard. | have neither now. and must
throw myself upon your patience and kind
| indulgence. / am not travelling as IA speak
or, for | am not able to speak | am tray
cling as one of an expedition around.
around, and around again. TO try TO wipe
out the moccasin tracks of Andrew John
son and William H. Seward Laughter
and applause. And not only the tracks of
Johnson and of Seward, but of all untamed
and unmitigatcd Copperhcads who are
Shining and following along their track
| [ipplause.1 Ny State is well represented
on this Stage and on this expedition, there
being not less than fifteen Tennessee dele
gates now in this city. If /, however were
well, and if were able to make a speech,
! should decline to do so. Ours is an cleo
| Pioneering expedition [applausel but as
the Governor of the great reconstructed
State of Tennessee, | must maintain the
dignity of the office. Great laughter ard
applause. 1t does not, therefore become
me To- dabble in politics. 1t will do for an
accidental President. one who has lain
aside his robes of office and dignity, and is
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cleveland. charging the New Orleans
bWchery upon gallant and loyal Congress,
or as at ST. Louis. invoking mob 20 hang
Thad. Stevens and Wendell Phillips-bct-
ter men than he ever was himself. Great
applause. have been engaged IN Ten
nessee for the last eighteen months in fight
ing for the good and glorious cause. For
thirty years prior To that had been fight
ing The world. the flesh. and the devil. hut
laitcrly have been fighting the world, JEFF
Davis and Andy Johnson. Applause and
laughter. In Tennessee, less than two
years ago. we called State Convention,
dnring the rebellion. however: but when
we had captured and were holding Mem
phis, and when the glorious old Burnside
of Rhode Island had crossed The Kentucky
Mountains into East Tennessee, which con
stitutcS nearly all the loyalty of that State.
we called convention under the auspices
of one Military Governor-J0linSOn. Tivc
hundred and twcntv-four delegates were
prescnt-good. tried. true, loyal and talent
eel men, representing every county in the
State but one They amended the COnSti-
tuition of the State without waiting for the
Congress or for the North. or for any pOr-
ton of the world of mankind, to order or
call upon them to do so. They so amend
ed the Constitution a. to abolish negro Sla
very forever IApplause. Having Gone
that. Our Legislature convened and enacted
law giving the negro the right TO testify
in Court, allowing him to sue and he sued,
and giving him his rights i,ef~-c the lew
ali. ne courts ca iinc country. Applause
The same Legislature enacted a law
called the franchise law. We had 40.o0e
loyal voters in Tennessee, and we had so
coo rebel voters. and we distranchsed the
$4,000 rebel voters. Great applause. We
are now holding them back from the ballot
box. and intend. God willing, TO keep them
away from the ballot-box. Applause. !
They say they intend to have their rights
and TO vote, and then they intend to run
rough shod over the ballot-bOX. They
boast that the, have Andrew Johnson on
t.cir Sue, and | concedc that il Is 50. Ap-
plauSc.l But am North making arrange
ments to procure arms and ammunition 10
whip the BOYS at home. We had 10000
men who were in the Federal army TAP
plause. We shall call out the militia and
arm them, and think the next rebellion
viii, in all probability. commence in Ten
nessee. They ran me out once and | came
among you a refugee; but am done fleeing
To the mountains oflIcpsidam. Applause
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my noble Legislature and troops | Will
fight them and die in the last ditch. Three
cheers for Brownlow Our Legislature.
few weeks ago ratified, by two-ihirds
majority of both Houses, the Constitution
al Amendment, and ours is the second
State in the Union that did that jOb-ratity
the Constitutional Amendment. Ap-
plause.l Our legislature has not seen the
day since il first convened that resolution
could be passed through either House en-
dorsing Andrew Johnson or his policy
IApplause.1 But our Legislature stands
squarely up TO the loyal, Radical Congress
of the United States. Applause And
ought they not to stand up by Congress:
Cries of Yes Yes Yes No., No. !
The yeas have it. Applause, and cries of
There are none but Copperheads on the
other side" and ''IIow about Mainc: We
will come to Maine after awhile Maine
knows how 10 take care ofherself. lGreat
applause. The most patriotic, talented,
brave and gallant body of men ever COM
vened in America is the loyal Congress of
the United States, and the next best is the
Tennessee Legislature. applause. We
have done all for the negro that could be
done but 10 enfranchise them, and we can
do that without any trouble. and without
any help from the outside. [Cries of Good,
Good and applause i find here at the:
North that you do not need, and many OF
yOudQ not want negro suffrage 1t is not so
with us. We want loyal negroes to help
us put down disloyal traitors. Applause.
| would sooner have the vote. If were
candidate for office to-day, of a loyal ne
gro than that ola mean, pitiful. disloyal
white man. applause would sooner
associate with a loyal negro than disloyal
rebel Applause l would sooner take
NV chances after death with a loyal
negro than disloyal white man.
Applause. / am sorry TO say to
YOU gentlemen, that you do not fully
and thoroughly understand the tone and
temper of the people of the South. The
very old Scratch is in the whole of them
vet. They are unrepcntant, unchanged,
wicked and Rebellious to the core, and it
is their purpose TO bring on another REBEL
ion II is their purpose to restore, either
by proclamation the institution OF
slavery, or have pay for their cman-
cipatcd slaves Cries of 'They can't have
it, 'Never1 Never with my consent
They boast that they have the President
on their side | concede that fact. lie has
gone over, soul. brooches and body, and is
on the side of the rebellion, and is at the
head of the rebellion He now sustains
the relation TO the rebellion that jeff Davis
did in former times. He is at the head of
the whole concern. If. by their wicked
and reBellious spirit, they force another
war upon the country, which think they
are determined to do and will do. and
YOU of the loya, North come or send down
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