The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-10-24
Parson Brow1slow and Parson Hunniout ct


The loyal soqthernersn who are now instructing
the Fest were last at Chicago. We extract from Of
one the late papers of that city the following report
OF tie speeches Of two Of these evangelical mission
| aries:
About taf5ast nine o'clock in the evening Gov.
Bro%nlow ii reply the enthusiastic and continuous
calls from he sarging crowd that surrounded the Tre
monF house. appeared the north balcony and spoke
! for & few moments He was introduced by Lieut. Gov
BroSs. He said that he regretted that his iii health had
been such to hinder him from speaking to the peo-
pie Of Chicago before. He had felt deeply as any
one gould the warmth of their welcome When he
saw chat long line of torches, he thought how Andy
ccuiq not nave. one such greeting in Chicago but
! how much Il warmer one-a much more fiery one
awaited him below. Caeers.l He was glad to see
that there vas place where loyal men were appre-
cated and 10 knos that there was one where traitors
were damned For four long years he had fought hell
lsh tfeason u the south during that time he had
stood by the side dt the man who rene
gadei Godforgotten apostate to faith honor and
comion deceney--a traitor blAek at heart aud cor
rupt 1T souls q msereant whose soul when be died
woe3 be resolved by kindred Gands with yels of "a
miliag yejls.
The speaker had come north in order 10 say some
thng about this new johnson party, sired by Massa-
chusetts treachery, whose dam was South Carolina
treason, and which was universally damned by every
honest man. 1t was bsptised Philadelphia bv gov
ernm@nt defaultdrs, political demagogues and internal
traitofs, cheers, and voice :" Cd id 'en,"l
and held at tha font By Andy johnson, the foster
brother Of J. Wilkes Booth. II might do for him to
scQd about Thaddeps Stevens and Wendell Phillips in
his mpmeats Of debauchery 5ut what did it say for
bis appreciation Of dignity his attributes of man
hood, Ne man woad ever dare to try such an exper-
iment and this Iinth part of man would never have
opportunity to dp SO again
But thespeaker ard bis companions had come north
beyor1 all else, Tor the purpose of mpressing upon
the people there the action they should take The
emergency was urgent. The white loyal men of the
south bad'to be protected The black loyalists of the
south had to be protected At the south treason still
ruled. re hoped bis audience would go to the polls
and eject, not traitors but loyal men That was all
they dsked Let the people of the great west look to
this, and roll up majority SO great that the drunken
tailor at Washington Should feeif his rhinocerous
hide was capable Of susceptibity-that treason is
odi9us aud traitors shall be damned He observed
several ladies before him. and presumed that many of
them were single Let them have nothing to do with
northern copperheads in their courtships for man
who was not true to his government would be trus
to his wife aud children
The. Rev. j. W. Hunnicut of Virrinia yaa then in.
troduced He said
Fellow-citizens-I regard ANDY johnson as a man CT
the greatest Perhy that lives upon this continent
aIn rot going into any institutional discussion You
all unqerstah4 hat and have heard enough about il
but, being 4outlerp man, | am going to tell YOU
something about the south this evening. have just
come from the city of Richmond Va l have lived
in tha city since the 9th of last March and have
not been out Of the corporation limits but twice since
Iidt Iltuea L FatutFlchSOuEg IS not my home. have
edited paper called the New Nation ever since last
March in Richmond One of the most radical papers
perhaps, that ever published, published for six
months IN tha5 city of the old dominion FCheers7
And GONE here to-day to tell you our condition as
southern men. | was born and raised in South Caro-
Ina, IN JOHN g. Calh0uns old congressional district
came to Fredericksburg, in Virginia / married there
have one wife buried there and three children Twas
never further north in all my life than Philadelphia
until tils rebellion. Therefore you see am south
ern man. You cannot say that am an interoper In
describing the southern loyasts" the New York
News says that southern loyalist from want o.
sense. Iha is all there is of it. That is the way thev
regard it. man that is q southern loyalst is igg.
nothing more and nothing less according to the def
milton qt such papers. We have five daily papers f-
the Whig the Enquirer the Times the
Dispatch and the Examiner. You have read, sun-
pose, o that fellow Pollard who fights duels rel
you he goes out to fight dGas aud tries to fight aaaa
with all the coTaids be meets but he would no more
attack brave man than sheep would a wolf-nasE
olt NDw, these papers say they are ready to come
back lno the Union This is the question! Are tIas
it to come buck into the Union? No sir thev ans
not ard so help me- God they never will be e.
tell Whist these papers and these men say about the
oyal men Fhere. They say that decent peope--tha5
$ the fate. re0el&-dont associate with them, don't
vote for item wlenI they run for office dou't trade
With them WREN they set up in business; and r5gw I
ell youth fact y that Union men in Virginia are
more politically, financially, enthusiastically and social.
Y prescribed t0Gay, than they were, in 1852 whaa
eft thete with Gen. Blrnside and that is solemn
act thar will swear to. And STILL mark you we arc
old that these mcu must come back into the UnioI