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 No. 9. A CHEERFUL TEMPER, a Thanksgiving Discourse, by Rev. WM 
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 No. 12. TRAVEL, ITS PLEASURES, ADVANTAGES AND REQUIREMENTS, 
 QQ Lecture by J. H. SIDDOXS. 
 
 01 No. 13. ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE, Addresses by Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHEH. 
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 No. 24. THK SOUTHERN REBELLION; and the Constitutional Powers of the 
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 No. 25 THE WAR FOR THE UNION. An Address by WENDELL PHILLIPS 
 delivered in New York and Boston, in December, 1861. 
 
 E. D. BARKER, Publisher, 135 Grand Street, Kew fcrlt 
 
SKETCH OF PARSON BROWNLOW. 
 
 BY THEODOEK TILTON. 
 
 [The following is part of an editorial article in the Independent, May 22, 1SG2. 
 ED. PULPIT AND KOSTKUM.] 
 
 ME. BROWNLOW is drawing nigh to sixty years of age, tall and 
 slender in figure, with dark hair and eyes, a face of remarkably 
 sharp outlines, wearing just now a look of illness and weariness 
 by reason of his rigorous imprisonment. He came originally from 
 Yirginia, hailing from the same birth-place with Floyd, near 
 Wythe, in the western part of the State. He began life honest, as 
 he says, and has remained poor ; while Floyd, turning knavish, has 
 grown rich. , Till his twenty-fifth year he was a house-carpenter. 
 Then, dropping his jack-plane, he took the saddle-bags of a travel 
 ing Methodist preacher, and rode a hard circuit for ten years. Be 
 coming engrossed in the political questions of the time, and never, 
 as he testifies, remaining neutral on any subject, he became a parti 
 san leader in politics, and soon began to exercise great influence as 
 the editor of a newspaper an employment which, for thirty 
 years, has supplied him with plenty of hard work. 
 
 He exhibits in his character a singular union of high moral and 
 intellectual qualities with an almost unaccountable deficiency of 
 that sense of the fitness of things which we call good taste. Thus, 
 in his personal habits, he is singularly pure ; he never tastes liquor, 
 never has used tobacco, never has seen a play at a theater, and 
 never has dealt a pack of cards a remarkable record for a South 
 erner. But when he opens his lips, his language, although without 
 positive profanity (except when quoting other men s), is often so 
 grating to polite ears that it keeps sersiti TC listeners from blushed 
 
 PULPIT AND KOSTKUM SUPPLEMENT No. 1 , 
 
4 " * * "S^fifcil* Ofr PARSON BEOWNLOW. 
 
 only because it irresistibly provokes to laughter. He confesses 
 that his chief natural gift is in piling epithets upon the heads 
 of scoundrels. He knows no pleasure equal to discovering a new 
 rascal, or a new rascality of an old one, and printing the name and 
 facts in capital letters in the next Knoxville WJiig. But he is a 
 man whom a thorough New England training, moral and intel 
 lectual, would have built up into a dignified, impressive, and splen 
 did character. He is one of many men in the South, made of 
 nature s best stuff, whom the influence of slavery, unconsciously 
 to themselves, has defrauded of their just rank in the scale of true 
 nobility and honorable fame. 
 
 "When the question arose of the secession of Tennessee, he made 
 an intrepid stand against it. Having thus stirred a hornet s nest, 
 he had not to wait long to feel the stings. He was insulted to his 
 face, dogged in his walks, and threatened with pistol-shots. Ho 
 was commanded by traitors to transfer the allegiance of his paper 
 to Jefferson Davis, but indignantly refused. He was then tempted 
 with a bribe, which he still more indignantly spurned. Then his 
 pen was smitten out of his hands. The traitors invaded his office, 
 stopped his press, and turned his press-room into a machine-shop 
 for boring rifles to aim at loyal hearts. Still continuing to show 
 his personal allegiance to the Union, he was hunted out of Knox 
 ville and driven to take refuge in the wastes of the Smoky Mount 
 ains, where he shot bears arid wild turkeys, and slept on a blanket 
 on the bare ground. Meanwhile, without his knowledge, his wife 
 procured from Richmond a pass to permit him to retire from the 
 State. This fact, being communicated to him in his mountain re 
 treat, brought him back to Knoxville, where, as soon as he showed 
 his face, he was seized, in violation of the pledge, thrown into jail, 
 and kept in loathsome confinement for three months. 
 
 During his stay in the prison, almost every day a cart with a 
 coffin drove to the door, and some victim was taken out to be 
 hung. The prisoners, none of whom were charged with any other 
 offense than loyalty to the Union, seldom had a day s, and some 
 times not an hour s, notice when the cart would call, or for whom, 
 
SKETCH OF PAESOtf BEOWNLOW. 5 
 
 Mr. Brownlow, after fully expecting to be hung, and after prepar 
 ing a speech to be delivered on the gallows, was finally ordered out 
 of confinement, and out of the Confederacy. 
 
 At Nashville, while on his way to the North, he met Andrew- 
 Johnson. It was a singular meeting. The two men had been bit 
 ter enemies for twenty-five years, never cpeaking to one another 
 in all that time. The quarrel arose out of the partisan warfare 
 waged over the names of General Jackson and John Quincy 
 Adams, Johnson siding with Jackson, and Brownlow with Adams. 
 But at Nashville the two men met face to face, each offered to the 
 other his right hand, both shed tears, neither spoke a word, but 
 immediately separated, mutually reconciled ! It was honorable to 
 both men the grudge of a lifetime melted away by one good act 
 of mutual magnanimity ! 
 
 These are the two men who now represent before the nation 
 the spirit and temper of the people of East Tennessee. That 
 mountainous country is guarded by a hardy race, accustomed to 
 toil, owning few slaves, eager disputants in political struggles, and 
 proudly jealous of their civil rights. Unlike the other portions of 
 the State, where slavery has more completely corrupted the people, 
 labor is held honorable, and laziness despised. 
 
 Johnson, like Brownlow, is a man who has grown up with a 
 loyal respect for hard work. As Brownlow came from one of the 
 "second families of Virginia," Johnson came from a similar family 
 in North Carolina. He was a tailor. Think of it ! The military 
 governor of a slave State having been a tailor, and not a cavalier! 
 He walked, as a young man, across the mountains into East Ten 
 nessee, carrying his needles and scissors in a pack over his shoulder. 
 He could not read, but soon married a good woman who taught him 
 how. He bent over his seams in the daytime, and over his books 
 at night. Joining a debating society, he soon began the art of 
 thinking on his legs. In due time he went to Nashville, first as 
 legislator, and afterward as governor, returning home in the inter 
 vals of public business to make jackets and trowsers for an honest 
 living. The town of Greenville, among the mountains, still shows 
 
(5 SKETCH OF PAESON BEOWNLOW. 
 
 the sign, "Andrew Johnson, Tailor." Shortly after rising from the 
 tailor s bench to the governor s chair, an early friend, who had 
 been a blacksmith, became Judge Pepper, chief-justice of the State. 
 The governor made with his own hands a suit of clothes and pre 
 sented them to the judge, and the judge made with his own hands 
 a shovel and tongs and presented them to the governor. 
 
 The secret of the steadfast loyalty of East Tennessee lies in one 
 fact : The people own few slaves, and have never learned to despise 
 labor. In all the States, and sections of States, where labor has 
 been held honorable, and the laborer has not been degraded, there 
 has been no rebellion against the Government. In all the States 
 and districts where the prevailing spirit of the people has been of 
 subserviency to slavery, the sentiment of loyalty has been tainted, 
 and the rebellion has been welcomed. The fact is full of signifi 
 cance. It demonstrates beyond question that the great struggle 
 now shaking the land is undisguisedly between slavery and free 
 dom. All men s eyes are opening to this fact even Mr. Brown- 
 low s. For though he has never been an Abolitionist, yet his late 
 wounds and sufferings were inflicted by slavery, and he knows it. 
 We were not surprised, therefore, to hear him make a singular 
 confession in his Brooklyn speech. "If the issue," said he, " were 
 between the Christian religion and the Union, I would go against 
 the Union ; if it be between the Union and slavery, I will go 
 against slavery" thus unconsciously putting slavery at the third 
 remove from the Christian religion and that is where it belongs! 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 
 
 An Address by Parson Brownlow (Rev, W. G. Broicnlow, D.D.}, delivered 
 before the citizens of New York, at the Academy of Music, May 15, 1862. 
 
 REPORTED BY CTA8. B. COLLAR. 
 
 THE Eeception of Parson Brownlow on this his first public ap 
 pearance in New York, was marked by the most hearty and enthu 
 siastic demonstrations. Long before the hour named for the com 
 mencement of the proceedings, a dense throng, thousands in number, 
 had assembled, filling all the seats, aisles, and lobbies, from the par- 
 quette to the upper tiers the parquette being reserved especially for 
 ladies accompanied by gentlemen. Hundreds of leading citizens 
 occupied the stage the various professions being well represented 
 by many distinguished gentlemen, evincing by their presence on 
 this occasion their desire to render a just tribute of praise to the 
 gallant Parson, whose sufferings, as a Union man, had awakened 
 so general a sympathy throughout the whole community. As the 
 Parson was conducted upon the stage by Chas. T. Kodgers, the 
 President of the Young Men s Republican Union, under whose 
 auspices the Eeception was given, he was received with the most 
 rapturous applause, the audience, en masse, rising to their feet, 
 waving their hats and handkerchiefs, and joining in one universal 
 shout of applause. 
 
 Mr. EODGERS stated that, according to the announcement through 
 the press, it was expected that Governor Morgan would preside ; 
 but he had received a letter from his Excellency, regretting that his 
 official duties prevented his attendance on so interesting an occa 
 sion, as he felt extremely anxious, in common with thousands of his 
 fellow-citizens of New York, to enjoy the opportunity thus afforded 
 of expressing his admiration of and sympathy for the man who, 
 with true heroism, had withstood the blandishments and braved 
 the threats of the leaders and fomenters of the conspiracy against 
 the Union. 
 
 WM. M. EVAETS, Esq., being called to the chair, said that he 
 shared with all the great disappointment at the absence of the 
 Governor of the State. But we might well pardon the loss of his 
 
8 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 
 
 dignity to the eclat of the occasion, when we knew that his absence 
 was duo to that necessity which at this time enveloped all who 
 were invested with public trusts. He was proud to do all that ho 
 could to testify his appreciation of the heroism of Mr. Brownlow. 
 As we should proceed in the great duties first of subduing the re 
 bellion, and then of rcinstituting in its strength the Constitution as 
 it is, and the Union as it is, we might be sure that these Union men 
 of Tennessee, and their compatriots in the mountains of Korth 
 Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, would aid us. 
 "With their aid we should hold the center as well as the rim of the 
 rebellion. Upon them as a basis we could reinstate the dominion 
 of the Government all over the land. He would no longer stand 
 between them and the Eev. Mr. Brownlow, whom he now had the 
 pleasure of introducing. [Loud and long- continued and repeated 
 applause.] 
 
 Mr. BKOWNLOW then came forward and spoke as follows : 
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I take occasion, in advance of anything 
 and all I may say, to apprise you of what you all will have discov 
 ered before I take my seat that is to say, that in my public ad 
 dresses, no matter what my theme may be, I do not present it to 
 an audience with an eloquence that charms, or with that beauty 
 of diction which captivates and fascinates an assemblage. This, I 
 may be allowed to say, I most sincerely regret, because there is no 
 power on earth so great, and of such influence upon the human 
 mind, as the power and influence of oratory, finished and high 
 wrought. Ca3sar controlled men by exciting their fears ; Cicero, 
 by captivating their affections. The influence of one perished with 
 its author; the influence of the other has continued throughout all 
 time, and, with public speakers, will continue to the end of time. 
 But there is one thing I am confident of, this evening, and that 
 is, that I address an appreciative audience, an assemblage who 
 have congregated on this occasion to hear some facts in reference 
 to the great rebellion South the gigantic conspiracy of the nine 
 teenth century ; and I shall therefore look more to what I shall say 
 than to the manner of saying it more, if you please, to the sub 
 ject-matter of what I shall say than to any studied effort at display 
 or beauty and force of language. I will be allowed by you an ad 
 ditional remark or two, personal in their nature to myself. For the 
 last thirty-five years of my somewhat eventful life I have been 
 accustomed to speak in public upon all the subjects afloat in the 
 land, for I have never been neutral on any subject that ever came 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 9 
 
 up in that time. [Laughter and applause.] Independent in all 
 things, and under all circumstances, I have never been entirely 
 neutral, but have always taken a hand in what was afloat. About 
 three years ago my voice entirely failed from a stubborn attack of 
 bronchitis, and for two years of that time I was unable to speak 
 above a whisper. During that period I performed a pilgrimage to 
 New York and had an operation performed upon my throat, and 
 was otherwise treated by an eminent physician of this city, who 
 greatly benefited me, and who, when I parted with him, enjoined 
 it upon me to go home and occasionally exercise my speaking ma 
 chinery, and, if I could do no better, to retire to the grove of the 
 town or village where I live, and to make short speeches, to declaim 
 upon stumps or logs, as the case might be. Instead of doing so, 
 however, in the town in which I live I frequently addressed a tem 
 perance organization in favor of total abstinence ; and you all 
 know that is a good cause. [" Good," and applause.] At other 
 times, as a regular ordained licensed Methodist preacher, I tried to 
 deliver short sermons to the audience. That is a good cause, you 
 admit. [Applause.] And yet both together failed, to restore my 
 voice [laughter] and when I left home for the North, by way of 
 Cincinnati, I had no intention or expectation of making a speech ; 
 but as soon as I opened my batteries in Pike s Opera House, in Cin 
 cinnati, against this infinitely infernal rebellion, I found myself able 
 to speak, and to be heard half a mile. [Great laughter.] I attribute 
 the partial restoration of my voice to the goodness, the glory, and 
 the Godlike cause in which I profess to b<3 engaged that of vindi 
 cating the Union. [Applause.] "We are, ladies and gentlemen, in. 
 the midst of a revolution, and a most fearful one, as you all know 
 it is. I shall, in the remarks I may make here, advance no senti 
 ment, no idea ; I shall employ no language that I have not advanced 
 and employed time and again at home, away down in Dixie. 
 [" Good," and applause.] I should despise myself, and merit the 
 scorn and contempt of every lady and gentleman under the sound 
 of my voice, if I were to come here with one set of principles and 
 opinions for the North, and another set for the South when I am 
 there. [Applause.] I will utter no denunciations of the wretched, 
 the corrupt, and the infamous men who inaugurated this revolu 
 tion South here, that I would not utter in their hearing on the 
 streets of the town where I reside. I therefore say to you in the 
 outset of my remarks I propose to make, what I have time and 
 again said through the columns of the most widely circulated paper 
 
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 PARSON BROWNLOW ON THE 
 
 they had in the Southwest a paper, by the way, which they sup 
 pressed and crushed out on the 25th of October last the last Union 
 journal that remained in any portion of the Southern Confederacy, 
 and to this good hour the last and the only religious journal in the 
 eleven seceded States. [Applause.] I say to you, then, as I have 
 said at home time and again, that the people of the South, the 
 demagogues and leaders of the South, are to blame for having 
 brought about this state of things, and not the people of the North. 
 [Cheers.] We have intended down South for thirty years to break 
 up this Government. It has been our settled purpose and our sole 
 aim down South to destroy the Union and break up the Govern 
 ment. We have had the Presidency in the South twice to your 
 once, and five of our men were re-elected to the Presidency, filling 
 a period of forty years. In addition to that, we had divers men 
 elected for one term, and no man at the North ever was permitted 
 to serve more than one term ; and, in addition to having elected 
 our men twice to your once, and occupied the chair twice as long 
 as you ever did, we seized upon and appropriated two or three 
 miscreants from the North that we elected to the Presidency, and 
 plowed with them as our heifers. [Great laughter and applause.] 
 We asked of you and obtained at your hands a fugitive slave law. 
 You voted for and helped us to enact and to establish it. We 
 asked of you and obtained the repeal of the Missouri Compromise 
 line, which never ought to have been repealed. I fought against 
 it to the bitter end, and denounced it and all concerned in repeal 
 ing it, and I repeat it here again to-night. We asked and obtained 
 the admission of Texas into the Union, that we might have slave 
 territory enough to form some four or five more great States, and 
 you granted it. You have granted us. from first to last, all wo 
 have asked, all we have desired ; and hence I repeat that this thing 
 of secession, this wicked attempt to dissolve the Union, has been 
 brought about without the shadow of a cause. It is the work of 
 the worst men that ever God permitted to live on the face of this 
 earth. [Applause.] It is the work of a set of men down South 
 who, in winding up this rebellion, if our administration and Gov 
 ernment shall fail to hang them as high as Hainan hang every one 
 of them they will make an utter failure. I have confidence my 
 self, arid, thank God, I have always had faith and confidence, in 
 the Government crushing out, this rebellion. [Applause.] We 
 have the men at the head of affairs who will do it [cheers] and 
 that gallant and glorious man, McClellan [enthusiastic cheering 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. ]]_ 
 
 and waving of handkerchiefs, which lasted for some minutes] a 
 man in whose ability and integrity I have all the time had confi 
 dence, and prophesied he would come out right side up. [Laugh 
 ter and applause.] My own distracted and oppressed section of the 
 country, East Tennessee, falls now by the new arrangement into 
 the military district of that hero, Fremont. [Great cheering and 
 some hisses.] We rejoiced in East Tennessee when we heard that 
 we had fallen into his division [applause] and although I have 
 always differed with him in politics, yet, in a word, he is my sort 
 of man. He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn [great 
 laughter] in the attempt. "When he gets ready to go down into 
 East Tennessee, I hope he will let me know. I want to go with 
 him, side by side, on a fine horse, with epaulets, a cocked hat, and 
 a sword ; and our friend Briggs, of New York, a former member of 
 Congress, who is now on the platform, has promised me a large 
 coil of rope, and I want the pleasure of showing them whom to hang 
 of tying the rope around their necks. [Great applause.] I re 
 marked that I had confidence in our Government and army ulti 
 mately crashing out this rebellion. We have had just a few experi 
 ments in this thing of crushing out rebellion. We had, a long time 
 ago, one on a small scale in Massachusetts, and the Government 
 crushed it out. Afterward we had the whisky rebellion in the 
 neighboring State of Pennsylvania, and the Government applied 
 the screws and crushed it out. Still more recently we had a 
 terrible rebellion in South Carolina, and, with old Hickory at 
 the helm, we crushed it out [applause] and if my prayers 
 and tears could have resurrected the old hero two years ago 
 though I never supported him in my life and placed him in the 
 chair disgraced and occupied by that miserable mockery of a mnn 
 from Wheatland, we would have had this rebellion crushed out 
 long ago; for, let General Jackson have been in politics what he 
 W as I knew him well he was a true patriot and a sincere lover 
 of his country. [Cheers.] 
 
 When Floyd commenced stealing muskets and other implements 
 of w<ir, and his associates commenced plotting treason, had Old 
 Hickory been President, rising about ten feet in his boots and tak 
 ing Floyd by the collar, he would have sworn by the God that 
 made Moses, this thing must stop. [Great laughter and applause.] 
 And when Andrew Jackson swore that a thing had to stop, it had 
 to stop. [Laughter.] More recently still, we had a rebellion in 
 the neighboring State of JRhode Island, known as the Dorr rebel- 
 
12 PAESON BKOWNLOW ON THE 
 
 lion, and the Government very efficiently and very properly put it 
 down ; but the great conspiracy of the nineteenth century and the 
 great rebellion of the age is DOW ou hand, and I believe that Abe 
 Lincoln, with the people to back him, will crush it out. [Cheers 
 and applause.] It will be done, it must be done, and it shall 
 be done [great cheering] and, having done that thing, gentlemen 
 and ladies, if they will give us a few weeks rest to recruit, we will 
 lick England and France both, if they wish it [loud applause] 
 and I am not certain but we will have to do it particularly Old 
 England. [Great laughter.] She has been playing a double, a 
 two-fisted game, and she was well represented by Bussell, for he 
 carried water on both shoulders. I don t like the tone of her jour 
 nals, and when this war is finished, we shall have four or five hun 
 dred thousand well-drilled, hardened officers and men, inured to the 
 hardships of war, under the lead of experienced officers, and then we 
 shall be ready for the rest of the world and the balance of mankind. 
 When the rebellion first opened something like twelve months 
 ago I saw, as every reading and observing man could see, 
 where we were driving to, and what would be the state of things 
 in a very short time. In the inauguration of the rebellion I took 
 sides with the Union and with the Stars and Stripes of my 
 country. [Applause.] How could I do otherwise? I had trav 
 eled the circuit as a Methodist preacher in the State of South 
 Carolina in 1832, in Pickens and Anderson counties (Anderson 
 County being the one where John C. Calhoun lived), and I fought 
 with all the ability I possessed, and all the energy I could muster, 
 the heresy of nullification then. I even prepared a pamphlet in 
 South Carolina, of seventy pages, backing up and sustaining Old 
 Hickory, and denouncing the nullifiers and they threatened to 
 hang me then. I have been a Union man all my life. [Applause.] 
 I have never been a sectional man. I commenced my political 
 career in Tennessee in the memorable year of 1828, and I was one, 
 thank God, of the corporal s guard who got up the electoral ticket 
 for John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. In the next 
 contest I was for Clay. [Great cheering.] You and I and all of us 
 cheer and applaud the mention of the name of Henry Clay. I 
 propose to move, when this rebellion is over, that we shall hold a 
 National Convention, and I will put in nomination for the Pres 
 idency, the last suit of clothes that Clay wore before his death. 
 [Great laughter and applause.] When the rebellion fairly opened, 
 and was under way in Tennessee, they saw the course my 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 13 
 
 paper was taking, and they approached me, as they did every other 
 editor of a Union paper in the country, with money. They knew 
 I was poor, and they supposed it would have the same influence 
 over me that it had over almost all the other Union editors of the 
 South, for they had bought up the last devil of them all through 
 out the South. [Laughter and cheers.] I told them as one did of 
 old : " Thy money perish with thee." I pursued the even tenor of 
 my way until the stream rose higher and higher with secession fire, 
 as red and hot as hell itself, and commenced pouring along that 
 great artery of travel, the railroad to Manassas, Yorktown, Kich- 
 mond, and Petersburg. Then it was that, wanting in transporta 
 tion, wanting in rolling stock, wanting in locomotives, they had to 
 lie over by regiments in our town, and then they commenced to 
 ride Union men upon rails. I have seen that done in the streets, 
 and have seen them break into the stores and empty their con 
 tents ; and coining before my house with ropes in their hands, they 
 
 would groan out, " Let us give old Brownlow a turn, the d d 
 
 old scoundrel ; come out, and we will hang you to the first tree." 
 I would appear, sometimes, on the front portico of my house, and 
 would address them in this way : " Men, what do you want with 
 me ?" for I was very select in my words. I took particular pains 
 to never say gentlemen. [Laughter.] " Men, what do you want 
 with me ?" " We want a speech from you ; we want you to come 
 out for the Southern Confederacy." To which I replied : u I 
 have no speech to make to you. You know me as well as I know 
 you ; I am utterly and irreconcilably opposed to this infernal rebel 
 lion in which you are engaged, and I shall fight it to the bitter end. 
 I hope that if you are going on to kill the Yankees in search of 
 your rights, that you will get your rights before you get back." 
 These threats toward me were repeated every day and every week, 
 until finally they crushed out my paper, destroyed my office, ap 
 propriated the building to an old smith s shop, to repair the locks 
 and barrels of old muskets that Floyd had stolen from the Federal 
 Government. They finally enacted a law in the Legislature of 
 Tennessee authorizing an armed force to take all the arms, pistols, 
 guns, dirks, swords, and everything of the sort from all the Union 
 men, and they paid a visit to every Union house in the State. 
 They visited mine three times in succession upon, that business, 
 and they got there a couple of guns and one pistol. Being a Doctor 
 of Divinity myself, I was not largely supplied, and had the balance 
 
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 PAESON BEOWNLOW ON THE 
 
 concealed under my clotlies. [Great laughter.] Finally, after 
 depriving us of all our arms throughout the State, and after taking 
 all the fine horses of the Union men everywhere, without fee or 
 reward, for cavalry horses, and seizing upon the fat hogs, corn, 
 fodder, and sheep, going into houses and pulling the beds off the 
 bedsteads in the daytime, seizing upon all the blankets they could 
 find, for the army ; after breaking open chests, bureaus, drawers, 
 and every tiling of that sort in which they were countenanced and 
 tolerated by the authorities, civil and military our people rose up 
 in rebellion, unarmed as they were, and one Saturday night in 
 November, by accident I know it was precisely at 11 o clock, 
 from Chattanooga to the Virginia line a distance of 300 miles 
 all the railroad bridges took fire at one time. [Cheers and 
 applause.] It was purely accidental. I happened to be out from 
 home at the time. [Laughter.] I had really gone out on horse 
 back as they had suppressed my paper to collect the fees which 
 the sheriffs clerks of the different counties were owing me, which 
 they, being Union men, were ready and willing to pay me, know 
 ing that I needed them to live upon ; and as these bridges took 
 fire while I was out of town, they swore that I was the bell-wether 
 and ringleader of all the devilment that was going on, and hence 
 that I must have had a hand in it. They wanted a pretext to 
 seize upon me, and upon the 6th day of December they marched 
 me off to jail a miserable, uncomfortable, damp, and desperate 
 jail where I found, when 1 was ushered into it, some 150 Union 
 men ; and, as God is my judge, I say here to-night, there was not 
 in the whole jail a chair, bench, stool, or table, or any piece of 
 furniture, except a dirty old wooden bucket and a pair of tin dip 
 pers to drink with. I found some of the first and best men of the 
 whole country there. I knew them all, and they knew me, as I 
 had been among them for thirty years. They rallied round me, 
 some smiling and glad to see me, as 1 could give them the news 
 that had been kept from them. Others took rne by the hand, and 
 were utterly speechless, and, with bitter, burning tears running 
 down their cheeks, they said that they never thought that they 
 would come to this at last, looking through the bars of a grate. 
 Speaking first to one and then another, 1 bade them be of good 
 cheer and take good courage. Addressing them, I said, " Is it for 
 stealing you are here? No. Is it for counterfeiting ? No. Is it 
 for manslaughter ? Xo. You are here, boys, because you adhere 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. J5 
 
 to the flag and the Constitution of our country. [Cheers.] I am 
 here with you for no other offense but that ; and, as God is my 
 judge, boys, I look upon this 6th day of December as the proudest 
 day of my life. [Great applause.] And here I intend to stay until 
 I die of old age, or until they choose to hang me. I will never 
 renounce my principles." [Cheers.] 
 
 Before I was confined in the jail, their officers were accustomed 
 to visit the jail every day and offer them their liberty, if they 
 would take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy and 
 volunteer to go into the service, and they would guarantee them 
 safety and protection. They were accustomed to volunteer a dozen 
 at a time, so great was their horror of imprisonment and the bad 
 treatment they received in that miserable jail. After I got into 
 the jail and they had me in close confinement for three dreadful 
 winter months all this volunteering and taking the oath ceased, 
 and the leaders swore I did it. [Great cheering.] One of the 
 brigadier-generals, the son of an ex-Governor of that State, who 
 was in command of the military post, paid me a special visit, two 
 of his aids accompanying him. lie came i.n, bowed and scraped, 
 dressed within an inch of his drunken life, saying : " Why, Brownlow, 
 you ought not to be in here." "But your authorities," I replied, 
 " have thought otherwise, and they have put me here." " I have 
 come to inform you that if you will take the oath of allegiance to 
 the Southern Confederacy, we will guarantee the protection and 
 safety of yourself and family." Rising up several feet in my boots 
 at that time, having my Irish raised and looking him full in the 
 eye, " Why," said I, "I intend to lie here until I rot from disease, 
 or die of old age, before I will take the oath of allegiance to your 
 government. I deny your right to administer such an oath. I 
 deny that you have any government other than a Southern mob. 
 You have never been recognized by any civilized power on the 
 face of the earth, and you never will be. [Applause.] And, sir, 
 preacher as I am, I will see the Southern Confederacy, and you 
 and me on top of it, in the infernal regions, before I will do it." 
 "Well," said he, "that s d d plain talk." [Laughter and ap 
 plause.] "Yes," I replied, "that s the way to talk in revolutionary 
 times." [Applause.] But I must hasten on. I will detain you too 
 long. [Loud cries of "Go on, go on."] But, gentlemen and 
 ladies, things went on. They tightened up ; they grew tighter, and 
 still more tight. Many of our company became sick. We had to 
 
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 lie upon that miserable, cold, naked floor, with not room enough 
 for us all to lie down at the same time and you may think what 
 it must have been in December and January spelling each other, 
 one lying down awhile on the floor, and then another taking his 
 place so made warm, and that was the way we managed until 
 many became sick unto death. A number of the prisoners died of 
 pneumonia and typhoid fever, and other diseases contracted by ex 
 posure there. I shall never forget, while my head is above ground, 
 the scenes I passed through in that jail. I recollect two vener 
 able Baptist clergymen who were there Mr. Pope and Mr. 
 Gate. Mr. Gate was very low indeed, prostrated from the fever 
 and unable to eat the miserable food sent there by the corrupt 
 jailer and deputy marshal a man whom I had denounced in my 
 paper as guilty of forgery time and time again a suitable repre 
 sentative of the thieves and scoundrels that head this rebellion in 
 the South. [Applause.] The only favor they extended to me was 
 to allow my family to send me three meals a day by my son, who 
 brought the provisions in a basket. I requested my wife to send 
 also enough for the two old clergymen. One of them was put in 
 jail for offering prayers for the President of the United States, and 
 the other was confined for throwing up his hat and cheering the 
 Stars and Stripes as they passed his house, borne by a company of 
 Union volunteers. When the basket of provisions came in the 
 morning, they examined it at the door, would look between the pie 
 and the plate to see if there was any billet or paper concealed 
 there communicating treason from any outside Unionist to the old 
 scoundrel they had in jail ; and when the basket went out, again the 
 same ceremony was repeated, to discover whether I had slipped in 
 any paper in any way. The old man Gate had three sons in jail. 
 One of them, James Madison Gate, a most exemplary and worthy 
 member of the Baptist church, who was there for having commit 
 ted no other crime than that of refusing to volunteer, lay stretched 
 at length upon the floor, with one thickness of a piece of carpet 
 under him and an old overcoat doubled up for a pillow, in the very 
 agonies of death, unable to turn over, only from one side to the 
 other. His wife came to visit him, bringing her youngest child 
 with her, which was but a babe, but they refused her admittance. 
 I put my head out of the jail window, and entreated them, for 
 God s sake, to let the poor woman come in, as her husband was 
 dying. They .at last consented that she might see him for the 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 17 
 
 limited time of fifteen minutes. As she came in and looked upon 
 her husband s wan and emaciated face, and saw how rapidly he 
 was sinking, she gave evident signs of fainting, and would have 
 fallen to the floor with the babe in her arms, had I not rushed up 
 to her and cried, "Let me have the babe," and then she sank down 
 upon the breast of her dying husband, unable at first to speak a 
 single word. I sat by and held the babe until the fifteen minutes 
 had expired, when the officer came in, and in an insulting and per 
 emptory manner notified her that the interview was to close. I 
 hope I may never see such a scene again ; and yet such cases were 
 common all over East Tennessee. 
 
 Such actions as these show the spirit of secession in the South. 
 It is the spirit of murder and assassination it is the spirit of hell. 
 And yet you have men at the North who sympathize with these 
 infernal murderers. [Applause.] If I owed the devil a debt to 
 be discharged, and it was to be discharged by the rendering up to 
 him of a dozen of the meanest, most revolting, and God-forsaken 
 wretches that ever could be culled from the ranks of depraved hu 
 man society, and I wanted to pay that debt and get a premium 
 upon the payment, I would make a tender to his Satanic Majesty 
 of twelve Northern men who sympathized with this infernal rebel 
 lion. [Great cheering.] If I am severe and bitter in my remarks 
 [cries of u No, no ; not a bit of it"] if I am, gentlemen, you 
 must consider that wo in the South make a personal matter of 
 this thing. [Laughter.] We have no respect or confidence in any 
 Northern man who sympathizes with this infernal rebellion 
 [cries of " Good, good"] nor should any be tolerated in walking 
 Broadway at any time. Such men ought to be ridden upon a rail 
 and ridden out of the North. [" Good, good."] They should 
 be either for or against the " mill-dam ;" and I would make them 
 show their hands. [Laughter and applause.] Why, gentlemen, 
 after the battle at Manassas and Bull Eun, the officers and privates 
 of the Confederate army passed through our town on their way to 
 Dixie, exulting over the victory they had achieved, and some of 
 them had what they called Yankee heads, the entire heads of 
 Federal soldiers, some of them with long beards and goatees, by 
 which they would take them up, shake them out of the windows 
 of the cars, and say, " See ! here is the head of a d d soldier cap 
 tured at Bull Eun!" That is the spirit of secession at the South. 
 It is the spirit of murder, of the vile untutored savage ; it is the 
 
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 PARSON BROWNLOW ON THE 
 
 spirit of hell ; and he who apologizes for them is no better than those 
 who perpetrate the deed. [Cheers.] In Andy Johnson s town 
 [three cheers for Johnson were here given] and while Johnson s 
 name is on my lips, I will make another remark or two here : If 
 Mr. Lincoln had consulted, the Union men of Tennessee as to whom 
 they wanted for military Governor of the State, to a man they 
 would have responded, Andy Johnson. I have fought that man for 
 twenty-five long and terrible years : I fought him systematically, 
 perseveringly, and untiringly ; but it was upon the old issues of 
 Whiggery and Democracy, and now we will fight for one another. 
 [Great cheering.] We have merged in Tennessee all other parties 
 and predilections in this great question of the Union. [Cheers.] 
 We are the Union men of Tennessee, unconditional Union men 
 [cheers] and the miserable wretcli who will attempt here or else 
 where to resurrect old exploded parties and party issues, and try to 
 make capital out of this war, deserves the gallows and deserves death, 
 [Great applause.] In Andy Johnson s town they had the jail full 
 of prisoners, drove his family out of his house his wife being in 
 the last stages of consumption appropriated his house, carpets, 
 and bedding for a hospital, and his wife had to take shelter with 
 one of her daughters in an adjoining county, and Johnson has in 
 him to-night a devil as big and such is in the bosom of every 
 Union man in Tennessee as this pitcher ; and whenever the Fed 
 eral army shall find its way there, we will shoot them down like 
 dogs and hang them on every limb we come to. [Applause.] 
 They have had their time of hanging and shooting, and our time 
 comes next; and I hope to God that it will not be long. I am 
 watching in the papers the movements of the army, and whenever 
 I hear that my country is captured, I intend to return post haste 
 and point out the rebels. [Cheers.] I have no other ambition on 
 earth but to resurrect the Knoxville Whig and get it in full blast, 
 with one hundred thousand subscribers. [Loud cheering.] And 
 then, as the negroes say down South, "I ll spress my opinion 
 of some of them." [Great laughter.] If I have any talent, it is 
 the talent to pile up epithets one upon another. [Laughter and 
 cheers.] In the town of Greenville, where Andrew Johnson re 
 sides, they took out of the jail at one time two innocent Union 
 men, who had committed no offense on the face of the earth but 
 that of being Union men Fry and his comrade. Fry was a poor 
 shoemaker with a wife and half a dozen children. A fellow from 
 
SUFFEEINGS OF UNION MEN. 19 
 
 way Down East in Maine, by the name of Daniel Leadbeater, the 
 bloodiest and the most ultra man, the vilest wretch, the most unmit 
 igated scoundrel that ever made a track in East Tennessee Colonel 
 Daniel Leadbeater, late of the United States Army, but now a 
 rebel in the secession army, took these two men, tied them with 
 his own hands upon one limb, immediately over the railroad track, 
 in the town of Greenville, and ordered them to hang four days and 
 nights, and directed all the engineers and conductors to go by that 
 hanging concern slow, in a kind of snail gallop, up and down the 
 road, to give the passengers an opportunity to kick the rigid 
 bodies and strike them with a rattan. And they did it. I pledge 
 you my honor that on the front platform they made a business of 
 kicking the dead bodies as they passed by ; and the women [I will 
 not say the ladies, for down South we make a distinction between 
 ladies and women] the women, the wives and daughters of men 
 in high position, waved their white handkerchiefs in triumph 
 through the windows of the car at the sight of the two dead bodies 
 hanging there. Leadbeater, for his murderous courage, was pro 
 moted by Jeff Davis to the office of brigadier-general. lie had 
 an encounter, as their own papers at Richmond state, at Bridge 
 port, not long ago, with a part of General Mitchel s army, where 
 he got a glorious whipping. His own party turned round and 
 chastised him for cowardice. lie had courage to hang innocent 
 unarmed men taken out of a jail, but he had riot courage to face 
 the Yankees and the Northern men that were under Mitchel and 
 Buell. He took to his heels like a coward and scavenger as he is. 
 [Applause and cheers for General Mitchel.] Our programme is 
 this, that when we get back into East Tennessee we will instruct 
 all of our friends everywhere to secure and apprehend this fellow, 
 Leadbeater ; and our purpose is to take him to that tree and make 
 tlie widow of Fry tie the rope around his infernal neck. [Cheers.] 
 In the county of Knox, where I reside, and only seven miles west 
 of the town of Knoxville, they caught up Union men, tied them 
 upon logs, elevated the logs upon blocks six or ten inches from the 
 ground, put the men upon their breasts, tying their hands and 
 feet under the log, stripped their backs entirely bare, and then, 
 with switches, cut their backs literally to pieces, the blood running 
 down at every stroke. They came into court when it was in ses 
 sion, and when the case was stated the judge replied: "These 
 are revolutionary times, and there is no remedy for anything of 
 
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 the kind." Hence, you see, our remedy is in our own hands; and, 
 with the help of guns, and swords, and sabers, we intend, God 
 willing, to slay them when we get back there, wherever we find 
 them. [Cheers.] 
 
 In the jail where I lay they were accustomed to drive up with a 
 cart, with an ugly, rough, flat-topped coffin upon it, surrounded by 
 fifteen to forty men, with bristling bayonets, as a guard, and they 
 marched in through the gate into the jail yard, with steady, military 
 tread. We trembled in our boots, for they never notified us who 
 was to be hanged, and you may imagine how your humble servant 
 felt ; for if any man in that jail, under their law, deserved the 
 gallows, I claim to have been the man. I knew it and they knew 
 it. They came sometimes with two coffins, one on each cart, and 
 they took two men at a time and marched them out. A poor old 
 man of sixty-five and his son of twenty-five were marched out at 
 one time and hanged on the same gallows. They made that poor old 
 man, who was a Methodist class-leader, sit by and see his son hang 
 
 till he was dead, and then they called him a d d Lincolmto 
 
 Union shrieker, and said, " Come on ; it is your turn next." Ho 
 sank, but they propped him up and led him to the halter, and 
 swung both off on the same gallows. They came, after that, for 
 another man, and they took J. C. Ilaum out of jail a young man 
 of fine sense, good address, and of excellent character a tall, spare- 
 made man, leaving a wife at home, with four or five helpless chil 
 dren. My wife passed the farm of Haum the other day, when 
 they drove her out of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey 
 I thank them kindly for doing so and saw his wife plowing, en 
 deavoring to raise corn for her suffering and starving children. 
 That is the spirit of secession, gentlemen. And yet you have a set 
 of God-forsaken, unprincipled men at the North who are apolo 
 gizing for them and sympathizing with them. [Applause.] When 
 they took Ilaum out and placed him on the scaffold, they had a 
 drunken chaplain. They were kind enough to notify him an hour 
 before the hanging that he was to hang. Ilaum at once made an 
 application for a Methodist preacher, a Union man, to come and 
 pray for him. They denied him the privilege, and said that God 
 
 didn t hear any prayers in behalf of any d d Union shrieker, 
 
 and he had literally to do without the benefit of clergy. But they 
 had near the gallows an unprincipled, drunken chaplain, of their 
 own army, who got up and undertook to apologize for Ilaum. He 
 
8UFFEEINGS OP UNION MEN. 21 
 
 said : " This poor, unfortunate man, who is about to pay the debt 
 of nature, regrets the course he took. He said he was misled by 
 the Union paper." Haum rose up, and with a clear, stentorian 
 voice, said : " Fellow-citizens, there is not a word of truth in that 
 statement. I have authorized nobody to make such a statement. 
 What I have said and done, I have done and said with my eyes 
 open, and if it were to be done over, I would do it again. I am 
 ready to hang, and you can execute your purposes." He died like 
 a man ; he died like a Union man, as an East Tennesseean ought to 
 die. As God is my judge, I would sooner be Haum in the grave 
 to-day, than any one of the scoundrels concerned in his murder. 
 [Great applause.] Time rolled on. One event after another oc 
 curred, and finally a man of excellent character, one of Andy John 
 son s constituents from Greene County, by the name of Hessing 
 Self, was condemned to be hung by this drum-head court-martial, 
 and they were kind enough to let him know that he was to hang, 
 a few hours before the hour appointed. His daughter, who had 
 come down to administer to his comfort and consolation a most 
 estimable girl, about twenty-one years of age Elizabeth Self, a 
 tall, spare-made girl, modest, handsomely attired, begged leave to 
 enter the jail to see her father. They permitted her, contrary to 
 their usual custom and their savage barbarity, to go in. They had 
 him in a small iron cage, a terrible affair ; they opened a little door, 
 and the jailer admitted her. A parcel of us went to witness the 
 scene. As she entered the cage where her father was who was 
 to die at four o clock that afternoon she clasped him around the 
 neck, and he embraced her also, sobbing and crying most piteously. 
 I stood by, and I never beheld such a sight since God Almighty 
 made me, and I hope I may never see the like again. When they 
 had parted, wringing each other by the hand, as she came out of 
 the cage, stammering and trying to utter something intelligible, she 
 lisped my name. She knew my face, and I could understand as 
 much as that she desired me to write a dispatch to Jeff Davis and 
 sign her name, begging him to pardon her father. I worded it 
 about thus : 
 
 Hon. JEFFEKSON DAVIS [I did not believe the first word I wrote 
 was the truth, but I put it there for the sake of form] My father, 
 Hessing Self, is sentenced to be hanged at four o clock to-day. I 
 am living at home, and my mother is dead. My father is my 
 earthly all ; upon him my hopes are centered, and, friend, I pray 
 you to pardon him. Respectfully, ELIZABETH SELF. 
 
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 Jeff Davis, who had a better heart than the rest of them, per 
 haps, immediately responded for he could not withstand the 
 appeals of a woman to General Carroll, and told him not to hang 
 that man Self, but to keep him in jail and let him atone for his 
 crimes a certain time. Self has served his time out, and has gone 
 home, and that girl is saved the grief of being left alone without 
 a father. 
 
 This, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit of secession all over the 
 South; it is the spirit that actuates them everywhere; it is the 
 spirit of murder, it is the spirit of the infernal regions, and, in God s 
 name, can you any longer excuse or apologize for such murderous 
 and bloodthirsty demons as live down in the Southern Confederacy ? 
 [Loud cries of "No, no."] Hanging is going on all over East 
 Tennessee. They shoot Union men down in the fields, they whip 
 them ; and, as strange as it may seem to you, in the counties of 
 Campbell and Anderson, they actually lacerate with switches the 
 bodies of females, wives and daughters of Union men clever, re 
 spectable women. They show no quarters to male or female ; they 
 rob their houses and they throw them into prison. Our jails are 
 all full now, and we have complained and thought it hard that our 
 government has not come to our relief, for a more loyal, a more de 
 voted people to the Stars and Stripes never lived on the face of 
 God s earth than the Union people of Tennessee. [Loud cheers.] 
 "With tears in their eyes, they begged me, upon leaving East Ten 
 nessee, for God Almighty s sake, to see the President, to see the 
 army officers, so as to have relief sent to them and bring them out 
 of jail. I hope, gentlemen, you will use your influence with the 
 army and navy, and all concerned, to relieve these people. They 
 are the most abused, down-trodden, persecuted, and proscribed 
 people that ever lived on the face of the earth. I am happy to an 
 nounce to you that the rebellion will soon be played out. Thank 
 God for his mercies, it will soon have been played out. [Enthu 
 siastic cheers.] Richmond will be obliged to fall very soon, for 
 that noble fellow, McClellan, will capture the whole of them. [Re 
 newed applause.] 
 
 I have confidence and faith in Fremont, and hope he may rush 
 into East Tennessee. If Ilalleck, Buell & Co. [loud cheers] will 
 only capture the region round about Corinth and take Memphis, 
 the play is out and the dog is dead. [Laughter and cheers.] Then 
 let us drive the leaders down into the Gulf of Mexico, as the devils 
 
SUFFERINGS OF UNION MEN. 23 
 
 drove the hogs into the sea of Galilee. [Laughter and applause.] 
 But a few weeks prior to the last Presidential election they an 
 nounced in their papers that the great bull of the whole disunion 
 flock was to speak in Knoxville a man, the two first letters of 
 whose name are "W. L. Yancey a fellow that the Governor of 
 South Carolina pardoned out of the State prison for murdering his 
 uncle, Dr. Earle. He was announced to speak, and the crowd was 
 two to one Union men. I had never spoken to him in all my life. 
 He called out in an insolent manner, " Is Parson Brownlow in this 
 crowd ?" The disunionists hallooed out, " Yes, he is here." " I 
 hope," said he, " the Parson will have the nerve to come upon the 
 stand and have me catechise him." "No," said the Breckinridge 
 secessionists. (Yes, gentlemen, we had four tickets in the field the 
 last race Lincoln and Hamlin, Bell and Everett the Bell and 
 Everett ticket was a kind of kangaroo ticket, with all the strength 
 in the hind legs [laughter] and there was a Douglas and John 
 son and a Breckinridge and Lane ticket. As God is my judge, 
 that was the meanest and shabbiest ticket of the four that was in 
 the field. Lincoln was elected fairly and squarely under the forms 
 of law and the Constitution, and though I was not a Lincoln man, 
 yet I gave in to the will of the majority, and it is the duty of every 
 patriot and true man to bow to the will of the majority. [Cheers.] 
 The Parson then resumed his story :) But the crowd hallooed to 
 Yancey, " Brownlow is here, but he has not nerve enough to mount 
 the stand where you are." I rose and marched up the steps and said, 
 "I will show you whether I have the nerve or not." "Sir," said 
 he and he is a beautiful speaker and personally a very fine-look 
 ing man "are you the celebrated Parson Brownlow?" "I am 
 the only man on earth," I replied, " that fills the bin." [Laughter.] 
 "Don t you think," said Yancey, "you are badly employed as a 
 preacher, a man of your cloth, to be dabbling in politics and med 
 dling with state affairs?" "No, sir," said I; "a distinguished 
 member of the party you are acting with, once took Jesus Christ 
 up upon a mount [great laughter] and said to the Saviour, Look 
 at the kingdoms of the world ! All these will I give thee if them 
 wilt fall down and worship me. Now, sir," I said, " His reply 
 to the devil is my reply to you: Get thee behind me, Satan. 1 
 [Renewed laughter and applause.] I rather expected to be knocked 
 down by him ; but I stood with my right side to him and a cocked 
 Derringer in my breeches pocket. I intended if I went off the 
 
24 BBOWNLOW ON THE SITFFEEINGS OF UNION MEN. 
 
 platform that he should go the other way. [Cheers.] " Now, sir," 
 I said, " if you are through, I would like to make a few remarks. * 
 "Certainly proceed," said Yancey. "Well, sir, you should tread 
 lightly upon the toes of preachers, and you should get these dis- 
 uiiionists to post you up before you launch out in this way against 
 preachers. Are you aware, sir, that this old gray -headed man sit 
 ting here, Isaac Lewis, the president of the meeting, who has wel 
 comed you, is an old disunion Methodist preacher, and Buchanan s 
 pension agent in this town, who has been meddling in politics all 
 his lifetime? Sir," said I, "are you aware that this man, 
 James D. Thomas, on my left, is a Breckinridge elector for this 
 Congressional district? He was turned out of the Methodist min 
 istry for whipping his wife and slandering his neighbors. Sir," 
 said I, "are you aware that this young man sitting in front of us, 
 Colonel Loudon C. Haynes, the elector of the Breckinridge ticket 
 for the State of Tennessee at large, was expelled from the Metho 
 dist ministry for lying and cheating his neighbor in a measure of 
 corn? Now," said I, "for God s sake, say nothing more about 
 preachers until you know what sort of preachers are in your own 
 ranks." And thus ended the colloquy between me and Yancey. 
 I have never seen him since. Ladies and gentlemen, I have spoken 
 much longer than I intended. [Cries of " Go on, go on."] I am 
 hoarse and somewhat feeble. I have really been in bed all day 
 sick, although not pretending to be so ; but I ventured out to try 
 and make some effort if I could. In traveling I provide for a con 
 tingency of this sort. I have a regularly ordained deacon and ex- 
 horter with me, and much finer speaker, Gen. S. F. Carey, of Cin- 
 cinati, who is sound upon all the issues. 
 
 Mr. Brownlow, on taking his seat, was loudly applauded. 
 
 Gen. S. F. CARET, of Ohio, then followed in an eloquent speech, 
 after which the meeting adjourned. 
 
IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 
 
 An Address by Parson JBrownlow, delivered before the Young Men s Christian 
 Association, at the Cooper Institute, New York, May 19, 1862. 
 
 EEPOETED BY CHAS. B. COLLAR. 
 
 PEOFESSOE ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, being called to the chair, 
 made a few eloquent introductory remarks, exceedingly appropriate 
 to the occasion, and then introduced Parson Brownlow to the au 
 dience, who, on coming forward to address them, was greeted with 
 hearty and rapturous applause. 
 
 The PAESON then spoke as follows : 
 
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Appearing before you this evening, I 
 shall perhaps be briefer than I usually am on similar occasions. 
 If so, it will be, however, of necessity. I will, moreover, as on 
 all other occasions, make no effort whatever at display, but, as 
 Othello terms it, "a round, unvarnished tale deliver." I will 
 state facts to you of which I have personal knowledge, and, in 
 doing so, try to avoid a repetition of the speech I delivered at the 
 Academy of Music on Thursday evening. And in all my ad 
 dresses, such as they are, while I speak to the audience before me, 
 and a Northern audience at that, I shall take particular pains to 
 make such remarks, founded in fact, arid in fact alone, as when 
 reported and I find many of the papers are very accurate and 
 very correct in their reports and carried way down to yonder 
 Dixie, they will know and see there that I utter no denunciations 
 against them here, however bitter and however vindictive they may 
 seem to be, that I have not for the last twelve months uttered 
 through every number of the widely-circulated paper I have issued 
 in that country. [Applause.] I will make no statement whatever, 
 I will utter no denunciations whatever, that I am not willing to go 
 back into the very town where I live, and expect to live and die 
 in, and utter in the hearing of the vilest secessionist that God in 
 
2(5 PARSON JJROWNLOW ON THE 
 
 His providence, His mysterious providence, has permitted to live. 
 It is known to many of you, and will now be known to you all 
 I do not make the announcement by way of any advertisement 
 that I am bringing out a book of some five hundred pages, which 
 will make its appearance next week, illustrated throughout with 
 very fine engravings of their hangings, shootings, whippings, pris 
 ons, cruelties, and savage barbarities; and now having completed 
 it, and being ready to send it before the people, they shall not say 
 down in Dixie that I crossed Mason and Dixon s line to conjure up 
 a terrible book and I tell you it is a terrible document they shall 
 not say that I took to my heels and ran beyond Mason and Dixon s 
 line to publish all these charges and all these violent denunciations 
 of them ; but I intend, God being my helper, to go back among 
 them, take thousands of copies of the book, and circulate them 
 there. [Applause.] They shall see it, read it at home, and tremble 
 in their boots, as I give a fair and honest but scathing version of 
 their villainy and their murderous course and conduct from begin 
 ning to end. In presenting a brief outline of the " Irreligion of Se 
 cession," I shall not look at it myself through a pair of jaundiced 
 spectacles ; else I should parade before this large and intellectual 
 audience a huge cotton Minerva, sprung from the brain of these 
 boastful Jupiters of the bogus Confederacy South a set of men, 
 take them one and all, who have, under all circumstances, from 
 first to last, wherever they have spoken of anything done or said 
 north of Mason and Dixon s line, looked at it through a magnify 
 ing cotton-stalk telescope. [Applause.] While I am prepared to 
 do them justice, by way of denouncing them and exposing their 
 unmitigated villainies and revolting corruptions, I am prepared, and 
 have always been prepared though a pro-slavery man and advo 
 cate in days gone by to do the people of the North justice, de 
 spite the peculiar institution. "We have made in the South the 
 institution of slavery the occasion of kicking up this great fuss and 
 bringing about all this deviltry and confusion, and all this abomi 
 nable conduct with which the country abounds, more particularly 
 in the South. We have done so without any cause. " We of the 
 South" as I have said at home, and say here to-night, and shall 
 always say, while 1 have censured a few of the violent agitators at 
 the North "are to blame for this revolution. We brought it 
 about ; nothing else would do us ; no compromise you could offer us 
 would satisfy us." It was a fuss generally that they wanted, and, 
 
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 m God s name, I hope they shall have a fuss to their hearts con 
 tent before they get through. [Applause.] Why, when you were 
 all anxious as I was, and as was every gentleman and lady who 
 reads the papers and keeps posted in regard to the current news of 
 the day during the sitting and the failure of that Peace Congress 
 in Washington, do you not recollect the dispatch that Pry or, of 
 Virginia, sent home from the House of Representatives to Rich 
 mond and Petersburg, saying that they could get the Crittenden 
 Compromise, but they did not intend to have it? Ko, they did not 
 intend to have any compromise. Judge Douglas, as you will recol 
 lect, overheard Mason say in the Senate of the United States: "ISTo 
 matter what compromise the North may offer, the South must so 
 contrive it as to reject any offers they may tender." Douglas ex 
 posed him publicly in the Senate of the United States for having 
 said this. Fourteen Senators in the United States Congress, repre 
 senting seven cotton States, acting under oaths solemnly adminis 
 tered upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, and having 
 sworn they would support the Constitution and the laws of the 
 United States, and act in good faith as the confidential advisers of 
 President Buchanan, night after night were holding caucuses from 
 eleven until three o clock in the morning, scheming and plotting to 
 overturn the Government, sending dispatches home upon the 
 wires, which had then not been captured by the Federal authority 
 as a military necessity, instructing their friends in the several 
 States to pass acts of secession at once, plunge their States out of 
 the Union, and seize upon Fort Moultrie, Fort Morgan, and this 
 and that fort men who in a short time afterward occupied seats 
 in the rebel Congress and in the rebel Cabinet unmitigated and 
 infamous villains, who ought to have their tongues cut out by the 
 roots, and they themselves hung on the gallows as high as Hainan 
 ever hung. [Applause.] 
 
 It was announced that I would appear before you this evening, 
 and that I would say something to you about the " Irreligion of 
 Secession" the irreligion of this great rebellion. In God s name 
 where shall I commence? where shall I begin, and where and 
 when shall I end? It originated in telling, writing, and swearing 
 lies, and in stealing, and it has been kept up by that means, all tho 
 time improving these iniquitous offenses and practices as they 
 grow older and broader. [Loud cheering.] As to the religion of 
 the thing down South I assure it it is all irreligion with us at 
 
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 the South. "We are going, as churches, the way Noah s ducks went 
 in olden time hellward. [Laughter.] The churches, latterly, 
 throughout the South, are broken up and destroyed. The Union 
 men will not sit in the church and hear a secessionist preach and 
 pray. The secessionists will not hear a Unionist, or Union shrieker, 
 as they call it, exhort, preach, or pray ; and the test of qualifica 
 tion of the gifts of a minister now for preaching the Gospel down 
 South is, Can you lie without any conscientious scruples? Can 
 you, as a minister, drink mean whisky by the quart ? Can you 
 boast of your ability to fight, head an army, and lead them on to 
 victory and glory in the rebel army? Allow me to say to you of 
 iiiy personal knowledge many of you are Episcopalians, and no 
 doubt worthy and acceptable and pious members of the church 
 allow me to say to you and I always use names, I always give 
 dates, times, and places, so that there can be no mistakes if yon 
 want to detect me in a falsehood, I will help you to do so [laugh 
 ter] one of your bishops the Eight Reverend Honorable Major 
 Leouidas Polk, with his Cocked hat, epaulets on his shoulders, and 
 a sword hanging by his side, is strutting about the swamps of Cor 
 inth, Mississippi, and has been for months drinking mean whisky 
 by the quart and swearing profanely. Taking the name of God in 
 vain is a common thing with him. That is what secession has 
 brought him to. 
 
 Methodist preachers throughout the South are entitled to more 
 consideration than the ministers of any other denomination, for 
 there is more unanimity among them. They are nearly all, without 
 exception, rascals. [Great laughter.] They have all pitched in. 
 "\Vhen, the other day, they held an annual conference, fifty miles 
 above where I reside, in the town of Greenville, presided over by 
 the venerable Bishop James O. Andrews the man who split the 
 turkey in two when the General Conference was held in 1844, and 
 whom I electioneered for in the General Conference in Philadelphia 
 in 1832, when he was ordained and elected Bishop some of the 
 preachers disgraced themselves on that occasion, and, to render 
 themselves conspicuous and more acceptable to the secession fam 
 ily in which they were boarding, brought me upon the carpet I 
 being at home, fifty miles distant. If I had been present, it was 
 about the last thing they would have undertaken. Neither Bishop 
 Andrews nor the parliamentary rules of the occasion would have 
 choked me off. Had they mounted me, I should have mounted 
 
IEEELIGIOU3 CIIAEACTEE OF THE EEKELLION. 09 
 
 them in return [laughter] and " when Greek meets Greek, then 
 comes the tug of war," you know. They denounced me by name, 
 and my paper the one as infamous, and the other as a traitor to 
 the South, and clamored for hanging me, and such cheering and 
 clapping of hands you perhaps never heard as this proposal called 
 forth and the Bishop enjoyed it as well as anybody else. He 
 enjoyed it equally well as he had the hospitalities of my house on 
 many an occasion. I only mention the fact to show the irreligion 
 of secession. The Rev. Mr. Fitch an old presiding elder of the 
 Tennessee Conference a man who has been a member of every 
 general conference for the hist thirty odd years ; who performed 
 the tour of Europe in the company of Bishop Soules, and who has 
 two sons in the rebel army; whose head is now whitened with 
 the frost of fifty or sixty years is now the regularly elected and 
 commissioned chaplain at Cumberland Gap, near Knoxville, in 
 Colonel Pang s regiment. Mr. Fitch makes a business of getting 
 drunk, carrying his bottle of liquor with him, and in his discourses 
 to the soldiers on Sunday, he tells them that in the cause in which 
 they are engaged, they are fighting for the independence of the 
 South, for their homes and firesides fighting to keep back the 
 abolition hordes of the North, and that if they die in this cause 
 they will be saved in heaven even without grace. [Great laugh 
 ter.] I tell you, upon the honor of a man, that they take posses 
 sion of the pulpit to preach to the soldiers on that subject, and one 
 of them, having been called upon to open a meeting with prayer 
 the Rev. Dr. Baldwin, of the Methodist Church as is the custom 
 with the Methodists, threw up his hands, and said : " Oh, Lord, 
 we thank Thee for having inaugurated this revolution." Senator 
 Pickens, a judge and a State senator, who was in front of the 
 pulpit, rose up, and taking his hat, as the minister concluded that 
 first paragraph, said, " G d d n such a prayer as that." [Laugh 
 ter.] The Rev. J. R. Graves, at the head of the book publishing 
 house in Nashville, and the editor of the Tennessee Baptist, having 
 25,000 or 30,000 subscribers, when the Federal army approached 
 Nashville, and he found his neck was in danger of the halter, took to 
 his heels and ran out of Nashville in a sulky at eight or nine miles 
 to the hour, and I passed him as I was coming with the flag of 
 truce. lie- looked like a scapegallows, as he is, and he went on to 
 Richmond, raised a regiment of men and armed them with pikes. 
 "Where is this brother that introduced me ? [turning to Rev. Dr. 
 
3Q PAESOX BEOWNLOW ON THE 
 
 Hitchcock.] You are of the Presbyterian denomination. [Laugh 
 ter.] Old School or New School ? 
 
 A GENTLEMAN IN THE AUDIENCE I will ask Parson Brownlow 
 if he knew the Kev. Dr. Martin? 
 
 PARSON BROWNLOW I will do him justice directly. [Laughter.] 
 
 THE SAME GENTLEMAN I believe he is a graduate of the Union 
 Theological Seminary, and there must be a number of this audience 
 who know him. 
 
 PARSON BROWNLOW You didn t fully graduate him at your 
 college. [Laughter.] He is now taking lessons under the devil, 
 to my personal knowledge. [Great laughter.] I thought my 
 brother (the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock) was an Old School Presbyterian ; 
 ay, belonging to the Old School, who sing David s psalms with 
 double lines and grease their boots with tallow. [Laughter.] But 
 I find that he is a NQW School Presbyterian. Mr. Martin is a New 
 School Presbyterian, a native of East Tennessee, and a citizen of 
 the town in which I lived. Until he became a secessionist he was 
 a clever man a high-minded, honorable man. But allow me to 
 say, that whenever secession enters into a man at the South, 
 whether Priest or Levite, whether a highlander or a lowlander, a 
 prince or a peasant, the devil accompanies it. They both enter 
 together, and you may expect that man to do the work of the 
 devil from that time forward and forevermore. Mr. Maynard, a 
 member of Congress from the Knoxville district not to the bogus 
 Congress, but to the United States Congress [applause] is an 
 elder in the New School Presbyterian Church, one of the finest 
 scholars in East Tennessee a very high-toned and honorable gen 
 tleman. He had no sooner left the city of Knoxville and made 
 his escape across the Cumberland Mountains, for his seat in Con 
 gress, than the Rev. Joseph II. Martin, about whom the gentleman 
 inquired, made a set speech, going through all the formalities of a 
 text on the Lord s day, and preached an entire sermon an abusive 
 and outrageous sermon and prayed an outrageous prayer, leveled 
 at Mr. Maynard. He implored God that his traitorous feet and 
 cowardly tracks might never again be seen or known in Tennessee, 
 and that they might never press the soil of the streets of Knox 
 ville. The wife of Mr. Maynard, who is in this neighborhood, and, 
 for aught I know, may be in this audience to-night, and who is in 
 every sense an intelligent, amiable, and Christian lady, and who 
 was present on the occasion when her husband was so denounced, 
 
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 affected to tears, rose up and left tlie liouse ; and although she was 
 driven out from Knoxville but a few weeks ago, it is to her honor 
 and credit that she never disgraced herself by visiting his vile 
 sanctuary any more. [Cries of " Good."] In the most sneaking 
 and hypocritical manner he paid her a visit afterward, and apolo 
 gized to her for his abuse of her husband ; said he did not want to 
 do it, but his elders and Major Wallace required him to do it, and 
 he had to do it to hold on to his salary and place. What do you 
 think of a devil like that? That is one of your New School 
 Presbyterians. 
 
 Now for the Old School. [Laughter.] I have represented all 
 the other denominations ; let us hear from the Old School now- 
 The pastor of the Old School Church in Knoxville a man of edu 
 cation and of very fair talents, and, until secession broke out, I 
 thought him a gentleman and a Christian a short time before 
 he left Knoxville had occasion to preach on the subject of secession. 
 He gave out that he would hold forth in his large brick church, and 
 the announcement attracted a large crowd. A portion of my 
 family were there from curiosity to hear what was to be said in 
 favor of secession. Now, gentlemen and ladies, I am going to 
 quote Mr. Harrison correctly, and I wish the newspaper reporters 
 here to take down the words just as I repeat them. I want him 
 I want the world and the rest of mankind [laughter] to know 
 and read what he said upon that subject. He made the bold and 
 open declaration that Jesus Christ was a Southerner, born upon 
 Southern soil. [Laughter.] lie did not intend it as any play upon 
 words or as any joke. lie said "that Jesus Christ was a South 
 erner, born upon Southern soil ; and so were his disciples and 
 apostles all, except Judas, and he was a Northern man." Hold 
 ing up the Bible in his hands, he remarked to the audience, " I had 
 sooner" [I imagine he was sober ; I would not say he was, for 
 they are nearly all drunk on corn-whisky] " I had sooner, my 
 brethren, announce to you a text for discussion from the pulpit out 
 of the Bible or Testament that I knew had been printed and 
 bound in hell, than out of any Bible or Testament that was printed 
 or bound north of Mason and Dixon s line !" These are the identi 
 cal words. That was a part of a Gospel sermon on the Lord s 
 day, and a more unmitigated, God-forsaken set of scoundrels do 
 not live than the preachers of the Gospel down South. Of course, 
 you must understand that I make honorable exceptions in every 
 
32 PARSON BEOWNLOW ON THE 
 
 denomination. As a general thing I say it in sorrow and not in 
 anger the most unmitigated set of villains they have in the South 
 are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian preach 
 ers. We have a single exception in the town in which I live the 
 Rev. Thomas W. Ilurne, rector of the Episcopal Church a Union 
 man, born and raised in the town of Knoxville, a graduate of East 
 Tennessee University a slaveholder and a man of property a 
 very liberal and reliable man. Bishop Otie furnished him some 
 months ago with a new prayer. The old prayer would not an 
 swer, because it required him to pray for the President of the 
 United States, and to do that was to pray in effect for old Abe 
 Lincoln. That was worse, Bishop Otie thought, than to pray for 
 the devil, and he, therefore, furnished him with another prayer, 
 .substituting the President of the Confederate States of America, 
 and the Confederate Government where the United States Govern 
 ment was named or alluded to. Mr. Hume, frankly and promptly, 
 like a man, said he would not abandon his prayer-book and the 
 regular form ; that he did not believe in the Confederate Govern 
 ment or in Jeff Davis. They turned him out and procured another 
 pliant tool and catspaw, who was willing to pray for anybody for 
 his victuals, his wine, and his liquor. [Laughter.] 
 
 I -am -addressing the Young Men s Christian Association. The 
 .members of that organization, besides many hundreds of others, 
 have -expected me, upon this occasion, to speak of the "Irreligion 
 of Secession" down South; but, as I remarked at the outset, where 
 shall I begin ? what shall not I say ? what shall I not charge upon 
 them? All the iniquities that ever prevailed anywhere on the 
 face of God s green earth they have in full blossom in every State 
 south of Mason and Dixon s line. I repeat to you that the 
 churches there are all utterly ruined ; they are all going to de 
 struction. The ministers, class-leaders, deacons, exhorters, are all 
 talking secession, lying secession, drinking mean liquor, and advo 
 cating the cause of Jeff Davis and the devil ; and they have aban 
 doned God and His holy religion. Wicked as you are reported to 
 have been, I invoke, to-night, the prayers of the people of New 
 York for these vile, unmitigated devils in the South. 
 
 After this statement you will not think it strange that, when 
 they tendered me a passport and escort to leave the Confederacy, 
 I gladly and cheerfully accepted them. And in this connection I 
 will give you a very brief history of my adventures in leaving that 
 
IEEELIGIOUS CIIAEACTEB OF THE REBELLION. 33 
 
 country, which I failed to do at the Academy of Music. They 
 held me in prison three months, and then I received a letter from 
 Mr. Benjamin the hero of Yale College, where he commenced 
 stealing when he was a college boy there, and who has kept it up 
 ever since. Talk about the corruptions of Abe Lincoln and his 
 Cabinet ; why, these Southern leaders can out-IIerod Herod, and 
 I would not insult the memory of Judas by comparing him to 
 any of them. As I said, Benjamin sent me a letter from Rich 
 mond, the burden of which was " You are a very bad man, Mr. 
 Brownlow, a dangerous man to remain in the Southern Confeder 
 acy, and we propose to give you a passport and military escort to 
 take you away from our lines among the people with whom you 
 sympathize." I said, in reply, " Good ! we will strike a bargain ; 
 give me your passport and a military escort, and I promise you in 
 return to do more for the Southern Confederacy than the devil 
 has ever done I will quit the country." [Great laughter.] I 
 knew he had never left the country. Although I was feeble, and 
 could not walk ten steps without assistance, yet I told them I was 
 ready to go. I took some bed-clothes along, and fixed myself up 
 as comfortably as I could to make the trip. I had, as an escort, 
 twelve men armed with bayonets and with muskets loaded with 
 buckshot. They were selected from a rebel company, but they 
 were Union men, personally known to me, friends that would have 
 fought, bled, and died for me, though in the vile service of Davis, 
 and the two officers who went with them were Union men Adj. 
 Young and Lieut. Bryan, a cousin of my wife. With this 
 escort I started, and we were interrupted at different points by the 
 rebel troops and by the citizens, who urged them to bring Brown- 
 low out of the cars and hang him. At Athens, 65 miles from 
 Knoxville, where we had to stop for dinner, they made a rush for 
 the cars, but the officers, planting six men at each end, declared 
 they would all shoot as long as they had loads in- their muskets, 
 and then they would use their bayonets. [Applause.] One of 
 
 the rebel officers said he must see the " d d old traitor any 
 
 how before he was landed north of Mason and Dixon s line." 
 They told him that he could eome and look at me if the sight 
 would be of any service to him. They brought him in ; he in 
 spected me particularly ; looked daggers at me, and I looked dag 
 gers at him. I had just as much brass in my face as he. 
 "Well," says he, ; T am satisfied; I now believe all I have ever 
 
o^ PAESON BEOWNLOTV ON THE 
 
 heard about him ; I believe that he is just as dangerous as he 
 
 was ever said to be; but it is a pretty d d piece of work 
 
 that he should be gallanted to Nashville in this way, with a guard 
 and passport. Why, I should like to perform the pilgrimage to 
 Nashville myself on the same terms." " Well," says I, " you hold 
 on here a few days ; there is a penitentiary at Nashville, and the 
 sheriff will take you there at the expense of the county." [Laugh 
 ter.] Then he wanted to pitch into me, but the officers restrained 
 him, and told me I had better not say anything more. Having 
 always been a loyal man, I told them that I would submit ; it was 
 pretty hard work, however, to keep my mouth shut. [Laughter.] 
 At some other places they came around with ropes, and although 
 I arn not very good at interpreting hieroglyphics, I understood 
 what they meant. At one depot they made a rush and swore 
 they would have me any way, but my escort planted themselves at 
 each end of the car and kept them back, and some of them then 
 threatened to shoot through the window. At Shelby villc, General 
 Ilardee arrested me and confined me for ten days, and was on the 
 eve of sending me to Montgomery, but my officers insisted on his 
 regarding Mr. Benjamin s passport, indorsed by Jeff Davis, and 
 the flag of truce granted by Major-General Geo. B. Crittenden, 
 addressed to General Buell, saying " it would be a disgrace to the 
 Confederacy and the whole of us not to carry out our pledges." 
 So he finally agreed to let me off, after holding me in confinement 
 ten days. 
 
 The railroad being torn up, we hired carriages, buggies, and 
 omnibuses, and set out on our journey upon a beautiful turnpike. 
 We were interrupted by the cavalry of this fellow Morgan, about 
 whose depredations you have all heard so much, and they had a 
 serious notion of hanging me whether or no, but they permitted 
 us to pass, and we passed on until we got within five miles of 
 Nashville. It was a cold day early in March. We saw first, in the 
 distance, on the side of the turnpike, a large log-heap on fire, sur 
 rounded by men, and then we saw any number of tents, and I be 
 held in the distance the Stars and Stripes fluttering in the breeze. 
 [Cheers.] The first and the only time since I left home that I was 
 induced to shed a tear was on that occasion. The soldiers drew 
 up in front of the carriage as we advanced. " Halt! halt there !" 
 they called out; "by what authority are you corning in here with 
 a flag of trace ?" I rose up in the carriage, as my friend by my side 
 
IRRELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE REBELLION. 
 
 35 
 
 was holding the lines, and said, " Gentlemen, are you the Federal 
 pickets?" "Yes, sir."- "Well, then," said I, "I am Parson 
 Brownlow." Some of them dropped their guns, others clapped 
 their hands. They all rushed to the carriage, and would not per 
 mit me to get out of it, but lifted me out. [Applause.] " AVe 
 know you are suffering with the cold," said they ; "come up to the 
 fire and warm yourself." They dispatched one of their sergeants 
 to Brigadier- General Wood, and he came riding in on a fine black 
 charger, his aid by his side, and he was so excited as to forget his 
 dignity as an officer by taking his hat off, waving it, and crying 
 out, "So many cheers, my gallant men, for Parson Brownlow," 
 and they made the welkin ring. He made a glorious speech to the 
 boys, and addressing me, he said, "I will put you into my carriage 
 with my aids, and send you down to General Buell." Gentlemen, 
 I had not been accustomed to such treatment. [The Parson was 
 affected to tears.] At Xashville I met as many as ninety-five regi 
 ments, and had the pleasure to see every division march out under 
 Mitchell, and Thomas, and Crittenden, arid one and another, until 
 they all marched toward Pittsburg Landing. I left on a steamer, 
 by way of Fort Donelson, and up the Ohio, for Cincinnati. There 
 I commenced speaking, and have been speaking on my way hero 
 since ; and while I am not a vain man, and have nothing to make 
 me vain, it is peculiarly gratifying to me to have met with the 
 treatment and reception given to me before I reached this city and 
 since, for no sooner had a few straggling Cincinnati papers, con 
 taining extracts from my speeches, got through the blockade, down 
 into the land of Dixie, than the Southern papers commenced 
 boasting that I was utterly repudiated at the ISTorth, wherever I 
 went, and that I was hissed and scorned as a traitor by the people, 
 who hated a traitor to the South as they did a traitor to their own 
 country. 
 
 I have spoken longer than I intended, and I have spoken under 
 great disadvantage. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the 
 patience with which you have heard me. I regret that I could not 
 have interested you with a better speech. I can only say that I 
 hope you will overlook all errors and blunders I may have com 
 mitted, in view of the goodness and glory of the cause in which 
 we are engaged [applause] the cause of God, of our country, of 
 our Union a cause in which I am willing to suffer, in which I 
 Lave always been willing to suffer, and for which, if need be, I am 
 
30 IEEELIGIOUS CHAEACTEE OF THE EEBELLIOK 
 
 willing to die, and I will never shrink from offering up my life for 
 the defense of the Union and the Stars and Stripes of my country, 
 if the sacrifice is required of me. [Applause.] I have but two 
 boys in the world one is with me now, the other is a captain in 
 the Federal army, now marching upon the Cumberland Gap, 
 and he is expecting to march upon East Tennessee, and, God 
 helping, to recover his old home ; and as God is my witness before 
 you this afternoon, as much as I love that boy a gallant fellow as 
 he is I would sooner that his body was riddled with grape-shot, 
 fighting under the flag of the Union, than that he should triumph 
 under the infernal flag that floats over the Southern Confederacy. 
 [Loud and long continued applause.] 
 
 After a brief but eloquent speech from Gen. Carey, the meeting 
 adjourned. 
 
PARSON BROWNLOW 
 
 BOOK. 
 
 Being his own Narrative of his Perils. 
 Adventures and Sufferings among the 
 Secessionists of Tennessee. 
 
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 public will be startled at this narrative of facts. It lays bare the 
 persecutions and cruelty which marked the development of the 
 secession conspiracy in Tennessee, the disasters and the ruin with 
 which it devastated communities once prosperous, and sundered 
 families once happy ; more than all, it exposes the bad and reck 
 less ambition, and the relentless bloodthirstiness, by which the 
 ringleaders of the conspiracy were stimulated to their work of 
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 in language of extraordinary force and fearlessness, scathing his 
 adversaries even while in their power, and appealing to his coun 
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 ation of the statue of Webster, at Boston, Sept. 17th, 1859. 
 
 No. 9. A CHEERFUL TEMPER, a Thanksgiving Discourse, by Rev. WM. 
 ADAMS, D. D, 
 
 No. 10. DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING, Address by Hon. EDWARD 
 EVERETT and Sermon by Rev. JNO. A. TODD. 
 
 No. 11. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Oration by Hon. Tiro. P. BOCOCK, at the 
 Inauguration of the statue of Washington, in the city of Washington, February 
 22d, 1860. 
 
 No. 12. TRAVEL, ITS PLEASURES, ADVANTAGES AND REQUIREMENTS, 
 Lecture by J. H. SIDDONS. 
 
 No. 13. ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE, Addresses by Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER, 
 Rev. HENRY W. BELLOWS, D. D., Rev. Jos. P. THOMPSON, D. D., and Prof. 0. M. 
 MITCHELL. Delivered in New York, Feb. 17th, I860. 
 
 No. 14. SUCCESS OF OUR REPUBLIC, Oration by Hon. EDWARD EVERETT, in 
 Boston, July 4th, 1800 
 
 Nos. 15 & 1C. (Two in one, 20 cents.) WEBSTER S SPEECH, in the United 
 States Senate, on the FORCE BILL, and JACKSON S PROCLAMATION to South 
 Carolina in 1833. 
 
 Nos. 17 & 18. (Two in one, 20 cents.) WEBSTER S REPLY TO HAYNE, 
 No. 19. LAFAYETTE, Oration by Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, delivered in New 
 York and Philadelphia, Dec., 1860. 
 
A SLIGHT COLD," COUCH, 
 
 HOARSENESS, OR SORE THROAT, 
 
 Which might be checked with a simple remedy, if neglected, 
 
 often terminate seriously. Few are aware of the importance 
 
 of stopping a Cough, or " SLIGHT COLD" in its first stage ; 
 
 that which in the beginning would yield to a mild 
 
 remedy, if not attended to, soon attacks the lungs. 
 
 . 
 
 "BROWN S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" 
 
 Were first introduced eleven years ago. /( has been proved that they are the best article before the 
 public for COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH, the Hacking Cough in CONSUMPTION, and 
 numerous affections of the THROAT, giving immediate relief. 
 
 PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND SINGERS 
 
 will find them effectual for clearing and strengthening the voice. 
 
 CERTIFICATES. 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
 STATE HOUSE, SENATE CHAMBER, BOSTON, July 21, 1860. 
 JOHN I. BROWN & SON : 
 
 Gentlemen: Your Troches are too well and favorably known to need commendation, but I will 
 merely say that I have used them frequently during the past flve years, and regard them as the 
 best preparation known to me for the vocal organs. 
 
 I am truly yours, CHARLES A. PHELFS, 
 
 President Massachusetts Senate. 
 
 From Mr. C. H. Gardner, Principal of Rutgers Female Institute, New York. 
 Dear Sirs: 1 have been afflicted with Bronchitis during the past winter, and found no relief till 
 I found your " Bronchial Troches." I shall take pleasure in recommending their use to a large 
 class of pupils, and to others who may need this remedy. 
 
 Yours, respectfully, C. H. GARDNER. 
 
 To Messrs. JOHN I. BROWN & SON, Boston. 
 
 Messrs. John I. Brown & Son : I have constantly used your " Bronchial Troches " for two years, 
 and find them particularly efficacious in clearing and strengthening the voice, either for singing 
 or speaking. Yours, respectfully, 
 
 Academy of Music, Sept. 23, 1856. JULIA BARROW. 
 
 "That trouble in my throat (for which the Troches are a specific) , having made me often a 
 mere whisperer." 
 
 Pre-eminently the first and best." REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. 
 
 < I recommend their use to public speakers." REV. E. H CHAP1N, ^ Y. 
 Great service in subduing Hoarseness. " REV. IXAMKL AV ISE iV Y. 
 I have proved them excellent in Whooping Cough.- REV. H. W WAHREN, h<>stan. 
 Great benefit in affections of the Bronchial organs." I)R. J. J - W. LANE, Boston. 
 A simple and elegant combination for Coughs," etc. DR. G I . BIGELOW , Ko^n. 
 
 < Contain no opium or any thing injurious." DR. A. A. HAYES, Chemist, Boston. 
 
 Very beneficial in clearing the throat, when compelled to speak though suffering from 
 1 1 )) REV. S. J. P. ANDKR^ONj St. l^ntis. 
 
 I heartily unite in the above commendation." RKV. M. SCHUYLER, St. Louis. 
 
 A friend having tried many remedies for Asthma, with no benefit, found relief from the 
 
 hoq " KEV- U< LM1>, frmUffvn. 1(1. 
 
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 Mot salutary relief in Bronchitis." REV. S. SEIGFR1ED, Jforrwtoim, Ohio. 
 
 " I have been much afllicted with BRONCHIAL AFFECTION, producing Hoarseness and Cough. The 
 Troches are the only effectual remedy, giving power and clearness to the voice. 
 
 REV. GEO. SLACK, Minister Church of England, Milton Parsonage, Canada. 
 Two or three times I have been attacked by BRONCHITIS, so as to make me fear that I should 
 be compelled to desist from ministerial labor, through disorder of the Throat. But from a 
 moderate use of the Troches, I now find myself able to preach nightly, for weeks together, with 
 out the slightest inconvenience." 
 
 REV. E. B. RYCKMAN, Wesleyan Minister; Montreal. 
 
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