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r STATE R1 iri .in a n X NJ 0 DEVOTED TO THE POLITICAL AND GENERAL INTERESTS OP THE PEOPLE. EUGENE CITY, OREGON, MAY 24, 1862. NO. 20. VOL. I. f x 1 r i ! t THE STATE REPUBLICAN Pablished every Saturday "T H. SKLA."VV" & CO. Term of Subscription. ri, R.n.i will b. oublished at 12 60 a year In ad .. . i nn if nud at tha end of six month. : or 14 60 at tha' clou, of tha year. On. dollar additional will bo barged for each year payment U neglected. lf 'o paper, discontinued until all arrearage, ara 10, excoj'lf.l our option. Rate, of Advertising. nare (ten linea or lea.) on. month. $3 00 60 13 00 8 00 10 00 7 00 0 00 Rf additional insertion, ..... Uiaieaa Cards, one square or less, on. year, ii u " six months, fol squares and upwards, one year, per square, i " six months, per square, I three months, sVdlnistrator's Xotices, and all advertisement, re ting to estates of deceased persons, which kv. to ba sworn to, on. square, four insertions, 6 00 Alommunicatioin to this office should be addressed to 11. fell AW VO., bugeuo vivjr, urcguu. ToknTSKTisaas. Business men throughout Oregon and Caiitiia will find it greatly to their advantage to aaver tise t.ie mat. Kkpubucax. SALMON RIVER DIXIE. T D. WITT HDBBELL. lvay up Xortli, where runs the Salmon, perc s lots ui " - . a-",, ' utu away, Bo " "f i " Yank ana " rixe, " iveuvuca auu e eoini up tliero our luck to try ; ,. -. .. .-.. nnrih A Salmon. ret away, KCi- " " " l'heu I wish that I was on Salmon 1 Huppa, Mula ! )n Salmon's " silo'' I'll strike my pile, tnd go it strong on Salmon j Away, away, away up north on Salmon I 1 1 ire got my outfit all complete, SJ-rismg Hour, and lots of meat; let awav, etc. y Tliteo Navy Colt's, and a rifled gun, Wih which to make the Indians run; tie! away, etc. C, 1 wish that I was on Salmon I Huppa, Mula! Witit pick and pan I'll take my stand, And itrike it big on Salmon ; Awiy, etc. I have got two darned scrubby old mules, On winch to pack the grub and tools ; Got awav, etc. And "Pike" has got a braying jack. To scire the Redskins from the track j (let awav, etc. Then I wish that I was on Salmon ! Huppa, Mula! If some peskr Snake my scalp don t take, I'll mke my pile ou Sulinou ! Awny, etc. Ulll Parker came to pur camp to-day, To make us all our taxes pay ; Oet awav, etc. But " Pike"," to pay was very slack, So he levied on tlis braying jack i Oet awav, etc. Don't I wish that I was on Salmon ! Huppa, Mula 1 If Bill Parker comes there, it's safe to swear He'll get cleaned out on Salmon. Away, etc. They try to rope us miners in. And clean us out of .11 our " tin ;" Getaway, etc So now goodbye to Susan, Polly, Sister June, and cousin Molly ; Get away, etc. I'm bound to rush, with all creation, 'Way up north to the great Snake nation ; Oet awav, etc. Then, hurrah for the mines on Salmon I Huppa, Mula! I'll throw the dirt, and tear my shirt, And make my pile on Salmon'. Away, away, away up north on Salmon I ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR ANDT JOHNSON. Delivered in the Hall of the House oJlepresen- tattves, tit Aasnvilie, juarcn ti. ioo. I.adiA and fallow citizens : I am here to-day tiniW ffxtrnnrdinnrv circumstances. It is not my habit to make long exordiums, nor will I make a long one to-aay. i migni oegm ur uui- ;n vmir attotitinn ta what I mi id loni! ago. when ' I made my valedictory in this hall, when retiring from the duties you nna imposea upon me, mm 'passed them to other hands. When 1 made that address, I feel sure my fellow-citizens will testify to the truth that the affairs of tho gubernatorial nffiv hA Vnnn faithfully administered, and that I v folded its honors when all was in a state of undisturbed repose on the bosom ol peace. Peace with all its attendant happiness, pervaded the Commonwealth then. How is it now? What condition do we find the country in now t Look out and see what is to be found. When you extend your vision over the vast boundary of this beloved country what do you find ? You see men armed In all the appoint ments of war ; marching columns of infantry, cavalry and artillery you look upon battlefields, ' and see fellow countrymen bleeding. Why all this t And may 1 not inquire what it has been for ? Why do we behold weeping fathers, dis consolate sisters and brokenhearted mothers ? Why is the nation clothed in black and bathed In tears 1 Why is this disaster brought upon a contented and happy people 1 Why is our beau tiful land tho assylum of the oppressed ot ev STf dime bathed in human blood t I hope you will keep np the inquiry, why all this I four years ago 1 left my beloved State quiet and happy ; her free sons and lovely daughters had not a dream of disorder. 1 return to-day in the midst of civil war and the camp ; in the sound of the cannon's roar and in the view of glittering bayorets. Again I a.k, why all this t Sisters, mothers, and fathers, 1 intend to ask you some thing, and call upon you to hold the guilty re sponsible for shedding innocent blood. You know that it has been said and said to me that this is an unjust war ; that the United States is unjustifiably prosecuting war against the South. It is said the South is carrying on the war for rights Southern rights. Who ever sought to abridge their rights! The Government has never ceased to respect and foster its national structure. This, our mother, knows no East, no West, no North, no South It is purely national n its character. This inquiry runs along, and what is the conclusion reached 1 They complain of lost rights, and say they have been deprived Ot their just and constitutional rights in the Ter ritories. Permit me to make an inquiry in no offensive sense, but simply that I may be under stood another inquiry. What right has been denied, what privileges withheld, what preroga tives lost, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, by any citizen thereof, and particularly a citizen of Tennessee ? What one t Can you tell 1 Can you point it out 1 Can you take up the Constitution aud call attention to any right there guaranteed which you have lost 1 Can you see it smell it taste it feel it 1 You may tax all your faculties, and cannot tell what right has been lost. What excuse, then, is there tor all this turmoil of war 1 What has the South lost under the Constitution, that palladium of our liberties, framed by the patriot fathers of another century 1 " Slavery," is tho reply. Where has tho institution of slavery been inva ded t Can any one tell 1 Hero Governor Johnson alluded to tho fact that ho and others, who had determined to stand firm by the princi ples of self government, had been denominated traitors, and read the constitutional definition of treason. If, continued he, it bo treason to stand by one's country, 1 am here to-day a traitor in your presence. I was making the inquiry, why all this 1 I direct your attention to some facts in our history. In tho full of 1860, you reinem ber tho memorable contest for the Presidency. Three candidates were put before tho people Bell, Breckinridgo and Douglas. A fourth was nominated Mr Lincoln ; but he had no ticket in this State. I ask of Mr. Bell's friends, what position did you take 1 " Tho Union, tho Con stitution and the enforcement of the laws." What did the Douglas men propose for your approval J The Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. How did Breckinridge stand 1 The same. I voted for Breckinridgo because I thought him a better Union man and a stronger c.iuui date than either Douglas or Bell. And here let mo ask those Bell, Douglas or Breckinridge men present if they did not cast their votes under the impre-sion that they were trying to elect tho strongest Union candidate. My belief was that ureckinndge was a more eligible man that licll that from his well known position iti tho eye of the nation ho could defeat and put down seces sioii. lie was a stronger man in the south than Douglas, while it was admitted that Douglas was stronger at the North. We had reason to hope that by a combination of their strength Lincoln might be defeated. If all wero defeated but Lincoln, ho would give him a trial. If he administered tho nflairs of State wisely and icon stitutionally, he would be thankful ; if not 'if he attempted to encourage sectional legislation and administered affairs disparagingly to any part of tho country, turn him out. 1 was not for break ing up this Government, because, forsooth the aims of any set of politicians had miscarried. If we are to have a revolution on such a pitiful pretext, what stability of government do we possess? To yield to tho displeasure of a cer tain set or party, so far as to partition a political structure of such grandeur as ours, would be to follow in the footsteps of distracted Mexico. 1 told my countrymen to give Lincoln a fair chance. If ho sought to invado their rights or compress their freedom, elect another tho ballot-box, and not tho sword, was the instrument to wield. In tho support of Breckinridge for the Presidency, I had labored through a fatiguing canvass, expos ing myself to all the unpleasantness of travel and the exhaustion of declamation, I was enlisted in his fortunes for the sake of my country. I be lieved him to bo the safest for the crisis : and I can produce evidence from many sources to jus tify the belief, lhreats were boldly made to destroy the country if Breckinridgo should not be elected, io avoid this calamity, I would make the sacrifice of my health nay, my life. my all. Bell men, how can you justify your selves for the part you have enacted in this bloody drama 1 Let me ask, Douglas support ers, how could you go offinto the disunion camp? I was a witness of the reign of terror which tol lowed the defeat of Bell, Breckinridge and Doug las, and when the election wus over I repaired to Washington. It was there that Breckinridge showed the cloven foot. South Carolina was there basely and adroitly attempting to dissolve the Union. I saw Breckinridge and conversed with him told him the people were all disap pointed ; that we had been caught in a snap ; secessionists would break up the Union, What was bis reply 1 Can we coerce a State ( 1 remarked, " It is our duty to save the Govern ment." Will you coerce ?" he again demanded. told him not to deal in technicalities the laws must be enforced. If one man in South Carolina would rob the mint, counterfeit money, or com mit any other crime against tho laws of the io punished ; and it mattered not whether the law was brokon by one man, or twenty, or a hundred, or even by the State itself, the Government must be vindi cated. The soul of liberty is the love of law. If this be so, and you have no authority to en force it, you have no law to protect the weak and defy the strong. My interview with Breck inridge was like an iceberg in my bosom, i was deceived in him, and discovered that 15 reck in- idge had no hope of being elected no hope but for Kentucky and the Southern States. I asked him if he was willing to disunite the States because of Mr. Lincoln's success, and because discontented South Carolina agitates the subject ? b this Question Breckinridge replied in aa cap. tandum slanir about subjugation and the horrors of a civil conflict, convincing me that he had gone into the arms of disunion. As he could not be President of all the States, he was willing to ivide them and become President of a part ot them. We separated. I turned my back to im and aaid : "you deceived roe then: that was your fault ; but when you deceive mo again it will be mine. Let me ask Bell, Breckinridge and Douglas men, what duty is left you to per. form t Only one. If you cannot find out what rights you have lost, come forward like a band of brothers, gather around the altar of your country, and say the Constitution shall be pre. served. In returning to my native State, I offer the olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other. With and for it I have come to perish, if need be to pour out my blood a free libation for its preservation. Tho Federal Government is made responsible for this rar by the men who have entailed its honors upon tho cosntry, by crying out their pretended rights are gone. Let us forget all parties and former associations and see the question as it is. I tell you tho slavery question has been made the pro text for breaking up this Government. In 1832 an attempt was made to break up tho Govern ment, and 1 well remember to have heard read, by a man named Russell, while seated on my shop board in that momorablo year, the procla mation ot President Jackson, and felt then as I now do, that it contained tho only doctrmo to procure tho preservation of tho Government. It was sustained by those master Statesmen, Web ster, Clay and Jackson, I stand now as they stood in the first storm ot btato ; and tor this I am persecuted. Do not blame me, but selves who have gono wrong, come up, your- show your manhood, acknowledge tho error of your purposes, and resolve to support tho United States Government the greatest and best fabri cation of God and man. In tho year 1832 tho year of nullification Jackson wrote a letter to Crawlord, ot Ueorgia. I invito your attention to it. What did he say ? "Ihero existed on effort to break up tho Gov ernment. It is now twenty-iiino yeurs since ; fow diilered with Jackson then, as to tho pres. ervation of the Union ; none can diner now Were it possible for Old Hickory to return to us and seo what is going on, what would be the treatment of Southern traitors as illustrated in the answer of an old man who knew and loved him well. He came to mo a short time ngo, and in reply to my question, if any had been impious enough to plant the Stars and Bars over the old hero's grave, no saia : " les ; ana 1 n bo d d if I didn't expect to seo the old man jump irom nis grave ana oruer ino last traitor to be lguominiously hanged v lt it were pos sible for tho dead to know what is passing hero upon earth, ond leave their lonely tabernacle to minglo again in the busy scenes ot lite, I would long since havo expected to see Jackson at the seat of Government, and Jieard him exclaim, with that extraordinary finger elevated " By tho Eternal, tho Union must and shall be pre served !" Tariff was tho pretext for disunion in 1832, and tho slavery or negro quesliou is tho pretext now. How do the facts stand when wo come to examine them ? Let us go back to tho proceed ings of tho last Congress. What was tho true phaso of the times? A compromise you re. member tho Crittenden proposition was in troduced, lhe southern senators, mcludirg Benjamin, Toombs, Iverson and a host of others, pretended that if tho measure passed the South would be satisfied ; but they desired everything else but a compromise. Senutor Clark ottered an amendment which he believed would bo ac ceptable to tho South. 1 had critically kept paco with these pretenders. Their protest was only to disguise their real intentions. When tho voto was put on tho Clark amendment- mark well only fifty-five ballots were recorded. The amendment was adopted by two votes, thus defeating the original compromise. Who is re sponsible for this work of destruction ? Six Southern Senators standing thero and refusing to record their votes. If the Crittenden com promise had been adopted tlicy would have been deprived of a pretext for their treason. Judith Benjamin a sneaking thief aud perjurer, an un conscionable traitor, was seated near me while the vote was being taken. 1 told him it was his duty to come to tho relief of the country by voting upon this important proposition, lie 8iiceriugly answered that " when he wanted my advice he would make the request." I said, you aro a Senator, and I damand that your vote be recorded. With six others he managed to defeat the measure by slipping out. They wanted no compromise. This, then, has caused tho pres ent difficulties. These six Senators destroyed tho compromise, upon which they based revolu tion. Let us examine ourselves, gontlcmen, and females, too, that we may arraign the guilty ones at the shrine of public suffering. Did Lincoln or the Republicans dissolve the Union? No. Who then, is to blame? Men who in them selves were capable of averting the storm, and yet cried there was no hopo for tho South no escape from separation. You know tho clamor has been raised that the non-slavcholding States would amend the Constitution so as to legislate on tho subject of slavery. On the 20th of Dec. South Carolina passed an Ordnance of Secession, took Fort Moultrie, and tho revolution com menced. Soon after South Carolina went out, seven other States followed. Their argument was that the free States would interfere with their peculiar institution by legislation. By the withdrawal of these States, the North had three fourths of the votes in Congress, and consequent ly had the power to legislate. Having the power, did they so amend tho Constitution? No : they did not. They came forward with an amendment to the effect that M Congress in all future time shall have no power to legislate upon the subject of slavery." The amendment was passed by a vote of two-thirds. Why did you not accept it, instead of being ruled by a petty tyrant ? 1 will now pay my respects to some gentlemen who have been deprived of their rights in the Territories. We have had some clamorous harangues about Southern rights. Tho most of them have proceeded from noisy dilutionist, who never ownen a negro; they have been ter ribly disturbed. I, myself owned a few only seven and 1 expect they 'cost me more labor than those who owned a hundred. During the last session of Congress three Territorial bills were passed, and afterwards the amendment was adopted taking the power away from Corgress to legislate upon the subject of slavery. - The three bills organizing the Territories of Dacotah, XNavadaand Colorado, embracing every inch of territory owned by tho United States, provide that the Legislature shall have no pow er to interefero with the private property of citizen! . defined and declares slaves to be pri vate property that no tttx shall be laid on him (the citizen) to drive him out of the Territories, llow much of the question is left for the Seces sionists ? Their Senators defeated tho proposi tion, offered in a spirit of firmness and cordiality and which, if accepted, would have restored tho Government, and no blood would havo flowed on our consecrated soil. Whero, thon, is your Southern rights? Whence tho cause of this re bellion ? What rights havo been taken away ? Who wants to take negroes into tho Territories and is unable to do so? Who have lost any rights under tho Constitution? Thero am two parties in existence who want dissolution. Sla very and a Southern Confederacy is tho hobby. Sunnier wants to break up the Government, ond so do tho Abolitionists generally. Th?y hold that if slavery survives tho Union cannot endure. secessionists urguo that it the union survives slavery is lost. Abolitionists want no compro mise ; but they regard peaceablo secession as a humbug. Tho two occupy tho same ground. Why ? Abolition is dissolution ; dissolution is secession ; ono is tho other. Both are striving to accomplish tho same object. One thinks it will destroy, tho other save slavery. If the Southern Senators were sincere, till their appre hensions about Lincoln showed a wonderful lack of sagacity. When Mr. Lincoln camo into pow er on the 4th of March we had six of a majority in tho Senate against him. He was powerless for evil. Ho could not form his Cabinet without our approval ; ho could not send a minister (o a foreign court; wo had tho power to reject treat ies entered into by envoys ; he could not send a Consul abroad. Lincoln could not even draw his $23,000 a year with which to buy bread aud meat for tho White House, without our co-op. oration. Where was tho danger then ? Why not remain and control his action ? Hence, all tho pretext for the crime of secession is unreason able, In this connection 1 must bo permitted to repeat, that ufler establishing the truth that negroes havo been tho excuse for all tho scenes Of domestic butchery and the confused scenes of war which have darkened tha history ot 1801 tho authors of this commotion had in view some startling conspiracy. Something underlies their conduct, shewing slavery to be nothing more than a pretext. I was taught in my earliest days to believe tho people of tho United States callable ot self-government ; but a certain por tion ot the IN or ui and south repudiate tho doc trine. The great boast of tho secessionists was that if the Government would not let them separate peaceably, after the prostration, de moralization and combined horrors of a vigorous war, tho country would submit, and let them revel in the elegance of their stolen treasures. I will not elaborate any further, but will repeut that tho negro is only n pretext now, as the tanll wus in 1832. VV hen worn out by toil and blood, tho peoplo of this great country will no cent my opinion of government. WhoisJclT Davis ? V hen a boy ho was taken under the fostering caro of the Government of the United States and educated at West Point. All his honors and reputation were obtained at tho ex pense of the United slates. Now you find with sword in hand and arm uplifted, ready to plungo tho deadly weapon into the bosom of his mother tho Uuited States. Aro you ready to bow tho knee to lum a traitor to his country and Government, a Government of the people, and consequently of Uod the wisest and most beneliccnt which was ever devised or will ever exist? What kind of government wero these concoctors ot treason about to establish. Head tho Richmond Whia, it publicly and boldly expresses a preference to Queen Victoria over tho United states Government. Queen V ictoria is doubtless a good woman, but do you desire her to rulo over you ? All our women aro equal to Queen Victoria. The Examiner says a dictator should bo had. Tho Chronicle and Sentinel, of Augusta, Georgia, and many others advocate tho similar absurdities. The Memphis Aualanche wants Harris for king, and tho Mayor of Memphis a despot. Lhain G. Harris to be a dictator! I know tho man ! Miam G, Harris to bo king ! Iiham G. Harris who fled from the capital with such dastardly precipitation. We aro to be hi. slaves! He should not bo my slave much Kiss my master ! As we travel along, what clso can we lind T lho 1 rovisional Government of tho psoudo socalled Confederate States prohibits tho slave trade, whilo the lead ers declare that a slave republic is tho only republic for tho South. No whito man should be allowed to voto unless he owned slaves, bo causo no State c in enter the Confederacy unlets with slavery. In South Carolina no man is eli gible to a seat in tho Legislature unless ho owns ten negroes and a proportionate amount of land. Their principle of representation and taxation is most unjust to the poor man. Oo to south Carolina to get your rights ! I could not drop into tho Legislature there because 1 only own seven negroes three less than tha required number. 1 believe man to be capable of self government. Y hat makes government? Not property, but men. An infatuation a delirium seem to have swept over the land. It teems like a dream. Look at the battle field, covered with bleeding and mangled corpses, hear the cries of the wounded and dying. There is no cause for this war, this shedding of blood, this sacrifico of life. What is secession t A demon tyrant a ser pent in Eden. The wily serpent first whispered secession into our grandmother's ear, in the gar den of Eden, and our first parents seceded and hid themselves. South Carolina went out of the Union, and ran up the palmetto, instead of the glorious stars and stripes. Louisiana elevated the pelican, a bird notorious mainly on account of its capacity to swallow ; and the mints, forts, etc., were soon swallowed by secession. Ala bama was soon represented by the snake a good emblem for the venomous secessionists of that region. Who commenced this war ? , Siv:th Carolina went out on the 2d of February. What a misfortune to the country that Andrew Jackson was not in the Presidential chair in place of James Buchanan, who sat still and allowed the traitors to go on consumnting their unholy schemes. What did South Carolina next do ? Attacked Fort Moultrie and Castlo Pinckney, drovo thegllant Anderson into Fort Sumter, and thus, under tho direction of Beauregard, who ia sametimes styled Noregard, commenced erecting their long line of batteries and forts Beauregard continued erecting his forts until, on the 11th of April, he had n conference with tho gallant An derson, who told hiin ho would bo out of provis ions on tho 15lh, and would then, unless relief was sont, be compelled to surrender. Pryor of Virginia, that then loyal State, was in Charleston at the time, and maintained that a blow must be struck, or Virginia would be lost. An unarmed vessel, laden with provisions, was Kent to the relief of Fort Sumter, but was fired upon by the rebels aud turned back. On the 12th Beauro gard followed tho advice of Pryor, in order to help Virginia out of the Union. I need not tell you of tho many long and weary hours of suffer ing endured within tho walls ofSumter, by the brave and patriotic Anderson and his little band ot bravo and f litliful soldiers-you have doubtless all read them. Here, for tho first time in the nation's history, was tho na' ional flag of the United States disgraced. Soon ofter tho fall cf Sumter, Secretary Walker p'iblicly boasted that on the 1st of May the Confederate flag should float over tho Capitol at Washington, and prepa ration was made by the Provisional Government of the Confederate States to raise an army of 100,000 men. All this was done before the proclamation of President Lincoln appeared. Davis commenced tho war, and you are called upon to assist the Southern Confederacy, to join them and take back Washington, which already belongs to you. You are called upon to join a band of robbers and disuuionists, to get back what already belongs to you! Tho North is carrying on this war to maintain the Law aud the Constitution. VV lien submission comes, the war ends. When I look around and seo those gentlemen clothed in tho uniform of their country, my heart beats, and I welcome the soldier as the protector and savior of tho country. They are not your enemies, but friends, who come here to protect those sacred rights aud privileges guaranteed by the Constitution, and to restore pcaco to our dis. traded country. There are more Abolitionists in your own State than in the army of tho Uni ted States all deny any hostility either to you or to your property or institutions. The asser tion that they have any other motivo is only a contrivance to delude and deceivo. When your own peoplo seo that they aro about to bo pun. ished when they feel tho ropo about their necks they want you to destroy your city, whilo they burn your bridges and rob you of your substance that they may bo saved. Will you do it? Tho bravo soldiers who ore now among you aro your friends ; they come to save, not to destroy. I heartily welcome them, offi cers and privates. You have already seen many but there are legions more when needed, lhoso who have been deluded and deceived into a feel ing of hostility to tho Government shall be treat ed as leniently as possible, but conscious, intelli gent treason must be punished; and when this is done, your Government will bo stronger than ever, lt is a Government mado and sustained by tho voice of the peoplo, which is the voico of God himself. I love to hear our national airs, which have no doubt sent a thrill of joy to many a heart, ufler being so long subjected to a reign of terror" Hail Columbia," " Yankee Doodle," " Star Spangled Banner," etc Again I ask, what is this war for? Can you not see that they are in the wrong, and must lose, while we are right, ond must triumph ? There can bo no protection for slavery but in tho United states. Governor Johnson hero spoko in feoling terms ot those who had been slain in battle or died from fatigue and exposure, and said secess ion was responsible for their untimely death. and mothers and fathers wero responsible. " Let us havo no more of this," continued ho ; " call back your sous, and let tho guilty leaders be punished for their treason." Ho then referred to the mountain people, and described some of the indignities and persecutions they had been subjected to by the Confederate troops, and said ho trusted the timo would soon come when tho glorious old II i' would be flying over the highest iieaks in Last lennessee, and tho people treed from the oppressor. Ho alluded to the letter from tho southern Commissioners to Lord John Russell, and to tho proposition inado to the French Government, and said, " Will you not understand these questions ? Let us come for ward and stand by tho Stars and Stripes Liber ty and Union, one and mscpcrable, now and forever. Our colors will be bathed in fire and blood, until the Government and lho Constitution are maintained." After nn eulogy on patriotic women, he sa d, ' Let us look forward to ti e time when all will be well. 1 camo hero to restore Tennes see to tho position it occupied when I relinquish'd the reins of government, four years ngo, having done which.Jl will retire and leave it in such hands as you may select." After alluding to the Fort Donnelson prisoners, and to tha sufferings of many families here in Nashville, be raid, " You have got to understand that you who have inaugurated this war must be made, hereafter, to take care of the widows and children ; and if those marauding and guerrilla parties are not stopped, you will be held responsible for the destruction of bridges and-other property in the neighborhood." Again he returned thank for tho attention paid to him, and sat down at fifteen minute past two o'clock.