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EUGENE CITY, OREGON, MAY 24, 1862.
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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.