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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Brownlow in Cincinnati. (search)
. There are no Union presses left in the South, and not a Union editor but one, and that is myself. They have all been bought up. Thy offered me large sums of money but my reply was, "Thy money perish with thee. I will see you to the devil first." They took my paper, my press, and my type, and gave me notice that I should not publish any more papers. I took the advice of my friends and family, and stopped the Whig. It was the only time in my life that I ever gave in; for, like Collins's ram, I always had a head of my own. [Laughter.] I tell you to-day, upon the honor of a man, (!) that the Southern army and its hangers-on have stolen more negroes in Virginia. Tennessee, and Kentucky, during the past six months, than the Abolitionists have enticed or aided away in the last forty years, and to-day, so help me God, one-half the soldiers in the South never owned a slave or were ever related by the ties of consanguinity with any one that ever did. [Cheers.] They are the