Who Steals the Negroes

In a speech made at Cincinnati a few days since, Parson Brownlow thus expressed himself on the subject of negro stealing:–

“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 of 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 off scourings of the lowest order of society, the meanest set of cowards on the face of the earth.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 4, 1862, p. 2