The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-12
Mr. McEwen's Speech.

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so excessively malignant as TO defeat it's own pur-
pose. IL sets people TO asking only the question
tclidt could haze occasioned itf Mr. McEwen must
be perfectly blinded by passion, or he would see
that such TRADE of abuse as he has uttered is
harmless save in its effects upon himself Nashville
Union and american, llM.
The cool effrontery of the above paragraph
is absolutely amazing. A man who coud de-
liberately conjure up and indite such ideas,
under all the circumstances, is truly q most
extraordinary man, capable of ignoring the
written and unwritten history of his subject,
as though there was no record behind. Here
after, we shall be surprised at nothing that
may appear in the Union and american. Our
neighbor says Mr.. McEwen's speech scan do
these gentlemen [Gov. johnson and A. V.
Brown no HARM" Very likely. 1t was not
delivered for that purpose. The speaker had
an object more worthy of his labors. After
the Lebanon certificate and the statements of
the editor of the Herald in regard to A. V.
Browns speech in that place, and bis explana-
ton of it-after the article in the Knoxville
Wing, over the proper signature of its editor,
giving an account of Gov. Johnson's speech
there, the correctness of which, if disputed,
the editor pledges himself to prove by one
hundred witnesses-any attempt to "damage
these gentlemen" would be Quixotio indeed.
If the record of the Lebanon speech and the
Dickson county letter, and the Columbia
speech, has lett any thing connected with
the Knight of the elevated ground and the
breaking heart to damage" it certainly must
he exempt from the operation of solvents. All
the acids would not solve, nor all the CON-
pound blow-ppes consume it. 1t should be
preserved for the examination of chemists and
mineralogists. As to Gov. johnson, he is quite
as little liable to damage. He is beyond that
point. His speech in Knoxville was a speci-
men of the kind of language he has used when
speaking of the American party, as a party,
and of individual members of that party. 1t
Is true, the correctness of the report of that
speech, as made by DR.. Brownlow, editor of
the Knoxville Wing, as been deemed. But
that report has been reiterated, and will be
again reiterated at all suitable times and pla-
ces. The editor Of the Wig says, in his pa
per of Saturday last, over his own proper
signature:
Gov johnson has denied, liz in toto, the refec-
tons he cast upon Maj Donelson, in his speech at
the Coleman House in this city, reported by me to
the Nashville papers. Mr.. Eastman, of the ADleri-
can, was here at the time, and he has since denied
that the Governor used the name Of Maj. Donelson
In the offensive connection / stated, or that he
abused the American party in the manner that /
asserted.
Now. will state the case once moro, and will
-, ha Co
goods box, at the Coleman House, fronting to
Cumberland Street This abuse of the American
party Without exception, too coarse and bitter
to have been tolerated within the precincts Of Bill
lingsgate. his epithets were low, his comparisons
degrading and his alleged facts in reference TO the
Order, were basely false-I mean those touching
the degrees. His entire remarks upon the Ritual
and Obligations, tissue of misrepresentation,
misinterpretatOn and mputations of the motives OF
all who had gone into the Order. He delivered
himself in biting, l-natured way, and q strain Of
insulting, disgusting and vulgar abuse.
Governor johnson said, this new party claimed TO
have organized with view 10 purify and reform the
old parties. A pretty set to reformI The Order
IVES composed of the worst men in the Wing and
Democratic parties-men who were soured, disap-
pointed office-seekers who had been kicked out OF
the old parties. As sample OF these men, he
pointed out Andrea ). DOneLsOn, exclaiming at the
ton of his voice. "Who is Andrew j. Donelson
been kicked out of the partyl" And in this con-
nectiou to illustrate his views, he told the crowd 10
imagine a gang of coullterfeiters out bheTe-Rnd an
equally large gang Of horse thieves ont herel-then
take from the two companies the iOOrS men IN their
ranks aud form third party, and you had his
views of this Know Nothing party. Il is a beauti'
FIJI party TO propose reform, or TO speak oil other
parties being corrupt Il was in this very connec-
ton, as well as in The most offensive manner that
he brought in the name Of ANDREW j. DONEL-
SON, emphasizing the name, and repeating it with
scorn and bitternessi
These statements, Mr.. Brownlow goes on to
assert, he "can prOUo by the sworn testimony
of one hundred respectable men who were in
the crowd and heard it," In the same article,
he says:
Andrew johnson is the Governor Of Tennessee,
but his election to that Office does not license him
90 villfy, BLACKBOARD and SANDER better men than
himself without being called 10 an account Tor IL.
He stated in jacksonville and Cleveland, as am
able to prove, that he left Col Gentry IN Knoxville
drunk AS BASE LIE as he ever uttered and 1T
Gentry we're 20 call on him, he would deny that,
rather than face responsibility. That is the man J
He Is vile caterer to the morbid foreign appetite
of this country, and viii stoop TO depreciAte and
vify the best meE OF the country oeh'Hd hetr
backs for the sake OF votes.
Truly does the Union ana american say the
epeecb of Mr.. McEwen twill do these gentle
men no damage" What could damage them
after tbisY We should as soon expect TO SEQ
Mr.. McEwen or any other sensible man go out
of his way to kick dead dog, as TO see him
attempt to "damage" gentlemen" who are on
record in the interesting light that are Messrs.
johnson and Brown.
With what grace can any friend OF Andrew
johnson complain that Mr.. McEwen's speech
was .,malignant" after dispassionately review
ing the speeches of Gov. johnson from the
opening of the canvass TO the present time
The trrth il, such speech was necessary
v;nd;cation of the American party. We adj
NIT that il was sereye-but It was glsty 30,