The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-13
From the Lebanon Herald, Of the 18th.
Gov. Brown and his Lebanon Speech

We had hoped we would have no occasion to
allude to this subject again. The Nashville Union
however, of the 18th ut contained long and labor
ed editorial designed to screen Gov Brown from the
charge preferred against him in report of his
celebrated Lebanon speech. lnasmuch as the at.
tempt is made, this late day. to fasten falsehood
! upon u.s. we deem it our bOunden duty to notice
briefly the Unions article We have not a copy of
the paper containing the article before Us. The
paper containing it we have never received. 1t
would probably have escaped our notice entirely
had not our attention been directed to it while IN
Nashville few DAYS ago.
In our report of Gov Browns speech we charged
him with saying certain things disrespectul to the
American party. This he denied in a published
letter in the Nashville UjGon, whereupon we publish
ed certificate signed by eight honorable gentle
men, substituting what we had said. At the same
time challenged Gov. Brown to produce one
man who would state over his own signature that
our report OF said speech was not correct. But he
didn't do it, and our statements, corrobOrated by
eight heightened gentlemen, stood u1tcontradjcied
publicly, by any body, save Gov. b., for upwirds
Of two long months Those statements, If true were
sufficient TO damn Gov Brown in public estimation
forever. Now ifthey were ridiculOusly false and
absurd he says they are he certainly could have
induced some one to have branded them a. such at
tie time. But he didn't do it. Why didn't he p
Why didn't the Nashville Union have something to
cay about it at the proper time The truth is Gov.
Brown knew he was guilty as charged. His FIJI lends
felt that he was guilty. Hence, it was not deemed
advisable to agitate the matter until the excitement
attending it, introduction had died away-unt the
attention Of the public should have been dra wn from
the subj ct. Now that the subject mas lost its in
terest-the points at issue almost forgotten the
Nashville Union parades in ts columns the certif.
Gates of seven gentlemen who state that they
derstood Gov. Brown saying something little
different from what we had charged him as SAYING.
BY delaying this matter so long, Gov. Brown doubt
less thought be would be able to put something
ION record" that would prababy go uncontradicted,
and which might be Of service TO him at some fu-
ture time. If this not his object we would like
for the Union to inform Us why those certificates
were not published two months ago. The Gov.
can't "crawfsh" out of his difficulty in this kind of
style.
We will here introduce satisfactory evidence 10
prove that we reported Gov. Browns speech cor.
rectly We will prove by the published testimony
Of Aaron V. Brown himself that we have not mis-.
represented him. Gov. Brown, be it remembered,
admits that in his remarks on the American organi
cation in his Lebanon speech to which exceptions
were made, he speaking in the future. He ad.
mts this in his Nashville letter. He admits il in his
Columbia speech. HIS seven witnesses admit the
same thing. Gov. Brown admits that WE too,
represented him speaking in the future In his
letter in the Nashville Union in reply to our report
of his speech, he says Even in this lying and
cowardy attack upon me it is admitted and EN-
PRESSLY stated that spoke not in the past nor in
the present, but in the FUTURE" Now, If we
represented the Governor speaking in the future,
as he SAYS we did, and he admits himself that he
was speaking in the future, wherein have we mis-.
represented him? Can the Union tell US? Ac.
cording to Gov. BIS own published testimony,
we stand acquitted of the charge of misrepreuta-
ton?
The Gov is certainly in "bad fix" There's
Eastman. and seven other good Democrats trying
their best 20 prove him LIAR. AS ridiculous as
this may appear, it is nevertheless true. If they
succeed in proving, they attempting to DO,
that have misrepresented Gov. Brown, they
necessarily fix a lie in his mouth for, according 10
the testimony contained in the extract above, the
Governor admits that We have not misrepresentei
him. Well might the Governor exclaim, "Oh, save
me from my fiiendsln
They had "storm" in St. Louis on Friday last
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