New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-04
What Dors Purscu Browniow HAenn


What pors Purscn Browniow HAenn'
To tie Editor Of The BoOn Daily Advertiser
The following article on NEGRO Suffrage ID
Tennessee comes from Brownlows KHOrrslie Uhi9i
~ al H. cons,srty expIessed dread of negro equal.
inv By those who are for and sorter not for me
UrGlcause make proper TO slale rev iacls IN ihe
s,oly VI orr State taat will do for calad men " re-
Acc, imam Wien otherwise unemployed They WIZ
earn sdms nom article that Rebels aud Rebel
smpmmzeIs would never communicate. ard iacts,
bboru and notorious that many Vi those II sympathy
with Ito ReteIl.-n Win 7t5nlni"1 >,iny
Ia the convention that formed the first constitution
OF Tennessee the question arose rs to who should cner
else The rght Of suffrage In tbs state Slaves held
in Tennessee while she yet a Territory. And a
fact not generally known Is thisa majority OF the
delegates who framed the constitution were slavclold
ivf III lSyrc rcc quauucarons OF rotfs al iIco GU
lens were designated proper persons Ia Nute.
was OF rcd 10 inser. the word white et"r
the word tree. This brought mp the qnesl"uo " 'ne
right of Tree negroes 10 vote. The vo" was a.eh upon
! the amendment which contemplated tic eALGsloh OF
rnrroes from tho il ard the amendment was lost b.
n decided vote. The first constitution Of the state
therefore declared Zee DerOcs 20 be citizens and gave
them The right OfyOing, which t1ey exercised Tor many
| veers .nd cere eectiunee.ed with ly politicians
ard denaCogucs FOR their votes. John Bell IN close
IL contested for Congress in The Nashville District
when he defeated Felix Gundy, owed his elect on Z"
The vo,es - e negroes there beng several hundreds
IL his district
"AndreB Jackson we, popular with the negroes on
aceQun, " his bravery and his enjoy upon negro
sokliors 2, kew.Oileats: and when lie defeated Cot
John Williams before the Legislature a' Murifeesboro
IL Was lev only seven votes AID these voes were
gained Tor jackson before the people by 'He negro
voters ~ the counties sending them.
4 Gov Carroll was very popular man with the
negroes and could come more closely 10 the thing OF
uniting their than any man In tie Stnte one
~ his closely couestcd elections friend 81 bis led
procession Of sixty seventy negroes TO the polls al
one time who oil voted for the old wal. hors@
Hon. Cave Jolnson pcs.masIer General under a
former Democratic Administration. bas been seen h
his eerly political contests In Tennessee wien be used
~ serve 10 Congress- during the administration OF
John Quincy Adams, rad negroes 10 the polls arm "
arm The voung scions Of Tennessee arlstocraoy and
of Southern chyaly In Tire lt,brl army must per
nit us to tell them IN anknrsS that thor fathers used
% 90 10 tie rolls in us state and e1en ooiore ihes
/ were boru side by side with the black negroes. an
vote for Governor. Coneressmen, ard other eivli
ofcers
"But we give another very remarkable csse and We
are indebted to TIE Ncskri Times foI the fots IL II
that occpIro In the election OF Delegates To III"
second Constitutional Convention Of ienSess.e. Ia the
year 1894. II slo haprnrd "a the County Of Nnson IN
IMdGlo Tennessee The notorious Robot NJ. Burton, Ia
lawyer OF pOhinCnce, proad STAKEHOLDER, ana nn nris
ocrat related 70 The slayeocrac! OF That county, ne
negroes became Alarmed NJ the proposition made by
soe of The candidates disfrancbse them IN the then
lapproaca.ng convention 10 revise The constitution,
Hutton ran az the friend Of the negroes and pledged
himself 20 Stand hv them and advocate their rights
He received something lees than 400 negro yotes While
lis majority over hs competitor was about haii th.t
q showing that be returned 10 tbs convention by
MORO votes TO his dsrrcce Burton betrayed The ne
res and voted t. dlsiranchise thern For let II be G
Membered that negroes were never ois!fancbised In
Tennessee until it done by The Constitutional Con
' vcntion u ISIS
THE mannor in which the sa.e scted under Gov
Harris anu Lis ReDo LerislGt iuti nes Us 70 wish Il
had thcn been under TIC u;iol OF 9lef haId ."oi
pg set Of free rrOas Fay. we nave no ms'anty u
ayowing that we hsd be governed by Union ne
gToes than d.s.Oyal yLite men
Now can II b. possible that the Rev. Mr. Brownloz
0, TIE KDoIrt Whg Is playing ou an ingenious hoal
UPON our distracted eountiyi BeajamiD Franklin one
t6ok in his oatemporaies by admirably fo ged Pei
t0a - the Algorne shareholders against the eDolooi
Of his slavery. and especially setting iolth he crueny
Of shutting of their hnffGricn Christian capuyes from
tie bou.gnaut hight Of Isiamisn, but We can hardly
think M. bTown.ow is laughing at u.s. we all reniem'
her him "a especial hater OF emancipation. md as
pronising short sAri and strong cord " any sdyo
d oates Of IT,
lie Is no Sestinentalia or Philanhropist in shor: he
repuciatcs III isas except Patriotism and Unonsin.
What does he on Is he taking this cad time ~
Joker is he in dead esrsct finding out that the Union
men Of the Border States need the cOunterpose Of bic
voters in The agt which they have got 20 have with the
aristocracy iast evep BODY has at Last found out
th..t our Government reods Z quOla from the 10000
aDlc'oDtird hiacGs'
TIE hst,ro instances which lie gives ccrtanly prove
that thirty years ago there repugnanc9 In Ten
1oSsee 10 negro Suffrage. but On he contrary that tie
uOst arisocratic of the sei-styicd ch'aliy eagerly
sought tue benet: o. It,
when in addition 10 this We nnl rnen with such ante
coGens Nj. Brown!ow advocating the admission OF
the negro T. tho baotbox nos 40 may well look at the
question IN rs national aspect and la Ito bearing upon
Reconstruction.
Here at The North Il hos little local interest. OF
the States admitting others prohibiting negroes from
gotingbut contest Is likely 20 arise lerc We have
no changes e. make In voting laws; tho only qu,s
tor is whether Representatives. In Congress VII be
supported By public opinion IN p1ssllg such lave
garding the ants II tie Freedmen the nncondt-
tiona Unonists Of the Porer States donandt Perhaps
IL vii turn out that in the struggle between euda!sm
and democracy black have yet 70 be Invoked for
tic uiity ii oil popular rights
Some peop'e have Believed all along that the Robel'
lion Of The aehoIders Sos quite o. much against their
own poorer waite citizens Gs ag1iust The ncuTa Gov
erument: that tley 10 free GogernWcnt at Wash.
nGtOn ally 10 thcir home demccr icy threatening an
upisinr moi OF slaves rs pretended. but of white
NOcis ee1nsi the domination 81 the plantation inter.
est tfct while ttcy night have submitted 20 being
yelled from tie control o. the General Government,
thcy scbelNd became they anticipated popular reyou
tiO2 against them It TIER own ballot boxes
Helper boldly proc,ancd sucn Impending crisis;
the accurate and philosophical OlusteG1 clearly indi
GATED ten years QsO IN his records OF travel through
Q ell tie Slave State.
Batter struck the same chord In tho Southwest
Robert j. Walker years elected 20 the
United Sta.es 5y the working mn II Mis..slppi I'm
uiieTanco OF the Unconditional. Unons, Brow now.
is probably only another pIeinOnory rympinn OF the
courg light between The people o. tie South and their
4 scifimpOsod rulers.
VIXEN our arms have broken the poznr from In,
arst0crecy, VIC may confidently look 10 seeing trr,
democracy made the of our reconstructed
editce We must fret crush out that rotten modiBva
foundationstoAe Slavery upon which tho EebelloI
nov rest- 49,
TuR REVENUE CUTTER MAHogIYG. The
q came Of Lieut. David Etclie Of the revenue service
VIII be identified with the history Of The war; wheI
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