Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-18
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
NASHVILLE. Nov. 10.

EDS GAZETTE: In your paper of Sat
urday I find this notice:
Gov. Brownlow was robbed of $500 and
his watch, by some highwaymen neal
Nashville, while he was riding out with
Hon. Horace Maynard, on Friday evening
This is Il mistake. 1t was my son, the
Adjutant General of the State, who was
riding in n buggy with a son of Horace
Maynard. L am too prudent a man to ride
out on any road leading from, or coming
into Nashville, other than a railroad. This
whole country abounds in thieves and rob
bers, any of whom would murder a man
for his watch or a five dollar hill.-De1Pite
Of all the vigilance exercised by the civil
and military authorities, murders and rob-
berries Hre of daily occurrence-both in
Nashville and the surrounding counties of
Middle Tennessee. As loud and as numer-
ous as are the complaints against East
Tennessee, by the papers of Nashville, and
a certain class of politicians, there are five
of these outrages perpetrated in Middle
Tennessee to every n that occurs in the
Eastern division of the State. To be can
did, there is almost as much ~disloyalty in
Middle Tennessee now as there was in
1861. And this is so of the whole South
minus the number of disloyal men who
are under the ground Tennessee is in a
much better condition than any one of the
seeded States, and she has great room for
improvement. Six or seven out of her
eight representatives to Congress are true
and loyal men, and for the good of the
State and nation, I should like to see them
admitted to seats i'll the approaching SEES
sion Rut his I nopDnf SOW Of fba ,fhnr
Southern States. They will not elect loyal
men to Congress, nor can a loyal man be
elected Governor of one of these States.
Their Conventions and Legislatures are
overwhelmingly rebel, and will be for years
to come. Their candidates for Governor,
Congress and the Legislature, as we'll as
for county offices, urge their claims for
votes on the ground that they had done all
in their power to aid the rebellion. They
are for assuming the rebel war debt, and
they are for legislating Northern men out
Of the SOUTH
In a word, the rebels of the South have
by no means abandoned this long cherished
idea of separating the Government. They
are looking to this end and more, they
are organizing with a view to this result.
They do not propose to dissolve the Union
by the sword and bayonct. They have
this in a wicked war of four dreary
years, and signally failed. Their purpose
is to accomplish their Internal plans
through the ballot box in Congress, and
look to the Copperhead Democracy
and other Northern traitors to aid them.
Thank God, the recent elections at the
North have blasted their hopes for the
present, and taught them that the real
the loyal masses of the great North
IRE all
My hopes for the future are in the good
ness, the obstinate loyalty and determined
purposes of the Republican majority in
Congress. pray God they will not ad-
rebels into Congress indiscriminately,
because they nave taken the amnesty oath,
'r obtained the Executive pardon. As
President johnson said, let them occupy I
he back seats for a few years.
1 am one of those at the South VINO be-
this war has closed out two years too
ooni The rebels have been whipped, but
lot whipped enough
For saying these things 1 expect to be
.bused by all rebel papers South, and by
traitorous sheets at the North. Let
hem say out; / am able to stand their
l am for the American Union, re-
of the hate of sections, the war
f parties o. the malice of individuals.
1 have the honor to be,
Very truly and sincerely,
w. g. BROwNLow.