The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-04-27
INAUGURATION OF PARsON BROWN.
LOW.
HIS PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.

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The Inauguration of w. G.. Brownlow,
Governor elect of Tennessee, took place
at Nashville on Wednesday, and was at
tended with great eclat. His address was
somewhat lengthy and interesting. Af-
ter referring to matters personal, and to
the powers of the pen and the sword, he
said:
Gentlemen, your amended Constitution
wipes out the institution of slavery, and
denies to the Legislature, in all time to
come, the right to recognize property in
man. In this sweeping act Of emancipa-
tlon you have, in due time, abated a nui-
sance which for years past has obstructed
all the avenues to agricultural mechani-
cal, manufacturing, and commercial de-
velopment In this emergency the duty
of prompt action becomes imperative, and
even the advocates of gradual emancipa-
tion-which means the gradual putting
down of the rebellion-found themselves
powerless in the claims of higher civil
and State necessity, which demand the
prompt abatement of the evil The wick
ed authors of the rebellion were told that
in the Union, and under the Constitution
their slave property was safe, and that it
could not be safe anywhere else. Not
one year elapsed after the war commenced
before the institution of slavery, in all
the border States, become utterly demor-
allied. The owner lost all control over
his slave ; and the slave having got out of
the Union, and from under the Constitu-
ton, has neither been itinerating at will
or lying around loose
The history of the past shows to every
candid mind that slavery has conferred
no benefits upon Tennessee. It has been
stumbling block in the way of her ad-
vancement. Her people have felt the eff
feet of its degrading influence, and her
growth and prosperity have been retard-
ed by the exclusion from her borders of
both capital and educated labor.
One of the signs of the times is, that
the natural features Of the southern States
are now nowhere expatiated upon, in or
der that enterprising emigrants may be
led to come among US, and add to our
capital and enterprise. Tennessee holds
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Gus emigrants that no other State can Of
fer. The soil, from Johnston to Shelby,
possesses extraordinary fertility; it a
bounds in clear and delightful gushing
streams its mineral wealth of coal, iron,
lead, zinc, copper, and other valuable pro-
ducts, is inexhaustible.
It's climate is mild and salubrious, a
voiding the extremes of both North and
South, aad affording remunerative mar
kets for everything grown upon our pro-
life SOIL Land is cheap, and by no means
difficult to clear. No State is so admira-
bly, adapted for the growth of cereals
fruits, grapes, cattle, sheep, hogs, horses
and mules. The winters are short, and
generally so mild that stock may run out
without particular care. The summers
are free from the intense heat of the gulf
States, and the entire State abounds with
mineral springs, many of which are hand
somely improved, and before the rebellion
were places of popular resort.
The signs of the times indicate very
clearly that the war is about drawing to a
close that the rebels are exhausted; that
their commissarat has no food and their
treasury no money; that their army is
melting away by desertions and deaths on
the battlefield, and that there are no ma
tcrials left with which to fill up their de-
pleted ranks In shcrt, there is everything
to encourage the friends of the Union as
they enter upon the summer campaign !;
but there is also everything to admonish
US that we must grid ourselves for our
best efforts The hardest work, nay, the
bloodiest work, of the war is in all proba-
bility ahead of us, in ridding our coun-
try of guerrillas, robbers, and professional
thieves passing fo- Confederate soldiers.
If l am anything in politics, | come
under the hated appellation of Federal
list, name given to the friends of the
t Constitution of the United States, at its
formation and adoption, and to the polit-
ical party that favored the administration
of President Washington-the most pure
= and patriotic party that ever existed in
America hope l may be allowed to
5 repeat, without subjecting myself to the
S change of egotism, that [ have all my life
, long been Federal Whig, OF the Wash
t ington and Hamilton school l am the
i advocate of a concentrated Federal gov
i eminent or, if more acceptable to the
fastidious, of a central government, able
y to maintain its dignity, TO assert its au
:, thority, and to crush out any rebellion
y that may be inaugurated; Such gov
J, ernment is what we want, and what We
e must have, with ample powers to sustai'
: itself, having due regard for the constitu
5, tional rights of the States, which are clear
h ]y defined and sufficiently guarded.
r, have never been sectional, but at al
,f times national. man, supporting me-