The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-26
BroSvnlovv ON the Rampage.
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.


EDS. CINCINNATI GAZETTE In your
paper of Saturday, I find this notice:
Governor Brownlow was robbed of
$500 and his watch, by some high
waymen near Nashville, while he was
riding out with the Honorable Horace
MAYNARD, on Friday evening.
This Is mistake. It was my son,
the Adlutant-General of the State,
who was riding in buggy with a son
of Horace Maynard. | am too pru-
dent man to ride out on any road
leading from, or coming into Nash
vile, other tLan ~ railroad. This
whole country abounds in thieves and
robbers, any of whom would murder
4 man for his watch or for a five
dollar bill. Despite all the vigilance
exercised by the civil and military
authorities, murders and robherics
are OF daily occurrence-bothi in Nash
Vile and the surrounding counties
OF Middle Tennessee. AS loud and
as numerous rs are the complaints
against East Tennessee, by the papers
of Nashville. and q certain class of
politicians, there are five of these
outrages perpetrated in Middle Ten
nessee to every one that occurs in the
eastern division Of the State To be
candid, there is almost as much dis
loyalty 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 ground!
Tennessee is in much better condi-
ton 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 in the approachingsession. But
this cannot say of the other South
ern States. They will not elect loyal
men to Congress, nor can q loyal man
be elected Governor of one of those
States. Their Conventions and Le-
g1slatures are overwhelmingly rebel,
and will be for years to come. Their
candidates for Governor, Congress
and the Legislature, as well 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 arc for le-
glslating Northern men out of the
South
In 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 organic
ing with view to this result. They
do not propose to dissolve the Union
by the use of the sword and bayonet.
They have tried this in n wicked war
of four dreary years, and signally
failed. Their purpose is to accom-
pllsh their internal plans through the
ballot-boX III Congress, and they look
to the Copperhcad 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 people, the loyal masses of
the great North, are all right.
My hopes Tor the future are in the
goodness, the obstinate loyalty and
determined purposes OF the Republi-
can majority IN Congress. i pray
God they will not admit rebels into
Congress indiscriminately, because
they have taken the amnesty oath, or
obtained the Executive pardon. AS
President Johnson said, let them oc-
cupy the back seats for few years.
L am one of those at the South
who believe this war was closed out t,co
gears too soon! The rebels have been
whipped, but not 'chipped enough.
For saying these things expect to
be abused by the rebel papers South,
and by all traitorous sheets at the
North. Let them say out; I am able
to stand their abuse. 1 am for the
American Union, regardless of the
hate of sections, the war of parties or
the malice Of individuals Ihave the
honor to be, very truly and sincerely,