Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-25
GOV. BROWNLOW's DECLARATION
OF WAR.


the Governors organ in this city for copy,
which we reprint in full this morning.
The belligerent nature and character Of /
the person who at present figures as the
Governor Of our State is well known. In
the most peaceful and prosperous periods Of
the past, he was never at peace. He was
always in subsequently, Of words. While
in the pulpit it is stated, and we suppose
uuthfully that his labOrs tended more to
stil up animosity and strife and create bit
terness of feeling, than to promote peace
and good temper in the church and among
his congregations. When he entered |
politics as an editor, he was furious against
his party adversaries-but this hardly |
furnished scope for the full qualification of
his bellicose passions, and he extended the |
sphere Of his wars Of abuse and villiication,
dividing his time among abolitionists and
democrats, among the several churches
whose confessions Of faith differed from his
own-ofen turning upon individual mem
beers Of his own church and Of his own poll
tics, to fill ont his leisure time, and to give
scope and verge 10 his extraordinary powers
and inclinations. Poor and despicable
MAYSARD can testify TO the cruelty and ex-
cesses to which this innate combatiyeness
led him to strike constantly and unsparing-
ly, often blindly sometimes hitting friend as
well as foe.
Il ia not singular that such a character
should float high in a period Of civil war.
1t was an element so genial and in such per-
feet keeping with his nature and ambition,
that he would, ifpossible, have produced itan
hundred times before it came and when it
did come lac popped to the surface as natu-
rally and promptly as a cork in the water
In the earlier stages Of the war, he became
a raying spouter throughout the North and
on the first opportunity sought ard obtained
the position Of Governor Of Tennessee. At
this time the war was still going on, and his
contentment was supreme. But the speedy
conclusion Of the war nipped his prospect Of
happy strife in Its early promise; and
the proportions of his bloody horizon shrunk
from the grand panorama Of a million
and half Of marching and fighting hosts,
to the insignificant forays Of bushwhackers
cutting and slashing among returning "reb-
els" the driving Of peaceable men from their
homes, tn prosecution and imprisonment Of
innocent partiesfor actsoflegitimate war, and
the violent denunciation Of all opposed to
him in politics Il was a great disappoint-
ment, and one which the mature of the
! brute repealed with loathing. 1t was,
! therefore, but few months until Governor
| BRowNLow announced to a conglomeration
Of Disconnected whites and ignorant and i'm
! pressible negroes that the war ended too
soon by tOo gears, Just the time for which
he was to continue in Office. He has omit
ted no occasion to impress this opinion upon
his followers, and to school them, both pub
licly and privately, in the belief that there
could be no peace without further bloodshed.
! His Gubernatorial honors would be barren
without it, and the vile ambition Of his life
would be disappointed without it.
We are, therefore, justified in holding and
treating the address" which we now print
from him rs a declaration of renewed war.
The language, tone and sentiment Of this
paper cannot be otherwise construed. The
coarse Of the President and the splendid ex-
hibitions Of patriotism at Philadelphia and
Washington within the last ten or twelve
days, have shown that BRowNLow and his
party have passed away, without further
shedding of blood. Further war is neces-
sary to satiate the inappeasable taste for
blood which whets and infuriates the Radi-
cal palate. II is only thus that Radical SUI
premacy can be secured.
We do not transcend the rules Of strict
logical reasoning, to conclude, from these
and other facts, well known and unnecessary
here to repeat, that there is a systematic eff
fort now being made by the Radicals to pre-
Cipitate another resort to arms to settle the
questions Of difference, new to the past in
form, now existing in the American mind.
It is not confined to Tennessee, but exists
throughout the country. Il is, we are led to
infer from BRowNLow's Address, a coNsPI-
RAcy, so far advanced, shaped and organized
as to deservethe technical application ofthat
term in its full force and meaning.
To inaugurate it and develop it into open
action, there can be found no more itinstru-
mcmillan BRowSLow, and to makeit efficient
in the North it could have its beginning in
a State "lately in rebellion" 1t is, there
fore, to be begun in Tennessee. This Ad-
dress" official by its avowal, and directed
only to the Radicals is the beginning Of
the end" In it the Governor avows his
| purpose to carry out all his measures and
usurpations by force if necessary. He de-
clares that he will call out the loyal mi
litia Of the State, and call upon the Legisla-
ture TO arm and equip them" and sustain
the Radical " governments, State and Ma
tional, or fall with our faces to the foe He
says, " I shall look Nth confidence 10 the North
western States to come TO our rescue" He fur
Their defes the President 10 liz his hand TO
preserve the Constitution and the rights
Of the people. Speaking Of Southern rep
resentation in Congress, and the practical
assertion of the right by the President he
says: "Lct hc dcspot non at the head Of tit
Government attempt thing Of this kiRd,B h.
dare 4 million Of gallant Union men 'cL
at once appear IN tie District Of Columbia
surrounding both he Capitoi and he Tht
House, djsposiag Of he heads Of leading hGi'
tors after he most approved style Of he age ii
uliah he King Of England lost his hoal.'
Such Is but the holder reiteration Of BRowN.
Low in this bloody manifesto, Of the al.
concealed threats Of THAD. STEVENS last
winter in Congress, when he ondeavored to
stimulate assassination bv pronounciug, in
his place, a similar sentiment
This Address is also filled with the most
innammatory recitais against the good name
Of the Southern people and the Conservative
Unionists eyerywhere-most Of them either
founded in error, or Misrepresentation, OF
deliberately false. This is, however, neccs-
sary 10 fructify the conspiracy and 20 bring
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