Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-25
Address of Gov. BrOwnIOw
To the Loyal People Of Tennessee.

tELLoW-CITIZEEs Unable TO addre,
you IN person, in the present condition
my health, take this method Of respondin
to the several calls made on me 10 speak q
different points.
1t Is known 10 you that / recently con
Yened the General Assembly in extraordi
nary session, 10 ratify the amendment 10 tn
Constitution Of the United States, propose,
by the joint resolution Of the two houses 0
Congress, more than two-thirds Of botl
houses cOncurring. w. II. SEWARD, Sec
rotary Of State Of the United States trans
mitted an attested copy Of the proposed
amendment to me, under date Of June 10th
and notified me officially, that decision by
the Legislature was required by law. ! ac
cOrdingly convened the Legislature, by
proclamation, on the 4th Of July, and after
a stormy session Of twenty-one days, the
amendment was ratified in both houses, by
more than a two-thirds vote. And this vic.
tory was achieved over the combined oppo-
sition TO the measure Of the President and
half Of the Tennessee Congressmen, who
brought their whole influence 10 bear upon
the General Assembly.
Upon the assembling Of the General As
sembly, Mr.. DUNNAwAY, the immediate
representative OF EDMUND COOPER, bolted
with the view Of reducing the House below
quorum. He was followed by Mr.. BROWN,
one Of the constituents Of Mr. LEFTwICH.
and he was followed by DR.. MARABLE. the
instrument Of DORSEY 3. THOMAS The
House appointed Captain HEYDT, Superin-
tendent Of the Capitol, Sergeant-at-A rms.
with authority 10 select his deputies. TO ar
rest the boilers and return them to the
House, and with the warrants Of the Speak
er, the set out by twOs. WILLIAMS, Of Car
ter, was brought in, but MARABLEs rebel
friends resisted with guns and pistols, and
drove the two deputies back CAPTAIN
HEYDT made application TO Gen. Thomas
for file OF soldiers-the General referred
the case to Washington, and the President,
who is on the side Of the bolters, and in "a
vOr Of breaking up the Legislature, rs a
means Of defeating the constitutional amend
ments instructed General THOMAS, through
the War Department not 10 interfere, but TO
let the State Government and the politicians
fight it out
This encouraged the rebels and stimulated
them TO acts Of violence. They sued out
writ cfAaJoas corpus in the case Of VIII
LIAMs, and Judges BRIEN and GAUT, Of
the JOHNSON Club, Of the Executive Com
mittee Of Davidson county, argued their
cause before Judge Frazier, OF The Crimi-
nal Court. The Judge being weak man,
and political partizan under rebel inhu-
once decided against the Legislature and in
favor Of the rebels. Among all truly loval
men nothing but contempt is entertained for
his decision and for the man. Having no
jurisdiction in the case and the law and pre-
cedents being against him, il was not ex-
pected that such a monstrus decision would
be given. Bat those who knew the man
those who knew that he was appointed to
Office by Military Governor JoHNsoN-that
he was laboring 10 have himself reelected
by the people in a rebel communicated
that he would never take a decided stand
when the rebellion came on, were prepared
60 hear his miserable opinion delivered
But 20 proceed with my account Of this
rebeljudicial farce tic Sheriff, a rebel Cap
tain, by order Of the newborn rebel Judge,
released WILLIAMS from the custody in
which he was held by the House. And be-
fore daylinght in the morning, the Sheriff
with force Of twenty-five discharged rebel
soldiers, as il is alleged they were, broke
into the State House 10 seize and carry be-
fore the Judge Capt IEYDT who roomed
alone in the Capitol. This rebel mob of
FRAzrEI's forced the door and window Of
the Federal Court room, breaking both, and
with cooked reyolvers carried of the Ser
geant-at-arms, whom the Judge fined ten
collars for obeying the orders Of the House.
and then released him. This action, for out
rage, corruption and high-handcd villainv,
has no parallel in history. The eagerness 10 |
get at HEYDT and 10 have him resist rs an
excuse for numbering him, grew out of the
fact that he had served as n brave officer in
the Federal army, and was several times
wounded in battle fighting traitors. Capt !
HEYDT had in custody a second member Of
the House, Mr. MARTIN, who had been a
guerrilla chief in the late war, and he was
released, without any other process than that
served by the mob, in breaking down the |
window and door. This is a part and par
Gel Of JOHNsoNs policy 10 restore the rebels |
90 power. Ii means 10 crush out tie Union /
men Of the South, and restore the Demo |
cratic traitors Of the South TO power and |
place. lt is intended by him and his adj |
yisers 10 make TREASON respectable, and |
TRAITORS honorable, while LOYALTY is 10 |
become disreputable and loyal men are dis
graced and driven from the South. To ac-
complish all this, and. even more, there is on
foot a regular conspiracy, and the chief con-
spirator is ANDREW Johnson, as | honestly |
believe. -
With loyal men in Tennessee, Johnson |
has no more influence than JEFF. DAVIS. |
After all the letters written from inmates |
and hangers-on at the White House, 10
members Of the Tennessee Legislature |
urging them not 90 accept the Constitutional .
amendments, they were triumphantly adopt
ed hy a vote in the Senate Of fifteen 20 sir and /
in the House by torty-tbrcc TO thirteen. Whilst l.
in neither branch of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture can a resolution be adopted indorsing
ANDREW JOHNSON or his. policy, unless it
be 10 declare him TRAITOR, and his policy |
TREASON both rank and damnable.
Why do ] charge all this? Because he |
is turning loyal men out Of Office by thoa-F
sands, 60 make room for rebels and trai tors
Because he is appointing Tennessee Legisla-
tive boilers TO Office as a reward for their
revolutionary and villainous conduct. Be
cause he betrayed the BRECKTNRrDGE De
mocracy, after working with and for them
mp 20 the day on which LINCOLN was first
elected. Because he betrayed the loyal
North after they had elected him TO the
office Of Vice President Because he has
betrayed the down-trodden and unoticnding
negro trying again TO sell him into bondage
after promising him TO be his Noses. Be
cause he has betrayed the Fenians 70 the
British Government, after selling them guns
and ammunition. and imprgssing their
minds with the belief that he was their
friend. Aud last, but not least, because he
has never been true 90 any one but ANDREW
Johnson.
As an offset to all this, il will be said, the>>
writer of this address was a member of the
Baltimore Convention, and put. Mr.. JoHN- |,
son Ia nomination for the Vice Presidency.
This is true, and the writer take t!.is occa-
sion publicly 20 acknowledge that il was the
worst act of his protracted and somewhat |
cycntful life But he has 60 say in viudica- L
ton Of himself. that the Tennessee delcga-
tiou had agreed 70 present the name of Mr..
Johnson for the second Office aud the
writer was made the organ through which
90 make known 60 the Convention their
wishes. Better would il have been for the
cause Of republican liberty, if the Tennessee
delegation, including the writer, had all
been in a rebel prison South, rather than in
the Baltimore Convention, helping 10 place
JouNsoN in position where he, when has
friends should murder the patriot LINcoLNG
should become President Of these United
States. LII
lt is the settled purpose Of the traitors afS
the North. aud the rebels of the South, i6
involve this coantry in another bloody war 4
and tai. they aim 10 do during the next two