Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-08-22


true 10 any one but Andrew Johnson.
As an offset to all this, it will be said, the
writer of this address was member of the
Baltimore Convention, and put Mr.. johnson
in nomination for the Vice Presidency
This is true, end the writer takes this occa
sion publicly to acknowlcdg that ii was
the worst act Of his protracted and some
what eyentful life. But he has to say in
vindication of himself that the Tennessee
delegation had agreed 10 present the name
of Mr.. johnson for the second office, and
the writer was made the organ through
which to make known TO the convention
their wishes. Better would it have been fol
the cause of Republican Liberty, if the
Tennessee delegation, including the writer
had all been in rebel prison, South, rather
than in the Baltimore Convention, helping
to place Johnson in a position whore he,
when his friends should murder the patriot
Lincoln, should become President OF these
United States
1t is the settled purpose Of the traitors at
the North, and the rebels Of the South, to
involve this country in another bloody war
and this they aim TO do during the next
two years, under the lead Of Andrew John
son. An attempt to force Southern traitors
into their seats in Congress with bayonets,
will be made the occasion for the outbreak.
Let the Despot now at the head of the
! Government attempt thing of this kind if
he dare. a million of gallant Union men will
at-nncn appear in tho District of Columbia.
surrounding both the Capitol and White
House, djSpoSing Of the heads Of leading
traitors after the most approved style of the
age in which the King Of England lost his
| head. If another war shall be forced upon
the country, the loyal masses, who consti-
tutc an overwhelming majority Of the peo-
pie Of this great nation intend it shall be
no child's play. They will, as they ought
to do, make the entire Southern Confedera-
cy as God found the earth when he COM
menced the work of creation, without
form and void" They will not, and ought
not lcavea rebel fence-rail, clubhouse, or
or dwelling in the eleven seeded States
And rs for the rebel population, let them be
oXterminatcd. And when the war is wound
up, which should be done rapidly, and with
swift destruction-let the lands be re-sur-
veyed and sold out to pay the expenses of
the war, and settled only by people who
will respect the Stars and Stripes.
Should another conflict of arms be forced upon
the country-as honestly believe it WILL by the
rebels-the work of reconstruction after the con-
fict is over will be easy. A Surveyor General
with deputy and land office for each county in the
rebel States, and few bayonets to guard them are
all that will be required.
The loyal men of Tennessee will allow me to
contrast Andrew johnson Of 1865 with Andrew
johnson of 1866. His official dispatches shall speak
for him
wAsmNeToS, D. G,
by the last Legislature faithfully executed that all
Illegal voters in the approaching election be kept from the
fairly Whenever it becomes necessary for the execu
on of the law and the protection baotbox you
cifd aHoy Of he Saie have Just read your address
which most heartily endorse ANDREW JOHNSON
President, L. S. A.
My address the people Of Tennessee will re-
collect, avowed the very principles upon which l
have since acted, and upon which the President is
now making war. Exactly one year from the day
when he telegraphed the foregoing he sent the fol-
lowing to Gen. Thomas, refusing military aid TO
compel en- attendance Of refractory members and
Of two armed mobs resisting the House and its le-
gally constituted officers:
WASHINGTON July IG, lSCG.-Gcneral Grant will instruct
General Thomas that the facts stated in his telegram do not
military authority. adj
mnistraon the and the preservation of the peace
duty Of the United States forces not to interfere in any way
sae and General Thomas viii o astan om any n
reference between them.
At the same time 1 was refused the necessary
military aid at Nashville TO protect the Legislature
and its legal officers from mob violence the Presi-
dent soon thereafter, ordered the Government aU-
thorties at New Orleans to use the military to aid
an infatuated rebel mob to break up Union Con-
vention of pcsceable and loyal men, which has re-
suited in the cruel murder and wounding of hun
dreds Of loyal white and colored men. This feast
was intended for Nashville and was only prevented
by the prompt action Of talented fearless and pa
triotic Congress- admitting Tennessee to her origi
nal position in the Federal Union. But loyal men
of Nashville and of all parts of the State are still
environed with danger. The rebel papers of the
State all encourage violence, and resistance Of law
Ex-Gov. Neil S. Brown, in a recent rebel meeting
in Nashville, is reported by the rebel papers to have
cautioned the Radicals of Tennessee-meaning the
Union men, to beware and cited the case of Robes
pierre and associates at the time of the French
Revolution Having no hope of protection from
the President, in the event of attack from a reb
el mob, l shall look with confidence to the North
Western States TO come to rescue, as soon at
tackled by the minions of JEFF. Davis and Andrew
johnson. And if further developments to
Justify it, will call out the loyal militia of the
State, and call upon the Legislature to arm and
equip them. We must and will meet these traitors,
and sustain the Governments, State and National,
or fall with our faces to the foe
trust the loyal Southern Convention, TO be held
in Philadelphia the Sd of September, will have a
full representation from Tennessee. The Washing
ton bteLAgenccr, President Johnsons organ, says
the Convention of Southern Unionists is called
to assembled in Philadelphia because there is no
place IN a71y Southern State Irhere such Contention
1cOaLd be tolerated"
This is the old familiar style. Really, the world
has not moved much. In 1885, Fremont speakers
were not tolerated in certain States. In 1858
these States would not tolerate" aRti-Lecompton
speakers In 1860, they would not tolerate" the
election OF Abraham Lincoln The consequence
that in 1868 these people had to tolerate" a
mass convention called by Grant at Vicksburg in
1864 similar meetings of Sherman's men in ATTAIN
Ia and Savannah, and in 1866 grand convention
in the neighborhood of Appomattox. Are these
same States anxious TO renew the expert ment? If
So there are million veteran soldiers who are
ready to flight it out that line" until lawful
semblages of Union men tolerated on every
acre of ground belonging to the United States
NeiV Orleans not even excepted.
Who are most bitterly opposed to the present
Radical Congress? jeff. Davis is dead out against
it. Robert Z. Lee Beauregard, Bragg Kirby Smith,
and all the whipped Generals, Colonies and Cap
tains in the late rebel army against it. Alexan
der H. Stephens all eX-rebel Congressman and rebel
Legislators against it. Andrew johnson and all
his rebel Democratic supporters against The
men in the South, who cOnscripted Union men, who
burned down Union dwellings, robbed the Union
families of all they had, and made war hideous
along our borders, arc against it. The sneaking,
Kissing Northern cOpperhead, who creeps after
Southern rebels for the sake of social position or
pccuniary reward, is against il. The Northern and
Southern Democracy who are still bent upon the
overthrow of the Government, and the restoration
of slavery are against it. Every guerrilla chief
highway robber, and whisky bloat of the rebel ar
my, is against it. Every traitor who edited rebel
paper during the war, and at its breaking out is
against it,
Who arc in favor or tba Radical Compress and