Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-28
VOLUME XXXIII.
Correspondents of the Cincinnati Commercially

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati CornmerciaI.l
KNoxvILLE, Tenn, March 24.-Governo
nor Brownlow has been at his bom
in this city for some days, recruiting hi
shattered health At the invitation OF tn
German Union League Of this city, he ad
dressed a large assemblage of his fellow
citizens this evening.
lie prefaeed his remarks by asking thei
indulgence, as he was feeble, but promised
them TO be brief and to the point He sale
that parties were again at work, seeking al
ascendancy in the Government The Dem
ocratic party, under new guise and new
leaders, was again asking countenance from
the people. The firing on Sumter was
Democratic measure. The Southern States
were all Democratic when they went into
rebellion. The revenue stamps you are
now taxed with are Democratic and so are
shinplasters.
! announce to you that if Andy johnson
is 10 lead the way in reconstruction, with the
Democratic party at his back, go the Other
way. go with the Congress of the United
States, the so-called Radicals. do not fear
70 side with them. The name of Radical
has no terrOrs for me. have been known
as damned blue-light Whig," and q
damned lunatic," and / think il cheap il
they will now let me off by calling me a
damned Radical"
30 far as the reconstruction policy Of the
President is developed do not indorse it.
/ do indorse his policy as Military Gov
| ernor of Tennessee. / indorse his letter ac-
cepting the Baltimore nomination. indorse
his declaration that if there were but five
thousand Union men in State they should
govern such State. indorse his statement
that treason should be made odious. If we
differ, it is he who has changed.
There are two human monsters now
engaging the attention Of the American peo-
pie. Their names are on every mans lips.
/ refer to Sumner and Stevens. President
johnson is engaged in bitter warfare
against them. To abuse these men is the
test Of loyalty Mr.. johnson prescribes They
are both men Of ability and unblemished
private character. Stevens has sacrificed
more for the Union than any five men in
East Tennessee, and is better man than any
two men who ever lived in the South. In am
not afraid to indorse these men on my own
"dung-hill" We must all be Radicals or
reconstructed Democrats. | prefer to side
with the former class.
You have heard agreat deal about negro
equality. You are asked by amnesties if You
are in favor of negro equality 1t is mad
dog cry" and a trick for the demagogues.
have no fear that / or mine will ever come
down to the level of a negro. II know whites
who, by their conduct, have put themselves
below negroes.
On the negro suffrage question have only
to say that, for the present, | am willing TO
be content with the freedom Of the slaves,
and with the privilege given them to testify
in the courts. | differ from President John
son on this subject He says he is in favor
Of allowing all negroes to vote who can
read, who are worth $3.50, who have been in
the army and of gradually extending the
right of suffrage to all. 1t was through his
influence that we succeeded in passing the
Negro Testimony bill through our Tennes-
see Legislature. He wrote letters, and sent
kilograms, asking members to support the
became law. He went further than ever
did. l want them to be qualified first; it
viii come in time. They voted in Tonnes
see prior to 1882.
| have some secrets to tell of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill. | think the bill was
Objectionable, and it might have been proper
ought not TO have done it. Gems. Howard
and Fisk drew up that bill. They carried
il TO the President and read il TO him,
section by section. He favored it. General
Fisk thought the expenses would be too
great, but the President said ''no." He urg-
ed il, and promised to sign it if Congress
should pass il. 1t went through both Houses
In the meantime he got into a personal
al Al 1 i
the bill came before him for his signature
vetoed it after having promised to favor it.
This is a secret, but true.
] am in favor Of the test oath, and don't
want it repealed, and it won't be- thank
God. There are crippled rebels in Wash
ington who want to govern thiscountry, and
| am opposed to letting them in. They
wouldn't help govern the country. Presi-
dent johnson can: carry a single State
north of Mason's line but Kentucky, and /
wish he would carry that State to "hell."
The people of the North are for the Union.
| have written letters to Colfax, Kelly, and
others, for which have been abused BY the
rebels all through the South. There is no
loyalty in the South. They are more de-
iant to-day, than when Lee surrendered
The Tennessee delegates ought to be lad-
mitted when they take the oath. sly
They had forty papers in Tennessee, and
but seven of them are loyal. The thirty
three are bitter, artful, rebel sheets, many
of them edited by Northern Copperheads-
the meanest class of men that walk on earth.
They are meaner than Judas Iscariot.
Arnold and Burr were patriots compared to
them.
Our State Legislature is at a lOck-twenty-
one members bolted They all endorse
President johnson. They have left 200 lu-
natics and 300 convicts to starye. | have
provided money to feed them. If the next
Legislature refuses to refund the money, l
will turn the crazy and convicted loose on
Middle Tennessee. 1t viii be the best physic
they ever had.
The Governor closed by warning all his
old friends to stand by the Government. He
predicted that the South would attempt
another revolution through the ballot box.
II they did, he said, the Northern hordes
would grind them to powder.
He was followed by General Smith, of
Tennessee, who said an orchestra playing the
'Star Spangled Banner was hissed by the
citizens of Memphis the other day. General
Trowbridge followed, endorsing Congress
and opposing the Nashville Convention.
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