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KSoxvILLE, Tennessee, March q.
Governor Brownlow has been at hil
home IN this city for some days, fe.
eruiting bis shattered health At the
invitation oftbe GchlAan Union League
Of this city, he addressed large assem.
blage OF his fellow.eitiEers. this eve.
ming. ar7q efl q $3.50 t9l25 Ht '79 y q
/, Heprefaced bis remarks By asking
their iRdulgence. asIhe was feeble, bui
promised Them 10 be brief and 10 the
point. he said that the parties werc
again at work, seeking an ascendency
IN The GoSeihment. The Democratic
party. undera a new guise and new
leaders, was again asking counteDance
from the people. The firing on Sum.
ter was Democratic measure. The
Southern States were all Democratic
when they went into rebellion. The
revenue stamps yGn are now taxed
with are Democratic, and 80 are shin.
plasters. l. announce to you that If
Andy Johnson Is to lead the way in re.
construction, with the Democratic par.
ty at his back. / go tho other way. I
70 With, the Congress Of the United
States, the SO called Radicals. / do
not fear 10 side with them. The name
of radical has no terrors { me. I
have been known as a "dnmned blue
light Wing" and Edamned lunatic, 2
and ! think it cheap if they will now
let me off by calling me damned
Radical" " ~ ''' ~
So far as the reconstruction policy
of the President is developed, j do not
indorseit. / do ipdorse his policy as
Military Governor of Tennessee. / in.
dorse his letter accepting the Baltimore
nomination. l indorse his declaration
that if there were but FIVE thousand
Union men IN State, they should gov
ern such State. / indorse his decla-
ration that treason should be made
odious. If we differ, it is he who has
changed. a 'li'' '''S
There are t'two monsters" now en-.
gaging the attention of the American
people. Their names are on every
mans lips. l refer to Sumner and
Stevens. President Johnson is engag.
ed in bitter warfare against them
To abuse these men is the test of the
loyalty Mr.. Johnson prcscribes. They
are both men Of ability and unblem.
ished 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. / am not
afraid to endorse these men On my
own "dung-hill" We must all be rad
.icals or reconstructed Democrats l
prefer TO side with the former class.
You have heard a great deal about
negro equality. You are asked by am
nestics if you are in favor of negro
equality. tits "mad dog cry" ana a
trick of the demagogues. | have no
fear that or mine will ever come down
to the level Of q negro. Iknow whites
who, by their conduct, have put them
selves 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 johnson on
this subject. He says he is in favo.
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 tho Negro Testi-
mony Bill through our. Tennessee Le-
gislature. He wrote letters, and sent
telegrams, asking members to support
the bill 1t was through his help that
the bill become law. He went fur
ther than | did. l want them to be
qualified first it will come in time
They voted in Tennessee prior to 1892
l have some secrets to tell of tho
Freedmen's Bureau Bill. | think the
bill was Objectionable, and it might
have been proper for me TO veto it, but
President johnson ought not to have
done it. Generals Howard and Fiske
drew up that bill. They carried it to
the President and read it to MIN, sec.
ton by section, He favored it. Gen.
eral Fiske thought the expenses would
be too great, but the President said
"no." He urged it and promised TO
sign it If Congress should pass it. 1t
went through both Houses. In the
mean time he got into personal quar-
rel with Sumner and others, and when
the bill came before him for his sigma
ture he vetoed it after having promis-
cd to favor it. This is a secret, but
true. 0]t, .-.s aa"0
l am in favor of tie test oath, and
don't want it repealed, and it won't be,
thank God. There are crippled rebels
in Washington who want to govern
this country, and l am opposed to let
ting them In. They wouldn't help
govern the country. President John.
son can't carry single State north of
Mason's line but Kentucky, ard l wish
he would rry that State to she'll"
The people Of tho North are for the
Union. have written letters to Col
fax, 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 defiant to-day,
th an when Lee surrendered. The Ten
nossce delegates ought to be admitted
when they take the oah.
They had forty papers in Tennessee,
and but seven Of them arc loyal. The