Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-16

Gov. Browulow ofsTeuessee. in mis- pa
per, the Knoxville Wing of the LIST inst,
after abiding to the recent attempt to
defeat the passage OF tine constitutional
amendment by the Legislature Of that
State, aud the policy Of placing promin-
ent rebels in high official stations in Ten
nessee and other southern States, to the
exclusion OF men who have proved them
selves loyal and true to their country
and its flag in the hour OF peril, thus
speaks of President Johnson:
With loyal men ia Tennessee, Johnson
has no more influence than JEFF. Davis.
After all the letters written from the in
mates and hangers. on at the White
House, to members of the Tennessee leg
islature, urging them not to accept the
Constitutional Amendments, they were
triuynphautly adopted by vote in the
Senate of fifteen to sir, and in the House
by forte. three to thirteen. Whilst in neither
branch of the Tennessee Legislature can
a resolution be adopted endorsing An
drew johnson or his policy, unless it be
TO declare him TRAITOR, and his policy
TREASON, both rank and damnable.
Why do we charge all this Because
he ia turning loyal men out OF office by
thousands, to make room for rebels and
traitors. Because he is appointing Ten
nessee Legislative boilers to office, as a
reward for their revolutionary and viii
famous conduct. Because he betrayed
the Breckenridge Democracy after work
ing with and for them up to the day on
which Lincoln was first elected. Be-
cause he betrayed the loyal North after
they had elected him to the Office Of
Vice President, Because he has be-
trayed the down-troddeu and unofend
ing negro. trying again to sell him into
bondage, after promising to lie his Mo-
SEES. Because he has betrayed the Fe-
mans to the British Government, after
selling them guns aud ammuuiti, II, and
impressing their minds with the be lief
that be was their friend. And last, but
not least, because he has never been true
10 any one but Andrew Johnson.
As an Offset to all this, it will be said
the writer OF this article was a member
of the Baltimore Convention. and put
Mr.. johnson in nomination for the Vice
Presidency. This is true and the writer
takes this occasion publicly to acknOwl-
edge that it was the worst act of his pro-
traeted and somewhat eventtul life. But
he has to say In vindication of himself,
that the Tennessee delegation had agreed
to 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 Cor 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 where he,
when his frieHds should murder the patri-
OF 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
johnson. 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 a
thing of this kind if he dare. A million
OF gallant Union men will at once ap-
pear in the District of Columbia, sur
rounding both the Capitol aud the White
House, disposi'lg 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 constitute an overwhelming major.
ity OF the people of this great nation
intend it shall be no child's play. They
will, as they ought to do, make the en-
tire Southern Confederacy, as God found
the earth when he commenced the work
oil creation, without form and void
they will not, and ought not, leave a
Eebet fence rail, clubhouse, or dwelling
in the eleven seeded States. And as fol
the ieoel pHpnlation, let them be exter-
minated. And when the war is wound
sp, which should be done rapidly, and
with swift destruction-let the lands be
re-surveyed and sold out to paw the ex.
penses of the war, and settled only by
apeople who will respect the Stars and
Stripes.
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