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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Knox County SWindIerS.

In cur last paper We referred to some of the men
who support and uphold the degraded puppy of the
Commercial of this city. From the columns of this
dirty johnson paper it is evident we made centre
shot among certain class Of johnson carbon crows
Under the brief editorial referred to they wrho and
wriggle and squirm does worm when cut in
twain. From editorial the following paragraph
is copied into and commented on by the CONNER
cisl
Yes! concealed slanderers who declare Governor
Br ownlow GrGriciOuS because he has sued leading
traitors for false Imprisonment. Men who have
SWORN to accounts against the Government for
twice or thrice the amount Of damage done their
property by the Federal army and twice and thrice
the Quartermaster and Commissary stores taken
from them for the Of the army
Commenting on this, the Commercial says these
are grave charges against citizens of Knoxville
and Knox county" Exactly SO. This is one truth
you have uttered. They are grave charges which
papers on file in Washington and other evidence
will verify. Further this little paper says
This charge applies to every man here who has
done business with the Government.
A more shameless falsehood was never uttered by
"the Little Iron Man, or any other hired scoun-
drel. It is lie manufactured out Of whole CLOTH
A statement may be false and yet plausible, and
have some force point or sense in it. This does
not have this merit. There are certain concealed
slanderers in Knox county who pat thieving edi-
tor on the back and applaud him for publishing
among other things, that Gov. Brownlow has been
governed by selfish, pecuniary considerations in op-
posing secession. The men who do this referred to
in our articlel have made out accounts against the
government for twice or thrice the amount of Com
missary and Quartermaster stores taken from thenl
and twice or thrice the damage done their property
by tie Federal army. The charge" we made
"applies not TO every man here in the language
of this rebel paper who has done business with the
Government" but to those, and those only, who ap-
paud scoundrels in slandering Gov. Brownlow, and
charge him with having been governed by selfish,
pecuniary considerations, whilethoy have attempted
to steal from and swindie the government. Men
who denounce Gov. Brownlow for bringing suit
against bloody-handed rebel murderers, loItile they
hare endeGUored to thrust Their hands igto the Ma
tio1Gt Treasury G'sd steal the peoples money.
This johnson paper demands that we give the
names of the persons referred to. In reply will
say that will do this at such time as our judg-
ment dictates. And when we do our statement shall
be verified by indisputabe evidence.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Hon. Horace Maynard,

This distinguished patriot is now being denounced
and msrepresented by the orators and editors of the
johnson party. The cause Of this Pronunciation is
bis answering patriotism and hostility to treason.
The occasion a speech made by Mr.. Maynard several
weeks since at Athens. The rebel papers have pub
lished what ppvports 70 be Mr.. Msynsrd's speech.
We give this report as follows:
l was accused of being one when first immigrated
to this State. The charge was just | was full and
running over with aboitionism, but denied it for
policy's sake. / am proud to-day that have been
classed among the prosecuted set and deem 1t the
highest compliment to be denounced as such. And
tell you, gentlemen, that in short time all this
complaint about negro equality viii be done away
with. Some months since, and it was said that the
negro would not be suffered to testify in your courts
that his oath would not be granted him. But how
stand matters to-day? He is not only permitted to
testify in your courts with impunity, but there is
every evidence that he will be a social equality
with the white man in your State Yes, gentlemen,
IN short time he tviU marry and i,terarTy inyor
families 1t is little Objectionable to-day but YOU
will soon get over this, and the prosecuted negro
will be welcomed to your parlors. This will be the
result of the political and social changes of the next
few months.
By Mr.. Maynard we are authorized to pronounce
the above FALSE. He made no such speech, and the
eopperhead who reported he did LIED, and lied
kro,oiugIy The johnson papers are as unscrupu-
ous and unreliable as the rebel organs of 1861
which daily published that one Southern man could
whip ten Yankees. By falsehood and misrepresen-
tation they seek to break down the Union party
and its distinguished advocates.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
COpperhead Prescription.

The Memphis Avalanche says it is carefully pre-
pairing for publication list of all business men in
that city, merchants, mechanics and others who op-
pose the policy of Andrew johnson. 1t proposes
to publish this list with view TO break these private
citizens down, prevent their getting custom, and
drive them from Memphis, notwithstanding they
are not politicians and take no public part in poll
tics. This is the spirit of the majority the men
who support Andrew johnson. That it should be
manifested in Memphis is not surprising 1t is, we
think, rather early to see such proscrptive spirit
displayed in Knoxville aud loyal East Tennessee
Recently citizen Of this county declared his I'M
willingness to rent private dwelling to an excel
lent gentleman SOLELY because he was Radical
The house he desired to rent and he knew the party
wishing it to be perfectly good for the payment of
the rent beside being man OF standin 6 and hon.
orable in the private relations Of life.
His only cause for reluctance in renting was the
radicGlisus of the gentleman in opposing, as pri-
rate citizen, my Policy" Could we do SO without
violating private confidence we would gladly pub
lish the name of this proscriptive black-hearted
traitor and rentiLate his character in such manner
would cause him to have much greater hatred for
radicals than he now has. We have made shoe
which fits a certain man Let him publicly declare
the truth, that may be no longer embarrassed in
keeping sacred what was told us confdentially.-
When he does, we will show him whether loyal men
are prepared just to be bulled and driven from
East Tennessee.
With all the radicalism Of the Nashville Press
and Times, Jonesboro Flag, Knoxville Wing, and
other Union papers in the State one OF them has
ever been guilty of such prescription as that refer
red to. All over East Tennessee johnson men will
attest the truth of what we say on this point If
this is to be the game proclaim openly, and Union
men will govern themselves accordingly.
Black-bearted pretended Union men, of the class
we have spoken Of, are pursuing course which can
only result in injury 10 those ex-rebels who follow
their malignant and senseless teachings.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
State and Other Items,

Gold is declining il New York. The closing
quotations at the Stock Exchange in that city, on
Thursday, was 1883.
Another frail courtezan ended her miserable life
in Nashville, on Thursday, by jumping from one of
the bridges into the Cumberland river.
The Grand Lodge of the Masonic Fraternity of
the United States met in the city of Baltimore on
Monday last.
At st. Paul, Minnesota, two weeks since, Il man
by the name of NJ. A. Hawkes. of Chicago Illinois
by the careless handling Of pistol, accidentally
shot and killed his wife
Who are the dishonest people? Hardware mer-
chants; they sell iron and steel for living.
The Smithland (Ky,) Times, dirty little john
son paper, abuses Gov. Brownlow, and says:
A friend suggests that Brownlow will swallow
MS up He will find US a rather disagreeable emetic
if he does"
No doubt you would make "disagreeable
emetic." To swallow dirty little johnson editor,
and especially Northern man of this class, would
vomit Bu=2aTd
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Judge HOuk Threatens to Disperse the
Knoxville Convention with the Bay.

Under the flaming caption above, in big letters
we find the following in letter from this city, of
the I'd inst, published in the Memphis Argus:
Judge Houk, in speech at Crippens SPRINGS re-
Gently, boosted that if Conservative convention
dared to assemble in Knoxville as he alleged thew
intended to do, that he would throw q regiment into
the city in less than twentyfour hours and disperse
the assembage This blatant threat shows the spirit
of violence and Teckessness that pervades the Rad
cal camp. Their determination is TO control or de-
stroy.
We pronounce the above statement stupenduus
LIE. The writer doubtless k,seD IL to be lie when
he penned it, for he had been in this city several
weeks Judge Houk never, at any time, to any per-
son. threatened to disperse or aid directly or ndi
rectly in dispensing a convention or mass meeting
oTcitizens of any party. Judge Houk did say, and
now says, that if a convention assemblies in Nash
vile for the purpose of overthrowng the State gov
ernment and the Governor calls for the militia to
suppress such revolutionary and trstorous proceed
ng he will respond to the call of the Governor and
throw Il regiment into Knoxville in forty-eight
hours. The Memphis Argus has given circulation
to an infamous falsehood, and it is too infamous
sheet ever to make the correction.
Several weeks since the Commercial of this city
incite mob at Clinton. The Judge disproved the
charge by the Sheriff of the county, who was refer
red to by the Commercial as witness to the truth
of the allegation. Also by the certificates of the
Attorney General and many citizens of both par
ties. The Commercial has never noticed the evil
dence refuting its infamous SANDER of brave man
and good officer. The SANDER was published all
over the State, and the only johnson paper which
we have seen which had the fairness to give Houk's
defence was the Nashville Dispatch.
Judge Houk is now. engaged, and has been for
weeks, in an able and fearless against the
johnson party. This accounts for the milk in the
Cocoa nut" This is the reason he is so villanousy
slandered. On the stump he has routed the John
son orators "horse foot and Dragons and they feel
1t necessary to defame him in more unscrupulous
journals than ever cursed a peonle
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Who are Entitled to Vote,

We direct special attention to the communication
i'll this paper from Charles Morrow, Commissioner
for the registration of voters Of this county. The
BLACK-HEARTED sCoUNDRELs and LIARS to whom
Esquire Morrow refers have been industrously cir
culating the report that men who have always been
loyal, even some who served in the Federal army,
are disfranchised because at some time under COM
pulson and dread of arrest imprisonment or hang
ing, they acknowledged the Southern Confederacy.
That such is the case is LIE, and these johnson
scoundrels know it to be such when they tell it.
Ne man is excluded from the ballot boa cho has not,
at some period during the .car, been rebel at heart
and roI,tary aided the rebellion, e9hLe many Of the
latter class are aLtOtred 10 Uote Let every Union
man in the county call on Charles Morrow and he
will get voting certificate. We guarantee this.
Morrow says SO in his " Card and he is man of
his word. The purpose of these vile copperheads
circulating these reports is to keep Union men from
the polls. Men SO base if necessary to accomplish
their purposes, would rob hen roost or murder a
man for his pocket-book.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Threats Of War.-.MOb Violence.

From private letter from East Tennessee, we
learn that the Radicals Of that section endeav-
oring TO deter the people from attending the great
Ratification Meeting at Knoxville on the 10Th inst,
by giving out that it is the intention of Governor
Brownlcw to disperse it by force"
This statement is made the occasion OF threat OF
WAR by the Nashville Union and American from
which it is copied.
We suppose our Nashville contemporary received
the letter spoken of for there in East Ten
nessee who ara capable of writing such letter or
committing any crime from the robbng of hen
roost to assassination. There is not in this city
supporter of President Johnson of any respectable
ity pride of character, who will publicly say he
believes there any foundation for the report
charge referred to.
Governor Brownlow and many prominent men of
The Radical party in East Tennessee have publicly
declared that they would "disperse by force"
Contention 10 OrcrthroIo the State Government.
The convocation of such an Assembly would be
reasonable and as revolutionary as the war waged
FOR the disruption of the Union.
The majority of the johnson papers in Tennes-
see, tamong which is the Union and American)
have advised the calling of this revolutionary Con-
yention. LET THEM CALL IT II THEY DARE
Whenever they do SO it will be dispersed at the
point of the bayonet, or the loyal militia Of the
State will perish in the attempt.
No man in East Tennessee has expressed pur-
pose or desire to disperse by force otherwise the
great Ratification meeting at Knoxville On the
18th inst" or any other political, partizan mass
meeting. The business of dispensing, by riots and
mob-violence law-abiding assemblies belongs to the
l.. l.
In conclusion, we repeat whenever revolution
AIRY body assemblies las it seems probable there will
20 overthrow the State Government and disregard
the Franchise Law, it ,cU be dispersed By force
Mr.. Union and American, ''put this in your pipe
and smoke it."
The loyal men Of the mountains Of East Tennes-
see hare been sounded tbs SHIje;t and ready
for the work
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
1.-The Union as it Was"---Andy john
son as He was.

In the johnson Convention which meets here to-
day and tomorrow Il great deal will be said by
speakers of the Union as it was" This is the
stereotyped song of Johnsonite, as it was during
the of the opponents of the war and supporters
of Mcclellan and jeff Davis
The reader will see Andy johnson as HE WAS by
perusing the following declaration from his speech
in the United States Senate of March I'd, 1861:
do as Thomas Jefferson did in 1906, with Aaron
Burr, who was charged with treason would have
them arrested and tried for treason and if convicted
by the eternal God they should suffer the penalty of
the law at the hands of the executoncr. Sir, trea-
son must be punished. Its enormity, and the ex-
tent and depth of the ofense must be made known y
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
A Question DeservIng an Answer.

Under the above heading lengthy letter from
East Tennessee is published In the Nashville Union
and American, from which we extract the fol-
lowing
Is it so? frequently during the last five years
have atintervals heard the declaration made that
during the summer of 1861 negotiations were con-
Quoted by certain persons advocates of Southern in
dependence, and the editor of Brownlow's Knox
vile Whg to secure the influence of that paper for
the Southern cause-that the schedule was very
nearly completed, and was to have gone into opera
operation during the autumn of that year-that its
consummation was only prevented through the in
tuence OF two or three prominent Unionists OF
Knox county, (now bitterly denounced by Brown
low,) and by the constant and impolitic taunts of
the Knoxville Register intended as very many be-
lieved to prevent Brownlow from becoming an ally,
lest his paper should becomes the leading organ of
the party in East Tennessee
Protesting no knowledge of the facts in the case,
except as they were learned from the lips of that
very unreliable jade, public rumor, merely ask for
information, and for the qualification OF natural
if not commendable curisoity of the public
mind. Was such an arrangement ever canvassed
Did the reverend editor ever, for any length OF
time, entertain such proposition? What proven
ted the ratification to treaty between the high
contracting parties?
For the information of the ex-organ of Gov.
1sham e. Harris, we will state that the mares
nest discovered by that unreliable jade, public
rumor" is a johnson humbug and lie. Let the cor
respondent give other authority for this charge than
that every unreliable jade public rumor' or for
ever after hold his peace. We pronounce the charge
''rumor," in its length and BREADTH an infamous
and unfounded lie. To the man who would endorse Q
it be he Highland or Lowland, Prince or PEI, we
say Lord Angus thou hast lied"
The reverend editor" never " for any length of
time entertained proposition to cease his support
of the Union cause. Many inducements were held
out to him 10 do So Gen. james P. Brownlow was
rendered a commission in the rebel army, and the
editor of this paper was profered positions on the
staff of Gen. Leonidas Polk and Gen. Zollico fer.
The reverend editor could have easily made a
nice thing, pecuniarly or otherwise, by supporting
the rebellion, and surrendering his convictions of
right TO pers onal interests and aggrandizement.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Great Mass Meeting OF the Radicals OF
East Tennessee.

In few weeks great mass meeting of the loyal
people of East Tennessee will be held in this city to
ratify the proceedings of the Loyal Convention
which assembled in Philadelphia on the Sd inst
Arrangements have not been perfected so as to
enable us TO state the day of the meeting in this
number. This will be published soon Many of
the most distinguished and eloquent orators in the
country will be here. From abroad such noble pa
triots and statesmen as Bolts, of Virginia; Hamil
ton, of Texas; Speed, of Kentucky; and Durant
of Louisiana, are expected. From our own State
such orators as Stokes, Maynard, Arnell and Fow-
Ter will be in attendance. The loyal people will
come from the valleys and mountains, thousands Of
discharged Union soldiers and loyal citizens from
many counties will be here, and the welkin be made
to ring with the plaudts of patriotic Congress and
Legislature.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19

DELEGATES to visit the grave of the martyred
President Lincoln were appointed by the Loyal
Convention in Philadelphia, and are now journey
ing to that consecrated spot at Chicago.
At every city and town they are receiving grand
ovations the multiplied thousands of discharged
Federal soldiers and loyal citizens rising up to do
them honor, and testify their admiration of the
rifces of the loyal millions whom they represent
While Andrew johnson, in his demagogical tour
has been treated by the loyal people with eers and
contempt, these loyal travel with the tread of
conquerors, everywhere receiving the plaudts of the
patriotic North. These delegates, travelling in the
wake of the President will make speeches where he
has.
The committee includes the names of Hon. 7. j.
Durant, Rev. Dr. Newman and Judge Goodloe, of
Louisiana; Gov. Brownlow, Horace Maynard and
Messrs. Arnell and Stokes of Tennessee; Judge
Speed and DR.. Breckenridge of Kentucky Gov
Hamilton of Texas; Hon. John Minor Bolts, Judge
Underwood and Rev. Mr.. Hunnicutt, of Virginia :;
Gov Fletcher, of Missouri; Messrs. Cresswell and
Thomas, of Maryland, and others.
Many of these gentlemen are able speakers, and
WILL by their intimate acquaintance with the condi-
ton of affairs in the South, be able to throw much
light on the practical workings of Andrew John
sons policy. The speeches Of these Southern Union
lists are producing profound impression throughout
the North, and inducing new and more rigid scru-
tiny into the johnson Rebel plan of reconstruction
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19

With unbounded joy we announced in our last
paper the glorious victory in Vermont in which the
traitor, Andrew johnson, was beaten by larger
majority than the "Sens of Liberty fsocalled)
and other Northern traitors who opposed the war
and murdered Union soldiers. In this issue, we
have the satisfaction Of announcing the glorious
victory in Maine where the Johnson party has been
beaten TH1RTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, being gain on
the last election of eight ten thousand. All the
members elected to Congress Radicals and every
member Of the State Senate and all but two mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
To this great triumph, over the traitor Andrew
johnson, is added the glorious achievement in the
passage of the Constitutional Amendment by the
New Jersey Legislature
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Statement of the Situation" In q
Nutshell,

At Reading Pennsylvania, the other day, an i'm
mense assemblage of discharged Union soldiers and
citizens adopted the following resolution. In few
words it expresses the 'ntent and purpose of East
Tennessee's disgrace, Andrew johnson.
ResoEved, That the true intent and purpose of the
policy laid down by Andrew johnson, the man
made President by j. Wilkes Booth is to resurrect
from oblivion and disgrace the Democratic party,
which, for its reasonable course during the war
consigned to the tomb of everlasting infamy and
shame; we believe that the success of said policy
would turn back the wheels progress generation
in our country march to greatness and glory.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
H'Do'Rs DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNEss EE,
CuIrE On ASrrp,s 0rr1cr

Nashville Tennessee August q, 1866.
To THE FRIENDS OF DECEASED UNION SOLDIERS
The removal of the bodies of all Union Soldiers
buried in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Geor-
gia, Alabama and Mississippi and on the West
bank of the Mississippi River from opposite Column
bus, KY, to the mouth of Red River, La, to the
National Cemeteries at Memphis, Pittsburg Land
ing, Fort Donelson, Nashville and Columbia, Tenn,
Marietta and Macon, Ga, Montgomery and Mobile
Ala, Natchez, Vicksburg and Corinth, Miss, dur
ing the ensuing full and winter, will afford an OPP
portunity for friends and relatives and surviving
comrades of the dead to be present and assist in
identifying their remains.
The work of disinterment will commence about
the lst of October and continue until all are gath
tired up. Friends DESTROYS of being present at any
of the places from which the dead are to be removed
by addressing Bvt. Major E. B. Whitman Assistant
Quartermaster, in charge of National Cemeteries
and Mortuary Records, Murfreesboro, Tenn, will
be informed at what time the disinterments will
take place at any particular locality
All persons possessed of any information that
may be of use in Identifying the dead, who have
not already done so are requested to forward it to
Major Whitman, who will see it placed in the hands
of Officers engaged in experimenting the removals
to the several Cemeteries.
Catalogues Of the dead already removed to the
National Cemeteries at Stones River, Chattanooga
and Knoxville, Tenn, will be ready for publication
in few days.
The following extracts are made from General
Order regulating and directing the system upon
which the disntarments and reburials are to be
made:
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-19
Public Speaking i'm Union County.

On Monday, Slst of this month Hon. ]. A.
Doughty, Of Anderson county, and the Editor of
this paper viii address the people in Maynardsville
Col. Doughty has just returned from an extensive
tour through the North, whittier he went as dele
gate TO the Great Union Convention at Philadel-
phia.
Come one come all, and hear the truth from an
eye witness of the proceedings Of this great Con-
ysntion and the sentiment of the loyal North.