Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-06
Views of Southern Union Men.

Views of Southern Union Men.
Gov. Brownlow Of Tenn essee, having beer
asked whether he endorsed the Presidents policy
ys in the Knoxville Wh,g:
In answering the question we would be
pleased 10 have some one say 1chut that poiicg IS
AID what IS conteHlpiated ty II. We endorse all
the orders, proc4mauOus aud Spe. ches of the
President, as reported and published, while he
was Military Governor oi tennessee Through
on, the entire period be contend-G that treason
should be stamped WIKI infaoy th4, lsaiin.,.
intelligent, nsCiCus traitors should be tried and
punished that treason should be made odious
ara III demands of justice satisfied Oy Furnishing
IT'S gull-y aub0.S that all the guarantees of the
. q veruWeut, la tact wei IN { rm, bs pi4ced
I beyond The danger Of recall; aut that If there
ver- but 5000 .oya- msn IN Tennessee they should
con-roI the State a. further, IN .t rebels should
occupy tne bsc1 seats. We are oE tl.s p4tfor.u
and i ,h- II sIien, s still Oh this platform VT
aye W. a.m. II is rec7nsiruc ion policy pro
poses to reverse This policy and abandon thi.
pia, form, not tritb hiDi, the loyal
snd true men Of Iennessee."
10 aae-ner article. Gov. Brown.ow says
'' Oar m.ad is made up-we are with the Union
party in Congress, ana with them intend 10
INK or SWIM Iae people also wish them,
aud Tor The country, auC sg4ilsc lis euem e, and
The men who refused to vote men aud money 10
carry OF TIE var. mis- after class sre the men
more LOUD II heir praise OF tue President, labor
ms cay an night to create split between MIN
and the party That eivc,ed aim and saved the
country.
Hon. John Minor Bots has Just Issued an ad-
dress 10 me people of Virginia. He says:
" would forfei, forty seats il the Senate-av,,
the Presidency l.sel-it It were tfersd to me -
morrow, sooner ,D4n see taat ement of secession
Democracy ralsed % power again, except that
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more ef=c ulI.y than by any other means
Horace M4!aard, oae oi tbs persons claiming
seats as representative ffom tennessee, was IN
yi.ad to address The friends Of President John
sa adm r',tra. ion, id Nashville Oh Wash agton's
birthday. lie was unable 10 Oe presen'. but wrote
. letter il which ne praised President johnson +;
3u; he maA-S Pres dent Johasoa's poiic7 quite
different. from the Presidents present position.
Mr.. Maynard, speaking of the Presidents course
as governor of Tennessee, saws:
\ re-perusaI Of his several procl nations would
be instructive. From hi= r peated uterarces OF
this m'na pr,ncpa. of poiitica. growth, We NAV
select . mo-t at random. q In calling Conven-
ton 10 restore tie State, who shall restore and
establish il Shall the man who gave his means
. ami Iuh lence 10 destroy the government Is he
10 pHUcIpa.e IN the great work of reorganization
Snal ne VINO brought this misery upon the State
be permitted to control lis destlnies ?" Again,
ne asks Why all this blood snd carnage Il
was tina, treason might be pu, down and traitors
punished; therefore, | say IA, traitors should
t4ka back seat in the work OF restoration. II
F there hould be out five thousand men ioya to
the Constitution, loyal freedom loyal to Justice,
these and faithful men should control the
WORK of Reorganization and reformation absolute
~"
His language is neither ambiguous nor obscure,
1t is, in fact the same policy adopted by tn North
Carolina fathers at the close of the revolutionary
war. W hii- they were enac'ing = that all man
uer Of treasons, misprisOn OF treason, felony or
misdemeaooT committed or done since the fourth
of July, n the Year OF our Lord, seventeen hun
dred and seventy-six, by any person or persons
whatsoever, be plrdoned, released and put in
tai oblivion they at the same time " provided,
also, that nothing herein contained shall enIiJle
any person by this law be received, to elect or
De elected any office, in the State or
to hold any tice. civil OF m.iiIary."' Mary land,
and perhaps some others of the thirteen, dealt
similarly restricted generosity to their tories
The policy mas been fairly tested IN NJ iry 4nd,
Virginia, Nest Virginia, Kentucky, tennessee,
/ Missouri, Arkansas aad L5uI>ana W here it has
been rigidIy adhered to, 10 Mary land, West
Virginia Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas, it has
worked well. Where It has been abandoned or
even relaxed, and traitors re-enfranchised, as in
Virginia, Kentucky, and Louisiana, there trouble
and disorder prevail.
The condition of the loyal people is little better
than under the dsspotlsm OF the Southern Con
federacy. MAT that was, go ask friends in
E.st Ienness-e-Ea>t Tennessee, ii!usrioUs in her
sor ow and the blood of her martyrs. Go to the
prison cells, where hundreds piued IN wreched-
n5ss, rather than pGlute their souls by swearing
allegiance power they condemned. 90 TO
the gibbIts, ahere tue patuots Haun and Harmon,
the father and the son, AMI Heushe and Fry,
passed upward along the shining pathway gio-
/ ~. There see what treason did ia the plenlilude
( OF It's power and Whist It wants Is but the op-
1 portunlty to do it again. Yes, by ali means, let
US heartily, and without question, indorse the
Presidents policy ana repeat ais fundamental
ION that the exercise OF political power should be
contined to loyal men, Until tie ding words
shall be echoed from every Union mans hearth
stone and roof-tree 10 the land. L=t The preser-
vers of the nation be its rulers.
/ You request me " to put the seal of coudemna-
ton, broad and lndeilole, upon the belers OF the
integrity and loyalty of our people" Yea, verify
more than locality IN State has sprung
into life, viruent Press, organ and mouth
piece of treason, that at the approach of the flag
either fed or restrained its utterances within the
| limits of military law.
| With the same traitor editors as before and
during tne war, pardoned, it may be, but mani
| festly unchanged IN temper and purpose, there is
| displayed the same sectional spirit ard hatred Of
| the Federal Government, though not the same