The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-28


KKoxTILLE, TENNESSEE March "a.
Governor Br0wnlow has been at his home
in this city for some dsys, recruiting his
shattered health. At the Invitation Of the
German Union League of this city, he ad-
dressed a large assemblage Of his fellow
citizens, this evening.
| He prefaced his remarks by asking their
indulgence, as be was feeble, but promised
them TO be brief and 10 the point. He said
that parties were again at work, seeking an
aseendancy in the Government. The Dem
ocratic party, under a new guise and new
| leaders, was sgsin asking eountenanee from
| the people. The firing on Sumter was a
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. I announce 10 you that if
Andy johnson is to lead the way in recon
struction, with the Democratic party at his
back, ! go the other way. 60 with the
Congress Of the United States, the so-called
Radicals, do not lear to side with them.
The name OF Radical has no terrors for me.
have been known as a"dRmned blue-light
Whig" and q "damned lunatic," and
think it cheap if they win now let me of
BY calling me "damned Radical
So far as the reconstruction policy Of the
President is developed, do not ndorse it.
l do indorse his policy as Military Governor
of Tennessee. ! indorse his letter accept
ing the Baltimore nomination. | iudorse
his declaration that if there were but five
thousand Union men in State they should
govern such State, / indorse his declsra-
ton that treason should be made odious. II
we differ, it is he who has changed.
There are two human monsters" now
engaging the attention Of the American
Il Tbofr .
lips. l re er TO Sumner and Stevens.
President Johnson is engaged in a bitter
warfare against them. To abuse these mep
ia the test Of the loyalty Mr.. johnson pre-
scribes. They are both men Of ability and
unblemished private character. Stevens
has sacrificed more for the Union than any
e We men in East Tennessee, and is better
man than any two men VINO ever lived in
the South. l am not afraid to indorse thsse
men on my own "dung-hill." We must all
be Radicals or reconstructed Democrats.
prefer TO side with the former class.
Yon have heard great deal about negro
equality. You are asked by smnesties if
ron are In favor Of negro equality. II is q
"mad dog cry" and trick for the dema-
gogues. ! have no fear that or mine will !
ever come down to the eyel Of a negro. |
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 will |
ling to be content with the freedom of the |
slaves, and with the privilege given them |
to testify in the courts. differ from Presi-
dent johnson 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 10 all. Il
Was through his influence that we succeeded
in passing the Negro Testimony Bill
through our Tennessee Legislature. He
wrote letters, aud sent telegrams, asking
TO support the bill. It was through
his help that the bill became law. He
went further than | ever did. l want them
10 be qualified first it will come in tine.
They voted il Tennessee prior to 1882.
have some secrets to tell Of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill. | think the bill was
and it might have been
proper for me 10 veto it, but President John
son ought not TO have done it. Generals
Howard and Fiske drew up that bill. They
carried i 70 the PRECEDENT and read it to
him, section by section. He favored it.
General Fiske thought the expenses would
be too great, but the President said mo-"
He urged Il and promised to sign it if Con
gyess should pass il. 1t went through both
Hou es. IN the meantime he got into
ptrsonsl quarrel With Sumner aud others,
and when the bill came before him for his
signature he vetoed it after having prom
sed 10 favor it. This is a secret, but true
am in favor Of the test oath, and don't
RaEt i repea ed, and it won't be, thank
God. There aFs crippled rebels in Wash
Dgton who want TO govern this country,
md | am opposed to letting them in. They |
wouldn't help govern the country. Presi-
lent johnson can't carry a single State |
north Of Mason's line but Kentucky, and l
wish he would carry that State to "hell."
The people Of the North are for the Union.
have written letters TO Colfsx, Kelly, and !
,thers, for which | have been abused by !
be rebels all through the South. There is
10 loyalty in the South. They are more
lefant to-day, than when Lee surrendered |
The Tennessee delegates ought 70 be admit
ed when they take the oath.
They had forty papers in Tennessee, and
1ut seven Of them are loyal. The thirty |
hree are bitter, artful, rebel sheets, many |
4 than edited by Northern Copperheads-
he nleanest Glass Of men that walk on earth.
They are meaner tbsa Judas Iscariot. Ar
old and Burr were patriots compared to
hem.
Our State Legislature is at a lock-twen-
y-one members bol,ed. They all indorse
President Johnson. They have left 200 lu-
iatics and 800 conyicts to ttarye. have
provided money 10 feed them; if the mex.
refuses TO refund the monpy, !
win turn the crazy and the convicted loose
N Middle Tennessee. 1t will be the best
lhysc they ever had.
The Governor closed by warning all his
id friends 10 stand by the Government.
1e predicted that the South would attempt
mother revolution through the ballet box. ;
f they did, he said, the Northern hordes
would grind them 10 powder.