Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-09-12
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Horace Maynard.

The announcement that Governor Brownlow, of
Tennessee, will take part in the Southern Loyasts
Convention next week will be joyful news to the
admirers Of that undaunted Radical We hope that
the Hon. Horace Maynard will also be present.
Some doubts having been expressed in regard to
Maynard's position, doubtless because he Was IN
willing TO separate from Andrew johnson till he
had palpable evidence of his treachery) these may
be entirely dismissed in the face of the following
extract from his speech at Shebyville on the 24th
inst The audience was composed entirely Of native
Tenpesseeans, and numbered some five thousand
persons who listened for than six hours to the
several speeches. but none created greater sensa-
ton than that of Mr.. Maynard, from which we
quote:
Thousands of our best men were thrown into
prison and sent TO Tuscaloosa and other places and
thence TO their long homes by cruel treatment and
starvation, and outrageous this that Governor
Vance, Of North Cal olina, sickened at it and
declared that the light of Ii berty had fled the Con-
federacy. The men who served that flag are the
who. will carry it, and so far as governing is
concerned, YOU are not to do it. We conquered in
this war, and we do not propose TO fight it over
again. If Stevens, Sumner and Brownlow were to
die night these same questions would still exist,
as now, between two parties and only two. The
boys in blue viii carry the Gag, and not the gray
COdlS. uln Will Liz uOlS III UluC L VIII uOG DC
drawn into discussion of side issues The question
is whether we or IFS enemies viii control this Gov
cTnment. They sometimes saw with unboGnded
impudence that they are the Union men; that they
are the Constitutional party. There is a perfect
aamut-C Constitutional, Conservative. You must
get out of the way, for the guardians of the
Constitution. They call us Radicals. What do they
mean by il? We knew when they called us Lin
colnites with ID to it. what they meant but now
they call us Radicals We are the same men and so
are they, now as then. What then do they mean by
l1sdical. Radical means root and the term is used
nv he arstocracy Of the Old World TO designate the
working men of their society, who they say want TO
root up their monarchial governments and it may
be that they think il genteel TO borrow this word
from the elegant aristocrats of the Old World. We
have a class of men here in the South that went
mostly for John Bell. They talked long and loud,
but what did they accomplish? They lacked the
moral courage 10 either go into the rebellion or stay
out of IT, They want TO be followed as leaders;
but horse that baulks al one hill will not pull up
another. They claim TO have brains, but they lack
pluck and in trying times pluck is sometimes worth
more than brains. They are behind the times, and
the great questions of the day will be settled with
out them. That those questions will be settled by
the American people in accordance with the great
principles of liberty and humanity, have nodoubt.
This nation has genius and destiny that no op-
position thwart, and the great principles which
lie at the foundation of glorious system will in
the fullness OF time be nobly vindication in the
council chamb as they have been in the field.