New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-30
REPUBLICAN MEETING IN KNOX.
WILLIE.
A Characteristic Speech from Gev. brown.
Iowa Disclosure about the President
and the Freedmen's Bureau bill.

Gov. BrOwnlow has been at bis home IN
Knoxville for some days. recruiting Lis shattered health.
AT the invitation Of the German Union League OF that
city he addressed large sssemblsge Of his fellow citi'
zens on Saturday last.
lie prefaeed his remarks by asking their indulgence
as he was feeble but promised them TO be brief and 10
the point. lie said that parties were again al work
seeking an ascendancy In the Government Ibe Dem
ocretic party under a guise and new leaders was
again asking couptenance from the people. The bring
on Sumter was a Democratic measure. The southern
States were all Democratic when they went IN the Re
belOa. The revenue stamps you are now taxed Win
are Democratic and so arc sbinplasters.
10 you that If Andy johnson Is TO lead the
way in reconstruction with the Democratic party at
Of the United States the so called radicals do not
fear 10 side with them. The name Of radical has no
terrors for have been known asa damned blue
light Wing" and damned lunatic" and think 1t
cheap IL they would now let me OF by calling mo a
damned radical"
There are 1.-TWO human monsters now engaging the
attention Of the American people Their nanes are on
every mans lips. / refer to Sumner and Stevens.
President johnson is engaged In bitter warfare
against them. 10 abuse these men IL the test Of the
loyalty Mr. johnson prescribes They are both men OF
ability and unblemished private character Stevens
has sacrificed for the Union than any five men In
East Tennessee, and better man than any two men
who ever lived in the South am not afraid TO indorse
these men on my own dung hill" We must all be
radicals or reconstructed Democrats. prefer to side
with the former class
On the negro suffrage question have only to say
the freedom Of the slaves and with the privilege given
them to testify in the courts. differ from President
johnson this subject He ssys he Is In favor OF
allowing negroes to vote who can read. who worth
extending the right of suffrage to all II was through
his influence that We succeeded In passing the Negro
Testimony bill through our Tennessee Legislature. He
wrote letters. and sent kilograms asking members to
support the bill 1t was through his help the bill be-
came law He went further than ever did. want
them TO be qualified first; 1t will come In time. They
vnfe n
have some secrets TO toll Of the Freedmen's Bureau
bill. think the bill Objectionable and II might
son ought not to have done il. Gems. Howard and
Fiske drew up that bill They carried 1t TO the Presi
dent and read It 70 him. section by section He "a
sTsst but the President said lie urged It and
promised to sign it II Congrsss should pass IT, It vent
through both Houses. In tho meantime be got into .
the blu came before him for his signature hs vetoed it,
after having promised to favor 1t. This 10 secret,
but true.
am in favor of the test oath. and don't want 1t rs
pealed-and It won't be. thank God There are Grip
pied rebels In Washington who want to govern this
country. and am opposed TO letting them in. They
wouldn't help govern the country: President johnson
Kentucky. and wish he would carry that State to
"hellr
They have forty Rebel papers in Tennessee and but
sriu Rebel sheets many Of them edited by Northern
lCopperheads-the meanest class Of that walk on
earth. They are ueauer than Judas Iscsriot. Arnold
and Burr we're patriots compared TO them.
Our State Legislature 10 AZ . lock-2l members
bolted. They all indorse President johnson. They
have left 200 lunatcs and 800 oonvcts to stsfve have
provided money 10 feed them II the next Legislature
refuses TO refund the money will turn the crasy and
the convicted loose on Middle Tennessee. 1t viii be
the best physic they ever had.
The Governor closed by warning I'll his old friends TO
stand By the Government. He predicted that the
South would attempt another revelation through the
ballot box. Kthey did, be said the Northern hOrdes
would grind then to powder.