Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-15
BROwNLOw ON RECONsTRUC.
TON.
The South Still INSTRUMENTATION
the Safeguard OF Southern Legal.

Intos
The buildings in Nashville formerly
used as a U. S. Military Railroad Hospital
have been purchased for a free and normal
school for colored persons, which has been
named the Fisk Free School. There are
accommodations for twelve or fourteen
hundred pupils. The institution was
opened BY addresses from various distin-
guished p~ersonages. The speech Of Gov
rnor Brownlow was noticeable from its
allusion to national matters. We subjoin
the report Of the Nashville Pre,s:
am fortunate in bsina the last speaker
on the list Of several, for if ! really desired
to make q speech-and I do not-there is
nothing left for me to say. I however,
appear at your call, TO show that I approve
all you have said and done, and all you
propose to do. Your naming this the
Fisk School 10 q just compliment to q mer-
itorious man. And will be pardoned for
saying, in the presence Of General Fisk,
that If a man less prudent, less kind, less
reasonable, and less just, both toward
white and colored persons, had been placed
at the head Of the Bureau in this city, it
would have proved a failure.
The General by way Of encouraging the
young of this school to study, very appro-
priately relates his struggles in early life
and his limited aid from a widowed neither
in INDECENT circumstances You have
greater advantages than he had, and he
enjoyed greater advantage than I did. I
had neither father nor mother, both hav-
ing died when ! was a little shaver. 1had
the advantage Of the General in other re-
spects. I was born and raised In q great
State, the Old Dominion, and among q
great people. One of my neighbor boys,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, about my age,
started to West Point, to be educated by
the United States Government. Another,
John B. Floyd, went to Jefferson Univer-
sity. They were Of the first families and
had means. Where did I 60 I Being one
of the second families, ! was bound out to
learn the trade Of q carpenter and furniture
maker. ! have made (pointing at Gen.
Fisk many q bureau and kitchen cupboard.
But allow me, through friendship, to
advise you, my colored friends, for your
good, both young and old. Avail your
selves of all occasions to learn to read the
word Of God. and then study It close and
practice its holy precepts. In all your
intercourse in life, be mild and prudent,
and give no offense TO your former owners
by either worda or deeds. To you who
are teachers, white teachers from the North, |
male and female, Do prudent and give no
unnecessary ofenses to even rebels, for they
already hate you with perfect hatred. And
il General Thomas were to withdraw his
bayonets from this city, this colored school
could not exist n week; nay, more, If
the Federal bayonets were all withdrawn
from the State, q rebel mob would drive
me and this Legislature out Of Nashville
in one week. Our civil and military
functionaries, and secret agents, may make
their flying visits through the South. and
return and report the South all right, all
reconstructed. and all accepting the result
Of the war. Those Of you who are green
enough to believe it, may do SO, but par
don me for saying that ! don't believe one
word Of it. The South is still r~ebellious,
and the people Of this city and State, to .
great extent, are displeased with what you
arc doing now. Why, II the Savior of
men were to descend from the clouds, with
the shoulder straps Of a Lieutenant Gen.
srsl, and bring with him as a military staff
the old Apostles, they could not please
these reconstructed rebels. and galvanized
Union men, provided they held the prin.
ciples We have all announced here to-day!
Ispeak plainly, and so I intend to speak.
I am in for the war, and propose to fight
It out on this line.