Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-06
ED. COOPER on BROwNEosv--A JUST
AnD wETIEERTNG REBUHE.

Delivered, ~ cneipy fl!ie, obe VI aeAe AnS7e
comprehensive and conclusive reviews of
the current political issues that has been
given in or out Of the State since the close
Of the war. ID is eminently able and iudiCi-
GUS throughout, and complete in its yindi-
cation OF the President and his policy. We
extract the following scathing reference 10
BRowNIow, and his late declaration Of
war;
Now, in what am going to say, do not
make war upon the mani only combat
his opinions, his sentiments and his conclu-
sions: shrink aghast at the sentiments
contained in his address of the 18th of Au-
gust, 1866 l call upon you TO condemn
them; they are revolutionary; they counsel
assassination they demand universal confs-
cation, and suggest as a remedy for imagina-
nv evils universal determination. That l
do this reverned gentleman no injustice, /
read to yon several extracts how ardent he
writes in regard TO the President and his
Cabinet:
at is the settled purpose Of the traitors at the
North and the rebels at the South, to involve this
country in another bloody war; and this they aim
TO do during the next two years. under the lead Of
ANDREW JOHNSON An atteBptto force Southern
traitors into their seats III Congress with bayonsts
will be made the occasion for the outbreak. Let
the despot at the head Of the Government attempt
a thing of this kind II be dare A million Of gal
liant Union men will at once appear IN the District
of Columbia, surrounding both the Capitol and
the White Housekeeping Of the heads OF lead
ing traitors after the most approved style of the
age, in which the King Of England lost his head"
How bold, cruel and yindictive such
spirit; before il the RoBEsPIERREs and Ne
RIOS of history would sink into utter insig-
ni6cance, and would blush at the recital of
their own bloody deeds, in comparison to the
feast ofdeath to which this modern MoLoCH
invites his followers.
But the concluding part Of this paragraph
Is more horrible still
IF another war should be forced upon the
country, the loyal masses, who constitute an over
whelming majority Of the people of this great
nation, intend it shall be no ehiids play. They
will. as they ought to DO, make the entire South
ern Confederaey as Gfld formed the carih when be
commenced the work Of creation. without form
and void. They will not and ought not 10 leave
rebel fence rail- OuthOrse or dwelling IN the eleven
seeded States And Is for the rebel population.
let them be exterminsted. And when the war is
wound up. which should be done rapidly and with
swift destruction, let the lands be re-surveyed and
sold out to pay the expenses Of the war, and set
tied by people who will respect the stars and
stripes"
Mark the pages of history and re-read the
deeds of blood snd rapine that have given
to some names an unenyiable notoriety, and
you will find that the acts Of CALIGULA and
the Duke Of Alya are but mere child's play
to the proposed universal destruction adj
vised by WILLIAM G. BRowNLow. Aye,
sirs, If he had never during the horrible
scenes Of this rebellion. said or written any
thing else, this address would condemn him
TO an infamy so low and degrading amongst
the good and the kind of this land, as to
ever find more of pity than contempt.
The Governor is so much impressed with
the terrible scenes through which he has
passed, and so much imbued with the
hatreds and animosities engendered by the
prosecutions which he individually sustain
ed, that he cannot divest himself Of his per-
sonal feelings; and he gives full sway to the
vindictiveness of a nature never fully con-
trolled by the promptings Ct high Chris
tian charity. He cannot look with the least
degree of allowance on those who, although
equally true to the Government as he was;
who equally suffered imprisonment and loss
because of that devotion; yet, now that the
war is over, and peace once more prevails
are willing to forget the past, and as band
Of brothers unite in the support and preser-
walton ofthe institutions OF the country, and
to rescue its sacred principles from the
wickedness and madness of political or
ganization that seems to prefer party to
country, and whose patriotism fear has de-
generated into mere partisanship.
Otherwise, how is il possible for the Gov
ernor, with the slightest regard for the truth,
to charge the President with being trail
tor" and his policy treason, both rank
and damnable."
If this charge, my fellow-citizens, had
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discussion, some excuse or possible palliation
might have been made for it, as the ebuli-
ton of passion, made by man not noted in
times Of high political excitement for very
great reputation as gentle and conciliatory. 1t
is, however, made in a carefully-prepared
address. 1t is made by the Governor of
Tennessee. 1t shows time and reflection in
its preparation, and hence | criticise it.
Why does he make the charge? quote
his own language. beg your attention to
| it, because l stamp the charge as false.
Nothing is easier than to prefer charges
against great and good man. Any one can
coin in the furnace of his own corrupt soul,
imperfections and ISLANDERS against those in
high places. 1t is not the mere accusation
that carries force and weight, it is the evil
dence. Here is what the Governor pub
fishes:
"Wby do charge all this? Because he is turn
ing loyal men out Of Office by thousands, to make
| room for rebels and traitors. Because he is ap-
pointing Tennessee legislators and others to office
as a reward for their revolutionary and villainOus
| conduct. Because he betrayed the BRECKIN-
| RIDGE Democracy after working with and for
| them mp to the day en- which disuniOn was pre-
| eptated Because he betrayed the loyal North
after they elected him to the office of Vice Prosi
| dent. Because he has betrayed the down-tr0dden
| and unohending negro trying again to sell him
| into Bondage after promising to be his MOSES.
Because he has betrayed the Fenians to the Brit
| ish Government, after selling them guns and am
munition, and impressing their minds with the
belief that he was their friend. And last, but not
least. because he has never been true to any one
] hut ANDREW JOHNSON"
These several accusations desire to ex-
anime and to show wherein they are in the
aggregate as well as in detail, unfounded
When the Governor charges that the
President is turning loyal men out of office
| by thousands, to make room for rebels and
| traitors" he deliberately and willfully pub
! fishes what he knows 20 be false II he did
! moi know the facts, it was his duty to have
| inquired before making so serious Charge.
Ii is known TO most Of You, my fellow
| citizens, that have for the last six months
occupied towards the President the most
confidential and intimate service and politi-
cal relations. | have known the Utmost
workings of his great mind. / have watch
cd with intense solicitude the terrible strug-
| gle in which he has been engaged. I hav e
listened to the utterance of his political
thoughts, in the intimacy Of personal and
| private friendship and familiarity, when
the restraints of political associations were
removed and ! say to you with the conf
dence and assurance which from my past
reputation amongst you for truth and veraci-
| ", know you will believe that ANDREW
JOHNSON has never during that time ut
tered, in public or private, a single express
sion indicating any other purpose on his
| part but firm and devoted attachment to
the Constitution Of the United States and
the infexible purpose of enforcing the laws
! passed in pursuance thereof with an unal-
terable determination, so far as he has the
power, % preserve the one, and faithfully
| execute the others.
| say to you that it is untrue that he has
turned out loyal men from Office, to make
room for rebels and traitors. know where
OF speak. Where is the one officer thus
removed, whose place has been filled by a
/ rebel or traitor? | defy the Governor, or
any of the opponents of the President, to
name one. If they cannot, why the gratuit-
GUS and unfounded charge?
No, my fellOw-citizens, all Of these
charges, when tested by truth, vanish into
thin air. They cannot be proven and when
] in the retirement of Your homes you come
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