Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-09-07
aAiaf&lIane0ns,
GOVERNOR BRowNLow.


HIS Address to the Loyal People OF
Tennessee-AndrewJ JohnsOnss Policy
again Reviewed and Denounced-ln
his own State as Everywhere he is
Endorsed by none but Rebels-The
Traitorous Scheme of the Reconstruc-
ted and CopperjOhnsOns
In the Knoxville Fhig of August 22d
Governor Brownlow publishes an address TO
the loyal people of Tennessee. He states
at the outset that, unable to address his
people in person, and in the present condi-
ton of his health, he takes this method OF
responding to the calls made upon him to
speak at different points. After speaking
of the ratification of the amendment to the
Constitution by the Tennessee Legislature,
the Governor continues
With loyal men In Tennessee, johnson
has no more influence than JET. Davis. AT
ter all the letters written by the inmates and
haprers-on at he White House to members
of the Tennessee Legislature, urging them
not to accept the constitutional amendments,
they were triumphantly adopted By a vote
in the Senate of fifteen to sir, and IN the
House by forty three to thirteen. " hist IN
neither branch Of the Tennessee Legislature
can a resolution be adopted endorsing Au-
drew johnson or his policy, unless it be to
(ltEidfE MIN q IhaIIOtN anu ulS lfo4ANa INN
SON. both rank and damnable.
Why do | charge all this? Because he
Is turning loyal men out of office by thou
sands. to make room for rebels and traitors
Because he is appointing Tennessee legisla-
tive boilers to Office as reward for their
revolutionary and yillainous conduct Be
cause he betrayed the Breckenridge De-
mocracy after working with and for them, up
Al . - -, ,-L;ab ;roo1n ruae first aiact-
ed. Because he betrayed the loyal North
after they had elected him TO the Office OF
Vice President Becauso he has BETRAYED
the down trodden and unoffending negro,
irving again to seIl him into bondage, after
promising to be his Hoses Because he has
BETRAYED the Fenians to the British Gov
ernment, after selling them guns and ammu-
milton, and impressing their minds with the
belief that he was their friend. And last,
bat not least, because he has never been
true to any but Andrew johnson.
As an offset to all this it will be said the
writer of this address was member OF the
Baltimore Convention and put Mr. johnson
In nomination for the Vice Presidency Ihls
Is true. and the writer takes this occasion
publicly to acknowledge that it was tho worst
act of his protraeted and somewhat eventtul
hfe But he has Go say, in vlndlcatlon OF
himself that the Tennessee delegation had
agreed to present the name of Mr.. johnson
for the second Office, and the writer was
made the organ through which to make
known to the convention their wishes. Bet
ter would it have been for the cause OF Re
publican liberty if the Tennessee delegation,
including the writer, had all been in a rebel
prison South, rather than in the Baltimore
Convention, helping to place johnson in q
position where be, when his friends should
murder the patriot Lincoln, should become
President of these United States.
1t is the settled purpose of the traitors at
the North, and the rebels OF 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 john
son. An attempt to force Southern traitors
into their seats in Congress with bayonets,
will be made the occasion for the outbreak.
Let the despot now at The bead of the Gov