Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-04-06

| pNV"NhoM-A DlbCLosuIE ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT AND THE FREEDMEN's q BUREAU
BILL.
Governor Brownlow has been at his home.
in Knoxville, for some days, recruiting his
shattered health. AT the invitation OF the
German Union League of that city, he ad-
dressed a large assemblage of his fellow.citi-
zens on Saturday evening week
He preiaced his remarks by asking their
indulgence, as he was feeble. but promised
them TO be brief and to the point He said
that parties were again at work, seeking an
aseendancy in the Government. The Demo
cratic party, under new guise and new
leaders, was again asking countenance from
the people. The firing on Sumter was q
Democratic measure. The Southern States
were all Democratic when they went in the
rebellion. The revenue stamps you are now
taxed with are Democratic, and so are shin
plasters.
announce to you that if Andy johnson
isto lead the way in reconstruction, with the
Democratic party at his back, go the other
way. go with the Congress of the United
to side with them, The name of radical
has no terrors for me. 1 have been known
as n damned blue-Gght Whg' and 'damn-
ed lunatic, " and think it cheap if they will
now let me off by calling me "famned
radical"
There are 1.-TWO human monsters' now
engaging the attention of the American peo-
pie. Their names are on every mans lips
l refer to Sumner and Stevens. President
johnson Is engaged in bitter warfare ag anst
them. To abuse these men is the test of the
loyalty Mr. johnson prescribes They are
both men of ability and unblemished private
character. Stevens has sacrificed more for
the Union than any five men in East Ten
nessee, and is better man than any two
men who ever lived in the South. l am not
afraid to endorse these men on my own
dung hill" We must all be radicals or re!
constructed Democrats. prefer to side
with the former class.
On the negro suffrage question have only
to say that, for the present, am willing TO
be content with the freedom of the slaves,
and with the privilege given them to testify
in the courts. differ from President John
son on this subject. He says he is in favor
oil allowing negroes to vote who can read,
who are worth $3.50, who have been in the
army; and of gradually extending the right
of suffrage to all. 1t was through his influ-
ence that we succeeded in passing the negro
testimony bill through out Tennessee Legis
lature. He wrote letters, and sent kilograms,
asking members to supp ort the bill 1t was
through his help the bill became law. He
went further than eve II did. | want then
to be qualified first: it will come in time
They voted in Tennes see prior to 1882
lhave some secrets to tell of the freedmen;
bureau bill. think the bill was objection
able, and 1t might have been proper for me t.
veto it, but President johnson ought not tC
have done it. enerals Howard and Fisk'
drew up that hill They carried it to tht
President and cad it to him, section by sec
ton He favo red 1t. General Fiske though
the expense would be too great, but tn
President aid mo-" He urged 1t, AM
promised o sign i if Congress should pas
it, 1t we Mt through both Houses Iu tn
meantime. he got into personal quarrel witt
Sumner and Others, and when the bill cam
) before aim for his signature lie vetoed it, al
ter having promised to favor it, This is
secret, but true.
am in favor of the test OATH and don
y want it r. ,pealed, and it won't be, than
Godl TIL ere are crippled rebels in Wasf
! ington w no want to govern this country
Q and am opposed to letting them in. The
wouldn't t help govern the country. Pres
dent 10 hnson can't carry single State mort
a of Mas on's line but Kentucky, and wish
would carry that State to ''hell,"
l. They had forty papers in Tennessee, an
$ but seven of them are loyal. The thirt.
!. three ars bitter artiul, rebel sheets-many
l. them edited by Northern Copperheads-tl
l. mesn class of men that walk on cart
's They are meaner than Judas Iscariot. A
y mold and Burr were patriots compared
4 tb EN-.
il Our State Legislature is at lock-twent
n one members bolted. They all endor
- President johnson. They have left 200
p. natics and 800 convicts to starve. ! ha'
provided money to feed them; if the ne
G. Legislature refuses to refund the money,
ac u, will turn the crazy and convicted loose {
70 Middle Tennessee, twill be the best phys
ID they ever had
re The Governor close by warning all ]
VI old friends to stand by the Government
al predicted that the South would attempt a
er other revolution through the ballot-box.
at they did, he said, the Northern hordes wou
u grind them tc powder
A.
10 UNITARIAN MEETIN Gs.-The Rev. G.
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