Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-09-20
Didn't Face the Music.

made in advance about its resolt
ton to boldly fly the banner o
negro suffrage, carefully ignore
the subject. Expediency evident
ly got the better of principle
Not that the delegates were less re
solved upon demanding negr
equality with the white man, bu
that they fear to go before tn
Northern people on that issue an(
carry it to the polls. They prefel
to win the fall elections, if they
can, upon other issues, and he'
declare their success q proof of
the popular acceptance of ''impar
tial suffrage" without regard to
race or complexion.
Butin Tennessee the programme
is different. Brownlow, the bully
parson, in a speech after the adj
journment of the Convention, laid
down the Radical platform for this
State. He said:
"The next great act of that
Legislature was to disfranchise
eighty thousand votersin the State
of Tennessee. Renewed applause. ]
A close and accurate calculation
had shown forty thousand loyal
voters in the State and eighty
thousand rebel voters, and they
had DISTINGUISHED the rebels, who
had in consequence raised a terri
BILE howl.
"When the Legislature reas-
sembles on the first Monday of
next December, they intend to
arm the loyal masses of the State,
[applause] to enforce the franchise
law, and either keep the rebels
from the ballot-box or have a
fight. The rebels boosted that
they had President Johnson on
their side; but even SO; the speak
er's friends had on their side truth
and righteousness, the loyal North
and the loyal world. By means
Of the policy which would be pur-
sued in Tennessee, fifty or sixty
thousand negro votes would be
added to the forty thousand loyal
votes, and this would put the I'm
on cause ahead"
""Thespeaker earnestly urgedup-
On his hearers the Importance of
success in the Northern elections,
tor a failure there would compel
he Union men to leave Tennes-
zee as well as other parts of the
South, and in this connection he
paid a glowing and eloquent trib-
ute of praise and admiration to
our present patriotic, bold, virtu-
BUS and brave Congress. They
were a glorious set of men, and
we should live by them, swear by
them and sustain them against all
odds. |
"Gov. Brownlow then resumed,
adding that they (the loyal men)
would organize the loyal militia; !
hat they would act prudently and
10 as they ought to do. They
would firsteall upon Andrew john
ION for arms for protection in the
of the State Gov
,rnment that had been organ
zed by Congress. He would re-
use, as a matter of course. Then
hey would fall back upon their
,wn reserved rights, and make
he best of it they could. The
peaker had been driven away
rom home and compelled to hide /.
himself, but he would leave no
more. He preferred to leave it,
f at all, upon lamp-post."
The next that we hear of the
larson was at Trenton, New Jer-
ey, where he delivered himself cas-
ollows:
"Now, gentlemen, / am before
,ou, not as an alarmist-not as a
ensational man. lam before you ,
o predict what you do not want to
lear-that is-that you are toI
AVE another war. / know some {
hing of the temper and the spirit
( the Southern mind. The dew
is in them, gentlemen, and the !,
evil is particularly in the man at /
heir head-now the occupant of {
he White House. Cheers and
l shall say nothing Z
Without mature and deliberate re-
lection, and | shall say nothing in
Jew Jersey that / would not sayIl1