Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-08-30
Rroxplox on the situation.

BroWnloW on the Situation,
Gov. Brownlow, OF Tennessee,
from his home at Knoxville, has
issued an address to the loyal men
of that State, which, like everything
from the same source, is full of
patriotism, point and vigor. We
make an extract or two:
He believes johnson q traitor, and
his treason rank and damnable.-
Here are his reasons for believing
so:
Because he is turning loyal men
out of Office by thousands to make
room for rebels and traitors. Be
cause he has appointed Tennessee
Legislative boilers to Office as
reward for their revolutionary and
viIlanous conduct. Because he be-
trsyed the Breckenridge Democracy
after working with and for them up
to the day on which Lincoln was
first elected. Because he betrayed
the loyal North after they had elect
ed him to the office of Vice President.
Because he has betrayed the down
trodden and unoffending negro, try
ing again to sell him into bondage
after promising to be his Moses
Because he has betrayed the Fenians
to the British Government, after sell
ling them guns and ammunition and
impressing their minds with the be-
lief that he was their friend. Aud
last, but not least, because he has
never been true to any one but Andy
Johnson,
He apologises fer putting Johnson
in nomination st Baltimore, and
says:
Better would it have been for the
cause Of Republican Liberty, if the
Tennessee delegation, including the
writer, had all been in q rebel prison
South, rather than in the Baltimore
Convention, helping to place John
son in s position where he, when his
friends should murder the patriot
Lincoln. should become President Of
these United States"
He draws picture Of the great
danger to which the loyal men of
that State are still exposed, and
says:
"Having no hope of protection
from the President, in the event OF
an attack from a rebel mob, / shall
look with confidence to the North
western States to come to our rescue
as soon as attacked by the minions
of jeff Davis and Andy Johnson
And if further developments seem
to justify it, l will call out the loyal
militia of the State, and call upon
the Legislature TO arm and equip
them. We must and will meet these
traitors, and sustain the Govern
ments, State and National. or fall
with our faces TO the foe.
He says he honestly believes there
is a conspiracy on foot to involve
this country in another war, and re-
marks:
xa1sis-attenpt TO force traitors into
:ssssS IN Congress with bayonet
viii Be 1hTtr the occasion for the
outbreak. Let the despot at the
head of the Government attempt
thing of this kind, if he dare, and
million of gallant Uuion men will at
once appear in the District OF Co
lumbis, surround both the Capitol
and White House, and dispose OF the
heads of the leading traitors after
the most approved style of the age
in which the King of England lost
his head.
Iranother war shall be forced up.
on the country, the loyal masses,
who constitute an overwhelming
majority OF the people of this great
nation, intend il shall be no childs
play. They will, as they ought
to do, make the entire Southern
Confederacy as God found earth
when he commeRced the work Of
creation--without form aud void
They will not snd ought not to leave
rebel fence-rail, out house or
dwelling in the eleven States. As
for the rebel population, let them be
extermInated. When the war is
wound up. which should be done
rapidly and with swift destruction,
let the lands be sold out to pay the
expenses of the war. and settled
only by people who will respect the
stars and stripes.
Should another conflict of arms be
forced upon the country, rs honest
ly believe it will, by the combined
efforts of Northern traitors and
Southern rebels, the work of recon,
strnction after the conflict is over
will be easy. A Surveyor General,
with deputy and land Office for
each county in the rebel States, and
few bayonets to guard them, are
all that will be required.