Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-23
Brovnlov Against johnson.

Parson Brownlow, Governor Of Ten.
nessee, has written q letter to Representa-
tive Kelly of Pennsylvania, committing
himself squarely against the President
He says:
When I put the President in nomina'
ton at Baltimore for the Vice. Presidency
I felt that he had go thoroughly commit
ted himself to the Union cause, and had
been so badly treated by the rebels, it wa
impossible for him ever to get around Il
them again /; but I give him up as lost tc
the Union party, and as the man who il
10 head the rebels and Democrats. Every
rebel in all this country, every Mcclellan
man and every ex-guerrilla chief are loud
and enthusiastic in praise Of the President
The men who, but q few months since
were cursing him for an Abolitionist and
traitor, and wishing him executed, are now
for executing all who dare oppose hi
policy or even doubt its success"
The Governor proceeds to say that there
is twice the intolerance and bitterness in
the South now that there vas when Let
surrendered, and he ascribes the change to
the Presidents plan Of trusting rebel,
with the State governments. In middle
and western Tennessee, the Governor says,
the rebels have carried the local elections
and turned out all the Union men who
held Offices, and he believes the rebels 70,
mean to break up the Government.
The testimony Of Brownlow is to be
taken with many grains Of allowance. he
representa- only one wing Of the Union
party in Tennessee, and that not the most
trustworthy, and he denounoes the Union
men who do not support all his violent
measures as little better than rebels. For
the ill.feeling among the various classes in
Tennessee he is in no small degree respon-
sible. His first recommendation for the
~pacifcation Of the State wal to shoot
down returning rebels at sight" It was
soon found, however, that both sides could
shoot, and after score or 90 Of terrible
murders. that line Of policy was dropped.
But Il left lis mark, and It is not to be- ex-
pscted that the late. rebels in Tennessee,
however soundly they MAY be reconstruct
ed, will vote for the man who wanted
them shot down after surrender. Since
the shooting stopped the spirit that led to
1t has been conspicuous in Brownlow's
administration. He proceeds on the idea
that every man who has been in the rebel
lion 10 q ~scoundrel, deserving death, and
that no professions Of repentance or re-
newed loyalty are to DO accepted. It 10
the theory Of perpetual hate, admitting Of
no forgiveness and no reconciliation, and
all who do not agree in this policy Brown
low %denounces as rebels. No wonder the
reconstructed Tennesseans take the Hnt
opportunity to vote down the Brownlow
party. And this 10 what Brownlow calls
disloyalty.
The Union can never be restored upon
the ideas and spirit Of Brownlow. II that
policy prevails in the treatment Of the
South, we may make a Poland of that
section, If we are strong enough. but never
a portion Of the Union. It Is q policy of
narrow ideas and p~rejudices. Secession
was not the voluntary act of the Southern
people; a majority were against it on q
fair vote; and those Of the Southern peo-
pie guilty of the moral crime Of treason
were few in number. The war was q con-
Aict Of indeas and institutions; slavery
lost and went under, and there can be NO
further rebellion On its account. These
being the facts. It Is not only safe, but wise
and statesmanlike, to permit the Southern
people to renew their allegiance, and to
accept their promises Of loyalty as made in
good faith. II we are to live with them a.
fellow.citizens, this Is the only course. II
we want them for perpetual subjects, then
the policy Of distrust, hatred and humilia.
tion-the Brownlow poliey-is the true
ons.-SprinE&sH (KaH.) RPxJEsn.