Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-08-01


i'm fayOr OF the RebelS-s-An0ther
War TO be forced upon the Country
1.-The President TO Head the Re
belliOn.
Upon the assembling of the General Assembly,
Mr.. Dunnaway, the immediate representative OF
Edmond Cooper, bolted with a view OF reducing
the House below quorum. He was followed by
Mr.. Brown one of the constituents of Mr. Leftwich,
and he was followed by DR.. Marabe, the instrument
OF Dorsey B. Thomas. The House appointed Cap
tain Heydt Superintendent of the Capitol Sergeant
alarms with authority select his deputies, to
rest the boilers and return them to the House. and
with the warrants of the Speaker they set out by
,wos. Williams, of Carter, WEI brought in, but
Narabes rebel friends resisted with guas and pis-
tolls and drove the two deputies back. Capt Heydt
made application to Gen. Thomas for a 1e of SOL
ers-the General referred the case to Washington,
and the President, who is on the side of the boilers
nd in favor of breaking up the Legislature, as
means Of defeating the Constitutional Amendments,
Instructed Gen Thomas, through the War Depart
ment not TO interfere but 70 let the State Govern
nent and the politicians fight it out This
aged the rebels and stimulated them to acts of vic
ence. They sued out writ of habeas corpus in the
case Of Williams, and Judges Brien and Gaut, of
the johnson Club of the Executive Committee of
| Davidson county, argued their before Judge
| F azier, of the Criminal Court. The Judge being
weak man, and political partiz an, under rebel
Influence, decided against the Legislature, and in
tavor of the rebels Among all truly loyal men moth
| ing but contempt is entertained for his decision,
and for the man. Having no jurisdiction in the
case and the law and presidents being againt him,
It was not expected that such nonstrous decision
| would be given. But those who knew the man
those who knew that he was appointed to Office by
| Johnson-that ne was aboriug to have himself re-
elected by the people in q rebel communty-and
| hat he would never take decided stand when the
rebellion came on, were prepared to hear his mis-
cradle opinion delivered.
| But TO proceed with our account Of this Rebel
Judicial farce the sheriff. rebel captain, by the
Ter of the new born rebel Judge released Williams
rom the custody in which he was held by the
House. And before daylight in the morning, the
-herif, with force Of twenty FIVE discharged rebel
soldiers broke into the State House. to seize and car
ry before the Judge, Captain Heydt, who roomed
alone in the Capitol This rebel mob OF Fraziers
force the door and widow of the Federal court
room breaking both, and with cooked revolvers,
carried Of the Sergeant-at-Arms, whom the Judge
dned tea dollars for obeying the orders of the House
and then released him His action for outrage cOrrup-
lion and high-handed vllainy, has no parallel in
history The eagerness TO get Heydt, and to have
him resist, for numbering him, grew
out Of the fact that he had served AS brave officer
the Federal army, and was several times wounded
in battle lighting traitors. Captain Heydt had in
custody 2 second member of the House, Mr.. Martin.
who had been guerrilla chief in the late war, and
he released without any other process than that
served by the mob, in breaking down the window
and door. This is part and parcel of Johnson's
policy to restore the rebels to power It means to
crush out the Union men Of the South and restore
the Democratic traitors Of the South to power and
place It is intended by him AMI his advisers to
make TREASON respectable, and TRAITORS honora-
Die, while LOYALTY is to become disreputable, and
Ioya! men are disgrsced and driven from the South
20 accomplish all this, and even more, there is on
loot regular conspiracy, and the chief conspirator
A9drsly johnson.
With loyal men in Tennessee johnson has no
more influence than JEFF. Davis After all the let
ers written from the inmates and hsngers-on at the
White House, TO members Of the Tennessee Legs
lat ire urging them not to accept the constitutional
Amendments they were triumphsntly adopted by a
vote in the Senate of ttssn to Sir and in the House
ny fortyttres to thirteen. Whilst in neither branch
Of the Tennessee Legislature can n resolution be
adopted endorsing Andrew johnson or his policy,
! uness it be to declare him TRAITOR, and his poll
| cy TREASON, both rank and damnable.
| Why do we charge all this? Because ne is turn
! ing loyal men out of Office by thousands, to make
room for rebels and traitors Because he is appoint
ing Tennessee Legislative boilers TO Office, as q re-
ward for their revolutionary and villnous conduct
Because he betrayed the Breckenridge Democracy
after working with and for them, up to the day on
| which Lincoln was first elected. Because he be-
trayed the loyal North after they had elected him
to the Office of Vice President. Because he has be-
.rayed the down.rodden and unofending negro, try
! ng again to sell him into bondage, after promising
TO be his Noses. Because he has betrayed the Fee
mans 70 the British Government, after selling them
guns and ammunition, and impressing their minds
with the belief that he their friend. And last
but not least because he has never been true to any
me but Andrew johnson.
As an offset TO all this it will 5e said, the writer
Of this article was q member of the Baltimore Con
Vice Presidency. This is true and the writer take:
this occasion publicly to acknowledge that it Wal
he worst act OF his prOtracted and somewhat event.
'ul life. But he has 10 say in vindicaton OF him
self, That the Tennessee delegation had agreed tC
present the name Of Mr.. johnson Tor the second
office: and the writer WAS made the organ through
which TO make known TO the convention their wishes
Better would it have been for the cause Of Republ
can Liberty, il the Tennessee delegation, including
che writer, had all been in a rebel prison South,
rather than in the Baltimore Convention, helping tc
place johnson in position where he when hi
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 they next two years under the lead Of
Andrew johnson. Az attempt to force Southern
traitors into their seats in Congress with bayonets,
wsl be made the occasion for the outbreak Let the
Despot now at the head OF the Government attempt
4 thing Of this kind if be dare million of gall
ant Union men will At once appear in the District
f Columbia, surrounding both the Capitol and the
White House, disposig Of tie headS OF leading trG;-
tors after the most approved style of the age in
which the King OF England lost his head Ifanoth-
r war shah be forced upon the country, the loyal
masses, who constitute overwhelming maj ority
the people OF mis- great nation intend it shall b.