Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-31
The Hired Caluminator.

man. Olackguaru WnooWas convicted OF lying in
Nashville in 1853 This scape-gallows has failed in
the rebels of the South, and has gone
10 work to black-ball the true Union men and Jour
mails of the South. He plays the "Dulse of Argyle"
in the great and heaven-born work of reconstruc-
tion," which means the putting into power the rot
ten Democracy of the revolted States 1t Will take
q brigade of Truraars and his hired associates to
make the loyal North believe in this wild scheme of
reconstruction" and to discredit the loyalty of
tried men in the South.
The Cincinnati Gazette seems properly to appre- |
ciate Truman in the following article:
COSTLY AND DUBIOUS INFORMATION.
A person named BENJAMIN G. Truman is travel |
ing in the South in the joint capacity OF correspon-
dent Of the New York Times and agent OF Prssi-
dent Johnson to report the state OF Southern sent
ment for which he is paid by the President, out OF
the Secret Service Fund ffty-sx dollars week and
expenses The President is doubtless deceived IN
the character of this Truman, and as he has taken
occasion to report his opinion OF the Gazette, we
notice it. No man with the instinct OF gentleman
could converse with this Truman i've minutes With
out recognizing that he is low fellow. His pre-
vious performance confirms the testimony OF hunan
instinct.
He was the author of the vile ISLANDERS on Rose
GRAMS personal habits which were published IN the
Washington Chronicle at the time Rosecrans splen-
did campaign terminated at Chattanooga, ana was
discharged from the Chronicle Office for those utter
fabrieations. He was the author OF vile attack
In the New York Times the character of an OIL
Ger then holding the confidential position of Private
Secretary 10 President johnson, which was so much
an abuse of Mr.. johnson as of his Secretary, for
BIZ. johnson chose his Secretary from his knowl-
edge of his character.
His letters from the South have been according
to his nature. They furnish what he thinks is
wanted and have varied according to his ideas
When he started he thought some truth vas wanted.
He now thinks the is required, and is giving
! it. Contact with Southern politicians has given
him the idea that the President has turned against
the Union party and is going to form a new
marty out of the treacherous Northern and Southern
| elements. and he is now writing that up.
He finds everything rose-colored; the late rebels
| the best Union men; the blacks happy; no disturb
ance except that caused by Union soldiers, and no
disafecton except that caused by the Radicals, the
! Radical journals and Governor eBrownlow.
! OF course his chief meat, besides abuse of the
Radicals. is adulation of President johnson. We
do not object to that if anybody wants it; but just
as honest hattery be bought for far less money
/ A trihe would buy this dog-a mere benei why ex-
| mend so much of the public money for such cheap
| funkevism? And what is paid adulation worth,
anyhow?
the Union soldiers the only obstacle to perfect 10y
alty accord and tranquility. He attributes the hos
tile feeling in East Tennessee to the bad teaching OF
the Knoxville Wing Under it, he says, the negroes
acted worse than the white people, and TO such an
extent did their passions that he says "they &C
/ tually crowded the acting editor of the Wing OF
the pavements.
/ He saws in Middle Tennessee a multitude of pain
full events have TRANSFERRED:
"Sorne fifty odd murders and hundreds OF high
way robberies have occurred within the past four
months Not one of these acts, so far as has been
proven has been committed by citizens of Tennes-
see: but by our own soldiers and Government en-
ployees The latter class, especially those who have
been discharged from the service, have for great
part, turned highway robbers and murderers."
He giyes it as the unanimous sentiment OF the
loyal people of Tennessee that the choice OF Brown
low for Governor was unfortunate onei ana ne
SAYS in regard to this felt it my duty to seek tof
information among those who have ever been the
steadfast friends of Andrew johnson and the Union
and 7 find among these very same steadfast friends
a spirit of disgust and dislike for the Governor"
The principal reason he represents to be that Gov
| Brownlow is too rough and vulgar ard too hard IL
his expressions against rebels and pro-slavery men
and that he lacks dignity for the office and he stoo
IN write answers to scurrous letters and signs him
self "W. g. Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville
! Whig and Rebel Ventlator;' and the elegant in
spector of manners, adds with queer alteration: 81
puts one in mind of Doctor PdngtaSs who get
nixed up in alteration and signs himself an a. s. S.
The official informer then gives an apostrophe Il
President Johnson's policy of reconstruction, 81
great and patriotic in its conception which he say
p only clorged in its execution by the Radicals
Further along he shows that this great and patriots
convention of President JohnsOn's in fact no
his hut Mr. Lincolns. A slight mixture of "aber
ration Then he declares: " Really, / am amazed
at the loyal tenor of the people" The loyal base
not mentioned but we presume there is base loyalt
enough. And further:
"TRere is feeling of harmony and confidence al
ready rife which cannot be disturbed. State count
and CITY governments work usual before the war
) and with as much harmony And all the Confed
, crate soldiers l have met, although they are to-
brave to hang down their heads admit that the.
, have been handsomely whipped and magnanimousl.
treated
/ Nothing but Governor Brownlow and the UniO
soldiers prevent perfect harmony. He gives
chord of this harmony. Governor Brownlow says
{" that if there's anything loyal Tennesseean hate
o more than a rebel, it is niger
| The official informer goes on to describe tn
unanimous bitter feeling of the people against MI
Sumner and his radical colleagues in the Senate an
Q Mr.. Stevens and his party in the House An
without extra pay he gives the following informa
| ton of the state of Northern sentiment.
Y "And the great masses of the people North, than
E | God who fought through four years war for tn
preservation Of the Union, will not countenance thi
D attempt by Congress to destroy their work
l This is cheap at $50 week and unlimited e1
penses.
The condition of the freedmen in Tennessee h
describes as everything that could be wished, an
in fact they are in danger of being too happy an
he throws into the bargain profound PHILOSOPHERS
remark: 1.-THE negro, like many white mel, cannc
= stand too much prosperity Moral philosophy &C
] ded to information without extra price! 1t is q
g cheap as Mr. Squeers' Academy at Dotheboys Hal
Q He gives disparaging praise to Gen. Fisk, an
f thinks he has not much to do in Tennessee:
= II did not learn how many poor negroes Genert
Fisk has on his hands, but it cannot be but fe'
t hundred, unless he is being imposed upon"
OF course this official informer, since he has gon
: into the business of reconstruclng parties does nc
f like the Cincinnati Gazette, any other loyal Pr
2 per. He gives his views on this subject. We Sc
not how his official information is to be separate
from his correspondence information, unless we SUI
= nose that he tells one story officially and anothe
nersonallv Therefore we this to be otiicia
and as il is procured at such cost to the ration,
give it to the people their property, paid for wit
e their money:
l. As general thing the newspapers of Tenne
/ see are loyal and doing good service There al
IS more daily papers in Nashville than there are
i PbiIadnlnhje. The Republican RAnnor, the Unto
IS and the Dispatch the three best and most rel
Q able Union papers in this city, and are edited
gentlemen whose whole souls are for the Union an
], the Administration. The Gazette and the Unto
r and American are "so-caled" loyal papers. TIL
e Press and Times is in the style OF the Clnelnna
It Gazette. and damns everybody as disoyal who doe
:, not regard colored man as better than white PEE
y SON It is a curious fact that So called paper
l. like the Mobile Register, Nashville Union an
/ American, Louisville Courier, and the like, and th
IS raving rampant Suffrage ps
n pers, like the Cincinnati Gazette, 81 Louis Dem'
d crat, Nashville Press and Times, and the like, al
u the papers that at present are dong all the harn
Both sides are.raking UP old stories, and tearln
8 sfresh old wounds. They have crossed swords VIII