Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-05
The President and His Enemies.
GOV. SEYMOUR, or CONN. AND
OF HON. NAT. 6. TAYLOR
another Speech from Browniow.
Cincinnati Commercial. j


Of Knox county, this morning. His speech
covered the same ground as theaddress made
10 the Union League, on the oath ult.. a COPY
Of which was telegraphed and published in
the Commercial Of the Doth.
Gov. Brownlow takes exception to that
speech as reported, where he is made to say
that Thaddeus Stevens is better man than
any two in the South. His assertion il, that
Thaddeus Stevens sacrificed more pecuniari-
ly, than any five loyal men in Tennessee, and
As better man than any two leaders in the
late rebellion. He reiterated his assertion
that President johnson promised Generals
Howard and Fisk that he would sign the
Freedmm's Bureau bill if it passed Con-
gress and says, that though it has been de-
MED on apparently good authority, he is
ready 20 prove il. lie says, that soon after
President Lincoln's death, President John
-on called OF Mr.. Sumner 10 write him
thanksgiving Proclamation; that Mr.. Sum.
ner wrote il. and il was full Of Christian
spirit and patriotism. Now, President
johnson IS abusing Mr.. Summer as traitor.
while Mr.. Summer hasn't changed particle.
On State politics the Governor said that
he wonld urge the passage Of the franchise
bill 80 soon as the Legislature met /. that
they would sink or swim by that bill. If
Union men could not dsfranchise the
rebels the rebels would disfranchise the
Union men, ard rather than be subject to
their power, he would favor making East
Tennessee separate State. He would
favor, in a special message to the Legisla-
ture, that bonds be issued BY the State TO
pay loyal men for their losses sustained bv
the war, and then he would apply 10 Con-
gress to repay the money 20 the State, which
lac believed they would do These bonds
should impose no additional tax upon the
State
He said he had been abused for not elect
ing judges. The law passed in 1854 pro-
yided for electing judges for eight years. In
1862 the war was in progress and no law
was passed, and until 1870 there will be
none elected. lie was in favor Of increas-
ing their salary TO $4,000.
He said he had more credit at the North
for being Ution man than he deserved.
Some years ago. il Clay or Webster. or
Adams had called me aside and told me it
was best TO have a Southern Confederacy, !
might have BEEN in favor Of Il. because they
were wings; but ] would not start on a
journey TO Heaven with the Democratic
party.
In conclusion ne said: a man who had
fought three years in the rebel army came
to me and said that there was a plot on foot
10 use personal violence on the white teach
ers e the negro schools. Now | don't en-
dorsa these teachers. They have done some
foolish things, and ] can't approve Of them:
bat that don't justify YOU in usinggiolence
TO put them away. ] understand&hey are
soon to leave. The authorities will send
some one here TO take their places. You
had better be satisfied with these few teach
ers for a while, than force them away, and
bring here a regiment Of negroes, who will
worry you all winter. | promised General
Thomas that there should be no more mob
violence here, and ] want You 10 stand by
me. We don't want any more negro troops
here"
After the Governor concluded, the resolu-
tons were passed, as introduced by NJ. l..
Patterson. The resolutions denounce the ac-
ton Of the boilers in the Legislature rs dis
graceful humiliating and revolutionary.
They approve cf the action Of the Knox and
Sewer county members in supporting the
franchise bill. They declare that no one
who has aided the rebellion should be allow
ed 10 participate in the Government They
denounce the public journals for abusingthe
state Government and Congress. They de-
clare that East Tennessee is loyal, and that
before they will submit 10 rebel rule they
will form State Government, free and 10y
al, 10 be called the State of East Tennessee
These resolutions were adopted almost unan-
imously Gen. Cooper then made a few re-
remarks denouncing the action Of the boilers
in the Legislature.
SPEECH or EX-GOVERNOR SEYMOUR, OF CON
NECuCUT
We make the following extract from an
able speech, recently delivered by that no.
bic patriot, THos. II. SEYMOUR, Of Connec-
tcut, at a meeting held at Hartford:
There is a theory Of the transcendental
school, that every person born into the world
has his good and his evil genius; and, that
as one or the other prevails, the man is for
tunate or unfortunate, happy or miserable.
So, too, we may say of nations. The angel
and the demon set out with the infant State.
and follow it through tie centuries till one
or the other prevails. Carthage Greece. and
Rome came 10 naught. Ii is not strange
that America should have her trials also. |
desire TO show, as far as / am able. in a very
brief time, where those trials originated. and
what they are, and whether we have any of
the original evil left Now, it is a prevail
ing opinloH, know, in this country, that all
our troubles are owing 70 ianaticism. Mr..
Buchanan, in his excellent work on the sub
Ject OF his administration, assumes that the
ionaticism of the North produced the fana-
ticism Of the South, and hence the collision
that has carried war and disaster from one
end Of the Union to the other. At the risk
Of being considered paradoxical, | beg leave
20 take a different view. Now, | assume
that mere ianaticism never yet destroyed a
country or ruined State. IL is in the ma
turc of lanaticism 10 exhaust itself after n
few spasmodic struggles, and die away like
"a storm in the forest, or like the pillars Of
sand that go rolling over the desert and af-
Ter while come 90 naught and dwindlc into
ilole hills.
II Won travel in Asia, YOU will find illus
trations enough on this score. In 1921 they
had a sect in France called CoarUlsionarcs, a
fanatical sect, who went about the streets
calling for blood continually. They began
hv holding their services in a graveyard
and ended by making a graveyard of Paris
But France remains. The first year of the
Crusade was a failure, simply because it was
q fanatical crusade 4 wild and disordefly
host having vague idea in them Of the
Holy Sepulchre which they wished TO rescue
from the inhdels. persisted miscrably among
the forests of Hungary and swamps Of Bull
garia. or succeeded in reaching the Asiatic
tide ofthe Bosphorus TO fall a prey TO the
enemies their own outragcs had raised up in
their path. Ii was not until another and diff
iereut element entcreG into the Crusade that
il was successful Mad ambition and the
pride Of kings had quite as much to do with
It as the recovery OF the Holy Sepulchre.
80, too, we hear 81 the attempt Of Mahomet
10 establish new religion as new fanau-
cism There NAV have been fanatics among
the herds he led to battle but Mahomet was
an impostor. and the most successful impos-
ter that ever assailed the religion Of Christ.
Now. my friends, coming 20 our own coun-
try. we have had isms of all kinds more or
less, and what is called fanaticism-a mix
lure sometimes Of good and evil But that
IL not the cause Of our disasters. We must
look for il in another quarter. But | will
tell YOU where to find IT, Ii is set forth in
the farewell message of General Washington.
The President Of the United States ON the
day he addressed his countrymen on the sub
Jet of restoration had in mind that celebra-
ted document, which every Young man who
loves his country and desires that NJ future
may be more bright and prosperous than
that Of any other country in the world,
would do well TO consult. 1t Is full ofwarn-
ing, but not one word that recollect on the