Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-29
BROWNLOW.
Characteristic Speech from Governor
BrOwnIOw-He tells a Damaging
Seeret-JOhnsOn Can't Carry a State
but Kentucky.

Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, sd.
dresseda meeting at Knoxville, on Satur.
day evening, March oath. We make
some extracts from his characteristic ad-
dress;
The Democratic party, under a new
guise and new leaders, was again asking
c~ountenance from the people. The firing
On Sumter was a Democratic measure.
The Southern States we're all Democratic
when they went into rebellion. The re-
enu stamps you are now taxed with are
Democratic, and so are shinplssters. 1
~nnoun to you that if Andy johnson is
to lead the way in reconstruction, with the
Democratic party at his back, I go the
| other ICdg; go Nth the Congress Of the
United States, the So-eaUed Radicals.
So far as the reconstruction policy of the
| President is developed, 1 do not indorse
it. I do indorse his policy as Military
| Governor of Tennessee. 1 indorse his let
Ter accepting the Baltimore nomination.
Endorse his declaration that ifthere were
but five thousand Union men in a State
hey should govern such State. I indorse
his declaration that treason should be made
5dious. If we differ, it is he who has
changed.
There are "two human monsters now
engaging the attention of the American
people. Their names are on every mans
Ups l refer to Sumner and Stevens.
President johnson is engaged in a bitter
warfare against them. To abuse these
men is the test ofthe loyalty Mr.. johnson
prescribes. They are both men of ability
and unblemished private character. Stew
ems has sacrificed more for the Union than
any five men in East Tennessee, and is
: better man than any two men who ever
lived in the South. We must all be Rad
ieals or Reconstructed Democrats. 1 pre-
Ter to side with the former class.
1 have some secrets to tell Of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill. I think the bill was
Objectionable, and it might have been
proper for me TO veto it but President
johnson ought not to have done it. Gems.
Howard and Fisk drew up the bill. They
carried it to the President and read it to
him, section by section. He favored it.
General Fiske thought the expenses would
be too great, bHt the President said "no."
de urged it and promised TO sign it if
Congress should pass it. 1t went through
both Houses. In the meantime be got in
s personal quarrel with Sumner and others
and when the bill came to him for his sig
nature he vetoed it after promising to
iavor it. This is a secret, but true.
1 am in favor OF the test oath, and don't
want 1t repealed, and it won't be, thank
God. There are crippled rebels in Wash
ington who want to govern this country
and l am opposed to letting item in.
They wouldn't help govern the country.
President johnson can't carry a single
State North of Mason line but Kentneku.
and | wish he would carry that State to
shell"
The people of the North are for the
Union. l have written letters to Colfax.
Kelly, and others, for which 1 have been
sbused by the rebels all through the
South There Is no loyalty in TIE South.
They are more defiant to-day than when
Lee surrendered. The Tennessee dele
gates ought to be admitted when they
take the oath.
They had forty papers IN Tennessee, and
but screen Of them are loyal. Tie thirty
three are bitter, Gr1uI rebel sheets, many
q them edited By Northern Copperheads-
the naednest class of men that aOaLk the
Earth. They are meaner than Judas Is
CARROT. Arnold and Burr we're patriots
compared to them.