The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-02
Tennessee and Missouri.

of their unfortunate sisters. In rela-
tion to the former, we have already
referred to and quoted from the re-
cent address put forth by her infa-
nous Governor, Brownlow. This
wretch was elected Governor of that
unhappy State during tho war, when
her best citizens were serving ia one
or other Of the armies thcn in the
field, and since his election curse
and blight seem to have fallen upon
the ill-fated State. A Legislature Of
kindred base spirits has supported
Brownlow in all his devilish schemes,
and unless the hand OF superior au-
thority be stretched out to save the
true and- good within her borders, it
is likely she will become depopulatcd
and desolatc.
We thought that this bad man
Brownlow, in his late address, had
reached the summit Of infamy, but
since then he has attended radical
meeting in Jonesboro, in that State,
and being unable to speak, he had
his intended speech printed AMI cir
culated. In this diabolical produc-
ton, he says that every rebel must
leave the State, and that If any should
be killed, lie guarantees pardon to Me
murderer. Under those circumstances,
Of course, the life of no man Of for
mer Southern proclivities will be safe,
MS there are doubtless hundreds of
his hell-hounds throughout the State
who Will accept the murdcrous propo-
sition thus made, either for the sake
of plumber or actuated by the same
fiendish hatred that lives and burns
in the breast of Brownlow.
IN Missouri, things are not much
better The old Missouri; question:"
despatch says, was not half so
threatening to the peace of the coun-
try as this question which is now pre-
scnted by the present political condi-
ton Of the State. The election takes
place in that State in November, and
politics arc raging very fiercely. The
radical organs have predicted, if not
invoked social war, and the con-
servatives, rs will be recollected, have,
through their delegates to Philadcl-
phia, asked protection from the Pro
sidcnt, and received q favorable re-
sponsc. It is stated, however, that
these we'll disposed citizens will not
need military aid, rs they will be able
to take care Of themselves, except,
perhaps, in few counties.
This is truly sad condition of af-
fairs, and the danger is being daily
augmented by the inccndiary and in
nammatory addresses of the radical
orators and journals throughout the
whole country. Should they succeed
in their devilish plots in Tennessee
and Missouri, we may be we'll assured
that the new war will not stop there,
but sweep like q tornado through
every Southern State, as we'll as
through the West and the North.
It will be war to which the sectional
war from which we have lately
emerged will be but child's play, for
it will not only be fought on fair
battle fields, but will pervade every
neighborhood, and spread from house
to house, presenting scene that the
mind cannot dwell on without horror.
It is to save the country from this
anarchy and bloodshed that the con-
scrvative men of all sections met re-
Gently in Philadelphia; and shall we,
like Nero fiddling, indulge in quibbles
about resolutions and platforms,
thereby furnishing weapons to the
incendiaries and destructives, while
they are organizing compactly for our
destruction? The opponents of this
gang of radical blood-hounds must
move in harmony and in solid pha-
lanx, or the direst evils will befal the
country.
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