Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-04-18
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR BROWNLOW.

Governor Brownlow has been at his
home, in Knoxville, for some days, re-
cruiting his shattered health. AT the ln-
vitatiou Of the German Union League OF
that city, he addressed large assemblase
of his fellow citizens on Saturday even
ing.
He prefaced his remarks by asking
their indulgence, as he Was feeble, but
promised them to be brief and to the
point. He said that parties were again at
work, seeking an ascendency in the Gov
ernment. The Democratic party, under
a new guise aud new leaders, was again
asking countenanGe from the people The
firing on Sampler was Democratic meas
ure. The Southern States were all Dem
ocratic when they went in the rebellion.
The revenue stamps you are nov taxed
with are Democratic, and so are shinplas-
tcrs.
l announce to you that ii Andy John
son is TO lead the way in reconstruction,
with the Democratic party at his back, |
20 the other way. l 90 with the Con
gress of the United States, the so-called
radicals. l do not fear to side with them
The name of radical has no terrors for
me. have been known as damned
blue light Whig" and damned lunatic,"
aud | think i. cheap if they will nov let
me off by calling me damned radical" !"
There are 'two human monsters" now
engaging the attention of the American
people. Their names are on every mans s
lips. | refer to Sumner and Stevens
President johnson is engaged in bitter
warfare against them. TO abuse these
men is the test of the loyalty Mr.. john
son prescribes. They are both men Of
ability aud unblen.ished private character.
Stevens 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. | am not afr aid
to endorse these men on my cwn dung
hill" We mus: all be radicals or recon
structet Democrats. Iprefer to side with
the former class.
On the negro sufiage question have
only to say that, fer the President, l am
willing to be coz rent with the freedom Of
the slaves, and with the privilege given
them to testify in our courts. differ
from President johnson on this subject
lie says he is in favor of allowing negroes
to vote who can read, who are worth $3.50,
vE0 have been in the army; and of grad
ually extending the right of suffrage to
all. 1t was through his influence that we
succeeded in passing the negro testimony
bill through our Tennessee Legislature
lie vro,e letters, and sent kilograms, ask
ing members to support the bill 1t was
through his help the bill became law
He went further than | ever did l want
them to be qualified first :; it will come in
time. They voted in Tennessee prior to
1882.
| have some secrets to tell Of the freed
mems bureau bill. | think the bill vas
Objectionable, and it might have been
proper for me to veto it, but President
johnson ought not to have done it
Generals Howard and Fiske drew up that
bill. They carried it to the President
and read it to him, section by section
He favored it. General Fiske thought
the expense would be too great, but the
President said "no," He urged it, and
promised to sign 1t if Congress should
pass it. 1t went through both Houses -
In The meantime he got into personal
quarrel with Sumner and others, and
when the bill came before him for his sig
nature he vetoed it, after having promised
to favor it. This is a secret, but true.
| am in favor of the test oath, aad don't
want it repealed, aud it wont be, thank
God There are crippled rebels in Wash
ington who want to govern this country,
and l am opposed to letting them in-I
They wouldn't help govern the country.
President johnson can't carry single |.
State south Of Mason's line but Kentucky, /
and I wish he would carry that State to
''heil."
They had forty papers in Tennessee,
and but seven of them are loyal. The
thirty-three are bitter, artful, rebel sheets
many Of them edited by Northern Cop
perheads-,he mednest class of men that
walk on earth. They are meaner than
j udas Iscariot. Arnold and Burr were
patriots compared to them.
Our State Legislature is at lock-
twenty one members bolted. They all