Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-03-29
FAYETTEVILLE. TENN.
Thursday Morning, March 20, 1866
A. Radical Blast.
Gov. Brownlow assails
President Johnson.

The Hon. W. D. Kelley, one Of
the Representatives in Congress
from Pennsylvania, delivered a
lecture before the "Social, Civil,
and Statistical Association of the
colored people of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia on the evening of
the 18th inst, on the Changers
and Duties of the Hour" the
greater portion of which was de-
voted to the most violent abuse Of
President johnson. The Phila-
delphia Press, which gives full
report of his lecture, says the au.
dience was composed of both sex.
es and colors," and he was intro.
duced to this molly assemblage
as "the great champion of free
dom and equal rights" We ex-
tract from the lecture few of the
salient points:
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AssAILED BY
GOVERNOR BRoWNLoW.
How faithless this man, who
now claims the confidence of his
abused fellow-citizens, has been to
all these pledges, let that unfalter-
ing patriot, VIM. G. Brownlow,
Governor of Tennessee. tell. ]
have q letter from him, written
just one week ago. 1t is fearful
commentary on the unworthiness
of this mans most sacred pledges.
That you may hear exactly what
he says | will read it all, from date
to signature:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, NASH
WILLIE, March S, lS66.-Hon. VIM
D. Kelley, House of Representa-
tives-Dear Sir: Enclosed | send
you a copy of my proclamation,
from which you will learn that a
faction of twenty-one disorganizers
have, in the true spirit of the late
iniquitous rebellion, withdrawn,
and reduced our House of Repre-
sentatives below aquorum. need
not add further remarks, as the
proclamation fully discusses the
points at issue.
On Friday last the election of
county officers took place through
out the State, such as clerks, sher-
ifs, justices, trustees and taX-col-
lectors, and in Middle and West
Tennessee the Rebels have made
a clean sweep, turning the Union
men out and electing their own
candidates, who electioneered for
Office on the ground that they
were Rebels, and had either served
in the Rebel army or in some 9TH
er capacity had given their infu-
ence to the cause of treason and
traitors.
When Richmond fell and Lee
surrendered, Rebels, and many
who sympathized with them, were
very respectful to Union men, Of
ten obsequious; guilty culprits, they
evidently feared arrest and pun
ishment, and felt that to be let
alone and allowed to live was all
they had right to expect. But,
since pardons have been so multi
piled and no man has been pun
ished, they have everywhere be-
come impudent and defiant until,
in most counties in Middle and
West Tennessee it is disreputable
to have been a Union man, or, as
Southern man, to have served in
the Union army. And matters
are growing worse; the recon-
slructed traitors openly cursingI
loyal men, and threatening that
they have the President on their
side, while we feel that the Presi-
dents policy is ruinous to us.
When | put the President in
nomination at Baltimore for the
Vice Presidency, | felt that he had
SO thoroughly committed himself
to the Union cause, and had been
50 badly treated by the Rebels, it
was impossible for him ever to get
round to them again; but | give
him up as lost to the Union party,
and as the man who is to head the
Rebels and Democrats. Every
Rebel in this country, every Nc
Clellan man, and every ex-guerril-
la chief are loud and enthusiastic
in praise of the President. The,
men who, but few months since,
were cursing him for an abolition j
st and traitor, and wishing him