The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-03-22
Important Letter from Gov. Brown
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- NAsHyILLE, March 9, 1853.
Hon. VIM. b. Kelley, House ofRepresentatives

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= NAsHyrLLE, March 9. 1853.
! Hon. VIM. b. Kelley, House Of Representatiyes,
Washington, p. c.
Dear Ssr-Inclosed I send you a copy
Of my proclamation, from which you
will learn that a faction of twepty-one
disorganizers have in the spirit OF the
late ubiquitous rebellion, withdrawn
ahd reduced our House of Representa-
tives below q quorum. I need not add
further remarks as the, proclamation
fully discusses the-points at issue. s..
On Friday last the election of county
officers took place throughout the State;
such as Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices, Trus-
tees and Tax-collectors, and in Middle
and West Tennessee the rebels have
made o clean sweep-turning Union
men out and electing their own candi-
dates, who electioneered for Office on the
ground that they were rebels, and either
served in the rebel army, or in some
other capacity had given their influence
to the cause Of treason and traitors.
When Richmond fell and Lee surren-
dered,t rebels, and many who sympa-
thized with them, were very respectful
to Union men, often obsequious. entity
cnlprits, they evidently feared arrest
and punishment, and felt that to be let
alone and allowed to live was all they
had O right to expect. But since par
don has been so multiplied and no man
has been punished, they have every
where become impudent and defiant,
until in most counties in Middle and
West Tennessee it is disreputable to
have been q Union man, or as a South
ern man to have sreved in the Union
army. And matters are growing worse.
The reconstructed traitors openly ours
ing loyal men, and threatening them
with shooting or hanging, trusting that
they have the President on their side,
while we all feel that the Presidents
policy isrllinous to us. ..-s -.
When I put the President in nomina-
ton at Baltimore for the Vice Presiden-
CIV. I felt that he had SO thoroughly COM
mitted himself to the Union cause, and
had been so 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 DEM
ocrats. Every rebel in this country,
every Mcclellan man, and every ex-
guerilla chief, are loud and enthusiastic
in praise of the President. The men
who but a few months since were ours
ing him as an Abolitionist and traitor,
and wishing him executed, are now for
executing all those who dare oppose his
policy or even doubt it's success. s
There is twice the amount of bitter
ness and intolerance in the South to-day
toward the Union and everything North
h NJ no nf
surrender. Abuse of Union men of the
Radical majority in Congress, and self
assumed superiority onthe part of the
Southern chivalry, have arisen to such a
height that loyal men cannot travel ON
steamboat or in a railroad car, without
being insulted. As it was during the
war, SO it is now-all concessions from
the North or from the majority in Con-
gress, are regarded as evidences Of fear.
All the old rebel hopes of 1861, and
many new ones, are in full blast, threat
ening Congress and the North with ulti-
mate vengeance and boasting of Southern
prowess. The most popular men in the
most of Tennessee to-day are the men
most distinguished for their hostility to
the North, and what they are pleased
to term the radical Congress- and they
are the class of men elected to fill offices,
as the late county elections show. The
same is true Of the entire South, only to
q greater eatent! In word they are re-
solved on breaking up the Government
and expect to carry out their scheme
through the ballot bon, and how men of
candor aud intelligence can represent
them as loyal and kindly disposed is a
to me, even in this age OF re-
bellion and treachery. I do not under
stand them, and my opportunities for
their temper and ultimate pur-
pose are as good as those Of most men.
Why, sir, many of them are expecting
the President to disperse Congress with
the bayonet, as Cromwell dispersed the
long Parliament. The Southern heart
is being rapidly fired to deeds Of war:
and all this and more, as l believe has
been caused by the mistakes of the Presi-
dent. His plan of trusting rebels with
their State governments has had an eff
feet exactly theopposite Of what he in
tended. It has ruined the prospects of
the Union men, and they feel that there
is no safety for them unless Congress
should choose to protect them. Even
three days ago Gen. Thomas had to send
troops Into Marshall county, some sixty
miles distant, to protect loyal men and
freedmen who were fleeing for safety to
the city, 80 /. ~ -
So far as am individually concerned,
the intemperate abuse Of rebels, the de-
nunciation and black-guardism OF their
reconstructed journals, the threats Of
personal violence from these amnestied
patriots, and the annoyance of letters
Of towards threatening my assassination,
all fall harmless at my feet. No Earth
ly power can drive me from the support
Of the men and party who fought the
battles Of the late war and put down the
rebellion. $50 -.t .zs,,+, ...s==..
Very respectfully, your obt serv't
40 ~ Nv. q. BRowNLOw, Gov'r of Tennessee.
Several recent occurrences have served
to shake the confidence of the people in
the whole detective system. In st. Louis,
the other day, three detectives were dis
missed the service for being unpleasantly
mixed up in the late great Express rob-
berry. In New York it is beginning to
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