The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-14
TENNESSEE.
GOVERNOR BROWNLOW'S ADDRESS TC
THE PEOPLE.

LIE IEOE LIZ.
Governor Brownlow has published long
address to the State, in which he reviews the
action of the Democrats in the Legislature, in
opposing colored suffrage, answers the
charges that he was formerly defender of
slavery, and presents the situation as fol-
lows:--
There are but two parties in this country,
and in the nature of things there can be but
two parties now-one the party for the Union
the Republican party, or, if you please, the
American Congress. The other is the repre-
sentative of the Rebel party, sometimes calling
National Union party H and again t the oonstitu
uonai Denoerauc S party. This ring-streaked
Rebellion. and it Is time to leave it in its
wick edness We have but two alternatives
We must go with the Rebel party, with all their
with the only party competent to crush it, and
that is the Republican party. We have again
before us the issues of 1851, and the Republican
party alone has the power to save us. Whether
successful or otherwise at the polls, L stand
upon this platform OF principle.
al am charged with Inconsistency, in that
am, as an old Line Wing; advocating the Rrin,
Congress i has inaugurated Henry olay's Amer
can system-a system that have advocated for
the last thirty G years Brotssctiye tariff the
Improvement of rivers and harbors, the esta-
blishment of national currency. etc, fill Mr..
have all the time contended for. With what
show of consistency can Uplon men of any
stripe now come out and act with the Rebel
Democratic partyf The Democracy of the
South inaugurated the Rebellion, and the
Democracy of the North aided, abetted, encou-
ragged, and sustained the Rebellion. The Demo-
cratic leaders resolved in their Chicago Con-
vention, in 1854, that the war for the Union was
failure, and Mr.. Etheridgej Joined them in the
support OF their ticket-encouraging and sup
porting desertions from the Union army
"The Southern m Democratic Rebellion cost. This
carried mourning and desolation into every
household, North and South. The Democratic
leaders instigated riots at the North; they con-
spired to release the Rebel prisoners at Camp
Douglas, and TO surrender Northern cities to
their tender mercies! And this same party
nerved the arm of Booth to assassinate the
patriot Lincolnl
I'm perfect keeping with the rebellious spirit
of the Rebel Democracy, North and South has
been the action of the late reasonable oonclave
at Nashville. They have nominated tor Gov
ernor Emerson Etheridge, who advised the
people of Tennessee, on the stump, as late as
1865 to overthrow the State Government
by force-to shoot down the tax collectors aud
much slaves as they ever were-and for this
treason he was arrested and imprisoned by
Major. General Thomas. This man represents
the spirit and principles OF the Convention that
nominated him. and all this class of traitors will
rally to his support The nomination of Mr..
Etheridge was not made in the expectation of
electing him. but to produce mischief. Promi-
nent members of the Convention admitted, the
evening after the nomination was made. that
they did not expect to elect him. This nomi-
nation of q man who has been Matching and
plotting treason and sedition against the State
Government since its organizations; a man who
proclams that the State Constitution has not
been amended; that the coored people are yet
slaves; that violence in overthrowing the State
Government is justifable that disobedience to
the laws and breaking up of the courts are
also justifable-all this discloses a state OF the
Rebfl mind that many good men did not think
existed; and in the estimation of the publicju
| titles the enactment of the Militia Law and
| other extreme radical measures.
"WheTever these violent speeches are made
! inflaming the bad passions Of bad men, deem
| IL my duty TO station troops, and shall do so
| let the consequences be what they may. And
| although the greatest imaginable freedom of
! the Spress and of speech should be allowed to
men of all parties, and the conduct of public
! men and their measures should be criticized
| without reserve, do not conceive it to be the
| duty of the State guards TO stand quietly by
and hear any man excite the mob spirit by
| denouncing the Federal and State Govern
| ments resistance to the courts, and the set
| ting aside of their decisions by force or mob
with these opinions briefly set forth, submit
NV interests TO the loyal voters at the ballot
| box 10 be disposed OF on the first Thursday in
! August so far as l am individually ly concerned
NV success or defeat will amount to nothing
but IL is of the first Importance to the State aud
10 the Union men, that the principles which my
| nomination represents should triumph.
''W. G.. BRoWNLoW,
"May s, 1867"