Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-08-14
tennessee.

The intelligence from Tennessee indicates amore
complete and glorious victory than even the most
sanguine anticipated. a despatch received via
Cincinnati states that Brownlows majority will be
thirty thousand and that all the eight Republican
candidates for Congress are elected By the election
OF Republican State Legislature we also secure
successor TO Senator Patterson who will be worthy
colleague 10 Senator Fowler, and thus, from the
frst-resored TO the rebel States and from the home
of Andrew johnson, shall we have in both houses
of Congress solid delegation of loyal and patriotic
men. This result would be eminently gratifying
merely for the accession of strength it will bring TO
the cause Of equal rights and for the triumph of
friends IN Tennessee over their bitter and relentless
enemies. But there is another consideration which
gives il still higher Importance and greatly en-
hances the value Of the victory. II indicates that
the colored voters have sustained their friends with
something approaching very near TO unanimity.-
They have thus vindicated theirown manliness, and
shown that the charges of their enemies that their
votes could be bought for drink or days work
are utterly false and slanderous Undoubtedly
every efsrt has beon made, not only 10 purchase
cajoe, but also TO intimidate them; and by resist
ing these efforts they have proved st once their
gratitude 70 their deliyerers from bondage their po
itical honesty their shrewdness and their courage
The Conservatives piled them with every kind of
argument, inviting them TO public meetings, offer
ing them seats among the speakers, engaging the
services of renegade coloTed orators fatterng them
with the promise of office and lattery, as the can
vass grew warm, threatening and assaultng them;
and the result of their efforts so far as we can Judge
at present. is that they did not secure the vote of one
colored man in hundred. Another fallacy is ex-
posed by this result. IL has been alleged that the
negroes in the country at work on the plantations
would remain uninformed political questions,
and would vote under the instructions of their
ployet Il is evident that this has not been the
in Tennessee, for the larger portion of the col
ored people employed in agricultural labor the
majority announced in the dispatches could not
have been obtained had that class voted against
As it has been in Tennessee will it be in other
Southern States, provided the earnest and
faithful efforts put forth. The negro has shown
on a large scale that he may be depended upon
No matter how much Conservative speech making
he may hear or how much private leeturing from
an employer, that he is also afforded opportu-
nifty Of hearing the truth. There is then no doubt
Jealous work, such thorough and faithful canvas
sing have preceded this election will undoubtedly
secure US the negro vote in every Southern State
Another highly satisfactory feature of this cleo
tion is the disappointment of the President and his
friends in reference to the disturbances which they
expected would take place. 1t was a theory Of the
Copperheads and traitors that if they could only
madden the eolored Unionists into fight they
would be advantaged by it. They thought that
popular sympathy would be excited for white men
attacked by negroes and that they could point to the
event as one of the necessary results of manhood
suffrage. In order TO make the fight a certainty,
they desired to have United States soldiers sent to
Tennessee, already sufficiently protected by the
Ststs militia, hoping thereby TO involve the State in
wiz with the Government. Thanks to the vigor
and trustworthiness Of Coz. Brownlow, peace has
prevailed and Union triumph secured. What a
contrast the able and loyal administration of the
nobe old Governor of Tennessee presents TO that Of
the recreant Governor of Maryland, who pursuing
the path marked out by the President has restored
traitors to power and turned loyal men out in the
| cold. We have been panied to observe the indif-
ference manifested towards the Southern loyalists
| by the representatives of the North. 1t was the
determination and spirit Of that noble band of pa
triots which assembled in Philadelphia last year,
and followed on the trail of Andrew johnson TO
Illinois, that aroused such intense enthusiasm and
aided SO materially in securing the overwhelming
vote Republcanism obtained. We think Governor
Brownlow and his friends should now make another
tour and tell the people Of the North how recreant
some Of their representatives have been. It would
admonish them, when they come back TO Washing
ton next winter not 10 shrink from the performance
of constitutional duty, and seek by-paths around
the Presidential obstruction, instead of moving it
out of the way Washington Chroricle