Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-05-09
BrownloW Counselling
Murder.

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| (Mass.) of the 9th we find a re-
markable letter from Cleveland,
Tenn, from which we take the
following extract below. Had
we found the letter in a democrat.
ic paper or in republican paper
less respectable than the Repub.
lica',, we should not have noticed
it. But finding it in one of the
most respectable of republican
papers, we can but regard it as a
very important, and so far as we
can tell, a truthful statement of
facts-of facts that condemn
WIN. G. BRowNLow as infamous
beyond any man of the present
generation:
What can the thinking Union
men of Tennessee expect in the
way of civil peace and prosperity
with a man at the helm of state
whose course has always been SO
strongly marked by passion and
violence? Has he ever shown a
single quality of the statesman?
Is there any consistency in his
character or history? When the
war broke out he was the ardent
and bitter supporter of southern
institutions" 1t required pro-
tracted and patient remonstrance
rtQ prevent his Wing from espous-
ing the confederacy. We can
excuse him for that, and every
other weakness; but we are mere
ly calling attention to his charac-
ter. When he escaped from the
rebel prison, and went North, he
devoted his time to criticising the
federal government and berating
the war department. He is al
ways CON. Like his brother at
Washington, he is more than
ready to bite at whatever barks
at him. They both make enemies
where self-control would secure
friends. But both are ready to
call their passion a virtue, and
glory in their shame. The two
qualities of organization referred
to, which they have in common,
are among the main causes OF the
failure of their several admins
trations. For though Governor
Brownlow has been for the most
part successful in securing the
adoption of his plans and placing
his pets in position, his failure to
wisely and impartially administer
the laws has been as ignoble and
signal as that of johnson to en-
force his 'policy."
Unless those high in authority
under him have lied and sealed
it with an oath, Gov. Brownlow
has encouraged and coaa,selled as
Sault, riot, naob-1aao and mnder.-I
More than a gear ago, 1 heard one
Of those ''prasdent and experienced
men, mo,O "placed IN charge Of
that state guard" s,oear that he
had a standing pardon from the
governor, and he aooatld shoot aolsou,
he pleased, and at a subsequent pc
a9od, also soitls6's may oaon observa-
ton, the same man profered to sat
the action to the aoord, and I haze
no doubt scould haze doneso prompt
ly, had not has demands made IN
uiolatioa of oil laao, been at once
complied aoith.
These facts do not stand alone an
their class.
The governor no doubt deserves
credit for some things. But when
he SO very modestly offers himself
a candidate for a second election
and q third term as governor of
Tennessee, it will not do for him
to attempt through his organs, and
orders, and proclamations, to make
the people of other States believe
that all who humbly deem him
an unsuitable person for the high
trust are Rebels and traitors and
Johnsonites; nor that they are
not even republicans, and many
of them as Radical but less rash
than himself. But, then, the pub
lie know that the people OF
the State, in convention assem-