Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-14
The Tennessee Juggle.a


The New York Express, one of the boldest
as well as one of the ablest advocatesof Con-
stitutonal Government ard the equality of
the States, exposes and deuounces the len
nessee election farce:
"The result of the bogus election. in Ten
nessee ought not-and, it is to be presuntd,
will not-surprise anybody who has been at
the pains to keep himself informed Of the
conditions of things in that unhappy State.
That Brownlow should have elected himself
by twenty five or thirty thousand majority is
certainly nothing remarkable. While he was
about it, he might as easily have made it fifty
or sixty thousand, or, if need be, unanimous
"The telegraph tells US the whole Of the
eight Congressmen are also elected. Tenncs-
see has one Conservative member in the
present Rump,' butt it looks as if even he
Gin the Memphis district) has been counted
out.
"Now we do rot hesitate to say that this
so-calcd election is, in al.its respects, one of
the bodest and most transparent frauds upon
the people the Country has witne scd since
the accession Of the Radical party to bower
and this is saying not little. About every
man who vas not q Radical was set down as
a Rebel, and no Rebel was permitted 10 vote.
In this way, it is estimated between fifty Aid
sixty thousand white men were disfrarchised;
at the same time that q corresponding nuu:-
Der Of negroes were admitted tt the ballot
box. And, as we have heretofore shown! in
order to prevent the possible election Of any
Of the Conservative candidates, in tic more
seoueste,cd parts of the State, Brown!ow
brought his State militia on the stage TO in
timidate, where intimidation was necessary to
secure tue success Of the Jacobin candidates.
aud now, what is the result Of it all
We answer-to keep Tennessee awhile longer
under one OF tue meancst despotisms with
which ever a people were cursed, aud to send
to Congress seven frauiulcntly elected mem
bers to Lelp make laws, not for Tennessee
alone but FOR US, here in New York, and for
all the rest of the county. These Tennessee
Radical members Of Congress thus forced in
10 the Capitol, as it were. By fraud, force, ter
ror, are to sit there, perchance to make con-
stilutional amendments for us, TO impose tax
es upon US, 10 help impeach and remove the
President, and to aid the Stevenses, tie Sum
ners, the Wilson's, and the Buffers, to plan
new usurpetions and new outrages upon Con-
siitutional Liberty ard the rights Of the pco.
pic huQ dIl tuloJ Dc IL IclOCiuUClSu, "uilt
Democratic and Conservative members from
Kentucky-of whose regular election there
can be no reasonable dCubt-are not permit
ted 10 take their seats. A State that never
rebelled against the Union, but which sent
forty thousand of her sons to suppress the re-
bellion, disranchised-while the negroes and
"mesn whites" of "secesh" Tennessee are
permitted TO send whomsotycr they like to
Congress (provided they be neither Demo-
Gratis nor Conscrvativesj, to strcn.then the
hands Of the tyrants and despois who ere al
ready supreme there
"The wickedness Of this pretended cleo
ton, and the fragrant outrage itperpetuatcs
upon the forms Of even self government, may
be The means OF rousing the people CT the
North and West to the rapidity with y hich
these demsgogues. are sabverting the whole
system Of our Government. The addition &C
these fraudulently chosen members Of Con-
gress to the existing majority of the Rump,
are but so many new links in, the chain they
are forging for us. 1t will help them to main.
tain their Five Monarchy system throughout
the Southern military dependencies. 1t will
enable them, BY aud. bye to give 10 Maryland
what they call "a republican system Of gov
cLuuSuts NHeiSoy <iSy wa &c S14'1S'SN, ~
the negro vote, and the disfrauchiscment Of
rebels to play over again, with like results,
the same game old Bsownlow has just been
playing in Tennessee. 1t will do more than
this. twill enable them to so lay their plans
as to cheat the people out Of free expression
of their will in the next Presidential election.
1t will enable them to perpetuate :nei- power,
to retain their big bounties and high tariffs,
and, in short, to transform. our whole system
of Government into as complete an oliga,chy
as mankind ever beheld.
"We do not know whether the masses of
the people are resigned to. the prospect before
them. If they are, why, then, lis best to
let the Brownlows and the bogus Congress
men have their own way, in peace. If they
are not then the sooner they shake off the
stupor which seems just now to beuumb their
senses, if not to destroy their manhood, the
better. There is no time to lose-for Despo-
tism and Tyranny never beat a retreat Of
their own. accord. If they are obliged 10
turn back, they must be beaten back, or not
at ALL"