Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-11-20
Knoxville, Tenn, November ~, .0O.
= Patierson. U. S. IS.

Ho ,isbed gentleman, whose name heaos
This elss2 has been for some TINE the op]ect %
this article End abuse by all the penny-a-iners OF
vtupeTsl.si press Of the State but their futile al
The ka sn de1ame and injure his reputation have
Temps :hor this gentleman nor bis friends the
given. Il is however a matter OF deep re-
Gas lat with the returning reason OF the country
.osyinced by the grand upheavals North, Iennes-
- and the whole country, should lose the services
dis true and able Senator whose only crime, IN
70 ewes Of this Radical party is that he has with
~ Characteristic honesty and zeal ever kept IN view
as the governing motives Of bis public lie, those
idoes Of Justice, admiration for the constitution,
love q liberty and fair-dealing, which character
izcd tie course Of action pursued by our hugh u
Whites Grundys and Bells The country needs
practical statesmen in her public councils and not
such political fire brands as the gentleman VINO has
been chosen as the successor Of Judge Patterson
Tennessee has bad no more upright and able Sena-
tor for years, and while the overwhelming majority
and inconceivable madness Of the Senate mas para
vzed biz uower 10 leglate for the good OF the coun-
tyv. vet his efforts both in and out Of the Senate
have been indeatgable to further tpe Interests OF
cur ueople II is no discredit TO such man to be
abused and supplanted when we remember the
madness which rules in national and legislative
councils.
Patterson. BrownIow as Senators, how marked
the contrast. how pregnant with untold misery to
the people and country at large Good men are
nut aside 10 make room for those who possess neither
the disposition nor ability 70 do right. Truly we
have fallen upon evil times
The above remarkable literary production we
take from the Free Press Of this city. As speci-
men brick Of sycopbancy it challenges comparison.
As an argument against the reliability of the Free
Press. it is unanswerable. What are the facts
Judge Patterson is the smallest potato who wai
ever elected to the Senate from Tennessee. Before
the war an obscure lawyer, unknown beyond the
narrow confines OF the circuit in which he had
practised for something ike twenty years Through
Tho persopal influence Of his father-in-lsw, Presi-
dent Johnson and the force Of party discipline, be
was made Circuit Judge. Through the personal
influence Of his father-inlaw be received sufficient
number Of votes TO turn the scale in the election Of
Senator.
At Washington he mas had no influence whatever
IN the Senate OF out Of IT, even with his own party
except that accruing to him from his relationship to
the President.
Divest Andrew johnson OF the patronage OF the
Executive Office, and Judge Patterson would amount
% no more than a wooden man. Before there was
railroad in East Tennessee when eggs were three
cents per dozen and butter i've cents per pound the
upright ana aDie oehasoi "uu S'"'
didn't realize enough from the practice Of the law
70 pay his hotel bills.
Without debating the question Of his superior
qualifications TO Brownlow, we pronounce the coup
lipg Of the names Of Hugh L. White, Felix Grun-
DIV and John Bell with that Of Dave Patterson as
decidedly rich "goak" Mr.. Press and Times, what
do you think Of i'll
We publish the article of the Free Press for the
amusement Of our Tennessee readers. There is
nothing in The Comic Almanac or "Phunny Phel-'
low 90 equal IT,