Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-07-24

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MEssRs. ED1roRse The contest upon which Gas
we cOnsider) the future veal or woe Of the people
Of Tennessee depends, i At length in full blast
Emerson Etheridge, the candidate Of the Conserva-
tive alias rebel party is stumping the State and the
Union men should be Cup and doing" not thai we
think there is any possible chance for Etherioge 70
be elected, bat we should like for Gov Bro"niow "
/ beat him as badly as possible. And "hO Is 'H0
Hon. Emerson Etheridge9 A man VINO "As mr.
rested BY Pap" Thomas fer reasonable speeches J
a man who n Middle Tennessee, said, don't sup
aos. he vili say IL in East Tennessee) show me 3
Fodersi soldier and 4 win show you Lincoln hire
linz who has been a thief and a highway robber.7
A washington City gambler, who represents the
moral worth and intelligence Of the country This
is the who represents the so-called Conserya-
tive party, but which is in reality the old rebel
party in disguise.
No matter by what name tits called, Tory, Dem
ocrat Rebel or Conservative, it is composed Of the
rebels, sibdued, but not Conquered, beaded by A
johnson, and is recognized by the true Union men
Of The country as the party known as Che tory parry
during the revolution and later the party which
plunged our ration into civil war; and # is known
as the same combination of traitors who attempted
TO stab the nation 10 its vitals who welcomed our
nations brave defenders, the truest and best the
nation possessed, "wth bloody hands TO hospitable
graves"
With hands still dripping with the blood Of our
countrys defenders, scarcely before the groans of
our brave boys, murdered with all the bsrbarity
(which the ingenuity Ct fends in human form could
invent have died upon the ear, they come up and
talk persistently about their rights (which W.
G. Brownlow defined TO consist hrst of rightto be
hung, and secondly Of a right TO be damned and
attempt TO ride into power under the name Of "Con-
servatiye and with the impudenee of his Satanic
Majesty, they ask the aid of the q boys in blue to
put them into power and having received that aid,
when in power they would denounce them as "Lin-
coin hirelings" and highway robbers. But thank
God the returned Federal soldiers who have wrested
their arms from their grasp do not intend to be thus
humbugged, and to arm them with weapon
roightier than the sword.
And the colored men of Tennessee, now posses
sing their votes, understand them thoroughly They
understand that it is the same party who have so
long deprived them of those God-given rights which
were theirs by nature the same party which they
encountered on hundreds of the battlefelds of the
late war; the same party, though changed in name,
which mastered them at Fort Pillow, Memphis
and New Orleans; the same party whose represen-
tative in Tennessee, E. Etheridge said: The man
who goes about the country telling the negroes that
they are Free shoot him down"
The Union men are all wide awake, and they in
tend that the Gubernatorial Chair of the State of
Tennessee shall be AGAIN filed by that tried and
fearless champion Of the Union party W. G. Brown
low and they intend to return E. Etheridge to his
gambling shop at Washington, which, from long
practice, he is better qualified to fill. More anon
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