Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-21

Gov. BrownlOw denies that he is in favor
of extending amnesty. Should no action
be taken before the new Legislature con,
venes in October, a number of years must
elapse before the franchise law can be
changed by that body. We mistake the
temper Of the liberal Republicans Of Ten
nessee if they are satisfied with this state
Of affairs-Ne0 York Tribune, Aug. l6h.
"The liberal Republicans are in so
great minority in this State as to be
utterly powerless Instead of producing
the result which the Tribune seems to
think it should, the triumph Of the Radi-
cal party in the late election seems to
have strengthened the malignity of the
leaders of that organization. There has
been great deal said by the Radicals,
aud especially by Gov Brownlow, as to
the bad conduct of the Conservatives in
the late canvass 1t is a singing rebuke
TO all these broad assertions that with the
loyal militia commanded by men
more than anxious to make arrests
of Conservatives, and with a judi
ciarv ready to do the bidding of the Gov
ernor to infict punishment, the only
arrest that has been made for violation +
the law during the late canvass, was that
Of Major Alden, one of Brownlow S Com
missioners Of Registration, and Radical
candidates for Mayor Of this city They
have made laws under which the APP
ponents Of the Radical government
could be arrested and punished upon
very slight pretexts. The will to
make arrests and iniict punishment has
not BEEN Wanting But the Conserva-
tives have conducted themselves, under
very trying circumstances, it must be
admitted, with such propriety that their
malignant prosecutors could find
no excuse for arresting and trying
them. With these facts before the
country, the Governor of the great State
of Tennessee belittles the Office he fills by
writing letters in which he declares that
''the bad conduct Of the Rebel papers
and politicians during our late canvass,
has satisfied him that our franchise law
is right" and that IF the Rebels wish
peace, let them submit TO the laws of this
State; ifthey desire the reverse, let them
commence agitation What viii be
the verdict of impartial history upon a
Governor who makes such assertions as
these in the face of the fact that under
the stringent laws he has procured to be
enacted, bis minions have failed to dis
cover cause for the arrest and
punishment of single citizen be-
longing to the political party that
opposes him There is not a right
thinking man in OF out Of Tennes-
see who does not feel that the Governor
and his chosen cohorts do not desire to
see peace and quiet prevail in this State,
and spirit Of brotherly love animating
its citizens. There is not an honest man
in or out of Tennessee, at all familiar
with the history Of the past twenty-eight
months. who does not know, and must
confess if he will obey his conscience,
that Gov. Brownlow and the little eoterie
ofmalignants by whom he has been sur
rounded, and to whose poisonous his-
sings he has lent willing ear, had it IN
their power any day during that PEI
riod 10 have made the people OF
Tennessee as nearly one in senti~
ment in feeling, in interest, and in
action, as it is possible to make the peo~
pie Of u State; to have inaugurated
harmony among the people and respect
for the authorities But instead, he and
his clique pyndered to the worst pas
sions of the worst element in and out of
the Federal army claiming this State as
home, and the result is, Tennessee il In
more deplorable condition tosdav than
any State in the Union Georgia with
its Pope, or South Carolina, with its
Siokles, is not so poor and down. trodd9n
as Tennessee, so tyrannized over as this
people and we are exultingly toA that
the next two years is TO be but repeti-
ton Of the past two.