New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-02
POLITICAL.
TENNESSEE.


PROCLAMATION FROM GOV. BRowNIow-HE DENIES
THE AUTHORITY or COUNTY CLERKS TO APPOINT
ELECTION OFFICERS.
OF rELEahAPa Tribune
NASHVILLE, July Judge CAN'T, Chairman OF the
Conservative General Committee recently adureSSeu
circular to the County Courts requesting them 10 appoint
officers TO hold the State elections assuming that the law
giving them the power had not been repeated Gov
HroxVnlo issued proclamation this morning declaring
that the County Courts have no authority 10 act as
huested that the power TO appoint officers 10 hod eec
tions has been taken from them and conferred upon o
Commissioners Of Registration He denounces the CIT
cylr az sdtons wicked and revolutionary and warns
thu County Courts against acting on its advice as they
will Law themselves liable to punishment He concludes
nv ordering Gen. Cowper dispose Of the Militia under ms
command SO as to the Franchise law IN It's eter
and spjrt The political canvass In Tennessee Is Decom
ing quite animated and exciting. A merchant named
Rice was killed at Jacksonville yesterday; politics were
the cause.
SPEECH OF JUDGE MILLS BEFORE THE UNION
LEAGUE CLUB OF NETWORK.
The Union League Club held special meeting last
evening in pursuance of request made by IS its mem
bers TO hear address from Judge Mills OF Nashville Oh
cha Political Condition Of Tennessee John jay, ESQ.,,
beSg intSodneed said that What he should say Of Ten
nessee was the result Of his own personal ODD
enabled him TO accurate knowledge OF the pol
iGSi copo a S yf az nonm in tennessee which en-
gendered hate that has become still intensified
since Stanbery's opinion Reconstruction The eyi-
dences of this present for the August cleo
ton numerous, aud the issue OF me contest ue
ponds whether loyal shall hold the state iGrever OF
be- compelled 20 leave it and seek homes elsewners
from Rebel persecution AS II rs they are o Psd
socially and have no place IN society inc name ~ h d
cal. by which all Union men are called Is detesteu Ie
tegneS and saw that the ground Radicals walk upon
should be cursed. The tTadesmah who does not hang
w II Ran ns u store one of Uop
Those Northern ladies Who with such praisew0Tthhy
the of niger teachers ana as sneh are OdtiSo
by Rebel society. We're it not for the militia IL would be
Impossible for loyal man to live in Tennessee YET
there sometimes appear In Northern Journals statements
that Brownlow's militia Is running riot throughout the
State Were it not for the militia there could be no cleo
ton The $4,000 black men who have been enranchse9
90 vote with white men. The truth is that
not onehaf the coored people have any idea OF what
form them The Rebels have more than 50 newspapers
three such visits those Of Judge Kelley and Senator
wilson are entirely deceptive for In such eases cases
as these the Rebels tTS care fG produce 70 Sp an in
tended effect. The test is for Northern man
20 SDd thus to experience the GOODNESS Of the reception
he would meet with, then the persecution ana nna ne
second rebellion. They view everything done oy sns
Legislature as uneonSttutShs NAV seem to
have nothing TO preserve ana C, ain R,S az b
II is certain that ninetyne out of every hundred Of the
coOred would vote the Union ticket II lear Su no
kd Oh them for subsistence they have got to
Snta as they are directed, leave their cabins The
tse ~ the coming contest depends the negro vOte
and oircumstanced they are, more imam nan tne
vote of the cOlOred men must be got, ana 10
this end the assistance Of New-YOrk is needed zen
n II Tbomss secretary of the State Central Committee
was then called on to address the Clup ana IeIlA %
chat the Rebels had Just sent TO NewI some old
practical politicians to collect the loan OF SoOVv to
hon puTposes In Tennessee He believed the pest way 70
reach the coored people through then own Drother
and the cost of each thus engaged IN the cOntes
would he about 500 for the ensuing month 1hre are
many places the State where II would DE inpossoe VI
least to register cOlOitu MAI 'Vte
unless surrounded with bayonets Having ooen lol
consderable time Gov. BrOwnoW's secretary ne mas
ehe TO contradict the falsehOOds that had peer ueeu
ahout him. throughout the country. IhOugh veIy, un
snarng In vigorous words when dealing Win pohc9l W
moments the Governor was gentle IN the PINates
relations of life, and the most ,ioighNddds %
men as the petitions for pardon ne hau re-
Commended abundanty proved but the position ne oe-
onpies needs man of fire, and no other coud MI ~ me
militia about which much has been sai9 CONSISTS Vi
but 10 or II companies placed in the most ulslOy cou
ties of the State The whole history OF the annung OF
fbe registry that ambitious politicians had repre-
eented men to have been loyal 20 the Government
who were proved have been exRebels ana dlslO!a'
and whose were therefore taken from the
registry. The Governor now appoints the
Registers but formerly the appointing power was Neeu
In the County Courts. and as these County courts
Rebe IL followed that the Registers were dsloyal Inc
General believed that with IS good speakers 10 CANVASS
lhe state the election could be secured and eght Mem
ber returned to Congress The issue OF the contest was
he said to determine that but loyal men IN Ienhe
nae shall vote and that the dslOyal shall not vote A
subscription list then opened and the members pres
sut subscribed their names.