The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-22
Fl. j. MAXWELL,
W. j. WHIPPER,
TENNESSEE.

GOV. BRowNLow's ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
Gov. Brownlow has published long adj
dress to the voters of the State, IN which he
reviews the action of the Democrats in the
Legislature, in opposing colored suffrage;
answe.s the charges that he was formerly
defender of Slavery. and presents the situa-
tion as follows:
"There are but two parties In this country
and in the nature of things there can be but
two parties now-one the party for the Tn
ion, the Republican party, or it you please,
the Radical party, standing up to and endor-
sing the American Congress. The other is
the representative of the Rebel party, some
times calling itself the conservative party,
sometimes the National Union party, and
again the Constitutional Democratic party.
This ring -streaked and striped Rebel party,
led us into war and rebellion, and it is time
to leave it in its wickedness. We have but
two alternatives. We must go with the
Rebel party, with all their infamy and the
blackness of their record, or with the only
party competent to crush it, and that is the
Republican party. We have again before us
the issues of 1861, and the Republican party
alone has the power to save US. Whether
successful or otherwise at the polls, stand
upon this platform of principle.
am charged with inconsistency. in thatI
am, as an Old Line Wing, advocating the
principles of the Republican parry. A Re-
publican Congress has inaugurated Henry
Clay's American system-a system that |
lave advocated for the last 80 years. A
protective tariff, the construction of the
great Pacific Railroad, the improvement of
rivers and harbors, the establishment of
national currency, &C., fill Mr.. Clay's bill
fully and gives the country what I have all
the time contended for. With what show
of consistency can Union men of any stripe
now come out and act with the Rebel-Dem-
ocratic party9 The Democracy of the South
inaugurated the rebellion, and the Democra-
cy of the North aided, abetted, encouraged,
and sustained the rebellion. The Demo-
cratic leaders resolved in their Chicago Con-
vention, in 1864, that the war for the Union
was failure, and Mr. Etheridge joined them
in the support OF their ticket-encouragl
and supporting assertions from the Union
army
The Southern Democratic rebellion cost
this country 100000 lives, and $4,000, 000,-
900, and carried mourning and desolation
into every household, North and South. The
Democratic leaders instigated riots at the
North; they conspired to release the Rebel
prisoners at Camp Douglas, and to surrender
Northern cities to their tender nercies !
And this same party nerved the arm of
Booth to assassirate the patriot Lincoln
spirit of the Rebel Democracy, North and
South, has been the action of the late treas
enable conclave at Nashville They have
nominated for Governor Emerson Etheridge,
who advised the people of Tennessee, on the
stump, as late as 1865, to overthrow the
State Government by force-to shoot down
the tax collectors and negroes-assertedt that
the negroes were as much slaves as they ever
were-and for this reason he was arrested
and imprisoned by Major-Gen. Thomas
This man represents the spirit and principles
of the Convention that nominated him, and
all this class of traitors will rally to his sup
port. The nomination of Mr.. Ethcridge was
not made in the expectation of electing him,
but to produce mischief Prominent MEM
bers of the Convention admitted, the eve
ming after the nomination was made, that
they did not expect to elect him. This
nomination of man who has been hatch
ing and plotting treason and sedition against
the State Government since its organization !;
a man who proclaims that the State
Constitution has not been amended; that
the colored people are yet slaves; that vio-
lence in overthrowing the State Government
is justifable: that disobedience to the laws
and the breaking up of the courts are also
justifiable All this discloses state of the
Rebel mind that many good men did not
think existed; and in the estimation of the
public justifes the enactment of the Militia
| Law" and other extreme Radical measures
Wherever these violent speeches are made
infanling the bad passions of bad men, ]
deem it my duty to station troops, and shall
| do so, let the consequences be what they
may. And although the greatest imaginable
freedom of the press and of speech should be
allowed to men OF all parties, and the con-
duct of public men and their measures
should be criticized without reserve, do
not conceive it to be the duty of the State
guards to stand quietly by and hear any
man excite the mob spirit by denouncing the
Federal and State Governments resistance
to the Courts and the setting aside of theil
| decisions by force or mob violence
With these opinions briefly set forth,
submit my interests to the loyal voters al
the ballot-box. to be disposed of on the first
| Thursday in August. So far as I am indi
| vidually concerned, my success or defeat
will amount to nothing, but it is of the first
Importance to the State, and to the Unior
men, that the principles which my nomina
ton represents should triumph.
w. G. BROWNLOW.
May 8, 1867.
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