Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-29

.ure, dated the 9th Of April, 1865, he |
said:
T" Il is certainly proper and right for the |
Legislature of Tennessee to determine to
what extent this State shall be overrun
with the emancipated slaves Of other States.
| am, myself, the
advocate of providing for them separate
and appropriate amount of territory, and
settle them down permanently as a nation
Of freedmen" w anna
In his message Of the 81 OF October,
1865, he again called the attention of the
Legislature to his plan Of wiping out the
negro He said
"a long and intimate acquaintance with
affairs in the South has convinced me that
the white and colored people cannot live
together, politically or socially, as equals,
and therefore all our legislation should look
10 a peaceable separation of the two races
on Southern soil. ~ II is Ger
tainly right and expedient for the Legis-
Iaiure of Tennessee TO say to what extent
the State shall be overrun by the enamel
pated slaves Of other States. Illinois, at
the breaking out Of the rebellion, enacted
stringent laws fOrbidding negroes from
other States to settle there. Other free
States enacted similar laws. would say,
guard against excessive legislation upon
this subject, but by all means see that Ten
nessee is not burdened with any but her
own slaves. lam, myself, the advocate of
appropriating a suitable amount of terri
tory within such degrees of latitude as are
adapted to their nature, and settling them
as nation of freedmen"
He favored colonizing the negroes in
Texas-confscating the Rebel lands and
paying the loyal men for theirs--and if
this scheme should not be received with
favor by the United States government
he favored the conquest of Mexico and
that that country be turned over to the
negroes, there to be extinguished, "as
the removal and civilization Of the In
dian tribes have tended to extinguish
them" Yet it is claimed that this man
is the friend to the negro. In this same
message Of October 3, 1865, he said:
al am free to admit that, for the present,
we have done enough for the negro, and al
though negro voting cannot suit my natu-
raj prejudices of caste, there is class of
them | would be willing to see vote at
once. A large class, ignorant, docile, easily
led by designing men, and not safely
trusted with political power, am not will
ling to see at the ballot-box. l
think it would be bad policy, as well as
wrong in principle, to open the ballot-box
to the uninformed and exceedingly stupid
slaves of the Southern cotton, rice aud
sugar fields"
In his message he said that he would
only favor negro suffrage ON condition the
"Rebels are 10 be restored to the right
of the elective franchise, He enter
tanned a wholesome dread of those he
classed as REBELS" Ia the event they
were to be allowed 10 vote, he was willing
to risk his chances with that class he de-
nounced as Ignorant exceeding stu
pid,'' and "not safely trusted with poll
teal power" He declared as his convic-
ton that al it would be bad policy, as well
as wrong in principle" to open the ballot
box to this class of men; yet when few
months later, he discovered that a very
large portion of the Union men who had
assisted in elevating him to his present
position, would not sustain him in his
agrarian, vindictive course, he came out
in favor of enfranchising the negro and
appealed to that class to re-elect him.
How can the negroes, even though they
were as stupid as Governor Brownlow
represented them to be, trust man
whose life has been devoted to
their enslavement, and then to their ban
ishment, like the Indians, to colony of
their own, either in Texas or Mexico ?
So hostile is he to the negro, that he has
placed himself ON record in favor of
wiping them out in East Tennessee,
where he lives, and he opposed comforting
the right of suffrage upon them, not only
as dad policy" but wrong in priuci
pie" until he felt assured shat only their
votes could perpetuate the tyranny and
misrule he has already inflicted upon the
people Of Tennessee. He has character
lied the negroes by every epithet of re-
prosch which the English language could
furnish him, and to this good day has
given no evidence that he regards them
in any other light His course toward
them during the past year brands him as
thoroughly insincere, either before or
since his recommendation that they be
clothed with the elective franchise, and
in either case, is not the man in whose
hands the prudent among them should be