The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-11-15

Do. " Occasional, ! the editor and pro-
prieter of two Radical destructive pa.
pers, Secretary OF the Senate, and the
most viciOass violent, and yiruent
partisan in the csuntly,H announces,
IN effect that the wretched condition
Of Tennessee is to be that of ell the
States OF the South@ The point need
not be expanded TO intelligent, ,honor-
| able, and honest men of egen lhe Re-
publican party. to denote the utter
misery, OF q great, pcoplG--a people
! that Occasional" frequently refers TO
as having been sednced, dcludod, or
forced BY the acts CT political leaders
into rebellion. If, indeed, they. were
innOcentip&rties to rebelion, as assert :
ed by him one day, only to be contra
dicted, it Is true, on tile next, ty the
other fabrication tbatthoy are unre.
pentant rebels, who would suffer the
penalties Of fire and sword, rapine,
unbridled license, and death, yet, abon
the former idea, why should the CON
dition of Tennessee be forced upon
them 2" sr... .....
1t is hardly doubted that among
other accomplishments of the Execu.
tive is that of suggesting editorials TO
4 the, Enteligencpr, II is not bad hab-
it, and we do not propose to complain
of it, but to accept the present exam-
pie of it as a fair keynote of the rul-
ing condition of the Presidential mind.
That Tennessee should be a source of
soIicitnde to Andrew johnson is natu-
raj enough, and that be should be q
| little out Of temper because his SON
in.iaw has been supplanted by Gov
ernor Brownlow in the Senate of the
United States is equally natural; but
THAT he should instruct the MtelHgea-
Ger to hold up Tennessee as an exam
pie to be avoided IL, we hhmbly sug-
| gest, q grave blunder If Andrew
johnson had been. true to himself, if
he had not been misled BY the da2z-
Hing idea of securing the Presidency
for four years from the 4th Of March,
| 1867, BY combining the traitors of the
South and the Copperhead5 Of, the
North into one party, to the exclusion
and practical distranchisenent of the
men who broke down the rebellion, he
might point-to tennessee as she now
stands as the offspring Of bis own pa
triotism and the yindicauon of his
own theories. Tennesaee is at
onGe the happiest illustration of the
Justice of Andrew JOhqson's doctrines
before he concluded to betFay his
country, and the proof of the deep
damnation OF that betrayed. There
is not mTit or q virtue in the pres
ent organization of Tennessee which
hedid not recommend, and there is
not a single outcry against it at the
presentiwhich is not the echo of the
slanders Of his enemies when in 1854
he first declared in favor of the plan
of reconstruction so res0lutely follow
ed since by the people notwithstand-
ing bis base desortion Of it. !" Occa-
sional" is denounced for recommend
ing to the people. of the South the
example of Tennessee, ..,rt
Now. let us see wherein Tennessee
nnder BrownIow differs from what
Tennessee would have been under
Johnson. +, had johnson been, like
Brownlow, honest. firm, and true. On
tho 9th of lime 1854 Andrew John
sa, aao.,od ,Lo Pannbl;oan nonoinn-
%" ".0oPgou Ty. 'Io 'eP"V''G-" e
ton for vice FFeslHehV IN loripaI
and carefully prepared speech at
Nashville, in which his main object
,vos ,ba restorotion of neace in Ton
'a,ooo - h;a oun bIap of recor.
heSsee u''uo1 m ".' ~" P'"'' - ~ I.,
structlon. ms oOlect was steauliy
and sedulously cherished. lie never
lost sigbt Of il and never forgot il,
evan wbsn overoome on the '4th of
~ 1oes, ond On ,ho ood Joya 4;
m"Tc"' low anu y" 0'o 'Ne ua1 . vi,
rectly succeeding lne ASSASSINATION Oh
Abraham Lincoln, IT was the punish
ment of traitOrs as he found them in
Tennassee and the reoonstruct;on of
No. : aa ,, = ,,,odal Gor o,har e,atos
ienhoeSeo no q "'Yu'' W. ol"s. '''"'eS
that possessed ana mastered nls NINA
and actions. The following is taken
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