Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-08-14

s"o nanului ol guaE0s put on duty by Gov. Brown
low. Gen. Cooper, their chief, is as gallant, firm
and true gentleman as ever lived as modest as he
Is brave. Gen. Thomas, who knew him WELL and
who was mis- military superior during part of the
war said that be was one of the very best officers in
.he volunteer service The private soldiers of the
militia were orderly, temperate, civil gentlemen q
large number of whom had been honorably dis
charged from the Union army. Their officers were
noted for discretion and habits of sobriety Intem-
perance was promptly punished by immediate dis
mssal from the service 1t is said that one or two
outlaws were killed by the guards. They were
busawhackers who justly expiated their crimes, and
it is to be regretted that the guerrllas who fred on
the camps in several Counties did not meet the
fate. The sooner outlaws exterminated the bet
ter for society.
So admirable and blameless was the bearing of
the State Guards, at every place where they were
sent that the rebels were forced TO bear testimony
10 their good conduct. The Lebanon Herald an
intensely bitter Democratic organ, says of the mill
tia at that place on election day
Early in the morning the DETACHMENT Of militia
under Lieut. Mclaughlin, (who by the way is one
Of the most perfect gentlemen we have ever metz
marched into town and took up their quarters in
the court house. The militia remained in their
quarters ready TO put down q row, matter by
whom il should be started. Too much praise can
in which he managed his troops during the day
Not man was insulted by them and they have
the thanks of the community for their gentlemanly
conduct.
The Fayetteville correspondent of the Union and
Dispatch says:
FAYETTEvILLE, August 2, ls67.-The election
here Is over and passed of quietly. This is to be
attributed 10 the efforts Of the citizens to preserve
the peace, and their firm determination not to be
imposed upon by the militia Grisham's company
has behaved very we'll since it has been here His
interferred with no one yesterday, but acted
as police in company with an equal number OF
citizens and assisted in disarming all persons who
came to town with arms. About two hundred ne
groes carried their arms in open and bold man
ner, and came with the intention of forming pro-
cesson. The design, however, was frustrated and
the election passed off quietly.
1t is alleged that the militia established a reign
of terror. 1t is fact however, that at every poll
where militia were placed, Conservatives voted
without molestation while on the contrary in hun
dreds of districts throughout the Middle and West
ern divisions, where there were no militia, the
Judges and clerks were either afraid to act or the
negroes did not venture to approach the polls 1t
was Democratic ru1ianism and lawlessness not the
presence of militia, which filed the people with
terror. In Gallatin there militia, but Conser-
vatves voted freely, while in the rural districts of
Sumner, where there no militia, not a poll was
opened the judges and clerks said they dared not
open one for their lives and the negroes stole off
quietly for Gsllatin. Al country precinct in Giles
mounted Democrats armed with pistols and whisky,
who swore no id nigger should approach the
polls" The negroes, in dismay, remained in dis
ant part of the town. and did not dare to approach
The polls until the militia arrived In an hour after
ward, nearly two hundred votes were cast by the
aegroes In the VIGOROUSLY lawless town of Tren-
ton, West Tennessee, colored men were driven from
the polls by armed rufians, rebels took possession
of the ballot box and the vote of course went for
Etheridge. At Morris Depot, Upton county a
large number of colored voters, says the Memphis
Post in view of the threats of rebels against them,
went armed. The officers Of election refused to
open the polls, and the colored men, supposed to
number over thousand, were deprived of the priv
Ilege of voting. The whites some of them of
reckless class, were armed The colored men were
called upon to give up their arms and allow the
whites to lock them up but they had too much good
sense to put them in control of their enemies They
however, offered TO stack them and keep them un-
der guard, but this not what their enemies
wanted This is the friendship of Conservatives for
colored men. We shall expect further particulars.
We hear from Covington and Portersville that
there were polls opened, but that men voted for
Brownlow at the peril of their lives. The Conser-
vatives said TO have five hundred majority.
A scene similar to that of Masons Depot is said
TO have been enacted at Belmont in Fayette county.
The returns from West Tennessee will show that
at least thirty per cent of the coloTed vote not
polled account Of the threats of Democratic ruff
fans, where there was no militia.
1t is said by the secret service letter writers that
the original Union men of Tennessee are nearly all
Conservatives. The falsehood of this statement can
easily be demonstrated. We affirm that at least
per cent of the a1hite who went
into the Federal army in this State and nineteen
twentieths Of officers honorsbly discharged from the
Federal service, voted for Brownlow and the whole
Republican ticket. We affirm that Etheridge did
not get tiro per cent of the honorably discharged
Federal soldiers and officers. OF the very small
proportion which he did get nearly all were either
disappointed oice-seekers or fellows who had been
dismissed IN disgrace from the Union army They
naturally drifted into the Democratic ranks. One
of these said in public speech that he justified the
Southern people for rebelling against Abolition
Government, and if he had lived in the South
would have done as they did 1t is matter Of con-
graduation that all such candidates behind their
ticket. Let us look at few counties in detail in
East Tennessee. Jefferson sent about 1000 men
into the Union army and gives Brownlow about
1000 majority. Knox sent about 1900 into the
Union army and gives Brownlow 1900 majority.
Greene sent 1900 men into the Union army and
gives Brownlow 700 majority. In brief, East Ten
nessee sent about 20 600 into the Union army and
gives Brownlow about $4,000 majority. Buffers
district voted S,672 majority against separation in
1861, and gives Brownlow majority of about To-
Q0O Maynard's district gave 90l3 majority against
separation in 1861, and gives Brownlow about To-
900 majority. The Union sentiment of 1861 and
the Republican sentiment of 1867 are Identical the
men who fought for the Union voted last Thursday
for Brownlow, Butler, Maynard, Stokes, Trimble,
and their associates. When a rowing Bohemian of
the New York Herald stated ia a letter written
from this city on the 10Th that the Unionists op-
posed to the Brownlow despotism compose decid-
cd majority Of the original white loyalists of the
State" he asserted what every intelligent can
demonstrate TO be falsehood The same lying let
ter-writer represented one u. H. Mason as an ex-
ponent Of the Republicans Of this district The
election returns show that this so-called exponent
got 275 votes. We have devoted more space and
attention, perhaps, than we ought to have done to
some of the lies begotten by Presidential money
upon the body Of the harlots who deposit their OFF
spring in the founding hospitals Of the New York
Herald, New York Times Springfield Republican,
and other papers Of that ilk The harlots and their
masters may thank their folly for the exposure
which we have made.