The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-07-06
A LOOking-Glass for the Brownlowites
From the Memphis Avalanche.I

From the Memphis AvalaneheI
BFOwnlow makes the following statement
in the opening chapter of the book be pub
lished in Philadelphia in 1862, shortly after
he was sent through the Confederate lines :
ain September, 1858, 1 was engaged in a
debate upon the slavery question, IN Phila-
nelphia, with Rev. Abram Pryne, of New
York, in which / defended the institution of
slavery as it exists In the South The debate
was published in Philadelphia, and exhibits
my sentiments upon the great question
which have undergone no change since
then"
BrownIow, in 1861, was only for emanci-
pating the slaves for two reasons. One was
that it would be the means of extinguishing
the negro race. In his paper, the Knoxville
Wbig of May %, 1864, he said:
1--WE have never differed with the South
upon the abstract question of slavery, and
do not now differ, and we are free to say
that the condition of the slaves when libe-
rated, if left in the South, will be worse
than it is even during their servitude, and
we are for emancipating every negro in the
South, notwithstanding all this. For taking
this ground we have two controlling reasons.
First, it viii be the severest punishment of
the Southern rebels that can be inflicted
and next, it viii be the very means of extin-
gushing the negro race, as the removal and
civilization Of the Indian tribes have tended
to extinguish them "
Brownlows dislike, if not hatred, for the
negro, crops out at a still later period. In
his message of April 6, 1865, to the Legis-
lature, he said
at is certainly proper and right for the
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what extent this State will be overrun with
the emancipated slaves of other States. X
/ am, myself, the advocate
Of providing for them a separate and apprO-
pirate amount of territory, and settle them
down permanently as a nation Of freedmen"
Again, in his message of the Sd of Octo-
Der, 1865, he says:
"A long and intimate acquaintance with
affairs in the South has convinced me that
the white and colored people cannot live to-
gether, politically or socially, as equals, and
therefore all our legislation should look to a
peaceable separation of the two races on
Southern soil.
He was bent upon riddirg the State of
them. In the same message he advocated
settling them in Texas, and then be says:
g If this scheme should not strike the Ma
tional Government as plausible, then let
Mexico be cleaned out and turned over to
our emancipated slaves Of the South.
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
Brownlow is now for taxing, but excluding
the Southern States from representation.
How beautiful his consistency, we will see.
On the 23d of March, 1861, Brownlow de-
clared himself candidate for Governor,
and in an address to the people Of Tennesseer
he held the following language:
Our fathers, declaring their independ-
| ence, threw off the oppression of the mother
country, and summed up their grievances rs
taxation without representation. We have
again in our midst bogus form of govern
ment, forced upon the cotton States by an
organized band of revolutionists, whose very
/ foundation is that Of taxation without rep
resentation'
BROWNLow ENDORSES ETHERIDGE.
In March, 1862, Brownlow penned the fol
loving endorsement of Emerson Etheridge
On page $50, of Brownlow's book, you will
find it just as it is given here;
"Night before last I heard speech from
Etheridge, delivered before an attentive audi
ence of twelve or fifteen hundred persons
He spoke over two hours. 1 never heard
him in a regular stump speech before. saw
at once the secret of his great success before
the people, He is the peoples man, anc
keeps up the interest all the time. He wa;
severe on the leaders of the rebellion, bu
not more so than they deserved and hl
blows met with a hearty response from the
crowd"
VIII the radical papers make a note o
this2
GAMING TABLE OF NORTHERN CoFFINs.
Brownlow so bitterly hated anything tine
tured with anti-slavery, that he rallied at th'
Southern opposition in Congress for seem
ing disposition to unite with the Black Re
publieans. Rather than do that he woul'
play push pin on Northern collins Here j
what he said in his paper in 1860:
: awe, of course, will not advise Southern
| Opposition members what to do, believing
= them competent to preserve their own sell
respect, and to discharge sworn duty t
t their country and their constituents; bu
were we a member Of the Southern Oppos
/ ton in Congress, before we would occup
the paltry and contemplate attitude Of Greer
s ing after party that had spurned us by 1t
1 deliberate acts, we would see the capitol {
/ the nation, and all the territory North an
: South sunk to eternal perdItion. Nay, W
k would see all the political organizations
q America as far in hell as pigeon could fl
n in thousand years. or as a forge hamme
l. could fall in twice that time Sooner tina
l. degrade ourselves under the pretence of ba
:. Ting fer the homes and rights Of our chill
Il ren, we would see them all starve to dealt
e and then seat ourselves upon their cothT
e with a Southern gentleman and play pus
il pin for the lager beer.
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