Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-29
aeA The NasbvilIe Gazetfe. Of tbe 2ltb.


ment in the opening chapter of the bool
he published in Philadelphia in 1862
shortly after he was sent through the
Confederate lines:
In September, 1858, was engaged in
q debate upon the slavery question, in
Philadelphia, 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 that great question, which have
undergone no change since then.
Brownlow, in 1864, was only for
emancipating the slaves for two reasons.
One was that it would be the means OF
extinguishing the negro race. In his
paper, the Knoxville Whig. of May 2s,
1864, he said
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 liberated, if left in the South, will
be worse than it is ever during their
servitude, and we are for emancipating
every negro in the South notwithstand-
ing all this For taking this ground we
have two controlling reasons: First, it
will be the severest punishment of the
Southern rebels that can be inflicted,
and next, twill be the very means OF
extinguishing the negro race, as the re-
moval and civilization Of the Indian
tribe have tended to extinguish them.
Brownlow's dislike, if not hatred, for
the negro crops out at still later period
In his message of April 9th, 1865, to the
Legislature, he said:
1t 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 . y
am, myself the advocate of providing
for them q separate and appropriate
amount of territory, and settle them
down permanently as nation of freed
men.
Again in his message of the Sd of Oct. !,
1865, he says: Ge bs
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 Of our legisla-
tion should look to peacesble separa-
ton Of the two races on Southern soil.
He was bent upon ridding the State of
them. In the same message he advocated
settling them in Texas, and then he says
If the scheme should not strike the
National Government as plausible, then
let Mexico be cleaned ont and turned
over to the emancipated slaves Of the
South.
Brownlow is now for taxing but ex-
cluding the Southern States from repre-
sentation. How beautiful his consis-
teucy, we will see On the 23d of
March, 1861, Brownlow declared him
self candidate for Governor, and in an
address to the people of Tennessee, be
held the following language: H4T
Our fathers, declaring their indepen-
dence, threw off the oppression OF the
mother country and summed up their
grievances as taxation without repre-.
sentation." " We have again in our midst
bogus form of government rcedupon
the cotton States by an organized band
of revolutionists, whose very foundation
is that Of taxation without representa-.
tion
In March, 1862, Brownlow penned the
following Endorsement of Emerson Eth
eridge. On page $50, Brownlow's book,
you will find it just as it is given here
Night before last heard speech from
Etheridge, delivered before an sttentive
audience of twelve or fifteen hundred
persons. He spoke over two hours.
never heard him in a regular stump
speech before | saw at once the secret
Of his great success before the people.
He is the people, man, and keeps up the
interest all the time He was severe on
the leaders of the rebellion, but not more
so than they deserved and his blows met
with hearty response from the crowd
Brownlow so bitterly hated anything
tinctured with anti slavery that be rallied
at the Southern opposition in Congress
for seeming disposition to unite with
the Black Republicans. Rather than do
that he would play push pin on Northern
collins. Here is what he said in his
paper in 1860:
We, of course, will not advise South
ern Opposition members what to do, |
believing them competent to preserve
their own self respect, and TO discharge |
a sworn duty to their country and their
constituents, but we're we a member of |
the Southern Opposition in Congress,
before we would occupy the paltry and
contemplate attitude OF creeping after /
party that had spurned us by its de-
liberate acts, we would see the capitol |
of the nation, and all the terri
tory North and South sunk to
eternal perdition. Nay, we would see
all the political organizations in America
as far in hell as pigeon could fly in
years, or q forge hammer
could fall in twice that timel Sooner
than degrade ourselves under the pre-
tense of battling for the homes and rights
of our children, we would see them starye
TO death, aud then seat ourselves upon
their coflius with Southern gentleman
and play push pin for the lager beer.
Imperial Decree 70 the Austrian Navy Re
lating to Msximihan's Death.
The Gazette de YimHs, Of July 4th,
publishes the followingdecr
As mark Of gratitude and respect for