The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-18
TENNESSEE.

GOV. BRowNIOw'S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE |
Gov. Browulow has published Il long adj |
dress to the voters of the State, III which he |
reviews the action of the Democrats in the |
Legislature, in opposing colored suffrage:
answe.,s the charges that he was formerly a
defender of Slavery, and presents the situa- |
ton as follows:
There are but two parties in this country |
and in the nature of things there can he but |
two parties now-one the party for the I'm
ion. the Republican party, or if you please,
the Radical party, standing up to and endor
sing the American Congress. The other is
the representative of the Rebel party, some
times calling itself the conservative party,
sometimes the National Union party, and
again the Constitutional Democratic party.
This ring -streaked and striped Rebel party,
led Us into war and rebellion, and it is time
to leave it III its wickedness We have but
two alternatives. We must go with the
Rebel party. with all their infamy and the
blackness of their record. or with the only
party competent to crush it, and that is the
Republican party. We have again before us
the issues of 1861, and the Republican party
alone has the power to save US. Whether
successful, or otherwise at the polls 1 stand
upon this platform of principle.
am charged with inconsistency, in thatI
am, as an Old Line Wing, advocating the
principles of the Republican parry. A Re-
publican Congress has inaugurated Henry
Clay's American system-a system that I
have advocated for the last so years. A
protective tariff. the construction of the
great Pacific Railroad, the improvement of
rivers and harbors, the establishment of a
national currency, SC, fill Mr.. Ciay's bill
fully, and gives the country what [ have all
the time eontended for. With what show
of consistency can Union men of any stripe
now come out and act with the Rebel Dem
ocratic party The Democracy of the South
inaugurated the rebellion, and the Democra-
cy of the North aided abetted, encouraged,
and sustained the rebellion. The Demo-
cratic leaders resolved in their Chicago Con-
vention, in 1864, that the war for tue Union
was a failure, and Mr. Etheridge Joined them
in the support OF their ticket-encouraglng
and supporting assertions from the Union
army.
The Southern Democratic rebellion cost
this country 100000 lives, and $4,000, OOO,-
O00 and carried mourning and desolation
into every household, North and South The
Democratic leaders instigated riots at the
North; they conspired to release the Rebel
prisoners at Camp Douglas, and to surrender
Northern cities to their tender mercies =
And this same party nerved the arm of
Booth to assassinate the patriot Lincoln
In perfect keeping with the rebellious
spirit of the Rebel Democracy, North and
South, has been the action of the late treas
enable conclave at Nashville. They have
nominated for Governor Emerson Etheridge
who advised the people of Tennessee on the
stump, as late as 1865, to overthrow the
State Government by force-to shoot down
the tax collectors and negroes-asserted that
Il
were-and for this reason he was arrested
and imprisoned by Major-Gen. Thomas
This man represents the spirit and principles
OF the Convention that nominated him, and
all this class of traitors will rally to his sup
port. The nomination of Mr.. Etheridge was
not made IN the expectation of electing him,
out to produce mischief Prominent mem
oefs OF the Convention admitted, the eve
iii'iS aiter the nomination was made, that
tney olc not expect to elect him. This
nomination of man who has been hatch
ing and plotting treason and sedition against
'ne state Government since its organization;
man who proclaims that the State
CONSTITUTION has not been amended; that
,he coored people are yet slaves; that vio-
renee IN overthrowing the State Government
Jusnhable: that disobedence to the laws
; ;',ia rne breaking up of the courts are also
Iastilaoie All this discloses state of the |
th;. 49, nliha tilat many good men did not |
.nh Is existed; and in the estimation of the
Puohe Iustities the enactment of the - Militia
wv, ana other extreme Radical measures.
;ns SnereVer these violent speeches are made.
d, naaai the bad passions of bad men, 1
do 90 my duty to station troops, and shall
NAV Jet the Consequences be what they
freedom ana nc although the greatest imaginable
aliowe% vi y, the press and of speech should be
duct Of ~ men OF all parties, and the con-
sIo rs 81 public men and their measures
n nnt& soaa De criticized without reserve. do
gus nHnosve it to be the duty Of the State
S Han asot to stand quietly 10y and hear any
Fcdee e1cl tie the mob spirit BY denouncng the
to tSe land and State Governments
deci ns Ooqrts.and the setting aside of their
' W;th 81, by force or mob violence. '
submit n shese opinions briefly set forth. I
the han my interests to the ioyal voters at
Thursdap~s I !" to be disposed Of on the first
viduanrS IN August. SO far as I am indi-
will s smor Concerned, my success or defeat
ifnportancnt - 70 nothing, but it is of the first
men, t nance e., to the State, and to the Union
ton reprpsa ns principles which nv nomina-
N'''i's should triumph
Nav O ,o w. G. BRnWNT nW