Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-03

legal profession from one end of the State
to the other. Two of the Judges Of tn,
Supreme Court had resigned on the very
day Succeeding that decision, but instead o
| appointing new election, Brownlow had
re-commissioned both of them at increased
salaries. tis tre HE
| In his county, Brownlow could not find
one Radical lawyer upon whom he could
confer the appointment of Chancellor, and
had been compelled to take greasy Rebel
and place him upon the mud-saek. The
whole county had been scraped with fine
comb, and not, Radical insect could be
| found.
The colored people were pulling the
wagon, while the Radicals rode. Brown
low had declared he was glad they were
free, first, because it would be a punish
ment upon their owners, and second, free
dom would lead to the determination of
the black race.
The Indians who had covered this con
tinent upon its discovery, were now ali
gone, simply because they refused to
affiliate with the whites, and the eolored
people would share the same fate if the
antagonism which the Radicals were
striving to engender should be established.
There were only four million blacks on
this continent, while of the whites there
were fifty million. Every eight years,
five million were added to the white
population by immigration, while none of
the colored race were coming here. How
long could they stand if antagonistic to the
whites Na $50
Hestood pledged to maintain the colored
people in all freedom, and all that he
asked was that they should take the yoke
from the neck of the whites Surprising
they had been Rebel sympathizers. Who
could control their own sympathies? He
had once hated the Rebels aud could not
helpit.
He had not been an abolitiOnist had
never had money to buy slaves and free
them. He would not try to deceive any
one by saying be had been an aboli-
zionist. He could tell that story if he de-
sired, and prove it by Brownlow. Was
there one Radical in all Summer county
who had set a black man free, when that
black man was his property? But
the colored people were now free,
in spite of the Rebels, or any
one else, and their freedom should be
maintained. The Rebels had set his ne
groes free, and he freely forgave them.
The war was over, and, for Gods sake, let
us have peace.
In the Union leagues, which were a war
institution, and ought now to be dead with
IT, the cOlored men were made to swear to
vote for Radical candidates only.
Here a colored man interrupted him by
saying they never had made him swear to
vote for any one.
What did they make you swear then?
said Mr.. Etheridge. You are ashamed to
let the world know. When suckers are to
be caught they bait with mush, and when
it is catfish worms make the bait.
If the colored men wanted to vote for
Brownlow, letthem vote that way. Whether
Brownlow should be elected or defeated,
they could never again be slaves. All the
powers in the world could not enslave them
Never, in any country Of letters, had
slavery been restored after abolition. If
the colored people belieyed~he would en-
slave them, he didn't want their votes. He
would tell them the truth, and they could
either like it or lump it, as they saw fit.
There were to-day fewer indictments
pending in the courts of Sumner county
than the year previous to the war This
was the case all over the State, and yet the
militia were thrust upon the people. He
advised the people to look to the Federal
soldiers for protection.
The law enabling Rrownlow to determine
what counties had voted legally was un-
equalled by any since the blood-writien
laws of Draco. The Governor had already
unregistered thirteen counties that would 90
for him (Etheridge) 4; but, so help him God,
come what would, he would fight this des
potism until it should be overthrow.
At the conclusion Of the remarks of Mr.
Etheridge, the band struck up a lively ma
tional air, when the crowd moved toward
the barbecue, the scenes at which closed
the doings OF the day.