The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-05
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this latter gentleman seems always IN have
been attended with perfect personal liberty
with perfect freedom from personal injury,
and with cash salary by no means to be ee-
spised for its narrowness or lack of sustain
ing power.
Not so with Mr.. BRowNLow. From the
bosom of his family he was insultingly and
roughly torn by rebel enemies, thrown into a
dirty and loathsome prison, subjected to IN
conceivable indignities, and daily and hourly
exposed to revolving death, from which evils
ana dangers he was relieved only to suffer ex-
patfiation, to be thrust out from the home Of
MS choice, and to find his friends and a refuge
among strangers.
But it is of what WILLIAM G. BRowNLow
has done for the Union cause, to restore his
Safe to her normal condition in the Unitn :,
to make hera free, liberty-defending, demo-
cratic State, and to place her in harmony with
the genius OF our institutions and the spirit Of
tho age, that we would speak at
the present time. That much is due to his
personal efforts and his indomitable will in
producing the grand results achieved In his
State, no one can doubt He has proved
man of iron will to do what Andrew johnson
promised; to become both the Moses and the
Joshua to a down-trodoen and oppressed race
70 "nom "A. j." proposed to be a Moses but
u "hom ne only proved Pharaoh. Suppose
Andrew johnson instead of Mr.. BRowNLow
hadbee the Governor of Tennessee, and had
occupied that position for the last two years,
who believes Tennessee to-day weuld be a re-
stored State In the Union, that her freedom
loving representatives would occupy seats In
the national Congress, and above all that the
loyal negroes of the State would now be
clothed with all the rights of American citi-
| zens!
To Governor BRowNLow is due a large
debt of gratitude from every loyal heart for
what he has done and what his State has be-
come. He is one of the few men OF the South
who have fully conquered their prejudices,"
and accepted the doctrine OF the Declaration of
Independence in all its logical results
He isa true man, impetuous but honest; hot
headed, but clear in his head as he is hot i'm
placable in his hatred but faithful to his
H'ehuo anu INC IiSHt, tue utduly eHeluy Oi
treason and traitors but the true friend OF the
poor and unfortunate; coarse in speech, If you
pleace, but as forcibe and truthful as he Is
coarse; apparently vindictive towards enc
mics but as tender as woman where pity is
not weakness and forgiveness does not cease
to be virtue.
All honor, then, to WILLIAM G. BROWN
Low. Had his spirit and will been exhibited
in the Executive chair of the nation-his in
flexible loyalty and determined purpose to
make treason oiious and Unionlsm and liber-
ty respectable-how different to day would be
the condition of the South What he has
done for one State might have been done for
eleven States, and the national Congress, no
longer vexed with questions of reconstruc-
tion, and composed of delegates from part
OF the States only, would be composed of full
delegations from all the States, laboring with
concentrated purpose to promote the material
prosperity of the nation, and to make liberty
and law, justice and equal rights the univer-
sal rule Of action.