Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-05-08
KNOXVILLE, TENN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1867.

the rebellion The Democratic leaders re.
solved in their Chicago Convention, in 1864
that the war for the Union was failure
and Mr.. Etheridge Joined them in the sup
port of their ticket-encouraging and sup
porting desertions from the Union army.
The Southern Democratic rebellion cost
this country SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND LIVES,
and SIX THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
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 surren-
der Northern cities to their tender merciesl
And this same party nerved the arm of
Booth to assassinate the patriot Lincoln |
In perfect keeping with the rebeIlious
spirit of the Rebel-Democracy, North and
South, has been the action Of the late trea-
sonable concIave at Nashville They nom.
mated for Governor, Emerson Ethridge,
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 the negroes were as much slaves as
they ever were-and for this TREASON he was
arrested and imprisoned by Major General
Thomas. This man represents the spirit
and principles of the Convention that NOM
mated him, aud all this class of TRAITORS
will rally to his support.
The nomination of Mr.. Etheridge was not
made in the expectation of electing him, but
to produce mischief Prominent members
of the Convention admitted the evening
after the nomination was made, that they
did not expect to elect him. This nomina-
ton of man who has been Matching and
plotting treason and sedition against the
State Government since its organization;
man who proclaims that the State Consti-
tuition has not been amended that the col
ored people are yet slaves; that violence in
overthrowing the State Government is JUS
tifable; that disobedience to the laws and
the breaking up of the courts are also JUS
tifable All this discloses state of the
rebel mind that many good men did not
think existed and in the estimation of the
public, justifes the enactment of the Mil
tia Law" and other extreme radical meas
ures Wherever these violent speeches are
made, infaming the bad passions of bad
men, deem it my duty to station troops,
and shall do so, let the consequences be what
they may And although the greatest i'm
aginable freedom of the press and of speech
should be allowed to men of all parties, and
the conduct of public men and their meas
ures should be criticised without reserve, /
do not conceive it to be the duty of the
State Guards to stand quietly by and hear
any man excite the mob spirit by denounc-
ing the Federal and State Governments
resistance to the courts-and the setting
aside of their decisions by force or mob
violence
With these opinions briefly set forth, I
submit my interests to the loyal voters at
the ballot-box, to be disposed of on the first
Thursday in August So far as I am indi-
vidually concerned, my success or defeat
will amount to nothing, but it is of the first
importance to the State, and to the Union
men, that the principles which my nomina-
ton represents should triumph
w. G. BRoWNLOw.
May Sth, 1867