Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-07-03
The OOntest I'M Tennessee.

The contest in Tennessee WAKES warm. The LOYAL
party there has placed itself squarely upon the plat
form Of the great Union hosts and the election Of
Gov. Brownlow in August next, implies that Ten
Union President
The people Of Tennessee understand this matter
perhaps even better than we. They well know,
however much we may attempt TO disguise Il from
otr eyes, that the issue between the loyaists and
their enemies in the South Is precisely the same as
il was in ls6l-that issue being simply whether the
State shall or shall not fad into the hands Of dis
loyal men; whether il shall be arrayed upon the
side Of the Government or against il; whether it
shall be an Ohio or Kentucky. And they we'll
know that first their own strong hands and resoute
determination, and next the Union party, alone can
save them. With this knowledge In their minds,
there is amongst the loyal people Of Tennessee an
intense devotion 10 the principles Of the Union
party and TO the organization itself, which we in
the North can scarcely comprehend. For the sake
Of that party and The Union which twas formed TO
MAINTAIN, they have reversed amongst themselves
the teachings Of three generations they have given
up all their life long and cherished prejudices they
have swept away every vestge OF civil disability Of
the coored population in order 10 make their State
legislation conform 10 that of Congress which body
they believe truly represented the Union party;
and they have even gone so far as TO abandon al
ideas Of political superiority, and put the ballot in
The hands OF the eolOred man. rather than their
beautiful State pass again under the control Of those
wicked men who dragged her into unholy rebellion
against the nation, and made al her plains run red
Their love for the Union is equaled only by their
horror and hatred Of the Democratic party They
know that the leaders OF this party South, were
plotting treason thirty years before they threw ef
The mask and levied open war. They knew that the
whole mass Of its members South prosecuted the war
with devilish mslignity for four years. They know
that the same party in the North arrayed itself in
the hour Of danger against tie Government and
while the boodhounds OF rebellion and slavery were
chasing down the loyalists Of Tennessee amongst
their mountains, and laying waste their dwellings
with fire and sword, the Democratic party North
we're cheering the murderers on. They know, too,
that while our brave boys were struggling in the
Held IN o. holding the monster Of rebellion in their
iron grasp, and gradually but surely crushing ont
rs oalefu life the Democratic party North met in
National Convention at Chicago proclaimed the
var failure, and demanded that our armies every-
here should be withdrawn The triumph Of the
Dssocraiie party South brought on the war; the
81 Of the Democratic party North would have
suite red the nation and caused the death or ban
s isnniehs every loyal man In Tennessee And no
won1 'a, =. Unson men Of that State are norving
thenseif@ = the struggle in August for every
lesoer % se lisoallca conservative party there,
rom ftlneFla their candidate for Governor, down
70 men "Aie Ans spWnship politicians was either
an active saffcrle4s an the field Of TIE Southern
Democratic rebellcl or Of the more dangeroug and
not less Ieasoaaoao movement Of the Northern
Democratic party b q 10 take possession Of the
Government Frcm II ridge down thew lent an
their influence and aid ell u 10 JEFF Davis or Geo.
b. Mcclellan No won.ef the ioval men are
alarmed when the Dsnoctas party of Tennessee
has selected for its standard srer Emerson Eth
eridge who even late As e5 iyised the rebels of
that State 10 overture the loyal ate Govern npent
BY force, and was arrested BY Sc Thomas for his
treason.
The whole country viii lock on \ b anxiety ana
interest while this contest pf0gfesse. and every
loyal heart throughout the land win tseply syui-
psthize with the Union men Of Tennesse = TEcia-
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