The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-05-02
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SHAMELESS CONFESSION.
The Brownlow Organ Openly Admits that
there is to be no such thing as Free
Government In Tennessee.
Az EVIDENCE OF WEAKNESS.
From the Nashville Banner.l

An EVIDENCE OF WEAKNESS.
From the Nashville Banner.l
When q faction is compelled to open
" depart from the system Of Govern
mcnt under which it processes to live
and to discard even its own machinery
of operations, it must he as desperate
ms It is reckl; -, and cannot claim to be
onything but u squad of revolutionary
plunderers and Office seekers, resolved
upon insurrection and dangerous II
once to society and law.
In its issue Of yesterday, the Pres,
and Times prints the following:
We tell our Conservative friends, can
didly, that opposition to the measures
of Governor Brownlow's administra
ton is utterly idle. 1t has no more
prospect or possibility Of success than
opposition to the United States Gov
eminent, and the longer it is kept up
the more rigid will be our legislation
So sure us chat lawlcss and unprinci'
pied mob orator, Etheridge, a broken
down party hack, who was nominated
only as a desperate leader Ola despcr-
ate cause, shall excite the rebels to acts
of violence, so sure will Congress come
to the help Of the present State admin
istration by the passage of Il law which
will make treason stand aglast and
helpless in Tennessee The programme
il already marked out and contingen
cies provided for.
Again-as.if dazzled by the damning
confession contained in the abovc-it
reitcrates:
He who supposcs that Etheridge, eren
Daected, would be suffered by Congress
to rule Tennessee, knows little of its
iron will and determinations.
The object Of these extracts from the
Brownlow organ is evident, hut, for the
sake Of the suggestion they. afford, we
reproduce them without fear Of the eff
feet intended. No good or brave or
sensible man in Tennessee a he driv-
ell to the support of Brownlow by such
vile attempts at terrorism, and the Sc
quel will show whether the Northern
people will tolerate such fragrant and
indecent assaults upon Congaess by u
paper protesting to be Republican,
Just reflect for II moment upon the
meaning Of this scurrilous publication.
Four fifth of the white people, inclu-
sive of all the rebels except such as are
Radicals, are excluded from the ballot.
box. The colorcd people are admitted
TO suffrage, en- mosse. No one but 10y
al men arc allowed to vote. The law
Of Franchise by which these measures
are to be carried out is administered by
Brownlow's own Registers, and the
election is to he certified by Judges
appointed by those registers. In ad,
dltion there is q Standing Army in the
field, created by B.ownlow, Offered by
Brownlow, paid by Brownlow. On the
other hand there is 4 candidate forGov
ernor, who, however, politically or per
sonally Objectionable, was Union man
throughout the war. He stands upon
the platform o~f"Univcrsal amnesty and
impartial suffrage" and is supported
by good and true and loyal men. His
party proposes nothing which has not
been offered by Congress, and does not
propose to assaiG Congress or deny its
power. And yet 4 newspaper printed
in Nashville has the %cfirontery to de-
clare that il such q candidate, standing
on such a platform, and run in the face
of such machinery, is elected, he will
not be permitted to take his seat, and
that the choice of the loyal people will
ya thrown out in favor Of Brownlow
anal his squad Of political Migrants,
cheats and mountebanks!
We have no idea that Congress will
be willing to make that issue before the
American people. We have no idea
the discerning leaders Of the Republi
can Party in the North will risk a Pres
idential election upon the mere gratii.
cation Of the lust for power and ven
geance which infuriates a few weak and
wicked men in Tennessee. And we
have full faith that if Brownlow, made
more reckless still by merited defeat,
attempts after the election to revolu-
tionize and overthrow the civil govern
ment of this State by means of his
Standing Army, and on no better pre-
text than thu retention Of the office he
disgraces, the true men in Congress,
and the North will come forward to
protect the trua people and the true
law.
The confession Of the Press and
Times Is useful AS foreshowing the plans
and hopes of the Brownlow faction. 1t
is useful as revealing the insurrection-
ary spirit which animatcs the proceed.
ingsu of that faction. 1t is useful as an
acknowledgment of weakness. 1t in
dictates that the Radicals do not rely
upon the people, black or white, and
that all their pretended arguments adj
dressed to the people arc false; it es.
tablishes the lawlessness which we have
charged and it proves that they do moi
expect to carry the election, bu: give
it up ut the start, and fall back upon
outside aid and Congressional inter